Ken Dickson

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Ken has accrued over 20 years of business and systems analysis experience in both large organizations and in smaller service companies and across many sectors, particularly banking & financial services.He has taken on many different roles including Business Analyst, Systems/Technical Analyst, Data Analyst, Analyst/Programmer and Software Developer and has participated in all aspects of the software development life cycle. For the last 6 years, his analysis skills have been used within Nationwide Building Society on such diverse projects as the introduction of a new Web Chat solution through to involvement in one of Europe’s largest migration projects to transfer 5 million current accounts from a legacy system to a new SAP Banking platform. These, and other projects, involved Ken in applying many BA skills and techniques, including stakeholder engagement, managing and nurturing good relationships with business process owners and external parties, requirements elicitation, analysis and process mapping of As-Is and To-Be business process flows and production of High Level/Detailed Business Requirements, Process Design, Reference Guides, Feasibility Studies, Impact Analysis, etc.In his several permanent and contract roles, Ken has acquired a very broad range of experiences across many different sectors, business teams, projects and technologies and this has demonstrated his ability to quickly learn and adapt to new environments, to build good user/team relationships and to contribute quality work in a very short space of time.He has strong interpersonal skills, is a good listener, is empathetic to people’s needs and has a good sense of humour, all of which have allowed him to communicate and interact effectively at all stakeholder levels from senior management downwards and to be accepted within a new team or business area very quickly. He is also a conscientious self starter who can happily work in a team environment or as an individual.

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  • Nationwide Building Society
    Senior Business Analyst, Web Chat Project Within Customer Contact Centre
    Nationwide Building Society Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
    Swindon, United Kingdom
    Senior Business Analyst working with different teams in a Customer Contact Centre environment in order to introduce a new web chat pilot providing continuous improvement, better customer experience and prove the way for future roll out on financial product pages on .co.uk website. This involved me supporting the PM and working on all aspects of the project, including:-• attending workshops/meetings with Team Managers• producing As-Is/To-Be business process mappings/diagrams, Use Cases, etc• specifying and establishing baseline stats, re-routing of customer emails to new mailboxes• analysis/design of new Customer Insight/Satisfaction data reports (post-chat/email surveys)• early engagement with all stakeholders (senior managers downwards)• understanding customer’s engagement depending on different journey’s & on-screen prompts• liaison with Operational Planning (workflow software) re: resourcing and effects on SLA's• specifying type and method of training for web chat consultants• specifying the delivery approach of the pilot (phased) • liaison with IT Business Systems to specify configuration, setting up new Service Lines, wtc.• design and implementation of new web chat asset• production of an end-to-end Process Design doc for senior stakeholders covering all of above. Having a technical/data analysis background (involving data mapping, data flows, specifying data interfaces, SQL querying, fixing data quality issues, etc.) helped me greatly in understanding the data requirements for customer insight and operational reporting, setting up service lines, etc.
  • Nationwide Building Society
    Senior Business Analyst - Core Bank Enhancement Projects (Various)
    Nationwide Building Society Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
    Swindon, United Kingdom
    Sole Business Analyst on various SAP Banking Enhancements workstreams, including regulatory FCA driven ‘Immigration Act 2014’ and HMRC submission of Section 17. Managing relationships with senior business stakeholders and process owners in Finance and Tax. Mostly involved in mapping and documenting As-Is and To-Be business process flows for inclusion in ‘Process Guide’ type documents, ensuring FCA compliance, producing High Level and Detailed Business Requirements.
  • Nationwide Building Society
    Business Analyst - Savings Accounts Migration Project (Mailings)
    Nationwide Building Society Mar 2014 - May 2014
    Swindon, United Kingdom
    Business Analyst working on project to migrate all Savings accounts from newly owned regional building societies to Nationwide's Unisys mainframe. I produced ‘Impact Analysis’ to outline the impact on customer’s pre-maturity mailings during the migration phase, assess likelihood of duplication/missing correspondence and suggest alternative strategies. Also, Cost/Time/Risk Analysis of accommodating so many new products versus existing capacity.
  • Nationwide Building Society
    Business / Technical Analyst - Sap Banking Migration Project
    Nationwide Building Society Mar 2009 - Mar 2014
    Swindon, United Kingdom
    This was a 5 year project to migrate 5 million Current Accounts from the Unisys legacy mainframe to a new SAP Retail Banking platform.As Business/Technical Analyst, I was involved in requirements gathering, producing detailed Business and IT requirements, process mapping (swimlane diagrams), documenting Customer Journey's and Data Flow processes, maintaining traceability matrix (HLBR to DBR to Detailed IT Requirements), writing Specifications for developers to carry out data extraction through to transformation and load of customer & account data from legacy mainframe into new SAP database.Other tasks/skills and responsibilities included data mapping, data quality activities, gap analysis on IT and Business requirements, maintenance of Business/IT requirements (raising new requirements as and when), live system support, raising and investigating Change Requests/Faults, working closely with other technical and business areas and supporting users/3rd party supplier of Case WorkFlow tool, reviewing test scripts and test results, regular management reporting.Tools/skills used: SAP Data Services ETL tool, HP Quality Center, MatsSoft Workflow Management tool, SQL Server 2008,UNISYS 2200 mainframe Cobol, JCL, Microsoft Excel/Word/Visio.
  • Kd Landscapes
    Director
    Kd Landscapes 2006 - 2009
    Exeter, United Kingdom
    Owner of bespoke decking solutions company (non IT!)
  • Nationwide Building Society
    Senior Systems Analyst - Various Financial Projects
    Nationwide Building Society 2001 - 2005
    Swindon, United Kingdom
    Projects included EMU conversion, Basel II and Corporate Data Warehouse, Card Management feeds, End of Financial Year processing, new product launches, Standing Orders & Payments, Credit Reference agency feeds and Customer Statements.As Senior Systems Analyst, responsibilities included production of all analysis, design, quality and test documentation, live system support, liaison with users and internal technical and business areas, supervision of contractors and junior staff, input to project plan and management reporting.Tools and skills used: UNISYS Clearpath 2200 mainframe Cobol, Unisys JCL, Microsoft Excel and Word.
  • Interchange Group
    Analyst / Programmer - Enhancements To Order Processing & Warehousing System / Year 2K
    Interchange Group 1998 - 2001
    Swindon, United Kingdom
    This covered 2 separate contract periods (Oct 98 - June 99, Jan 00 – Jan 01).On initial contract, mostly wrote data conversion, file merge and interface programs to aid migration to new Unix platform and also Year 2000 modifications accounted for 50% of project.Enhancements to a Sales /Purchase Order Processing and Stock Control system interfaced to a Warehousing System.On second contract, Analyst/Programmer responsible for writing new COBOL on UNIX programs to enhance existing functionality on a 100 user, £20 million warehousing system.Skills/tools: COBOL on both NCR mainframe (ITX operating system) and NCR Unix box. Unix vi editor.
  • Root 3 Systems Ltd
    Systems Analyst / Programmer - Data Capture, Data Validation And Image Processing
    Root 3 Systems Ltd Aug 1999 - Jan 2000
    Bristol, United Kingdom
    I was Initially responsible for System Analysis and production of User Requirements and Technical Design Specifications for a new data capture and data validation system for a large credit card processing client. This involved liaison with both end user client and internal departments. Later, as Analyst Programmer, involved in writing ‘key-to-disk’ field entry validation programs, unit testing, system testing and User Acceptance testing and live support.Tools/skills: Jackson’s Structured Design & Analysis, UNIBASE (similar to Cobol) running on Windows NT 4.0.
  • Unigate Dairies Limited
    Analyst/Programmer - Sap Ledgers Data Migration
    Unigate Dairies Limited May 1997 - Oct 1998
    Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
    Project involved migration of Legacy Accounting System to new SAP Ledgers System.Analyst/Programmer responsible for writing new Unisys/MicroFocus COBOL Data Extraction/Conversion and Interface programs between Legacy Systems and SAP interface. Close liaison with ABAP programmers. Also, Year 2000 program modifications. Involved in Unit Testing, Integration Testing and Cut-Over Testing of work done.Skills/tools: Unisys 1100 COBOL and MicroFocus COBOL on RS6000 UNIX box. Unix vi editor.
  • Act Medisys Ltd
    Analyst/Programmer - Private & Nhs Hospital Management Systems
    Act Medisys Ltd Jun 1996 - May 1997
    Newbury
    Analyst/Programmer responsible for analysis and programming of enhancements and subsequent installation of updates to live hospital systems. User liaison.Skills/tools: MicroFocus COBOL on UNIX platforms (RS6000, DEC Alpha, HP), vi , Source Code Control System.
  • Admiral Computing Ltd
    Business/System Analyst - Various Projects
    Admiral Computing Ltd 1995 - 1996
    Camberley, Surrey
    Project 1: Rewrite of Data Services System for major high street bank, based in Poole. Rewrite of existing IBM mainframe system providing account entry information on different output media for delivery to corporate customers. Contribution/Skills: Business/System Analyst. Requirements analysis, liaison with business users, logical business design, produced program specs.Project 2: Leasing System Enhancement for major computer manufacturer. New functionality to existing computer equipment leasing mainframe on-line system. Enhancements to existing programs to capture and display data to new client interface. Contribution/Skills: Programmer in small project team requiring fast familiarization with new mainframe environment; coding and testing. HP3000 COBOL.Project 3: Correspondence Recording System for governments Highway Agency. Analyst/developer building system to record incoming correspondence and measure against performance targets. Contribution/Skills: User requirements, functional specs, design, coding & testing of screens/reports, installation & support, client liaison, user documentation. ObjectPAL (Paradox language), Paradox for Windows.Project 4: Data Extraction Project for government military site in Germany. Sole Analyst/Programmer developing suite of COBOL programs to extract data from an IDMSX database into comma-delimited flat files in readiness for uploading to Oracle database. Work done on client site in Germany. Contribution/Skills: Produced program specifications, design, coding and testing of programs and output, coordinating live runs and client liaison. ICL IDMSX COBOL, ICL SCL, ALTADATA.
  • Nationwide Building Society
    Senior Analyst / Business Analyst / Programmer - Various Financial Projects
    Nationwide Building Society Aug 1990 - Aug 1995
    Swindon, United Kingdom
    Project 1: AGM Mailing and Voting System. High profile annual project involving extraction of 3.5 million eligible members from two mainframe sources, mailing voting papers and analysis of votes. Results provided to external scrutineers for announcement at Annual General Meeting.Contribution/Skills: Senior Analyst/Programmer. Production of all analysis, design, quality and test documentation, development of system enhancements and live system support. Liaison with internal business areas, external scrutineers and mailing/printing houses, training and supervision of contractors and junior staff, management reporting. UNISYS Clearpath 1100/2200, ICL3980, EXEC, VME, COBOL (both mainframes), UNISYS JCL, ICL SCL, Excel, Word.Project 2: Customer Information System..Development of new customer centred database with functionality to maintain data after initial population from legacy system.Contribution/Skills: Business Analysis role on business change project. Initially involved in workshops with retail users to document current/future requirements which were translated into Process Logic and Entity Relationship diagrams to prove a new Data Model and eventually developed into re-usable business processes. Later, as client Software Developer, designed and built client processes, front end GUI's and contributed to evolving naming/development standards. Powerbuilder 4.0 and SYSTEMS ENGINEER on a Client/Server Network, INFORMATION ENGINEERING Methodology (Business Area Analysis part).Project 3: Transaction Collection System. Development of new transaction collection system to interface with the general ledger (GL). Contribution/Skills: Analyst with initial involvement in producing a full business analysis of current feeds to the GL. During building phase, responsible for coding and testing programs to given specification. COBOL in a Unisys 1100/2200 environment.
  • Optimis Computing Lid
    Software Engineer - Cost Optimization Software
    Optimis Computing Lid Jan 1990 - Jul 1990
    Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire
    Projects: Re-Design of Cost Optimisation Product; Fault Log Tracking System. Re-engineering of existing Cost Optimisation software product to improve efficiency/maintenance. Development of an application to monitor current status of fault logs produced from the test/rework cycle of any project. Contribution/Skills: Software Engineer producing Functional Requirements, design, build and product testing. BASIC 6.00, PARADOX 3.0, Manuscript.
  • Kinesis Computing Ltd
    Trainee Software Engineer
    Kinesis Computing Ltd May 1989 - Dec 1989
    Swindon, United Kingdom
    Projects: Data Conversion; Data Filtering Process. Contribution/Skills: Trainee Software Engineer responsible for matching flat file source data to target database fields. On-site testing at Government Home Office client site. INFORMIX 4GL, UNIX, 'C', SQL, all on NCR650 Tower hardware.
  • Control Training Ltd
    'Student'
    Control Training Ltd Jan 1989 - Apr 1989
    London, United Kingdom
    Intensive 15 week 'Software Engineering' course to 'retrain' for a career in IT. Subjects covered included 'C', UNIX, ADA, DBaseIII, MS-DOS, Systems Control and Project Management, Software Tools/Development, Data Comms and Networking.
  • Jpmorgan Chase & Co.
    Back Office Settlements Clerk
    Jpmorgan Chase & Co. Jun 1986 - Jan 1989
    City Of London
    Project: Eurobond Settlements department in US Investment Bank Support Division. Contribution/Skills: Non IT role. Responsible for settling different front office trades. Specialized in settlement of US Treasuries (liaising with Wall Street head office in New York to agree cash funding requirements), lead managing and settling New Issues, Bond Borrowing, processing of Futures and Options. Liaised with other departments, international financial institutions and clearing houses. Trained new staff. Good interpersonal skills and an ability to produce accurate, good quality work within very tight deadlines.
  • (Stc) Standard Telephones And Cables
    Quality Assurance Engineer / Programmer
    (Stc) Standard Telephones And Cables Apr 1984 - May 1986
    New Southgate, London
    Project: Reducing high outgoing fault levels (ongoing). Contribution/Skills: Quality Assurance Engineer/Programmer. Collected and analyzed production line quality data with aim of reducing outgoing fault levels by working closely with shop floor staff and management. Implemented and documented BS 5701 Quality procedures, assisted in training/awareness programmes and supervised other staff. Programmer duties:- maintenance/enhancement of all BASIC programs on IBM PC, system backup and package installation.
  • Unemployed
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    Unemployed Dec 1983 - Mar 1984
  • Tweeddale District Council
    Manual Worker
    Tweeddale District Council Apr 1983 - Nov 1983
    Peebles, Scotland
    Temporary manual staff of Cleansing Department.
  • Peebles Hydro
    Silver Service Waiter
    Peebles Hydro Jul 1982 - Mar 1983
    Peebles, Scotland
    Silver Service Waiter. Fully trained.

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