Daniel Woolfson
5.0
(3)
Studied at University of York
Works at The Engineer Experience
Not currently taking new clients
Work Experience
Founder, Principal Consultant
The Engineer Experience
February 2023 - Present
Through my lens of “seeing things in a different way” I offer persistent professional feedback to clients. I specialise in creating frameworks for stellar high performing Software Engineering Teams by creating a ground up framework of behavioural driven metrics, competencies and behaviours to reach OKRs. 🎯 Define and deliver on outcomes with OKRs and SLOs 🔄 Comprehensive analysis of your current business systems. 🔄 Detailed elicitation of your business processes and pain points 🔄 Tailored remapping of your workflows to better-fit systems. 🔄 AI-accelerated ideas and solutions to future-proof your business. Also - I host "The Engineer Experience Podcast" 🎙️ to explore the best Software Engineering Cultures globally. Engage in insightful 💡 discussions covering Culture, Tools, Environment, Workplace, People, Community, and more. Public Speaking, Leadership and +18 skills
Senior Engineering Manager
Veremark
August 2022 - Present
Veremark provides fast, accurate, secure and scalable background checks seamlessly enabling you to verify the credentials and integrity of existing or prospective employees whilst delivering the best candidate experience possible. 🎯Lead of successful execution and build of API integration projects by defining strategy, establishing project structures, gathering and managing requirements to deliver seamless and effective integrations. 🎯Enhanced engineering efficiency and security by authoring the Secure SDLC Engineering Playbook, introducing Scrum and Kanban methodologies to streamline workflows, and implementing security-first procedures to address SAST, SCA and DAST vulnerabilities effectively. 🎯Standardised project management processes by creating the Technical Project Management (TPM) Playbook, incorporating scope definition, change control, and UAT signoff documentation to ensure consistency across all API and software change projects. 🎯Foster collaboration and deliver results by managing 3 distributed cross-functional teams of 12 engineers across 7 international locations, ensuring alignment, productivity, and cohesion in a remote work environment. 🎯Boosted employee satisfaction and engagement by achieving a 400% increase in Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) reaching a score of 40, through fostering a positive and supportive work environment. 🎯Aligned engineering initiatives with product goals with Product Managers, leveraging Scrum methodologies, Kanban boards, and semantic versioning for release management. 🎯Driving of alignment between team OKRs and cross-functional scale-up objectives by producing weekly (and quarterly) engineering reports with actionable insights on outcomes, project health, velocity, capacity, risks, completion milestones, positive achievements and business-wide observations to support strategic decision-making. Agile Project Management, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and +24 skills
Resource Manager
Telmar
June 2020 - August 2022
Telmar offers media planning solutions to help advertisers, agencies and media owners uncover hidden insights in a rapidly evolving industry. With proprietary algorithms and unique data science, Telmar delivers data analysis software for optimizing advertising across platforms. During my time leading 100% distributed teams remotely at Telmar, I achieved significant accomplishments, including: 🎯 Successfully increased eNPS (employee Net Promoter Score) by an impressive 700%, from -10 to 59. Efficiently placed and onboarded 15 Engineers within 6 months after securing investment. 🎯 Managed five remote-first distributed teams, totaling 25 Engineers and five Engineering Managers, across various locations including the UK, France, South Africa, Milan, the US, Canada, and Taiwan. My team's Tech Stack included C#, TypeScript, Angular, React, Node.js, and PHP. 🎯 Conducted structured 1-1 meetings for Software Leads, Architects, Data Scientists, QA professionals, and Manager of Managers. 🎯 Facilitated the successful adoption of Scrum methodology for agile transformation across various IT departments, including Software Development and Data Management 🎯 Design and creation of teams using Team Topologies to include Stream aligned, Enabling, Complicated Sub System and Platform teams. Agile Project Management, Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) and +36 skills
Resource Manager
Legend Club Management
June 2019 - June 2020
Legend Club Management Systems are a specialist provider of a complete Leisure Management Solution for health clubs, leisure centres, Universities and sports parks. 🎯Oversaw the management of five cross-functional Scrum Teams. 🎯Facilitated and organised Operational Technical Management meetings. 🎯Defined and implemented performance metrics for the Engineering Teams, utilizing direct sourcing channels to successfully increase the team size to 20 Engineers. 🎯Established an in-house Software Coding Bootcamp for Junior hires. Agile Project Management, Attention to Detail and +19 skills
Head of Product Engineering
PureNet
April 2015 - May 2019
PureNet are a multi-award winning provider of world-class enterprise eCommerce and custom web & mobile solutions specialising in the delivery of bespoke e-commerce and bespoke software solutions including enterprise portals. My role was to lead the C# .NET and the Magento (PHP) Software Engineering teams. My role also led the QA, Digital Design/UX teams and in total I had over 16 direct reports. I was architect of our Agile methodology and owner of tools, processes, and reporting mechanisms. I was also the owner of performance metrics for Enterprise and Roadmap planning. I looked after the sourcing, induction and on-boarding of people for the technical teams and I provided technical sales support for clients and prospects. E-commerce, Agile Project Management and +26 skills
Education
University of York
The York Strategic Leadership Programme
2016 - 2016
University of York
BSc, Computer Science/Mathematics
1997 - 1999
Grade: 2-1
3 Reviews
Overall Rating
5.0
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