Daniel Woolfson - Fractional Engineering Manager, The Engineer Experience

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Startup Founder

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United Kingdom

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India

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Switzerland

Work Background

VeremarkSenior Engineering Manager

Aug. 2022York, England, United KingdomVeremark 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. I am leading the following continuous improvement initiatives: 🔄 Modeling Current Practices and Targeting Best Practice Continuously modeling current practices and strategically targeting best practices to ensure ongoing alignment of engineering processes with industry standards, fostering a culture of innovation and growth. 📘 Authoring the Engineering Playbook: Actively authoring and maintaining a comprehensive Engineering Playbook, providing ongoing guidance for teams with current and best practices for efficient project execution. 🚀 Quarterly OKRs: Instituting and delivering Quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) to align ongoing team efforts with organizational objectives, fostering a culture of continuous accountability and achievement. 🎯 Implementing DORA Metrics: Currently integrating DORA (DevOps Research and Assessment) metrics to continuously measure and optimize key aspects of the software development lifecycle, driving ongoing efficiency and reliability. 📈 eNPS Growth: Elevating the Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS) for the Engineering team, demonstrating ongoing efforts to enhance job satisfaction and team well-being.

TelmarSenior Engineering Resource Manager

Jun. 2020 - Aug. 2022Telmar 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. In leading 100% distributed teams remotely, I delivered: - Support of 6 teams of multi-disciplined Software Engineers, Senior Software Engineers and Senior Architects - Provide support and monitoring of team and individual performance - Building teams using Team Toplogies - Motivation and coaching of high performing teams through one-to-ones. - Identifying, recruiting and retaining talent - Job descriptions, Interview, Assessment and onboarding of all Software hires for scale up business objectives - Defining personal development plans, setting team and personal goals and dealing with performance issues - Work closely with Product Managers and Product Owners to define Product roadmaps and quarterly development plans - Facilitation of Scrum events - Planning work to achieve quarterly objectives - Provision of monthly/quarterly development reports and KPIs

Legend Club ManagementTechnical Resource Manager

Jun. 2019 - Jun. 2020York, England, United KingdomLegend Club Management Systems are a specialist provider of a complete Leisure Management Solution for health clubs, leisure centres, Universities and sports parks.

The Engineer ExperienceHigh Performing Tech Team Guru

Feb. 2019York, United Kingdom · RemoteThe Engineer Experience specialise in forming stellar high performing Software Engineering Teams. Through analysis of company and Founder culture, we can create a ground up framework of behavioural driven metrics, competencies and behaviours to reach OKRs. Whether you are 1 or 100+ sized Engineering organisation, we can catapult the efficiency and effectiveness of your team. 🔄 Process Optimization and Team Topologies Specializing in process optimization and agile implementation to enhance team effectiveness through structure and efficiency through measurement to effect project delivery. 🎯 Macro Behavioural and Competency Frameworks: Developing behavioral frameworks for role competencies, enhancing team performance and alignment with organizational goals. 🌐 Remote Team Leadership: Consulting on Engineering Management for remote teams in non-operational timezones, consistently driving 2x, 3x, and 10x output from Engineering teams. 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.

PureNetHead of Engineering & QA

Apr. 2015 - May. 2019York, United KingdomPureNet 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.

StarComplianceTechnical Project Manager

Sep. 2014 - Apr. 2015York, United KingdomI delivered Operational Development Management with the following responsibilities: - Lead of the ISO27001/ISO9001 certification project for StarCompliance - Lead of the Maintenance Team (bug fixes, patches, minor releases) - Prioritisation and triage of defects raised by clients for iteration planning - Estimation/sizing, resource planning, milestones, RAG status, MI dashboards - Release management across Technical / Professional Services and Helpdesk - KPIs e.g. system/UAT/post production defects - New hires/appraisals within Development Team - Contributor to the adoption of JIRA and Confluence for iteration/release management

StarComplianceDevelopment Manager

Apr. 2014 - Sep. 2014York, United Kingdom- I managed the Development, QA and Technical Writing teams - QA strategy and functional test planning including regression - Liaison with Sales / Product Management to form user stories for Development

Mitrefinch LtdResearch and Development Manager

Mar. 2008 - Apr. 2014York, United KingdomMitrefinch specialise in the development of Workforce Management, Time and Attendance, Rostering, HR and Payroll and Access Control Solutions. Their solutions enable organisations to better measure, analyse and manage employees working time and costs as well as deploy human resources more effectively. My role was both a Software Development Manager and Electronic Engineering Manager delivering software and hardware commercial product for Mitrefinch. I worked across the full software and hardware development lifecycle architecting custom development across existing or new solutions based on user requirements. I was accountable for innovation, delivery and release management of software and electronic technical solutions. I made well founded decisions in a complex live environment to clearly define direction to steer product management. I delivered information advised and liaised daily with the CEO and senior managers from Customer Service, Operations, Sales, Marketing and Finance.