Westerdale Solutions
Working with you to find the most efficient solution for your business needs.
Westerdale Solutions Ltd (WSL) is an East Midlands, UK based IT Consultancy working primarily with Microsoft Collaboration Technologies. We have successfully implemented projects both in the private and public sectors.
These include, greenfield deployments on Power Platform, Microsoft 365 / SharePoint Online and on-premise platforms such as SharePoint 2016 and earlier.
my services
Content Goverance
Assist in the rollout of retention and senstivity labels and policies.
Productivity through MS Teams
SharePoint integration (Viva connections), to hosting bots, Tab Apps, Message extensions and other integrations, published to team members.
Power Automates for repeatable business processes
Using cloud flows and Business Process flows (model driven apps), Power Automate Desktop (RPA) to help create your repeatable business, that help reduce errors where current manual input steps are involved.
Power BI: analytics and reporting
.creating dashboards and reports against your data sets and dataflows
Migrate classic On-premises to Modern SharePoint online
Getting the most out of SharePoint online: bringing together modern inovations such as Viva desktop with custom and OOTB SharePoint framework web parts and extensions.
Custom forms using Power Apps
Whether it is for mobiles or tablet form factor, building low code Canvas & Model Driven: Power Apps to interact with your SharePoint, SQL Server (cloud & on premises), Dataverse or other data sources, via premium and custom connectors.
Microsoft 365 Admistration
Happy to assist with any of the following:
- Provisoning users ( from the intial request to authorsing any office equipment)
- Management of MS Teams Office 365 groups enabled and other sites
- Review of compliance, security and data loss prevention polocies
My Recent Experience
Nov 2024 – TO JUL 2025
SENIOR POWER PLATFORM CONSULTANT & QA Lead
Project 1: managing customer service and finance digitalisation teams at Webbeds, who were migrating business-critical Power Platform applications to a new Microsoft 365 tenant.
Project responsibilities: analysed Power Automates, Power Apps, AI Models, connections, etc. to provide recommendations for architecting Power Platform applications post-migration. Mentored digitalisation teams to encourage adoption of recommendations, incl AI models, and ultimately seamless migration of applications to test and production environments. Member of the on-site cut-off and Hypercare team.Project 2: building a (low-code) resource management and planning tool, to determine the number of FTEs and agency staff per shift at Evri’s depots and hubs; based on predicted and actual parcel volumes.Project responsibilities: produced the initial ERD and system design diagram during the initial project phases, worked on the initial “No Regrets” build of the canvas Power App with mock data sources. Built the initial custom connector for integrating Databricks with the Canvas App and Power Automate. Created Python (notebook) integration with Dataverse. Developed various screens including Depot (role) resourcing, Depot Actual Parcel volumes and Forecasted versus Planned versus Actual: hours and headcount.
Nov 2023 – TO Oct 2024
SENIOR POWER PLATFORM CONSULTANT
Converting a legacy Dynamics 365: case and risk management application into a model-driven Power App based solution.
Project responsibilities: project scoping and design, creation of low code: Tables, Forms, Views, Custom Security Roles, Power Automates, Business Validation Rules, Custom Pages for Dashboards and custom toolbar commands. Wrote all the TypeScript/JavaScript client-side API for the forms, including field validation and risk scoring (referral, pre and post visit).
Mentored Junior Developers working on both canvas and model-driven Power Apps through hands-on coaching. Implemented ALM for low code development with Power Platform Pipelines.
JAN 2022 – MARCH 2023
POWER PLATFORM CONSULTANT (IFRS17 PROGRAMME)
Following a review of the current deployment issues, delivered a design and implementation of the multi-environment, automated & autonomous solution deployments. Whilst ensuring compliance with Beazley security and CoE standard, work covered: defining AAD Groups, Teams (Dataverse), custom security roles, SQL Server, SharePoint, Excel, File Share and Power App user access. Produced a Power App for business rule exception and checkpoint/issue management. Created the initial prototypes of Power BI dashboard, allowing RAG status reporting on business rules applied to key insurance data sets.
MAY 2021 – TO DATE
POWER PLATFORM & SHAREPOINT DEVELOPER
Delivered multi Power App & Power Automate: HR Staff T&Cs management, Clinical Supervisions and Issue Tracking systems. Defined Power Platform ALM / governance through environments, Solutions; secured with AAD security groups (Teams) tied to distinct roles. Also, SharePoint content and structure migration using ShareGate and any follow up remedial actions.
SEPT 2020 – TO DATE
POWER PLATFORM SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Creating Power Apps & Power Automates for both field maintenance and head office staff that manages all tasks, customer interactions and purchase orders, held in SQL Server data tables.
JAN 2019 – APR 2020
SENIOR SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT
Sainsburys Tech: Solutions Architect / SharePoint SME, providing support to the Colleague Engagement (Our Sainsbury’s) / Group Intranet, GDPR & Collaborative Tools: product teams in the Digital Workplace product family.
About Me
Hi! I’m Daniel Westerdale
I’m an Microsoft 365, SharePoint & Power Platform: freelance Solutions Architect & consultant. I help both private and public sector clients get the most out of their investment in Microsoft’s collaboration technologies. If you want to know more about how I could help you, just get in touch..
- SharePoint Online
- Power Platform
- MS Teams productivity
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