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. 

 

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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 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 responsibility: 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.

IFRS17 Implementation

 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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Let’s discuss your business needs