Daniel Walters

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Founder, CTO Coach and Author of 'Great CTO' newsletter and co-host of CTO Life Line livestream @ Great CTO
Auckland, NZ
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Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, New Zealand
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About Daniel Walters

Over 20 years experience in leadership positions focused on software product development. I have led large teams across geographies in Tech, Product, Data & Ops roles for leading global brands such as SEEK and Experian. I have experience in large corporations, medium enterprise and early-stage startups. My peers appreciate me for deep technical understanding, strategic thinking, my deep and broad experience and an ability to connect with and lead people. I have a reputation for being calm under pressure and my experience working across multiple geographies concurrently in Asia has helped me develop resilient structures appropriate for varying levels of volatility.When working with me you can expect: * Creation of opportunities by harnessing data and insight. * Scaling and multiplying impact. * Continuous innovation & delivery.* Outcome driven (Agile, Lean, OKR, JTBD, PuMP, Wardley).* Building & leading high performing teams.* Culture Transformation.Specialties: * Product to market fit.* Scalable product platforms and systems. * Building teams with strong, resilient and results-driven culture.* Rapid product design and delivery.* Experience, Creative, Eye for detail & Pragmatic.* Progressive and risk aware.

Daniel Walters's Current Company Details
Great CTO

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Founder, CTO Coach and Author of 'Great CTO' newsletter and co-host of CTO Life Line livestream
Auckland, NZ
Website:
greatcto.me
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Daniel Walters Work Experience Details
  • Great Cto
    Founder, Cto Coach And Author Of 'Great Cto' Newsletter And Co-Host Of Cto Life Line Livestream
    Great Cto
    Auckland, Nz
  • Hypr Nz
    Principal Consultant
    Hypr Nz Aug 2022 - Present
    Auckland, Nz
    I support companies in establishing and deploying Technology Strategy. I leveraging my experience in CTO, CIO and CPTO positions. I bring a wealth of experience across a long career in Technology and leadership positions across many different types of organisations - from startup to Enterprise, commercial to government, with strong expertise in SaaS as well as exposure to many other business models such as marketplaces, publishers, research and more.
  • Great Cto
    Cto Coach & Author Of 'Great Ctos Focus On Outcomes' Weekly Newsletter
    Great Cto Apr 2020 - Present
    I coach, consult and publish content through my business Great CTO, a company dedicated to helping CTOs thrive. The CTO is one of the most challenging roles in the modern era. Technology pervades all aspects of business and CTOs career paths rarely provide them all skills needed to succeed and the support available is limited. Great CTO seeks to change that.
  • Dataengine
    Lead Consultant
    Dataengine Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
    Auckland, Auckland, Nz
    I've helped the experts at DataEngine convey their analysis to senior leadership in DataEngine's customer organisations as well as contributed to the analysis. I leveraged my years of experience in data-centric organisations and C-level experience.
  • Career Break
    Full-Time Parenting
    Career Break May 2022 - Jul 2022
    I spent this time focusing on my son's transition back into school after an extended disruption of his attendance due to COVID.
  • Weirdly
    Chief Product & Technology Officer
    Weirdly Jun 2021 - May 2022
    Auckland Cbd, Auckland, Nz
    I was responsible for the roadmap, technology choices, cybersecurity, data privacy, engineering culture and operations. Helped improve transparency, use of data in decision-making, cross-departmental collaboration, putting customers at the center, optimising expenditure, making systems more resilient.
  • Xero
    Product Consultant
    Xero Dec 2020 - Jun 2021
    Te Aro, Wellington, Nz
    In balance with caring for my 2 year old son I am working part time on contract to Xero. I am supporting the initiating activities such as team formation, onboarding & induction for product initiatives relating to bringing new product capabilities into South East Asia markets. This includes market sizing, framing the problem, improving the understanding of the customer need, documenting what short and longterm success might look like, hiring of product roles (Job Descriptions, Job Ads, hiring process, briefing interviewer pool etc.), presenting findings to senior stakeholders, facilitating risk identification & prioritization, channel fit, coordinating with Go To Market, preparing for product discovery activities.
  • Seek
    Chief Technology Officer, Seek Asia
    Seek Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
    Cremorne, Victoria, Au
    In support of establishing a CIO for Asia Pacific, my role changed to focus on the product development aspects of my role for Asia (the majority of my background experience and passion), as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO I was responsible for product development for our flagship brands and the customer experiences for candidates and hirers. I continued to hold the fiduciary responsibilities for the Asia markets around IT risk & governance, data privacy and cybersecurity. In addition to the CTO responsibilities for a 9 month period, I also held interim Product leadership responsibilities., leading the hirer platforms and the associated product managers with a focus on driving significant positive change for our Hirer platforms similar to what we had achieved previously for our candidate platforms. During this time we established a new long-term platform strategy, improved key customer experience metrics and drove a shift of sales transactions online in our e-commerce channels supporting our business transformation objectives.
  • Seek
    Interim Product Director, Hirer Asia
    Seek Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
    Cremorne, Victoria, Au
    Interim leadership of Product Management function responsible for multiple of Seek's Hirer Recruitment Centers and Back Office systems in Asia in addition to the responsibilities as Seek Asia's CTO whilst we search for someone permanently to take on this Executive Product Management role.
  • Seek
    Chief Information Officer, Seek Asia
    Seek Jul 2015 - Jul 2019
    Cremorne, Victoria, Au
    CIO for SEEK Asia - the leading online employment business in South East Asia consisting of jobsDB and JobStreet with a presence in 7 countries: Hong Kong, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines. I led talent in 8 countries (we also had a satellite office in Shenzhen, China) and was responsible for the IT for all offices in each of these locations, the data centers, our cloud footprint, IT governance & risk, Cybersecurity, Data Privacy. I also was responsible for product development as this role included Chief Technology Officer responsibilities. I led an overall group of ~200 staff, the majority of whom focused on software development across SEEK Asia's candidate and hirer product platforms. We developed entirely new candidate customer experiences which replaced the existing experiences for both the JobsDB and Jobstreet brands whilst holding our leading market positions. The new experiences were a significant uplift in being mobile-first, SEO competitive and secure. We scaled these experiences to millions of candidates across the region.
  • Big Data Malaysia
    Organizer
    Big Data Malaysia Aug 2012 - Jun 2020
    Kuala Lumpur, Wp Kuala Lumpur, My
    I was an organizer of Big Data Malaysia and grew the group to ~8000 members. We ran regular meetups which often exceeded 200 attendees, produced reports on the state of Big Data in Malaysia, collaborated with industry, education and government sectors, facilitated information collection and provide content curation for the benefit of the Big Data industry in Malaysia and for Malaysian businesses leveraging advances in technology and data ubiquity for more effective decision-making. We organised the Wrangle conference in Malaysia in cooperation with MDeC and Cloudera with numerous international speakers and over 350 people in attendance.
  • Prestariang Systems Sdn Bhd
    Consultant - Successful Bid For Concession For Malaysia National Immigration It Systems
    Prestariang Systems Sdn Bhd Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
    I was part of a small project team ("Project SKIN") who successfully bid for an 8.5 billion MYR (~3.1 bn NZD) concession for Jabatan Imigresen Malaysia (Malaysia Immigration) to refresh and modernise Malaysia's immigration IT systems. I provided a broad range of services including requirements review, requirements gathering & documentation, planning, coordination, task management, training and Subject Matter Expertise (Big Data).
  • Independent Consultant (Big Data, Strategy, It, Operations)
    Entrepreneur, Startup Mentor, Consultant & Community Builder
    Independent Consultant (Big Data, Strategy, It, Operations) Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
    I consult to a number of companies, start-ups and organisations in a variety of topic areas: IT organizational structure, IT organisation & infrastructure costing, Big Data organisation and implementation strategies, Analytics tools & techniques, Agile Software development, Product Management, Bleeding edge technologies & trends (VR, IoT etc.). I founded using Lean Startup practices a number of startup businesses in the areas of Big Data and Virtual Reality, validating lack of viability. I also provided mentorship, support and some consulting to startup businesses. I am currently providing regular support to 8 start-up businesses in the form of weekly advice sessions, reviews, introductions etc.. A frequent startup pitch judge and hackathon judge for prize competitions. I established the following very successful community meetup groups: Big Data Malaysia (8000 members), VR Malaysia (1000 members), Film Lovers of Malaysia (3000 members).
  • Experian Asia Pacific
    Head Of Engineering & Operations, Kuala Lumpur Global Development Center
    Experian Asia Pacific Apr 2010 - Aug 2014
    Singapore, Sg
    In April 2010 I took a secondment in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to establish a development center for Experian Hitwise. I am responsible for hiring, training, managing and coordinating the operations for this development center whilst continuing additional duties as a senior director and as part of the senior leadership team for Experian Consumer Insights globally. Over 4.5 years from beginning as the first Malaysian based employee for Experian Hitiwse product line I built a team of 70+ Tech, Product, Data & Ops personnel.This role required the establishment and ongoing responsibility for:A Product Development group comprising six agile teams made up of cross-functional roles inclusive of dev, QA, product and supporting leadership and coordination roles.A Global Operations organisation - 3 teams spanning Malaysia and Costa Rica (with supporting personnel in China, Australia and London) providing a 24x7 support services covering systems, data and product functional areas.This also included responsibility for teams focused on other Consumer Insights product lines such as the Alchemy Social and Mosaic product lines.
  • Hitwise
    Director, Product Management
    Hitwise Aug 2009 - Aug 2011
    Santa Monica, California, Us
    Product Development Roadmap, Product Ownership, Strategic Planning, Business Planning, Marketing coordination, Product Design, Partnerships, Integration, Product Content & Communications
  • Hitwise
    Product Director
    Hitwise Jun 2003 - Nov 2009
    Santa Monica, California, Us
    Responsible for strategic decision making for product development at Hitwise. During this period I lead many of the businesses key product enhancements including building a very popular dashboard system for our 1500 client companies to aggregate and share data amongst their respective userbases, innovated Search Marketing product features which drove the majority of new business sales and strongest retention figures amongst our client base. This included pioneering product management practices as well as technical leadership in both a design and execution capacity.
  • Hitwise
    Quality Assurance Manager
    Hitwise Jul 2002 - Jun 2003
    Santa Monica, California, Us
    My role was to establish end-to-end Quality practices across data, development, Release Management and to establish a Software Quality Assurance function. This includes planning, hiring, process and practices design, and execution of change management plan.
  • Virtual Communities
    Producer
    Virtual Communities 1999 - 2001
    I was responsible for overseeing the content for 4 entertainment related sub-portals. This involved coordinating a large number of content providers as well as producing some of my own content. I was also responsible for producing business plans for these portals, managing the community and coordinating community managers. During the construction of the portal I was responsible for the information architecture, establishing and managing the Quality Assurance team & processes, managing 20 external content feeds and some web development and technical research.
  • Beam
    Producer
    Beam 1996 - 1999
    As producer, I was responsible for the Splash! brand What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get web page creation product line. There was a range of responsibilities including product development design & prioritisation (the core duties of a product owner i.e. backlog grooming, roadmaps), customer service, content creation, PR, project management, technical support, coordination of contractors, full and part time staff. I grew the team from a single producer, sales person and developer to 3 developers, a producer, a marketer, content experts, 2 customer service reps. We sold over a million dollars worth of product (online and white label deals with brands such as Scholastic ) and multiple millions of freemium software distributed.

Daniel Walters Skills

Agile Methodologies Product Management Management Project Management Analytics Integration Php Web Analytics Product Development Javascript Software Development Agile Project Management E Commerce Scrum Team Management Strategic Planning Business Strategy Html Web Applications Css Mobile Devices Saas Hiring Java Postgresql Mobile Applications Web Services Outsourcing Organizational Leadership Object Oriented Design Cascading Style Sheets Php Frameworks Strategy Leadership People Oriented Talent Acquisition

Daniel Walters Education Details

  • University Of Melbourne
    University Of Melbourne
    Computer Science
  • Swinburne University Of Technology
    Swinburne University Of Technology
    Electronics

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