Oracle ideas
Recurring customer pain points translated into platform-level product opportunities.
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43Oracle product ideas submitted
19Delivered, under review, or future-release ideas
6AI agents contributed to marketplace presence
40%Configuration timeline reduction through automation
$10M+Signed opportunities supported annually
The through-line
Product thinking as a way of life - not just a job title.
Consulting exposed me to many organizations solving similar problems in different ways. Building software taught me to convert those observations into tangible experiences. Writing and community work forced me to explain tradeoffs clearly. Together, those experiences created a practical product discipline grounded in customer behavior, technical feasibility, adoption, and measurable value.
Thought leadership
Articles that assess product gaps, tradeoffs, adoption barriers, and future direction.
Read the themes →Software products
iOS applications and workplace tools designed, built, released, and iterated.
Explore products →AI & automation
Agentic workflows and practical automation that remove repetitive decisions.
See prototypes →Everyday experiments
A home laboratory for dashboards, controls, alerts, and invisible automation.
See examples →Customer impact
Operational, commercial, community, and adoption results at enterprise scale.
Review results →Voice of the customer
Products I believe should exist.
I believe in crafting ideas that go beyond isolated feature requests. They show a repeatable method: identify the user problem, understand today’s workaround, propose a scalable intervention that works for more clients and processes, and articulate the business impact.
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Mass Item Replacement - adding Inventory as a Supply Source for Backorder Situations
Single Entry Point for PO and Non PO Receiving and Delivery Creation
Self-Service Package Delivery History Lookup
Seeded Carrier Tracking Number Logic for Package Deliveries
Contextual Warning and Instruction Messages During Package Delivery
Multiple Intermediate Scan Statuses for Hub and Spoke Deliveries
Location Sorting, Filtering, and Scanning During Delivery
Organization Selection as a Secondary or Optional Step in Package Tracking/Deliveries
Person and Location as Linked List of Values for Package Tracking/Deliveries
Build External Purchase Price generated BPA description from EPP attributes
External Purchase Prices - Approval by Buyer from Source Contract Owner Mapping
Link External Purchase Price, BPA and Enterprise Contract
Allow Validation Rules on Category Name
Allow Delay of Receipt Confirmation notification for X Days past Invoice Date
Control Negotiation Messages AI Assist "helpfulness levels"
AI Agent to automatically follow up on PO ETA + Price by email and create change orders
Use column from another sheet as "Download Records In" search input for VBAFE spreadsheets
Allow Smart Forms to default Special Handling type and attributes
AI and ML for Buyer Assignment Rules
Streamline Change Orders: Disable pop up confirmations and generate CO Descriptions through AI
Refine "Fuzzy Logic" and "Elastic Search" parameters in RSSP to reduce unrelated search results
VBAFE Search Parameters should work with Search values
Control Demo Account seeded users Password/Status: Prevents others locking you out
Fix the order of column heading and user data in Demo instance login user search page
Combine Physical Inventory and Cycle Count into a single function based on Cycle Counting tasks
Self Service option for creating and managing Approval Rules by Cost Center
Approval Testing UI for Validating Rules with One Account
Create or Update Item Transaction Defaults for Substitute items in a Backorder Situation
Create OTBI Subject Area for Substitute Impacts on Cost
Automate Item Subinventory Management for Substitute Items in Backorder Situations with Conversions
Add Approval Attributes for Substitution Price and Cost Differences
Control the Display of Items and Agreements in Self Service Procurement based on Backorder Status
Create and Control Primary and Secondary BPA’s based on Backorder Information
Collect and Store Backorder Details
Store Substitution Information in External Purchase Prices
Automate BOM Management during Backorder Supply Situations
Add Item Conversion Factors for Substitute Items
Collect Substitute Information from Suppliers during Negotiations
Enhance Mass Item Replacements based on Item to Item Conversion Factors
Advanced Backorder handling for entire P2P including BPA, SSP, Min/Max and PAR
Return Lot Details to existing LOV on Record Lots and Serial Numbers form in Misc Transactions
Create OTBI Subject Area for Work Order Reservations
Display Required Quantity when searching for inventory while creating manual reserv
Complete catalog imported from the Oracle Cloud Customer Connect export, updated July 2026. Cards intentionally use only exported metadata; richer problem, solution, and impact narratives can be added selectively later.
Product communication
Writing that evaluates the business process—not just the feature.
My public writing connects capabilities to user behavior, operational realities, adoption barriers, and product opportunity. The goal is not simply to explain how software works, but to assess how client use should evolve.
AI Agents Revolutionize SCM Change Management
Explores contextual policy guidance embedded in the user experience, replacing generic documentation with role-aware answers.
Read article →26C Procurement & Inventory Updates
Evaluates roadmap developments through the lens of transparency, control, trust, and manual effort eliminated.
Read article →Functional Consultants Guide to VBS
Makes low-code extension approachable while defining safe boundaries between configuration and development.
Read article →Bill Only Requisitions for Healthcare
Translates a generic platform capability into a healthcare workflow while documenting adoption constraints and gaps.
Read article →Cycle Counting vs. Physical Inventory
Challenges inherited process assumptions and proposes a simpler operating model.
Read article →Package Tracking with Oracle Mobile Inventory
Examines the friction between receiving, delivery, tracking, and the frontline user experience.
Read article →Build, release, learn
Hands-on software products.
Building products personally provided direct experience with the entire lifecycle: identifying a need, deciding what not to build, designing the experience, shipping, supporting users, and iterating based on real behavior. Each product is also an exercise in prioritization—figuring out what the user actually needs and resisting the temptation to build everything that is technically possible.
Money Mileposts
A consumer iOS product focused on making financial progress easier to understand. The product explores how milestones and a focused mobile experience can make a long-term financial journey feel more tangible and actionable.
Product problem
Financial progress can feel abstract when it is represented
only by disconnected balances and numbers.
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Product response
Organize the experience around understandable milestones and
visible forward progress.
CRM-ish
A deliberately lightweight take on CRM for iOS. The product explores how much useful relationship-management capability can be delivered without recreating the complexity of a full enterprise CRM platform.
Product problem
Traditional CRM products can be much heavier than the job a
user actually needs to accomplish.
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Product response
Focus the mobile experience on the essential information and
actions rather than feature breadth.
Rebreather Diver Tools
A specialized utility shaped by a clearly defined user context and the need for simple, dependable calculations.
Before
Scattered calculations and reference material.
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After
A focused mobile workflow built for the task.
List Genius, Count Genius & Future Genius
Consumer applications exploring organization, counting, and practical decision support through simple interfaces.
Outlook add-ins
Tools that turn repetitive email and receipt workflows into fewer, safer actions.
Before
Multiple clicks, file handling, naming, and printing steps.
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After
A guided one-click workflow for colleagues.
Ownership changes judgment
When you must support what you build, simplicity, error handling, discoverability, sensible defaults, and disciplined scope stop being abstract UX principles. Building and releasing my own products has made those tradeoffs tangible.
Applied innovation
AI and automation with humans still in control.
I focus on repetitive decisions and fragmented workflows where AI can reduce effort without obscuring accountability. The product question is not “Where can AI be added?” It is “Which decision can be made easier, safer, and more contextual?”
Supplier follow-up
Monitor missing confirmations or changes, contact suppliers, interpret responses, and prepare the next controlled action.
Requisition and payment support
Guide users through complex data requirements while using enterprise context and controls.
Invoice Hold Agent
Streamlined agent workflow to explain match exception in plain language, evaluate historical transactions to recommend and undertake corrective actions across AP and Procurement.
Configuration accelerators
Use structured data, scripts, APIs, and templates to make implementation work repeatable and reduce configuration timelines.
GOES and ADS-B art pipelines
Transform live data into scheduled visual products using Python, automation, and repeatable publishing workflows.
Prototype to market signal
Supported approximately $10M in signed opportunities and contributed to six marketplace agents, connecting technical prototypes to customer value.
Personal product lab
Everyday product experiments.
My personal product lab ranges from Home Assistant automations to physical products built with 3D-printed parts, electronics, and embedded software. Each project starts with a human problem or experience and then works backward into the technology required to make it real.
What changes when the interface is a physical object instead of a
screen?
Built a Digital Magic 8 Ball as an end-to-end physical product
prototype. The project combined designing and 3D printing parts,
assembling and wiring the electronics, and coding the behavior on
an ESP32. It required the enclosure, electrical components,
embedded software, assembly, and user interaction to work together
as one experience rather than as separate technical exercises.
Why should ending screen time require an argument?
Designed network and dashboard controls that make the rule
visible and the action consistent. My kids can watch TV once
their chores are done and approved, and they enjoy the process.
Why should everyone open a phone to understand the day?
Created always-visible household dashboards using repurposed
displays and shared calendar views.
Why should someone remember to check the garage refrigerator?
Added temperature monitoring and escalation so the system
notices problems first without false alarms when someone takes a
minute to choose their drink with the door open.
Why should watering depend on memory and guesswork?
Combined controls, moisture signals, schedules, and alerts into
a more reliable experience where irrigation lines are only
pressurized when the system is on, reducing water leaks and
maintenance.
How can cameras be useful without adding another app workflow?
Integrated views and alerts into the same household interface
used for everything else. Out of sight and mind until something
unexpected occurs.
What does the best automation feel like?
Usually, nothing. It quietly removes a task, a decision, or a
reason to worry. My wife is the harshest critic and the
repurposed Portal device has become her favorite home control
center!
Evidence of adoption
Impact across customers, teams, and markets.
Product leadership requires more than ideas. These outcomes demonstrate the ability to align stakeholders, make concepts tangible, drive adoption, and connect innovation to operational or commercial value.
40%
Faster configuration timeline
Automation and repeatable tooling reduced implementation effort while improving consistency. Everyone knows my opinion: VBAFE is the best thing since sliced bread!
3 days → 3 hours
Month-end process redesign
Reduced a three-person, three-day process for entering financial information to a government website to a one-person, three-hour workflow. The person in charge watches Netflix until an exception occurs, so even the thee hours passes fast.
$10M+
Signed opportunities supported
Connected AI concepts and demonstrations to real customer demand and commercial outcomes.
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Marketplace agents
Contributed to productized AI use cases in supply chain and manufacturing.
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Oracle enhancement ideas
A sustained record of identifying product gaps and proposing scalable solutions.
Oracle ACE Pro
Community credibility
Recognized for translating complex Oracle capabilities into practical guidance and thought leadership. One of 10 supply chain ACE Pro's globally.
Decision framework
How I think.
A product leader’s most important output is often judgment: understanding the underlying problem, choosing the right intervention, and preserving trust while moving quickly.
Technology should disappear behind the experience.Users should not need to understand architecture to complete a
familiar task.
Every repetitive task is a product signal.Repeated effort may indicate missing automation, poor defaults,
or fragmented ownership.
Customer requests are symptoms.Understand the workflow and root cause before committing to the
requested feature; customs may not ask for what they actually
need but their request is important.
AI should reduce cognitive load, not hide accountability.Keep controls, context, explanations, and human decision rights
visible.
Adoption matters more than feature completion.Measure whether people trust, understand, and consistently use
the capability. This doesn't mean perfect features on day 1, but
it does mean knowing the key components that will ensure
adoption.
Constraints improve product decisions.Technical, regulatory, and operational realities help reveal
the simplest viable intervention.
Prototype to create a better conversation.Tangible concepts allow users, design, and engineering to
challenge assumptions early.
Scale the pattern, not the workaround.Preserve what is common across customers while respecting
meaningful variation.
“Consulting gave me exposure to dozens of customers solving the same problems differently. Product leadership is the opportunity to turn those patterns into experiences that work better for thousands of organizations and users, across teams and modules.”