Experience & selected projects

Business thinking.
Process design.
Working systems.

These projects begin with an operating problem. The software follows a designed process that connects decisions, information, integration, and management visibility.

01 / Intelligent product discovery

eXtenderWare
Product Advisor

Customers often struggle to match complex products to their actual requirements. I designed Product Advisor to structure that purchasing decision and connect it to useful product information.

Right E-Bikes Advisor interface showing guided product discovery

The business problem

Product specifications and large catalogs can leave shoppers struggling to identify suitable options. Static pages and rigid filters often provide too little guidance.

The approach

Design the decision process first: identify customer needs, structure the questions and product information, then automate filtering and relevant recommendations. Keep answers editable so the customer can refine the decision.

The implementation

Connect product feeds and decision rules with response capture, recommendations, and management reporting. The application implements the process and makes customer interactions available for business analysis.

02 / An integrated digital business

Right E-Bikes

An integrated affiliate ecommerce operation designed around product data, guided consumer decisions, and the information needed to evaluate the business.

Live Right E-Bikes Advisor interface with riding-needs and specification search modes

The business concept

Explore a guided-discovery model for a complex product category, connecting recommendations with merchant and affiliate destinations.

The system design

Connect product-data management and automated information flows with guided selection, affiliate integrations, traffic attribution, and click and transaction reporting. AI-assisted development supports the implementation.

What it demonstrates

Business process design connects the consumer journey with data, external systems, and management visibility. The implementation creates a way to evaluate the commercial experiment.

Right E-Bikes is a live commercial experiment connecting guided selection, product information, and the measurement needed to evaluate a business concept.

Additional professional experience

Operating experience behind the design.

More than 40 years of entrepreneurship, a CPA and accounting background, experience at IBM and Coopers & Lybrand, and hands-on systems development inform how I connect business activities and evaluate repetitive administrative work.

  • Business ownershipBuilding and selling a systems-integration company, creating Internet startups, raising capital, and operating ecommerce businesses.
  • Operating responsibilityTurning around an underperforming software company, building public-company infrastructure, and owning and operating ICS Shoes for approximately 14 years.
  • Systems & educationDeveloping business applications, creating Internet operations for a major diabetic-supply business, and establishing Microsoft education centers at more than 40 universities.

Start with the business

Where could your business work better?

A process that takes too long, systems that don’t connect, or an improvement opportunity worth examining. Let’s discuss how the work happens today and what a better outcome would look like.

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