Resume

Jeff Williams

Product and digital transformation leader with 20+ years of experience delivering enterprise platforms and AI-enabled automation that improves decision-making, efficiency, and user experience.

Experience

Experience Manager & Product Owner

Shift4 Payments · Remote

04/2023 – Present
  • Led product delivery for a major Salesforce modernization across core commercial workflows (lead, account, opportunity, quoting)
  • Built and deployed an internal RAG Slack chatbot agent for technical Salesforce support—~250 questions/week, ~20% ticket deflection, ~4.5/5 satisfaction
  • Designed agentic automations in n8n combining LLM reasoning with system actions, saving ~6-10 hours/week per user
  • Implemented Slack-based AI assistants with ~150 weekly active users and ~40% repeat usage
  • Established operational practices for AI workflows including logging, failure-handling, and human-in-the-loop checkpoints

Director, Digital Transformation

Oracle Corporation · Rocklin, CA

05/2020 – 11/2022
  • Led strategy and delivery for a $1M Analyst Relations digital engagement platform
  • Applied human-centered discovery (journey mapping, stakeholder interviews) to translate business challenges into actionable opportunities
  • Built scalable solution designs on Oracle Cloud, reducing third-party platform costs by 30%
  • Operationalized KPI-based reporting to communicate impact to senior leadership

Director, User Experience Design

Oracle Corporation · Rocklin, CA

02/2016 – 05/2020
  • Built and led Oracle's first employee-centric UX organization from scratch
  • Designed AI-powered conversational interface for employee digital assistants, reducing support requests by 15%
  • Led redesigns of internal platforms, improving task completion by 35% and reducing search time by 25%
  • Introduced Scaled Agile practices, shortening delivery timelines by 20%

Director, Product Evangelism

Oracle Corporation · Rocklin, CA

04/2011 – 01/2016
  • Launched Oracle's internal enterprise video platform (OTube), increasing employee engagement by 40%
  • Optimized collaboration tooling, surpassing ROI targets by 20% with 95% user satisfaction
  • Partnered with Cisco on redesigning a scheduling tool, improving adoption by 50%

Senior Manager, ITSM Center of Excellence

Oracle Corporation · Rocklin, CA

05/2008 – 03/2011
  • Led Oracle's ITSM transformation, earning 2010 itSMF USA Project of the Year Award
  • Saved $1.5M annually through process and workflow improvements
  • Improved service availability by 25% and reduced incident resolution time by 30%

IT Business Analyst → IT Manager

Oracle Corporation · Rocklin, CA

01/2001 – 05/2008
  • Streamlined M&A integration processes, reducing project completion times by 25% and saving $1M annually
  • Consolidated enterprise system monitoring, reducing downtime by 30% and saving $500K annually

Skills

Agentic Workflows & GenAI

Agentic Workflow DesignLLM OrchestrationRAG PipelinesPrompting & EvaluationGuardrails & Human-in-the-LoopWorkflow Monitoring

Product Management

Product StrategyProduct RoadmapStakeholder ManagementBacklog PrioritizationOKRsKPI DesignExecutive Storytelling

Enterprise Platforms

CRM (Salesforce)Jira/ConfluenceAPI IntegrationsEnterprise Workflow AutomationData Governance

UX & Research

Journey MappingUser ResearchInformation ArchitecturePrototypingUsability TestingConversational Design

Agile & Delivery

ScrumSAFeKanbanRelease PlanningUATCross-Functional Leadership

Education

BS, Business Administration

University of Phoenix (in progress, GPA 3.9)

Certifications

  • SAFe Agilist 4.5 & Product Owner/Manager Certificates | Scaled Agile
  • UX Certificate | Nielsen Norman Group
  • Financial Analysis for Non-Financial Executives | UC Berkeley Extension
  • ITIL V3 Expert Certification

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