Oracle Redwood
Leading UX strategy and design across enterprise product lines as part of Oracle's Redwood design system initiative — a company-wide effort to unify and elevate the user experience across its entire portfolio.
What I do
At Oracle I operate at the intersection of individual craft and organizational influence. On any given project I might be designing high-fidelity interaction patterns, reviewing work with a team of designers, presenting design strategy to product leadership, or establishing standards that will be used by dozens of product teams across the portfolio.
My work falls into three areas:
- Product design — Hands-on UX design for enterprise applications, with a focus on workflows that handle complexity without overwhelming users.
- Design leadership — Managing and mentoring designers, building review practices, and raising the quality bar across teams.
- Design systems — Contributing to and helping adopt the Redwood design system, which standardizes Oracle's product experience at scale.
The challenge of enterprise UX
Enterprise software has a reputation for being difficult to use — and that reputation is often earned. The design challenge isn't lack of capability; it's that the products evolved over years of feature addition without a unifying design philosophy. Redwood was Oracle's commitment to changing that.
"Enterprise users spend more hours per day in their tools than almost any other category of software. The stakes for getting the UX right are higher, not lower."
My role has been to make that philosophy real at the product level — not just in guidelines documents, but in the actual shipped experiences that hundreds of thousands of users interact with every day.
What I'd share in an interview
I'm happy to walk through specific projects — product redesigns, new feature launches, design system contributions, team-building efforts — in a conversation. The work spans complex workflow design, information architecture for large-scale enterprise apps, and organizational design challenges that don't fit neatly into a case study format.