Curriculum vitae · Zac Goodwin

Twenty years of shipping.

A decade as a product manager, four years running architecture and engineering, now VP of Technology & Digital Services in Portland, Oregon: eight brands on one commerce platform and a 44-person team.

Run in production

  • VTEX
  • Akeneo PIM
  • Workato
  • SAP Hybris
  • Agentic AI
  • REST APIs
  • Oracle SQL

Selected work

Full history →
  1. 8brands, one architecture

    Eight distinct brands served from a single services-based commerce platform.

  2. $5Mnet new revenue

    Driven through the integration layer my team designed, built and owns.

  3. 500+vans running it daily

    The B2B inventory app now rides with electrical contractors across ANZ.

  4. 44people on the team

    Product, engineering, infrastructure and support, on a $15M budget.

  5. 10countries, one app

    Ten sets of requirements reconciled into a single native release.

  6. 90%fewer bug reports

    Prototype to native rebuild, with store ratings up two stars.

Selected projects

  1. USESI / 2022 – 2026

    Eight brands, one commerce platform

    A services-based platform on VTEX replacing a legacy ERP-bound storefront, with product data governed centrally in a PIM.

    Composable commerceVTEXAkeneo PIM

  2. USESI / 2023 – 2026

    The integration layer we refused to outsource

    Orchestration exposing legacy databases to the commerce platform and to external partners. $5M in net new revenue.

    WorkatoREST APIsPartner integrations

  3. Rexel Global / 2015 – 2017

    One mobile app ten countries could agree on

    Prototype to native rebuild: bug reports down 90%, ratings up two stars, now riding in 500+ contractor vans.

    Native mobileWebshop APIsField research

Roles & education

  • 2022 – present

    VP, Technology & Digital Services — USESI

    A 44-person organization across product, engineering, infrastructure and support, with a $15M budget mapped to the business services it funds.

  • 2018 – 2022

    Product Manager — Apptio, Numerify

    Enterprise analytics and technology business management: deep customer understanding, a platform bet, measurable money.

  • 2015 – 2017

    Product Manager — Rexel Global

    Mobile and webshop products across ten countries, from field research in contractor vans to native release.

  • Education

    University of Oregon

    Philosophy, religious studies and photojournalism, which explains more about how I run a roadmap than the resume lets on.

Open to the right seat

Building something?

I like problems where the platform decision and the P&L are the same conversation. Portland, Oregon. Remote-first, happy to travel.