Fractional product management and advising · supply chain and logistics
Ten years building freight, procurement, and inventory software.
Now a day or two a week.
I was the PM on a freight TMS, a real-time control tower, and procurement systems for a national grocer. Now I do that work for companies that can't justify a full-time head of product yet. I'll own the roadmap, or pressure-test yours before engineering starts.
30 minutes, no deck. Tell me what you're building and I'll tell you whether I'm the right person.
Supply chain software gets designed by people who have never run the operation.
You can see it in the product. A screen that assumes the ASN shows up clean. Scheduling that falls apart the first time a driver is four hours late, because somebody modeled the happy path and shipped it. Exceptions get handled last, when exceptions are most of the job.
The same thing is happening with AI right now. The pitch is a forecast or a copilot. The reality is usually a model sitting on data the people doing the work already don't trust, repeating it back to them with more confidence. The model was never the hard part.
I'm not against any of it. I've shipped ML features. But I'd rather spend two weeks finding out how the operation actually runs than a quarter building for one that doesn't exist.
- Years in product
- 10+
- Annual cost cut on one platform migration
- $500K
Years in product, most of it in supply chain
Annual cost cut on one platform migration
Two ways to work together
Which one you want usually comes down to whether you already have a product person. If you don't, I'll be it. If you do, I'll be the one they argue with.
Ongoing · 1–2 days/week
Fractional product management
I own the roadmap. I decide what gets built next and write the spec your engineers work from. I'll also tell you when something on your list isn't worth building.
Ongoing
Advising
Your team keeps the roadmap. We get on a standing call, you bring whatever you're least sure about, and I tell you what I'd do and why.
Connor Driscoll
Ten years of product work in supply chain and logistics software: Turvo, GEP Worldwide, Albertsons, and before that Zulily and Boeing. Operations & Supply Chain degree from Gonzaga, which is a strange thing to own and useful about once a week. Based in Boise.
What I've shipped
Turvo · freight TMS
Re-platformed geoservices, saved $500K a year
Owned the whole move to a new provider, from RFP to cutover. It cut over $500K a year, and routing and ETA accuracy got better at the same time, which is not how these usually go.
GEP Worldwide · supply chain SaaS
Built a real-time control tower
Shipped a control tower that put our systems and our customers' carrier data in one live view. The hard part wasn't the view. It was getting four teams to agree on what "in transit" actually meant.