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SPARC portfolio case shipped

2026-09-12 · ok · published · work

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✓ published work SPARC portfolio case shipped — added to /work/. Excerpt: "At Rockfish, John led product work on Walmart's SPARC supplier platform, connecting the supplier experience with onboarding, licensing, and administration." Project story: At Rockfish, I led product work on Walmart's SPARC supplier platform. It helped suppliers see store inventory and act on that information. My work connected that supplier experience with the onboarding, licensing, and administration needed to run the product. Before gaining access, suppliers needed to register, bring employees into the system, buy and assign licenses and badges, and complete training. Those steps were part of the product experience alongside the inventory information. We developed the portal through successive builds, with separate administrator and employee workflows, CSV imports, checkout, and support tools. The designs addressed practical problems such as conflicting imports, replacement badges, and registration emails that failed to arrive. I led the product work and briefed contributors as it developed. SPARC brought together the supplier-facing experience, the commercial model, and the administration behind it. That combination is a good example of the work I enjoy: understanding a complicated business process and helping a team turn it into a product people use. Figures: Project records showed 26,000 licenses and a $37 license fee as of March 2014. These are historical license figures, not a measure of monthly active users. Permalink.