What is Occamonics?
Occamonics is the application of the principal of Occam’s Razor to modern-day software design. In short, we believe that the simplest solution to a problem is usually the best. Throughout our practice we deliver on this philosophy by developing efficient solutions that eliminate complexity and which are simple and intuitive to use.
Oracle cloud applications are among the most advanced and capable in the industry and can help revolutionise your enterprise operations. We specialise in making the power of these applications easily available to the right people in your organisation at the right time.
Utilising the AI-powered Oracle Digital Assistant we can surface time-specific features such as benefits selection, performance reviews and expense-filing prompts to the people that need it, at the time that they need it.
Furthermore, even infrequent features can be easily accessed by simply asking about them in natural language. No more need to learn complex menu navigation or to rely on internal helpdesk teams to carry out those those less-common HR tasks. A true self-service solution available to all your employees, anywhere, at any time.
MEET OUR TEAM
Ryan Patrick
CEO, architect
Our CEO has worked in the software industry for 25 years with a predominant focus on Artificial Intelligence, and was previously VP in the HCM Development Centre of Excellence at Oracle.
Ryan has been involved with the ODA for HCM initiative since its inception in 2018, launching the Early Adopter Program and engaging with customer implementations on a global scale throughout its first year of general availability.
Ryan left Oracle to join Occamonics in late 2020 and now leads a highly talented team of developers and designers providing specialized services to customers who are implementing the HCM Digital Assistant. Ryan is also passionate about extending beyond the delivered HCM Digital Assistant features to deliver high-value, high-impact conversational solutions to a wider range of otherwise-costly business processes.
Martin White
conversation designER
Martin has an Engineering degree from Cambridge University. His professional roles have always spanned both technical and business matters.
Martin’s drive to produce high-quality software started when he led a project to develop a new system for oil exploration which fired dynamite from the keyboard – exhilarating, but not something you can afford to get wrong! His technical specialism – then and ever since – has always been the User Experience.
Martin has applied and honed his expertise in this area through working with a wide range of organizations around the globe in domains as diverse as complex modelling, analytics and information security.
Martin now uses his extensive UX experience and expertise to lead conversational design initiatives for our clients .
Martin Jarvis
architect, CONVERSATION DESIGNER
Martin has worked in the IT industry for over 30 years, most of which working for Oracle. He has taken on numerous roles ranging from consultancy, solution architect, pre-sales and product management, always applying the latest technologies to solve business problems.
He is a certified Enterprise Architect and has practiced all aspects of app development from concept to design, through to implementation.
Before joining the Occamonics team, he spent 5 years as Director of Product Management for Oracle Digital Assistant. He helped to launch the cloud platform service and drove the go-to-market. During that time, he helped many customers get started with their Conversational AI strategy and create their first chatbot. He was a key driver behind Oracle’s Conversation Design Experience (CDX) methodology and the popular design-thinking workshops. He’s just as comfortable discussing the business and commercial opportunities from conversational AI as he is the solution architecture.
Neville Varnham
ARCHITECT
Neville has nearly 40 years’ experience in IT, specialising in ERP technical architecture for over 20 years, in both pre- and post-sales consulting roles, including Project Management and Team Leadership.
As part of the HCM Solution Consulting team at Oracle, Neville engaged with customers and prospective customers to understand and answer their questions about the technology side of the HCM Cloud application. Those questions could cover topics such as hosting practices and policies, application security, data integration and SaaS application extensibility (including how SaaS applications can be extended by integration with PaaS solutions).
Neville particularly enjoyed working with the Oracle Digital Assistant and the Oracle-delivered HCM Skills demonstrating how organisations could provide a conversational employee experience to their workforce. He is very happy to be working with Oracle Digital Assistant again.
Nigel Hopkinson
Commercial Director
He has been immersed in technology since the 1980s starting with sales roles within Blue Chip organisations such as Hewlett Packard, IBM and SAS transitioning into leadership roles with numerous Start Ups, twice as CEO and once as Head of Sales. The end result is a person who understands and appreciates the ecosystems around the technology sector and the potential for positive and profitable disruption when everything comes together.
Based in London today, Nigel has worked extensively across EMEA and North America running sales operations and has built partner channel throughout the Middle East and Asia.
His focus now is to manage all commercial aspects of Occamonics business from contracts and channels through to client management.
Employee of the Month
Ahmed Kallel
developer
Ahmed has always possessed a deep curiosity for how technology works. His passion for computer hardware inspired him to create a youtube channel, where he published more than 200 videos aimed at educating his audience about hardware and the latest technologies.
As Ahmed’s interests broadened into software, he was introduced to competitive programming and he began competing at the age of 17. As an exceptionally high-achieving student, Ahmed won a scholarship to complete his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science Engineering.
With a keen interest in Artificial Intelligence and an extraordinary gift for quick learning, Ahmed joined the team at Occamonics in 2022 and now balances both back-end and front-end chatbot development with his ongoing University studies.
testimonials
Ryan has been instrumental in assisting key Oracle HCM customers to deploy Oracle Digital Assistant in HCM – taking a brand new product on Conversational AI to successful implementations at several global customers.
– Joe Huang
Director of ODA Product Management at Oracle
I’ve had the privilege of partnering with Ryan as he assisted some of the largest global brands to formulate their plans, implement, pilot, and go live with major new initiatives for Digital Assistant, getting big projects smoothly to successful results with all the teams feeling positive.
– Neil Shea
Senior Director, Product Strategy at Oracle