Oxman had previously been with Enterprise Networking Solutions Inc., where he was a SLED account executive and a Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery specialist. Before that, he was owner of CTS Consulting, and has since been account manager with Milestone Technologies and territory manager with Brocade/Ruckus. He's a Business Economics graduate of UC Riverside.
"It’s a great new role in a much bigger plot of land," Oxman told Techwire of his AppDynamics role. "For the last 18 months, it’s been just State and Enterprise. Now I’m running the public sector for California, Washington, Arizona, Idaho and Hawaii. Previously, AppD in the public sector was really nascent. ... With all the success we’ve had, we’ve expanded to more than 13 (state entity) customers in California," including the state Franchise Tax Board, the Financial Information System for California (FI$Cal), the Department of Water Resources (DWR), the California State Teachers' Retirement System (CALSTRS), and the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD).
"We saw the success we've had, and we decided we needed to turn this into a practice," he said. While the company sees significant opportunity for growth in California and Arizona, including in Los Angeles city and county governments, Los Angeles Unified School District and the University of California at Los Angeles, "Sacramento's still going to be the hotbed of activity."
On the proliferation of apps in the public sector, Oxman said: "People are realizing more and more — whether it's Amazon or Apple or state government — that engagement mode is the source of truth. Consumers expect that Google-like experience no matter where they go. With cities, uptime and app performance aren't optional. It's table stakes, and you have to do it."
In California state government, he noted that two departments' public-facing platforms were facing significant challenges before AppDynamics was called in. Before a contract was signed — "Without them even buying anything, and before they even spent a dollar" AppDynamics was able quickly to make the necessary fixes, he said.
"We're going after pain points and value cases," he said.
