Résumé · Bella Vista, Arkansas

Barry
Crocker

Product & operations leadership
AI-enabled workflows · B2B SaaS

Product and operations leader with 18 years of experience building digital products, improving complex customer journeys, and creating systems that help teams work more effectively.

18Years building products, teams & systems
8Years across K-12 SaaS support & implementation
6+Functions aligned across product, delivery & go-to-market

Leadership profile

Close to the work.
Focused on people.

More than five years in formal product roles and eight years of hands-on and leadership experience across support, implementation, and customer delivery in K-12 SaaS. I combine product judgment and operational leadership with extensive experience coordinating Product, Engineering, Implementation, Support, Sales, and Marketing - alongside hands-on AI workflow development, structured evaluation, and human-centered governance.

Experience

A career built by
solving the next problem.

2022 - 2026

Wesco International

Manager, Digital Product

Led product strategy and delivery for a unified enterprise B2B ecommerce platform spanning acquired businesses, legacy systems, and cross-functional teams.

  • Owned roadmaps, quarterly cross-team planning, sprint priorities, acceptance, and a dependable biweekly release cadence.
  • Improved cart-to-purchase conversion from 18% to 53%, increased average order value 53%, and reduced checkout load time 55% through customer feedback, analytics, workflow changes, and rapid iteration.
  • Selected and led adoption of Adobe document authoring to replace AEM, enabling trained business users to publish responsive, accessible pages in hours instead of two-week development cycles.
2021 - 2022

Intrado / West / SchoolMessenger

Product Manager, HouseCalls Pro

Led discovery and launch of a next-generation healthcare messaging SaaS product with engineering, design, QA, implementation, support, sales, and marketing.

  • Advanced the product from concept to beta in three months and to a production-ready platform in eight months.
  • Redesigned campaign creation around a self-service drag-and-drop workflow builder, freeing implementation and support teams for higher-value work.
  • Received the 2021 Sales MVP award for distinguished support of Sales and customers.
2018 - 2021

Intrado / West / SchoolMessenger

Senior Manager of Operations

Implementation & Customer Delivery

Led a distributed implementation and customer-delivery organization, with responsibility for people, budgets, forecasting, KPIs, delivery capacity, and customer outcomes.

  • Selected Jira to replace NetSuite as the implementation delivery system, then designed its automated workflows, dashboards, documentation, transition plan, and organizational training.
  • Established a weekly employee-led improvement forum and visible enhancement backlog that gave frontline users an ongoing voice in the design of their tools and workflows.
  • Built a self-sufficient leadership bench, improved delivery visibility, and strengthened employee retention and customer relationships.
2013 - 2018

SchoolMessenger

Support Services Supervisor / Project Manager

Progressed from frontline support into implementation, project management, and operational leadership by learning district workflows from the ground up.

  • Built a distributed content migration organization and the operating system used for a large-scale school district website migration program.
  • Managed a high-volume portfolio of white-label K-12 mobile app implementations from discovery through go-live and training.
  • Troubleshot SFTP-based student-data ingestion and communication campaigns, gaining direct insight into integrations, adoption barriers, and nontechnical users' needs.

Entrepreneurial product leadership

2011 - 2013

Evis Consulting / EvisThrive

Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer. Owned roadmap and delivery for a B2B entrepreneurship platform, led an offshore development team, and built training, mentoring, planning, and investor-pitch workflows.

2008 - 2011 · Advisor through 2013

KidsTube.com

Founder, CEO & Product Lead. Built and scaled a family-friendly global video platform, owning discovery, trust and safety, technical operations, growth, partnerships, and revenue strategy before selling the business.

Capabilities

Product strategy · Product discovery · Workflow redesign · Rapid prototyping · AI-assisted automation · Evaluation & guardrails · SaaS development · Operational excellence · Change management · Training & adoption · Team leadership · K-12 EdTech

Platforms & tools

n8n · LLM APIs · Structured data & JSON Schema · Jira · NetSuite · Pendo · Microsoft Copilot · SharePoint · Adobe Commerce / Magento · AEM · Microsoft 365 · SFTP · API integrations

Recognition & leadership

Certified Product Innovation Professional2021 Sales MVPAdobe AEM Customer Advisory BoardCo-author, The Organic Entrepreneur Economy

Let's build something useful.

Ready for the
next problem.

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