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 DeliveryLed 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 - 2013Evis 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 2013KidsTube.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