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KANLAYA CROSBY
Product manager
I am a tech savvy creative product manager with 15 years multidisciplinary experience in business, design, and software development. I excel in leading cross functional teams in delivering elegant and functional user-centered products with empathy and strategic impact.
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01.SKILLSET
I KNOW WHAT I KNOW
STRATEGY
90%
UX DESIGN
90%
USER RESEARCH
75%
USER TESTING
75%
AGILE
80%
JIRA
80%
02.CREDENTIALS
wellesley college
ba computer science
parsons school
of design
aa fashion
design
03.Experience
2017-2022
DIGITAL RIVER
Product Manager
Lead product strategy, design and roadmap for the e-commerce API Administrative application throughout the lifecycle from concept to launch. Align the product vision with the overall company goals.
Senior UX Designer
Create process flows, wireframes (low-fi sketches, whiteboarding to high-fidelity designs) for our Enterprise SaaS API management application. Build prototypes for online user testing. Interview stakeholders as well as create user research plan including outline of research methodologies, budget and timeline.
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2016-2017
TARGET
Technical Fashion Designer
Responsible for women's fashion owned brand technical design and product development in Moss Supply accessories - small leather goods, handbags, backpacks and headwear.
2006-2008
ROI-UL & AMELIORA
Owner/Designer
Sourced offshore manufacturing (Italy, France, Sri Lanka). Sourced fabric and trim. Researched seasonal resort fashion fabric and design trends. â–ª Designed two seasonal collections of men's and women's capsule swimwear collections.
1998-1999
BRIGHAM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
Webmaster
Designed and developed internet and intranet site for the Department of Anesthesia using CGI and HTML.
â–ª Parsed old excel spreadsheets into mySQL database to display intricate surgery schedules on the intranet site using PHP and Perl.
2010-2015
LANDMARKS & LIONS
Owner
Design, manufacture and sell leather goods. Research current design trends, product sales, and successful competitor brands. Reach out and interact with consumers using weekly email marketing campaigns, daily social media posts.
2005-2006
MAL SIRRAH
Assistant Fashion Designer
Researched seasonal fashion trends in color, fabric, and design by following industry and market publications, runway shows, and pop culture inspirations.
Organized, assisted Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 Mercedes Benz NY Fashion Week shows, and Designers for Darfur charity fashion show.
2004-2005
PROVATION MEDICAL
Software Developer & QA Engineer
Devised testing scenarios to capture programming errors for improving customer workflow and usability.
Interviewed and shadowed end users (doctors and medical professionals) to understand the user experience in order to improve program interaction.
2001-2002
NETWORK ASSOCIATES
Research Scientist
Created encryption demo program in Java on Linux/Apache Tomcat for R&D of the Department of Defense.
Formulated data charts to study data flow for the encryption software and program usability. Created Oracle database.
1999-2001
XDRIVE.COM
Java Developer
Designed and programmed user-interface for online file storage company among a team of 10+ developers. Revised HTML, JavaScript. Coded in Perl and later migrated the website from Perl to Java Servlets.