Product Management Portfolio

I build products that bridge the gap between user needs and business goals through data-driven discovery and decisive execution.

Selected Work

Case Studies

Digital Transformation

WestJet Loyalty: Points-Based Evolution

Led the eCommerce migration from legacy services to a modern points-based currency, expanding member value beyond air travel and driving a significant increase in overall program redemption.

Key Impact: Immediate adoption of new features & enhanced program resilience.
0-to-1 Product Launch

Multi-Form of Payment Innovation

Collaborated with developers and designers to architect a dynamic checkout solution allowing the combination of credits, loyalty currency, and cards—automating a complex manual process to significantly reduce call center strain.

Key Impact: Scaled to 10% of total bookings during peak sales; measurable reduction in support overhead.
Strategic Product Optimization

Multi-Airport Search (Metro City Codes)

Architected a rapid-response solution to aggregate flight searches for multi-airport regions like London. By leveraging existing data points instead of a full API overhaul, we delivered a "Metro City" search experience that allowed guests to shop and select Heathrow and Gatwick flights together.

Key Impact: Delivered in 3 weeks vs several months; A/B test confirmed measurable revenue lift and improved conversion for multi-airport destinations.
Revenue Optimization & Growth

Psychological Pricing Strategy: Reverse-Fare Sorting

Ideated and executed a high-impact A/B test shifting the digital fare display from "Low-to-High" to "High-to-Low." By adapting a proven call-center sales tactic for the eCommerce funnel, I challenged industry norms to prioritize premium fare visibility and drive higher-margin upsells.

Key Impact: Significant increase in average booking value with no negative impact on conversion or guest sentiment.
Kudos
…I’m so grateful for our long chats and the chance to partner with you on [our chatbot] and so many other initiatives. You’re such a talented and amazing person, and I can’t wait to see what your next adventure brings.
— Portfolio Peer
Experimental

Project Playground

A dedicated space for technical prototypes and product hypotheses. I use this area to explore new technologies and build MVPs for niche problems. Sharing my work in progress as perfect is the enemy of shipped.

Building with Agentic AI

First Experiment: Display and manipulate an open data source

I'm using agentic AI to build a lightweight tool to view and filter food recall data. This is hosted at allergenrecalls.karenmclellan.com.

Recent activity:
  • Troubleshooting: Email alerts not sending
  • Added Email Alerts feature: sign up with authentication and filter alerts by allergens
  • Refined the display of text from JSON response, improved design and usability
  • Cleaned up AI code by separating inline CSS to external file
  • Resolved issues in getting the API data to load
  • Leveraged AI to create documentation at allergenrecalls.karenmclellan.com/documentation
Visualizing Data with Agentic AI

Second Experiment: Data visualization and analysis

I'm using agentic AI to merge and display datasets with visualization frameworks. This is hosted at visuals.karenmclellan.com.

Recent activity:
  • Created a landing page for the visuals project
  • Leveraged D3.js and Google Trends data to show the growth of AI and the stages where language has changed to reflect how it's evolving visuals.karenmclellan.com/d3js-viz
Building with LLM-powered functionality

Third Experiment: Using AI to analyze data and categorize for meaningful insights

I'm using agentic AI to build a new app that will analyze a dataset, recognize patterns and provide meaningful insights for continuing care facilities in Alberta.

Recent activity:
  • Connecting app to LLM and developing first version -- stay tuned!