# Chris Lee > Product Manager | Software Engineer | Award-winning Multidisciplinary Designer | AI Platforms | Workflow Automation | Data Systems | Building the Infrastructure to Solve Cancer Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/chrislee1 Product manager, software engineer, and award-winning designer with a decade of experience building products across software, architecture, and design-driven + regulated industries. I bring multidisciplinary, divergent perspective to solving complex challenges with a foundation in user-centered design, systems thinking, and business strategy. I thrive in fast-moving 0-1 environments where constant iteration, innovation, collaboration, and meaningful outcomes converge. ## Work Experience ### Product Manager @ HistoWiz Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States • Spearheaded product development as the first product hire at a YC backed CRO and histology research platform company, building the product function and defining the product vision and platform strategy across HistoWiz’s internal automation systems (LIMS) and external scientific data platform. • Transformed a basic image viewer into the AI driven multimodal diagnostics platform PathologyMap, launching 180+ features and growing the user base to 8,000+. • Identified fragmented research workflows as a major industry bottleneck and built the first open platform integrating histology data, research workflows, and AI analysis, enabling a third party ecosystem • Partnered with scientific teams to translate complex laboratory processes into software and hardware workflows, operationalizing explainable AI models and automating instrument data capture across research pipelines. • Led the platform from concept to production while founding and scaling the product function, partnering with executive leadership, engineering, and scientific teams to define product vision, shape strategic roadmaps, and translate complex laboratory processes into scalable software systems informed by extensive user research. ### Product Manager @ Fishcake Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States • Executed market research and scrum, created KPIs and user stories, developed business plan, and founded a team to launch a customer facing web (next.js) and native app (ionic), with SQL backend, auth (trello), user analytics, and tracking (fathom). • Conducted research, interviews, and user testing with 10+ industry partners of varied demographics and performed "follow-me-home", heat-maps, and error logs, prioritizing needs and iterating features directly from user interviews. • Coded front-end features such as user profile dashboard, storefronts, and marketing website in TypeScript + Next.js (Desktop) & Ionic (Mobile). ### Software Engineer Intern @ Söshme Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States • A social payment platform designed for content creators to seamlessly transact between Brands, Agencies, and Audiences. ### Guest Instructor (Computer Science & Product Development) @ Balboa High School Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States • Inspired confidence and motivated students through scrum meetings, one-on-one coaching, and taught workshops on software engineering, entrepreneurship, and product development in preparation for a hackathon. ### Design & Development Lead @ Thesis Corp Jan 2012 – Jan 2020 | Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area • Launched and scaled a residential architecture + construction consultancy managing end-to-end custom projects delivering $18MM+ (12+/- Projects) annually collaborating with cross-functional experts and a staff of 3 architects and 5 interns on client, investor, and developer work. • Organized chaos and reduced complexity by collaborating with clients on project goals and specifications, providing extensively detailed documentation, OKRs, 3d visualizations, weekly communication, and delivered solutions to clients matching project vision, budget, and timelines. • Performed design research, data analysis, and collaborated with experts to identify and incorporate bleeding-edge buildable elements and improve processes eliminating tectonic inefficiencies to lower time & construction costs. • Created and managed a supply chain sourcing materials globally with cost reductions to clients of $40-$80,000 per $1MM (4-8%). • Worked alongside jurisdictions (City of Vancouver, City of Richmond, City of Burnaby, and UBC) building case studies, debating building regulations, and assisted clients remedying non-conformance cases. ### Product Manager @ Relatize Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada • Fundraised, developed plans and KPIs, interviewed brands, manufacturers and users, leading agile sprints to develop a universal fashion-grading (size prediction for manufacturing) algorithm using weighted, non-numerical demographic, user, manufacturing, and industry specific data for manufacturers, brands, and consumers. ### Creative Director @ Thesis Labs Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York, United States • Founded a team of multi-discipline technical experts to build invisible protection within high fashion garments achieving the highest protective apparel score and lightest weight ever recorded for CE - PPE (CE prEN13595:1-2012 VO6, Level 2). • Deployed scrum methodologies to collaboratively iterate product using academic and industry literature, market research & defined test methodologies with users, regulatory bodies, and third-party destructive testing labs to develop proprietary IP matching OKRs from ideation through manufacturing. • Created brand consistency leading art direction, brand guidelines, and visual strategy for web, print and media. • Awards: “High Tech Prototyping and Rapid Manufacturing in the USA” Curated for exhibit by The Vice-President of the United States at The White House for the Manufacturing USA initiative (2015). “Gear of the Month -- The Bleeding Edge of Motorcycle Apparel Design” BikeEXIF (2016). Featured in ICON Italy Magazine (2016) and dozens of blogs. ### Junior Designer @ Swanke Hayden Connell Architects Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Shanghai, CN • Led design for a $10M USD 20,000+ sq.ft. corporate HQ as well as hospitality, public spaces, interiors, furniture, and materials specification at a top 100 global architecture practice in large projects across Asia. • Built relationships with clients, developers and suppliers, produced daily operational work, design proposals and participated in competitions for multi-billion dollar projects. • Oversaw QA for custom manufacturing (furniture, casework, and architectural models). • Produced internal case studies for potential business cases and marketing efforts. • Designed and drafted project stages including SD, DD, CD & CA along with 3D models for project teams in the Shanghai, London, and New York offices. ### Customer Service Representative @ UPS Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 | Richmond, British Columbia, Canada ## Education ### BSc in Applied Computer Science Make School ### Marketing Management British Columbia Institute of Technology ### Interior Design & Fundamentals of Design LaSalle College Vancouver ### Private Pilot License Training Pacific Professional Flight Centre ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chrislee26 - Website: https://www.chrislee.wtf --- Source: https://flows.cv/chrislee1 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/chrislee1/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05