Apr 2010 – Sep 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos · Los Angeles, CA

• Led teams of software engineers and designers to develop new products.
• Championed and guided many new development processes, where appropriate, to increase productivity of the teams and quality of the products.
• Defined team goals and objectives based on strategic corporate priorities and lead the team in meeting them.
• Created realistic development schedules and identifies risks to ensure timely releases within budget.
• Worked closely with executive team to understand customer goals, and in turn define and prioritizes requirements.
• Reviewed both functional design and technical specifications, and provided feedback.
• Held weekly meetings and provides regular status updates to facilitate communication and drive decisions.
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams to coordinate requirements and releases.

Sep 2008 – Mar 2010 · 1 yr 6 mos · San Francisco, CA

• Member of the Flex SDK team and led Flex’s open source strategy.
• Researched and analyzed Flex’s return on investment for community and open source.
• Provided vision and communication internally and externally regarding Flex open source.
• Co-organized community events to encourage participation in the Flex open source project.
• Worked closely with management and community to improve Flex product releases.
• Participated in meetings with current and potential customers, and co-produced surveys to understand customer workflow and product needs.

May 2007 – Aug 2007 · 3 mos · Seattle, WA

• Member of Adobe’s Dynamic Media Group. Program Manager for Premiere Pro Updater team and co-Program Manager for Soundbooth team.
• Coordinated the development process to help deliver a Premiere Pro Update. Ensured delivery was on time, within constraints, and high quality.
• Helped lead Soundbooth team in initial planning and development of Soundbooth CS4.

May 2006 – Aug 2006 · 3 mos · San Francisco, CA

• Member of Adobe's internal Flex Samples and Accessibility teams.
• Created sample applications to demonstrate the Flex RIA framework.
• Adapted non-accessible applications and components to be accessibility-standards compliant, and authored accompanying white-paper published at Adobe's Developer Center.

May 2005 – Aug 2005 · 3 mos · Denver, CO

• Teamed with Project Manager of the Professional Services Department.
• Authored a White Paper that gave a competitive analysis of another enterprise IM client/server by evaluating and comparing features of Microsoft LCS, JabberIM, and Gush. The paper gave recommendations as to what enhancements Jabber should make in the future for their products to be more successful.

May 2004 – Aug 2004 · 3 mos · Cumberland, RI

• Confex is a company that manages conferences, creates electronic catalogs and electronically distributes the proceedings and presentations of the conferences.
• Programmed in Perl and used SQL to modify abstract submission pages for companies.
• Designed catalog websites in Perl, HTML, and SQL that accessed information from the database to make submission and data retrieval processes more efficient.