Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs

• Product Security Engineering leader at Adobe. Leads a team of security engineers to provide delightful product security solutions for our product teams and Adobe customers.

Apr 2021 – Mar 2022 · 11 mos

• Lead a team of talented security engineers to help ensure all of Adobe's products are secure.
• Partner with internal and external security researchers to ensure disclosed vulnerabilities are addressed within the appropriate deadline.

Jan 2016 – Apr 2021 · 5 yrs 3 mos

• Senior Engineering Manager for Adobe Photoshop. Responsible for engineering and quality engineering for one of the world's most famous packages of software.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 · 3 yrs

• Led the Photoshop architecture team, a geographically dispersed group of engineers and quality engineers to deliver “magical” customer experiences via the “World’s Best Image Editor”.
• ∙ Integrated the Coverity Static Analysis Verification Engine (SAVE) static analysis suite with the Photoshop, Adobe Camera Raw, and Premiere Pro codebases
• ∙ Drove 49% reduction in Photoshop’s static code analysis defect density from 1.38 per K-LOC to 0.68 per K-LOC over three years
• ∙ Added Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) accelerators for Adobe’s source control servers which maintained a secure profile and saved Adobe over $3.1 million dollars
• ∙ Acted as Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) security champion for Photoshop

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs

• Managed a group of quality engineering developers and quality engineers on the Photoshop architecture and automation teams.
• ∙ Key leader in Photoshop’s transition from waterfall development to Agile/Scrum, reducing release cycles from 18 months to 3 months
• ∙ Architected and implemented code coverage into Adobe Photoshop using Xcode/gcov/Cover Story increasing code coverage from 20% to 40% over two years
• ∙ Led the overall quality for Photoshop’s sync settings to the Creative Cloud feature including liaising with the external security researchers

Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 · 3 yrs

• While reporting to the Vice-President of Engineering, drove strategic quality improvement program that improved customer experience, increased engineering efficiency, and reduced release cycle time for Adobe LiveCycle.
• ∙ Led and tracked quality initiatives for 27 globally dispersed Scrum teams utilizing quality testing tools, code coverage, and increased test automation
• ∙ Partnered with Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) to train 100% of the engineering organization in security best practices and
• ∙ Reviewed threat models and quality plans for 27 Scrum teams
• ∙ Partnered with Learning Resources, Engineering, Technical Marketing, and Customer Support to present root cause analysis improvement plans to the LiveCycle Engineering Vice President

Jan 2003 – Jan 2008 · 5 yrs

• Managed a team of white box quality engineers on Adobe LiveCycle and Interactive Forms By Adobe
• ∙ Key leader in driving the business from $10 million to over $300 million in revenue
• ∙ Architected the test harness for the Server Products Group which scaled to support 100,000’s of test cases and millions of test executions across 68 platform configurations
• ∙ Authored 12 customer security and quality audits one of which received the highest possible award from an external auditor

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr

• Performed API testing in Java, Perl, and COM
• Acted as system administrator for Minnesota Server Lab which included Windows, Linux, AIX, Mac OS X, HP-UX, WebAS, JBoss, WebSphere, and WebLogic

Jan 1999 – Jan 2002 · 3 yrs

• Wrote the initial test harness for the Adobe Dialog Manager, a set of cross platform user-interface widgets used by Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.

Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 · 1 yr

• Executed black box test cases for file I/O, layers, and tool tips, for ImageReady 1.0 and 2.0.