Platform Evangelist at Adobe, Author, and Speaker
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Platform Evangelist at Adobe Systems, Inc.
- Past
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- Product Manager for Platform Incubation at Adobe Systems, Inc.
- Product Manager - Developer Relations at Macromedia, Inc. / Adobe Systems
- Sr. Software Engineer at Macromedia, Inc.
- Sr. Flash Engineer at Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.
- Owner at Dura Media LLC
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Daniel Dura’s Summary
Currently based in San Francisco, California, Daniel Dura is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on Adobe AIR, Flex, and Flash. Before joining Macromedia (which merged with Adobe in 2005) Danny and his brother Josh founded Dura Media LLC, a Rich Internet Application development company based in Dallas, Texas. After joining Macromedia, Daniel was a lead developer of numerous projects including the AOL Instant Messenger for Macromedia Central and the Yahoo! Maps Flash API. He recently was a product manager on the Adobe AIR team focusing on platform validation and API design. Daniel has given presentations on Flash, Apollo, Flex and ActionScript all over the world to thousands of developers at user groups, meetings, and conferences.
Daniel Dura’s Specialties:
Product Management, Developer Relations, Software Engineering, API Design and Architecture, Entrepreneurship
Daniel Dura’s Experience
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Platform Evangelist
Adobe Systems, Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; adbe; Computer Software industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
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Product Manager for Platform Incubation
Adobe Systems, Inc.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; adbe; Computer Software industry)
2006 — 2007 (1 year)
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Product Manager - Developer Relations
Macromedia, Inc. / Adobe Systems
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; adbe; Computer Software industry)
February 2004 — 2006 (2 years)
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Sr. Software Engineer
Macromedia, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; macr; Computer Software industry)
February 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 7 months)
Both managed and participated in the development of multiple projects at Macromedia. Most projects focused around the Flash platform and included projects such as Macromedia Central and Macromedia Flex. Also consulted with outside organizations and participated in the development of APIs that utilized third part content from companies such as Yahoo! and AOL and targeted the Flash platform technologies.
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Sr. Flash Engineer
Fujitsu Network Communications, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 4 months)
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Owner
Dura Media LLC
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2001 — January 2004 (3 years 1 month)
Daniel Dura’s Contact Settings
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