Principal Evangelist, Platform Business Development at Adobe Systems
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Principal Evangelist, Platform Business Development at Adobe Systems
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- Group Manager, Platform Evangelism at Adobe Systems
- Sr. Product Manager, Adobe AIR at Adobe Systems
- Sr. Product Manager, Flash at Adobe Systems
- Technical Product Manager, Flash at Macromedia
- Sr. Web Evangelist at Macromedia, Inc.
- Systems Administrator at Becton Dickinson Biosciences
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Mike Downey’s Summary
Mike Downey is the Principal Evangelist for the Platform Business Development team at Adobe Systems focusing on promoting Adobe’s platform technologies including Flash, Flex, and AIR (formerly codenamed “Apollo”) and developing strong relationships with Adobe's "lighthouse" partners. Mike joined the AIR team as Senior Product Manager in December of 2006 before moving to his current role. Prior to joining the AIR team Mike spent four years as Senior Product Manager for Flash. Since joining Macromedia in 2000, which merged with Adobe Systems in December of 2005, Mike has been a prominent figure in the Flash community and has been a featured speaker at conferences throughout the world. With a passion for web technologies, working with customers to understand their technology and business challenges, and building great software, Mike aims to work with his talented team and user community to make software that can change the world.
Mike Downey’s Specialties:
Product management, evangelism, product marketing, public speaking, presentations, requirements gathering, strategy, messaging, demonstrations, software development, training, Flash, Flex, AIR, Ajax, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, web services, SOA, photography
Mike Downey’s Experience
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Principal Evangelist, Platform Business Development
Adobe Systems
(Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — Present (6 months)
Mike Downey is the Principal Evangelist for the Platform Business Development team at Adobe Systems. He focuses primarily on identifying partnership opportunities and turning them into strong relationships that are mutually beneficial and lead to the expansion of Adobe's developer platform. Mike also spends a great deal of time doing developer relations activities that include speaking at conferences, blogging, video interviews, building product demonstrations, writing, and other customer-facing activities. As a spokesperson for Adobe's Platform business unit, Mike is regularly featured in the technical press talking about Adobe's various platform technologies including Flash, Flex and AIR.
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Group Manager, Platform Evangelism
Adobe Systems
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)
April 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Mike Downey is Group Manager of the Platform Evangelism team at Adobe Systems. He created and assembled the new Platform Evangelism team as a result of a growing International demand for highly-skilled product expertise focused on Adobe's new AIR desktop runtime. Within six months Mike grew the team from one to seven members based in North America and Europe, recruiting some of the top minds in the industry.
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Sr. Product Manager, Adobe AIR
Adobe Systems
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)
November 2006 — April 2007 (6 months)
Mike Downey is responsible for product management of Adobe's new desktop runtime, Adobe AIR. AIR is a cross-operating system run-time that allows web developers to leverage their existing skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, AJAX) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. More information: www.adobe.com/go/air
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Sr. Product Manager, Flash
Adobe Systems
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)
September 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 3 months)
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Technical Product Manager, Flash
Macromedia
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MACR; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — September 2004 (1 year)
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Sr. Web Evangelist
Macromedia, Inc.
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MACR; Computer Software industry)
September 2000 — October 2003 (3 years 2 months)
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Systems Administrator
Becton Dickinson Biosciences
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BDX; Biotechnology industry)
June 1998 — September 2000 (2 years 4 months)
Responsible for network and server administration and web application development for the company's Intranet. Microsoft MCSE and Cisco CCNA certified.
