Steven Heintz

Current

• Group Product Manager, Adobe Flex and Flash Catalyst at Adobe Systems Inc.

Past

• Director of Product Management and Product Marketing at Wind River Systems
• Product Management / New Product Development at SilverShore Technology Partners
• Founder / President at SDSC Corp - Adia Information Management

• Software Design Engineer in Test at Microsoft Corp

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Education

• University of Michigan

Connections

352 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Company

Steven Heintz’s Summary

Strategy, technical requirements, and marketing activities for Internet applications and developer technologies

Founded an early Internet Application Service Provider (ASP) in 1997, and led the company to an acquisition by Netsmart Technologies (Nasdaq: NTST) in 2003.

1997 - Visual Studio Product Team at Microsoft Corp in Redmond, WA

Steven Heintz’s Specialties:

Product Management and Product Marketing, Technology Business Development, Developer Tools, Web 2.0, Flex, Flash, Embedded / device software.

Steven Heintz’s Experience

• Group Product Manager, Adobe Flex and Flash Catalyst

  Adobe Systems Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

  February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

  Adobe Flex is a complete set of technologies for creating and delivering rich Internet applications (RIAs) deployed on the web with the Flash platform, or on the desktop with Adobe's AIR platform.
  
  Currently lead the Flash Catalyst 1.0 product team (Codenamed "Thermo"). Flash Catalyst is a Professional interaction design tool for next-generation user interfaces and experiences.

• Director of Product Management and Product Marketing

  Wind River Systems

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; WIND; Computer Software industry)

  July 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 8 months)

  Responsible for the developer tools product line: Wind River Workbench Development Suite, an Eclipse based Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Embedded Linux, RTOS (VxWorks), and Java software development, debug, and test. Managed a team of seven senior product management and product marketing professionals.

• Product Management / New Product Development

  SilverShore Technology Partners

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  June 2003 — July 2005 (2 years 2 months)

  Venture Capital and Product Incubation

• Founder / President

  SDSC Corp - Adia Information Management

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  September 1997 — June 2003 (5 years 10 months)

  CRM and Healthcare focused Web Applications and Application Service Provider (ASP)
  • Led company to an acquisition by Netsmart Technologies (Nasdaq: NTST) in 2003, (Company then went private in a public-private transaction in 2007 lead by Insight Venture Partners, Bessemer and Salmon River Capital.)
  • Generated over 1,400% return to original investors.
  • Founded and Incubated NetPOS.com, a Touchscreen, Internet Browser based Point of Sale system for restaurant and retail chains.

• Software Design Engineer in Test

  Microsoft Corp

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  1997 — 1997 (less than a year)

  Visual Studio / Microsoft Visual Basic 6 Product Team - Redmond, WA (Intern)
  • Specialized in Windows GUI design/development framework (Ruby Forms Framework)

Steven Heintz’s Education

• University of Michigan

  Computer Science & Engineering / Business Administration

Additional Information

Steven Heintz’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company

Steven Heintz’s Interests:

Developer Tools, Web Technologies, Mobile/Embedded Devices, Adobe Flex, ASP.NET, AJAX, Java, Flash, User Interface Design, Thermo

Steven Heintz’s Groups:

Society for Information Display (SID)
Full Circle Fund
Young Entrepreneurs Organization
Executives Club of Chicago

•    SVPMA
•    Adobe Alumni
•    Interaction Design Association
•    Eclipse
•    University of Michigan Alumni
•    Adobe Flash Platform Developers
•    Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
•    Flash Developers & Designers
•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees

Steven Heintz’s Honors:

"Technology Leaders of Michigan" - Crain's Detroit Business

2003 - Entrepreneur of the Year (Under 30) - Michigan Economic Development Council and Forbes Magazine

100 Emerging Business Leaders of Michigan - Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce

FastTrack Award - top revenue growth leader in software sector.

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