Dave Stephens Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

San Jose, CA, US

I'm a technology leader with 30 years of experience innovating, building world class products and services across web and mobile, and building diverse teams. My Adobe career started by building design tools for creative professionals on the desktop. I now build diverse, talented, global teams tasked with enabling every day communicators to create bespoke.

San Jose, CA, US

Drove all development aspects of Spark Post (spark.adobe.com) across web, iOS, Android and services. As the senior manager I was responsible for the structure and management of the following engineering teams: Platform & Services; Expressiveness; User Experience; Collaboration; and Developer Experience/Quality. To continually improve development velocity.

San Jose, CA, US

I manage a team of 18 developers, quality engineers and engineering managers using Agile development methodologies. My team is responsible for the development of Adobe Muse, a desktop product that allows visuals designers to author beautiful websites without writing any code, and In-Browser Editing, a service that allows customers to edit their finished.

San Jose, CA, US

Lead for a team of 5 engineers developing the "Liquid Layout" features of InDesign CS6 for authoring interactive, adaptive, digital publications for mobile devices.

San Jose, CA, US

One of five original engineers working on all aspects of Adobe Muse, a new web development product targeted at traditional graphic designers. Muse allows designers to build beautiful websites using freeform design and familiar design metaphors without worrying about the underlying HTML, CSS or JavaScript.

San Jose, CA, US

• Drive Innovation.
• Define a technology roadmap for developing best-of platform desktop publishing software that enables rapid development of Adobe and 3rd party plug-ins.
• Improve performance and quality.
• Partner with key Adobe architects to identify new technologies and opportunities for improving interoperability between Adobe products for improved customer workflows.

San Jose, CA, US

Implemented functionality and UI to improve the usability of the high-end desktop publishing application Adobe InDesign. Interacted with customers on a weekly basis to ensure the validity of usability improvements. Analyzed numerous areas of the product to identify and implement optimizations. Improve the usability of multi-media functionality for.

San Jose, CA, US

Managed a team of senior engineers whose charter was to make all areas of Adobe InDesign, InCopy and InDesign Server as fast and efficient as possible. Developed benchmarking tools to track performance on a daily basis. Implemented a web based front end for analyzing performance trends. Made heavy use of code profilers and optimization techniques to.

San Jose, CA, US

Support and/or implement the importing and exporting of numerous image formats including TIFF, PNG, JPEG, GIF, and PSD. Create raster representations of vector formats such as EPSF, PICT, WMF and PDF. Implement rendering of high resolution images, vector graphics and native vector based objects and text to the screen. Parse various image formats for native.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, US

Implemented Graphics related features for the desktop publishing application QuarkXPress versions 3.2 through 4.0.

Casablanca, MA

One of 6 engineers who architected the product iThink, which was a product used to construct models of dynamic systems such as traffic, population, physics, etc.

Ma, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science And Mathematics