Douglas Meisner Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Richfield MN

Member of the User Generated Content team, defining and executing roadmap items for ratings and reviews, questions and answers, and related features.

Minneapolis, MN

Product Manager for startup company developing online wellness coaching software. Managed Ractive Studio, their proprietary tool for creating multimedia content for the wellness product line.

Bloomington, MN

Minnetonka, MN

• Lead definition and development of innovative image editor (Paint Shop Pro Photo X-X2) and photo organizers (Corel Photo Album 4-5, Snapfire, Media One Plus).
• Responsible for defining product requirements and strategies, including customer and competitive research.
• Actively involved with product developers in defining features and UI.
• Involved in OEM relationships, including Dell, Lenovo, NEC, Toshiba.
• Media spokesperson and industry expert, including global press tours, analyst interviews, and speaking at industry events.
• Managed development life-cycle schedule and cross-team dependencies, ensuring predictable, on-time delivery of products.

Eden Prairie, MN

• Lead definition and development of innovative image editor (Paint Shop Pro Photo X-X2) and photo organizers (Corel Photo Album 4-5, Snapfire, Media One Plus).
• Responsible for defining product requirements and strategies, including customer and competitive research.
• Actively involved with product developers in defining features and UI.
• Involved in OEM relationships, including Dell, Lenovo, NEC, Toshiba.
• Media spokesperson and industry expert, including global press tours, analyst interviews, and speaking at industry events.
• Managed development life-cycle schedule and cross-team dependencies, ensuring predictable, on-time delivery of products.

• Defined feature set and user interface for ImageReady, a new web graphics derivative of Photoshop, which was key in transitioning company to a new focus on web-related products in the late 90’s.
• Responsible for competitive research, customer research and beta prerelease programs, providing key input for product development.
• Conducted product launch activities, including press interviews and industry event presentations.
• Merged the product into Photoshop and defined “Save for Web” feature in related products (Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator).
• Defined several hosted services and a new graphics server product, allowing company to expand beyond desktop products.
• Managed development life-cycle and cross-team dependencies.

• Set up and managed new digital imaging department in a high-end professional color lab/service bureau, providing a major new business focus for the company.
• Instituted new services including digital retouching and compositing, scanning, film recording, and large format printing, including training of personnel.
• Conducted business development, strategic planning, research into new services.
• Managed training center, including developing and teaching an advanced Photoshop class and authoring Photoshop In Depth book.
• Frequent speaker at local and national conferences.

• Directed research and development at startup firm in digital photography.
• Projects included prototype large-format digital camera back and workstation for high resolution digital scanning and retouching.
• Frequent speaker at national conferences.