Mike Leavy Email & Phone Number

San Jose, CA, US

I am the sole proprietor of my own contracting business. I am currently working for a number of clients on projects encompassing mobile application development, services architecture and mobile business strategies.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Responsible for developing and productizing new projects and initiatives. Recently this has included the Inman Innovation award-winning Doorsteps Swipe iOS application. Doorsteps Swipe was also featured on the App Store on several occasions as Best New App. I wrote the Swipe application - including the middle tier and the iOS application code - completely.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Responsible for the development and delivery of all mobile products at Move. Primarily, this constitutes the Realtor.com product for iPhone, Android and Windows Phone 7. At Move, I re-organized the engineering team in order to bring the right talent and skills to the job. As architect, I was responsible for defining and implementing a re-factoring plan for.

San Jose, CA, US

Defined the ground-up product requirements, user experience goals and technical specifications for Adobe’s first consumer web service - Photoshop.com. Responsibilities included defining feature requirements and specifications; developing multi-release product and technology roadmap; identification of strategic 3rd-party service and technology partners, and.

San Jose, CA, US

Helped define the long- and mid-term technology and architectural plans for Adobe’s DI suite of products, resulting in increased code sharing between teams and higher quality products due to multiple teams helping fix and maintain key components. This included working with other architects to align behind common goals and shared technologies. Helped.

San Jose, CA, US

Managed distributed engineering team for Photoshop Elements suite of products:- Helped integrate existing Adobe team and technologies with a newly acquired company.- Led re-write of product user interface to better appeal to consumer customer.- Led product localization technology re-architecture which enabled product team to more easily release multiple.

San Jose, CA, US

Engineering Lead for Photoshop Elements. Drove technical and overall architectural structure for a new consumer/professional digital image editing product, leading an eight-man engineering team. Had ultimate responsibility for all engineering aspects of project, and ensured that all engineering deliverables and milestones were met. Also provided.

Lead Windows/Mac engineer for Photoshop plug-ins and stand-alone graphics effects applications; developed class library for plug-in and application core and UI; developed 3D graphics effects program both as a stand-alone application and a Photoshop filter plug-in. Products: TypeCaster, Paint Alchemy

Lead Macintosh engineer for Advanced Development.- Developed full-featured C++ cross-platform class library for Mac and Windows.- Developed Mayo Clinic series of interactive Health CDs.- Developed multimedia player application for the MediaVerse authoring environment.- Developed Interactive Textbook, games and simulations for MacGraw-Hill Publishing..

Responsible for developing testing tools and stand-alone applications for internal use; writing and designing installation tools for various shipping products; writing code resources and external plug-ins for various shipping products. Twice awarded the Aldus Century Club award for excellence in job performance and for development of testing tools.