Stephanie Schaefer Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California

Campbell, Ca

Worked with a small team on the Arkivio product.Planned and managed quality assurance activities for product releases.Worked closely with Sales and Sales Engineers to review customer requirements and resolve customer issues.Worked with external teams to ensure deliverables were defined and scheduled to meet project deadlines.Wrote internal white papers and external facing customer documents.Created and maintained team wiki to better communicate product and team schedules, deliverables and status.Worked closely with Development to review proposed features and UI componentsImproved the quality assurance process by developing an automated acceptance suite for the daily product build.Managed the successful migration of team’s extensive test case repository to the corporate test case management system.

Managed a small team of engineers working on SEO and cloud based metadata storage technology.Collaborated with internal Adobe groups to leverage development efforts and identify opportunities to utilize 3rd party technologies.Organized and hosted technology mini summits whose goals were to build consensus on expectations from the product teams. Engaged with University of Washington business school to participate in their MBA Strategic Consulting Program. The MBA students were able to work with our team to investigate and deliver a business plan for a proposed online subscription service.

Managed an organization that included 4 product teams, over 40 team members and budgets in excess of a million dollars.Improved quality engineering processes which enabled the teams to deliver on time and with fewer unplanned and costly software updates.Increased employee productivity and morale through improved team communication and collaboration, more clearly defined roles/responsibilities and mentoring to allow for more opportunities for advancement.Successfully migrated the teams from working on individual siloed products to delivering an integrated suite.Worked with the management teams to define and plan product releases.Provided timely, accurate status updates to senior management.

Managed an organization that included 3 product with over 50 team members and budgets in excess of a million dollars.Worked with the management team to define product releases and to present the plans to senior leadership for approval.Made significant improvements to the localized product testing process that allowed core team resources to focus on the most important language versions and moving testing of 2nd and 3rd tier releases to 3rd parties.Helped to plan and manage the successful introduction of a new product offering from the Photoshop line, Photoshop Elements.Successfully migrated development and testing of our consumer products from the US to our team in India, which allowed us to focus critical resources on our more profitable professional and prosumer products.

Certificate, Applied Project Management

Bs, Business Administration

Certificate, Total Quality Management