Lead Quality Engineer, UI - Acrobat at Adobe
May 2008 - September 2010
Led quality engineering effort within the 'Application and Verticals QE' group for the entirely new User Interface for the Acrobat X release. Responsibilities included authoring test plans, creation of test cases and test files, writing and regression of bugs, and leading a small team of Quality Engineers.
Other functional areas of responsibility:
- Document metadata
- Optional Content (layers)
- Preflight
- Publishing Tools
- ISO standards PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/E
- Advanced Output
- Color Management
Lead Quality Engineer, Print Publishing Tools - Acrobat at Adobe
September 2004 - May 2008
Led quality engineering effort in Acrobat 8.0 - 9.0 within the 'Producers QE' group in the areas of prepress tools, Preflighting, Advanced Printing, color management, and ISO Standard file types, such as PDF/A, PDF/X, & PDF/E. Authored test plans, test cases, created numerous test files and workflow scenarios.
Other areas of responsibilities included:
- Document metadata
- Optional Content (layers)
- PDF creation (Distiller, PDF print driver, PDFMaker Microsoft Office macros)
Lead Quality Engineer, Preflight - Acrobat at Adobe
April 2001 - September 2004
Led quality effort within the 'Prodcuers QE' group in the areas of print production tools, Preflight, Advanced Output and Color Management.
Other areas of responsibility:
- establishing and maintaining file interoperability between Acrobat and other Adobe applications such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, FrameMaker and PageMaker
- participated in the design and execution of inter-application workflow exercises and bug hunts
Quality Engineer - Acrobat at Adobe
October 1999 - April 2001
Member of the Acrobat Producers QE, mandate was to test all PDF creators within the Acrobat product. These included:
- Acrobat Distiller
- PDF printers (Mac and Win)
- PDF Makers for Microsoft Office (Mac and Win)
- all file-to-postscript-to-PDF conversions
- PDF creation in PageMaker
- PDF creation in FrameMaker
- began inter-operability exercises that included other Adobe application groups
Sales at A&a Printing - Menlo Park CA
July 1998 - August 1999
- I sold print collateral to Silicon Valley start-ups during first internet bubble as well as larger established corporations
Marketing Manager at Addon Computersysteme GmbH - Cologne
October 1996 - May 1998
- marketed equipment for high-end print production
- including Canon Digital cameras, ECM, Radius, MicroTek, Linotype, Agfa, 3Com, and more
- sole German distributor of first FireWire product from Radius/US
- attended many trade shows, demonstrated products in German and in English
Owner - Manager at Tezak Music Publishing Co.
1983 - 1996
- self-published works for small ensembles of wind instruments
- over 300 individual books created in little over 10 yrs
- bought first Macintosh in 1988 with Photoshop 2.0, Word 3.0, Illustrator 88, and Finale 1.0 (music publishing SW)
- started using desktop publishing technologies in 1988 to create book covers, musical content (from midi-to-postscript), catalogs, brochures, flyers, magazine ads, etc
- distributed worldwide through Warner Bros - Germany, Boosey and Hawkes (UK and Japan), Arpeges (France), Carisch (Italy), and G. Schirmer (USA)
- published arrangements of songs of The Beatles, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Elton John, Blues and Soul songs, and many more
- worked on copyright and distribution contracts with Chappell, SBC, CBS, Warner Bros, and more
Performing Artist at Self
October 1976 - 1989
- Musical performer in Europe (trombone)
- performed in Ensemble Stockhausen as costumed/on-stage performer
- works included world premieres of the LICHT cycle of works:
- an electro-acoustic opera involving his 9-piece ensemble of singers, dancers, instrumentalists, a 40 voice choir and 70+ piece symphonic orchestra surrounded by 24 large column speakers playing pre-recorded electronic and acoustic sounds
- World premiere in Jerusalem with the Jerusalem Symphonic Orchestra, subsequent performance in Tel-Aviv
- European premiere in Amsterdam at the Concertgebouwe with the Dutch Radio Orchestra (Hilversum)
- German premieres in Düsseldorf, Stuttgart, Bonn
- World premiere in Milan (La Scala, 10 performances), with subsequent performances in Rome, Florence (Maggio Musicale festival), and Copenhagen with Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- recorded works of Stockhausen on DGG (Deutsche Grammofon Gesellschaft)
- various other solo and ensemble performances in: Cologne, Bonn, Düsseldorf, Essen, Darmstadt, Donaueschingen, Freiburg, Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover, Munich, Zurich, Geneva, Nuremberg, Metz, Paris, Aix-en-Provence, Rome, Florence, Siena, Vienna, Salzburg, Brussels, and more
- performed and recorded with Ensemble Köln in Centre Beaubourg, Paris
- radio recordings for WDR (West German Radio), Hilversum Holland, Danish Radio, RAI (Italy), Radio France
Lead Quality Engineer, UI & Actions - Acrobat at Adobe Systems Inc
September 2010
Quality Lead within the 'Security and Viewer QE' group for the desktop product Acrobat in areas of User Interface and Actions (aka Batch Processing). Responsibilities include authoring feature test plans, test cases, test file creation, writing bugs, communicationg with development, product management, and UI designers (XD).
Other functional areas of responsibility:
- Document metadata
- Optional Content (layers)
- Preflight
- Publishing Tools
- ISO standards PDF/A, PDF/X, and PDF/E
- Advanced Output
- Color Management
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