CONTACT ME
amylynnedurocher@gmail.com
Adobe, Principal Product Manager, Photoshop (4/21 - Present)
I have 27+ years of experience in the software industry working at Adobe in multiple roles including quality assurance, experience design, and for the last 9 years, product management. I have worked on desktop, web, and iOS & Android applications. I have an extensive track record of delivering products and features that delight customers.
I'm currently a Principal Product Manager working on the Photoshop desktop team, focusing on desktop AI/ML selections and masks and an assortment of other new and creative professional features.
Photoshop desktop features I have shipped as a product manager:
• ML/AI Selections and Masking: Object Selection tool enhancements, Select Subject & Remove Background improvements (cloud processing), and Body Segmentation.
• Selection Brush
• Type tool: Unified Text Engine (supporting Arabic, Hebrew, and Indic type), bullets and numbering, and added more typography options (tracking, kerning, bold, underline, italic) to the contextual taskbar.
• Contextual taskbars: Shapes: Rectangle, ellipse, polygon, and line context bars, and improved the transform context bar.
• Illustrator to Photoshop interoperability: copy & paste of vectors, shapes, clipping masks, groups, and text.
• Gradients improvements: radial & diamond gradients and the gradients contextual taskbar.
• Adjust Colors: contextual taskbar and hue/saturation adjustment improvements.
• Layers Panel improvements: simplified flyout & right-click menus, improving user experience (improved drag/drop targets, filtering, selection colors, added more layer colors, tooltips, and keyboard shortcuts).
• In-app notifications for Share for Review and Invite to Edit workflows.
• In-app video player support and 28 video tutorials via the rich tooltips (4 million views as of H2 2024). This includes driving the implementation of an in-app video player, authoring all the video scripts, and working with the talented Aaron Nace on video production. Worked with the Adobe media platform team for hosting, and creating visual assets & metadata for videos.
Adobe, Senior Product Manager, User Experience, Experience Platform (4/17 - 4/21)
Managed end-to-end user experiences on the Experience Platform team, specializing in customer data analytics, accessibility, and experience workflows such as data ingestion, data modeling, data privacy, and data governance.
I worked closely with Experience Platform feature product managers, Adobe Design, and engineers to ensure high-quality feature implementation and end-to-end workflows and integrations. I worked with teams to define new workflow concepts, validate the usability with key customers, and drive design solutions end-to-end.
Adobe, Product Manager, User Experience, AEM Mobile (10/15 - 4/17)
Managed the overall UI design and consistency of the AEM Mobile portal on desktop & tablet. Managed & coordinated AEM Mobile icons, strings & localization deliverables. I worked closely with AEM Mobile devs to ensure high-quality implementation of UI and workflows. Defined new workflow concepts and validated usability with key customers. Managed design solutions and integrations end to end.
Received award for excellence from executive Brad Rencher on redesign work on the AEM Mobile portal.
Adobe, Senior Experience Designer, AEM Mobile (6/07 - 10/15)
Senior experience designer for the evolution of products, Digital Publish Suite --> Adobe Publish --> AEM Mobile. Interaction designer, creating visual & conceptual mock-ups, designed, coordinated, and conducted internal and external usability studies, as well as performed front-end development for Flex-based web-hosted applications. Frequently performed black box testing on feature areas, logged, tracked, and resolved bugs.
Adobe, Quality Assurance Manager, Version Cue & Adobe Bridge (6/00 - 7/07)
Quality Engineer Manager for the Adobe Bridge, CS2 & CS3 products, managing black, and gray box testing teams. Coordinated Adobe apps integrating Adobe Bridge with marketing, engineering, and localization departments. Maintained the flow of information between different product groups, updated the team website, wrote test plans, test cases, test matrices, and product specifications, and monitored product engineering, and databases.
Adobe, Senior Quality Assurance Engineer, Photoshop & Adobe Bridge (6/97 - 6/00)
Front-end quality assurance engineer for various Photoshop 5.0 products. Authored testing documentation, methodologies, and test matrices. Logged and resolved bug reports. Tested English as well as localized Asian and European languages. Worked with electronic imaging devices, such as slide & flatbed scanners, tablets, digital cameras, and printers. Worked in lab testing environments, utilizing automation tools including code coverage, memory leak, and stress tools, and regularly attended project development, QA engineering, and team meetings.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
• Highly experienced product manager, focused on user experience and workflows.
• Highly experienced interaction, workflow, and experience designer.
• Highly experienced in UX, interaction, visual design, and information architecture.
• Expert knowledge of quality assurance principles.
• Extensive technical knowledge of software and web standards, including 501c and WCAG 2.0
• Exceptional concept development, analytical, and organizational skills.
• Proficient in a wide variety of graphics, motion, and presentation applications.
• Strong communication, presentation, and writing skills.
EDUCATION
Washington State University
MFA: Focus: Visual Communications
1995 - 1997
Washington State University
BFA: Focus: Graphic Design
1989 - 1994
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