Mike Potter

Current

• Senior Developer Marketing Manager - Adobe Flex at Adobe Systems Inc.
• Owner at InTheHack.com (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Developer Marketing Manager at Adobe Systems Inc.
• Technical Evangelist at Adobe Systems Inc.
• Program Manager at Adobe Systems Inc.

• Calendar Project Manager at Mozilla Organization
• Intermediate Software Developer at OEone Corporation

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Education

• University of Ottawa
• McMaster Univeristy

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog

Mike Potter’s Summary

Extensive experience with software and technology and business, with a focus on software developer marketing. I have extensive business and management experience - I manage small teams and small to medium (several hundred thousand dollars) budgets. I have programming experience in PHP, JavaScript, Flash / Flex and ActionScript. I have experience in building communities online, such as my public blog (http://www.riapedia.com), Flex.org (http;//flex.org), and my curling website, (http://www.inthehack.com).

Mike Potter’s Specialties:

public speaking, marketing, programming, PHP, JavaScript, Flash, ActionScript, PDF, Java, J2EE, management, seo, search marketing, online marketing, permission marketing, Flex, Adobe AIR

Mike Potter’s Experience

• Senior Developer Marketing Manager - Adobe Flex

  Adobe Systems Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

  September 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

• Owner

  InTheHack.com (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  September 1998 — Present (11 years 4 months)

  As owner of InTheHack.com, I have built up one of Canada's most popular sporting websites. With over 5,000 registered members and over 100,000 posts by community members, InTheHack is the largest online curling community.

• Developer Marketing Manager

  Adobe Systems Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — September 2007 (9 months)

• Technical Evangelist

  Adobe Systems Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

  December 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Technical evangelist to web and open source developers. My job involves evangelising Adobe technologies to web companies as well as open source developers. My main focus, given my background, is with PHP developers.

• Program Manager

  Adobe Systems Inc.

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

  March 2005 — December 2005 (10 months)

  As Program Manager in Developer Marketing, my role is to help build an online community to facilitate the development of software using Adobe's LiveCycle software.

• Calendar Project Manager

  Mozilla Organization

  (Non-Profit; Computer Software industry)

  September 2002 — August 2004 (2 years )

  As Project Manager for the Mozilla Calendar project, I initiated the opening of source code from OEone, created the initial web pages and source code locations, helped organize developers to help fix bugs and managed releases of the software.

• Intermediate Software Developer

  OEone Corporation

  (Computer Software industry)

  June 2000 — July 2003 (3 years 2 months)

  Software developer for OEone Corporation (now Axentra)... We built a Mozilla based desktop that ran on top of Linux. We wrote XUL front ends to many open source applications, giving them a nicer UI and an easier to use front end. The code from our calendar application was open sourced, and became the Mozilla Calendar Project.

Mike Potter’s Education

• University of Ottawa

  M.B.A. , General , September 2003 — August 2004

  Activities and Societies:

  School council

• McMaster Univeristy

  B. Eng. , Mechancial Engineering , September 1994 — April 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  Curling team

Additional Information

Mike Potter’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog

Mike Potter’s Interests:

flying,curling,internet,family

Mike Potter’s Groups:

•    McMaster University Faculty, Students, Alumni and Friends
•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    The Ottawa Network
•    Ottawa Technology Network
•    Social Media Breakfast | Ottawa
•    Adobe Flex Group

Mike Potter’s Honors:

Recreational Pilot License

Mike Potter’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch