Product Management

• Adobe Premiere Pro (audio): Lead audio product development for Adobe Premiere Pro, the industry-leading video editing software used by professionals worldwide. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including engineers and audio researchers, to create a strategic product roadmap grounded in user insights, industry trends, and customer feedback. Spearhead the integration of AI-driven audio innovations that enhance user experience and expand creative possibilities.
  -Successfully managed the launch of the “Enhance Speech” AI audio tool, now one of Premiere Pro’s most popular features, and recipient of the “Best of Show” award at the 2024 National Association of Broadcasters convention.
  -Contribute to the ongoing development of cutting-edge AI music generation technology and other forthcoming features, driving the next wave of innovation in audio editing.

• Adobe Podcast : Adobe’s new web-based, AI-powered audio editing tool is designed to empower creators by allowing them to focus on storytelling and creativity instead of technical complexities. I developed audio content templates that help users overcome the “blank canvas” challenge, making it easier for them to start creating right away. Drawing from my own audio production experience, I also guided the team in building a deeper understanding of user needs, ensuring the tool is intuitive and accessible for creators at all levels.

Audio Content (selected projects)

• Introductions : Founding and executive producer of weekly live radio series.

• International Chopin Piano Competition broadcasts: Executive producer and host for international coverage of one of the world’s most prestigious cultural events, from Warsaw, Poland.

• Salzburg Festival International Radio Broadcasts: Intermission feature producer.

• WFMT Cabaret : Executive producer for live radio variety show featuring comedy and mix of musical genres from the “Pregnant Buffalo Lounge” in Chicago.

• “Whiskey in the Wood” concerts and WFMT’s artist residencies: Executive producer for live concert broadcasts, innovative multi-platform artist-in-residence initiative, and video production featuring world-renowned bluegrass group the Kruger Brothers with the Kontras String Quartet.

• Bughouse Square with Eve Ewing : Consultant/advisor for NEH-funded podcast featuring excerpts from the Studs Terkel Archive.

• PoetryNow : Consultant/advisor for podcast from the Poetry Foundation.

• Lyric Opera of Chicago radio broadcasts: Executive producer of international broadcast series.

• Grant Park Music Festival broadcasts: Executive producer, fill-in host for live radio broadcast series.

• All the Stops : Executive producer and co-producer of internationally-produced radio and on-demand series.

• The Film Score : Executive producer.

• Taloa: An Exploration of Music by American Indian & Maori Composers : Co-executive producer of internationally-produced and syndicated music documentary series.

• Shanghai Spring (“Throwing the door open between Western and Chinese music”): Co-executive producer of internationally-produced and syndicated radio series.

• Music for Her Majesty: Important Musical Moments in the Life of Queen Elizabeth II of England : Executive producer of broadcast and on-demand documentary series.

• Arts After School : Managing producer for Chicago Community Trust-funded reporting project on arts education in Chicago.

• The Party : Producer for an innovative broadcast/on-demand concert of an innovative concert performed in the format of a casual dinner party.

• Producer and host for one-off radio broadcasts from the Gilmore Keyboard Festival (Kalamazoo), Dranoff International Duo Piano Competition (Miami), Midwest Clinic (world’s largest music education conference, Chicago), and Chicago Amateur Piano Competition (Chicago).

Video Content (selected projects)

• Masters of Drag : YouTube series hosted by Peppermint (RuPaul’s Drag Race) telling stories of American pioneers of drag performance. Digital lead.

• Do You Speak Chopin? – Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Marian Marzynski's documentary love letter to Chopin, centered around the "Chopin Olympics" of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. I brought in Marzynski to work with us and then served as associate producer on the film.

• Math in Music : Co-executive producer.

• Instrument 101 : Co-executive producer.

• Take a Spin Around Berlin, Music Capital of the World, with Carl Grapentine: Executive producer.

• Kaia Kids : Co-executive producer.

• Unladylike2020 : Digital Lead.

• American Masters: At Home with Jacques Pépin : Digital Lead.

• In the Making : Digital Lead.

• Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool ; Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am ; Mae West: Dirty Blonde : Digital Lead.