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Mike Downey is a Principal Evangelist on the Media Platform Evangelism team at Microsoft where he focuses on developing solutions for media delivery and playback leveraging HTML5 and Microsoft Silverlight. Mike works with some of the largest media companies in the world to create open source media frameworks, technology showcases that leverage Microsoft’s media platform. His latest showcase project, a new website for the United States Navy’s “Blue Angels” flight demonstration team built using HTML5, jQuery, and Silverlight, launched in April 2011. Mike is also the product manager for the Microsoft Media Platform’s Player Framework.

With a long history in developing software for web and mobile application development and rich media delivery, Mike has amassed a great deal of experience with gathering and prioritizing feature requirements, tailoring product messaging for target audiences, building and delivering exceptional product presentations that engage audiences and drive sales, creating innovative new ways to maximize revenue – particularly with mature product lines, and working with engineering teams to better understand their customers.

Mike was formerly the Principal Evangelist for the Platform Business Development team at Adobe Systems focusing on promoting Adobe’s platform technologies including Flash, Flex, and AIR. Mike joined the AIR team as Senior Product Manager in December of 2006 before moving to his role in business development. Prior to joining the AIR product team Mike spent four years as Senior Product Manager for Flash.

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