I first met Whitney McCleary in mid-2005, the year that Adobe InDesign Server was being created and she was Product Marketing Manager for InDesign and InDesign Server. I had been begging Adobe for an InDesign Server for five years, and I was absolutely thrilled not only that such a product finally existed (it was code-named “Bishop” at the time), but that this woman had actually contacted me for possible work supporting its release.
Before I met her in person I just considered her a high up Adobe person with alot of responsibility for a product that was extremely dear to my heart. While we normally did programming work, we had also done a number of demos and whitepapers for Adobe, so it was in that context that I went up to meet her in Seattle in August of 2005: we were to help with some writing, benchmarks, and demos in support of the initial InDesign Server release. That day is something I can never forget, and it was from then on that I have been in awe of Whitney on a number of levels.
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