Arno Gourdol » resume

Arno GourdolA veteran of Apple and Adobe, Arno has 18 years of experience building software products that surprise and delight customers.

Results driven, knows how to balance market needs, schedule and team goals to deliver products efficiently and reliably.

Experienced team builder and leader with deep technical background and business insight.

Frequent speaker at conferences, effective communicator, engaging speaker and skilled presenter.

Experience

Adobe AIR Adobe, 2007—today
  • Director of Engineering for Adobe AIR, the multiscreen runtime that brought the ease of development and the power of web technologies to stand-alone apps.
Adobe Bridge CS2 and CS3 Adobe, 2004—2007
  • Responsible for the product development of Adobe Bridge CS2 and CS3. Managed software engineering and quality engineering teams. Worked with product management and other cross-functional teams around the world.
  • Creative Suites integration engineering manager.
  • Engineering Manager for Adobe Extensions Manager.
Adobe Creative Suite Adobe, 2001—2003
  • Responsible for the development of XMP, Adobe’s XML-based metadata platform. Advocated its internal adoption, its release as an Open Source project and worked with partners, including Microsoft, and standard bodies (W3C, IPTC) to promote its adoption.
  • Engineering manager responsible for the development of the Version Cue client. Established a new model for the integration of shared technology components across the many product teams contributing to Adobe’s Creative Suite.
Mac OS Finder Apple, 1998—2001
  • Architect and lead engineer of a complete rewrite of the Finder for Mac OS X. (2 patents)
  • Established engineering practices for an iterative software development process. Participated in weekly design meetings with Steve Jobs (and had a good time doing it).
Mac OS User Interface Technology Apple, 1992—1997
  • As an intern, developed gesture recognition algorithms for a pen-based platform (3 patents)
  • Developed Navigation Services, the standard Mac OS Open/Save dialogs
  • Lead Engineer for Apple’s Human Interface department (70 engineers). Set the technical direction for the team, improved software engineering processes, assigned tasks and participated in the product definition and design of the projects. (1 patent)
  • Worked with product and project management to define the schedule, processes and features of Mac OS 7.6, Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 8.5.
  • Speaker at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) from 1992 to 2001
WinMath Self-employed, 1986—1988
  • Designed, developed and published an educational math software for the Mac

Education

MS CS, Ph.D. CS dropoutUJF Grenoble, France, 1993
  • Post-graduate degree in software engineering and computer human interface from the Univesité Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France. Topic: «Architecture of multimodal user interfaces» and «Sketching and scribbling for pen-based computers»
  • Teaching assistant in a CS 200-level course.

Patents

14 patents granted

«Methods and apparatus for efficient layout of digital content», U.S. Patent 7,707,508
«Collaborative asset management», U.S. Patent 7,603,357
«Graphical user interface having contextual menus», U.S. Patent 7,600,197
«User interface for a display screen», U.S. Patent D591,764
«Graphical user interface for computers having variable size icons», U.S. Patent 7,216,304
«Method and apparatus for icon compression and decompression», U.S. Patent 6,721,455
«Graphical user interface having contextual menus», U.S. Patent 6,493,006
«Multiple theme engine graphical user interface architecture», U.S. Patent 6,188,399
«Icon override apparatus and method», U.S. Patent 6,100,888
«Method and apparatus for generating composite icons and composite masks», U.S. Patent 6,031,532
«Multi-representational data structure for recognition in computer systems», U.S. Patent 5,749,070
«Method and apparatus for recognizing gestures on a computer system», U.S. Patents 5,594,810; 5,590,219 and 5,583,946

Other Interests

  • Social: Blog: arno.org, Twitter: @arnog, Linked-in:linkedin.com/in/arnog , flickr: flickr.com/photos/arnog/
  • Travel: Australia, Canada, Carribean, Egypt, Fiji, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New-Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, Tanzania, Thailand, Zanzibar
  • Certified divemaster, first-responder

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