Arno Gourdol » resume

Arno GourdolI enjoy building great user experiences that use technology in the simplest, most elegant way possible.

I have worked on operating systems, runtimes and shrink-wrap software, for consumers and creative professionals. I’m interested in the challenges of 1.0 products as well as more mature ones.

Experience

Adobe AIR Adobe, 2007—today
  • Responsible for the development of Adobe AIR, the cross-platform runtime that brought the ease of development and the power of web technologies to the desktop.
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. (2 patents pending)
  • 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 and standard bodies (W3C) 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 design 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 and developed an educational mathematical 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

11 patents granted

«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

2 patents pending

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