Introduction...
Hello! Welcome to my first public blog entry. Let me tell you a little about myself. I’ll start with work. I joined Adobe about 15 years ago (after stints at several other companies, including some stuff at Xerox). I started as a developer on Acrobat 1.0, working deep in the guts of the program. In Acrobat 2.0, I did a lot of the API work for Acrobat & Reader. In Acrobat 3.0, I did a lot of the work to enable viewing of PDF in the browser. And, in between I did a lot of work on the data model, object store, page rendering, print path, font embedding and so on.
After that I joined our core technology organization, which does stuff like deliver graphics engines, font technology, scripting support, UI tools, XML libraries, PDF tools and more to most of the product teams in Adobe. I actually spent about half of my time at Adobe there, starting out as a developer and moving into management. Following that I formed a platform strategy group, which I did for a couple of years.
Then, this year, after the integration of Macromedia, I joined our Adobe client platform group. My role is to be the kind of guy who looks at cross-business and cross-product issues, and, who does some software architecture stuff as well.
When I’m not working, my favorite thing is to be riding my bike around the backroads of Sonoma County where I live. My main bike is a 2004 Specialized Comp Roubaix, which I have to thank a close friend for recommending to me.
My main areas of interest right now include electronic documents (big surprise;-) and Apollo. And, bridging the Adobe and Macromedia worlds. I expect to be blogging on these topics. You can read a bit about Apollo at http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/Apollo.