Gavin McKenzie
From Cocoapedia
Gavin McKenzie is an iOS developer based in Ottawa Canada, and owner of Angry Pumpkin Software, with over two decades of experience building commercial and enterprise software solutions.
[edit] Background
Growing up in the 1980s, Gavin's passion for software development started during the golden age of personal computers. Impatient to work in the software industry, Gavin completed high-school and college while still a teenager, and started his career at a small Ottawa-based software company in 1989. That company went public in 1993 as JetForm Corporation, offering solutions for electronic forms, business process automation, and document generation.
JetForm grew into a successful global company, and was acquired in 2002 by Adobe Systems Incorporated. Gavin was the inventor of the XML forms and document publishing technology (XFA) acquired by Adobe and incorporated into Adobe Acrobat and Adobe LiveCycle enterprise software. After leaving Adobe in 2005, Gavin formed his own company and worked as an independent contractor delivering Adobe-centric solutions to enterprise customers.
Recognizing the impact and opportunity initially brought about with the success of the Apple iPhone and iPad, Gavin refocused his business in 2010 to exclusively develop mobile software solutions based on the Apple iOS platform.
Over the course of his career, in addition to always doing software development, Gavin has excelled in roles as diverse as chief architect and product manager; he is co-inventor on several patents pertaining to Adobe PDF and XML document formats; and, he was a member of the W3C XForms Working Group and Semantic Web Best Practices & Deployment Working Group.
Gavin lives in Ottawa with his wife, daughter, and a 150 gallon reef tank populated with a number of tropical fish that watch his every move.
[edit] Apps
While most of Gavin's work is custom development for clients that cannot be disclosed, he also works on developing apps under the Angry Pumpkin brand:
[edit] External Links
- Blog
- Angry Pumpkin Software
- @gavinmckenzie on Twitter
