John Geleynse

Current

• Director, Technology Evangelism at Apple Inc.
• User Experience Evangelist at Apple Inc.

Past

• Macintosh Programmer and Product Manager at Corel
• Macintosh Programmer at Valcom Ltd.

Education

• Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology
• Champlain Regional College

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Industry

Computer Software

John Geleynse’s Summary

John Geleynse’s Specialties:

User interface design, visual design, interaction design, human interface design consulting

John Geleynse’s Experience

• Director, Technology Evangelism

  Apple Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)

  December 2002 — Present (6 years)

  Responsible for directing a team of technology Evangelists who:
  
  - Provide the technical guidance and insight needed by 3rd parties to build elegant, attractive, innovative, and high performance software solutions for Mac OS X and iPhone
  - Promote advanced Mac OS X and iPhone technologies and software development techniques to the 3rd party ISV and software development community
  - Work with Apple’s engineering and design teams to efficiently address technology adoption blocking issues faced by 3rd party developers
  - Track 3rd party developer technology needs and communicating them cross-functionally within Apple
  - Manage and lead the technical tracks of the annual Apple Worldwide Developer Conference.

• User Experience Evangelist

  Apple Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AAPL; Computer Software industry)

  November 1999 — Present (9 years 1 month)

  The user experience for Mac OS X applications encompasses the visual appearance, interactive behavior, and assistive capabilities of software.
  
  Primary responsibilites include:
  - Working one on one with 3rd party software development team to ensure that products they're building deliver a truly Mac OS X user experience
  - Improving the user interfaces of 3rd party software products via design audit/review meetings in which every application window, dialog, palette, toolbar, and icon is reviewied for Aqua compliance and the overall usability and interaction design is analyzed and re-designed
  - Defining the lions-share contents of each revision of the Apple Human Interface Guidelines
  - Working closely with Apple OS Engineering to ensure Aqua adoption issues faced by 3rd party developers are addressed.

• Macintosh Programmer and Product Manager

  Corel

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  1989 — 1999 (10 years)

• Macintosh Programmer

  Valcom Ltd.

  (Computer Software industry)

  1988 — 1989 (1 year)

John Geleynse’s Education

• Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology

  Computer Science 1986 — 1988

• Champlain Regional College

  Diploma, Pure and Applied Sciences, 1983 — 1985

Additional Information

John Geleynse’s Groups:

The Highway Community <http://www.highway.org>, Laurentian Camp Cherith <http://www.cherith.ca>

•    Corel in the 80s and early 90s.

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