Scott Kovatch

Current

Sr. Computer Scientist at Adobe Systems

Past

Senior Software Engineer at Apple Inc.
Software Engineer at NetGenics
Software Engineer at Metrowerks

Software Programmer/Analyst at CompuServe

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Education

Case Western Reserve University

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Scott Kovatch’s Summary

System software engineer with 18 years of commercial software development experience. Focused on Cocoa software development and Java UI toolkit development, with some Eclipse and general Java development thrown in for good measure. Always interested in pure Cocoa or Cocoa Touch development for Mac OS X and iPhone/iPod Touch.

Scott Kovatch’s Specialties:

Implementations of Java AWT and SWT and Java Web Start. Lower-level Cocoa development, and Mac OS X process management.

Scott Kovatch’s Experience

Sr. Computer Scientist

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

-- Sr. Developer for Thermo and FlexBuilder
-- Porting the SWT (Eclipse project) to Cocoa on Mac OS X
Senior Software Engineer

Apple Inc.

(Computer Hardware industry)

June 2000 — March 2008 (7 years 10 months)

I worked remotely from Cleveland, OH, as a senior engineer on the Java VM (AWT and related technologies). In July, 2007, I moved to Cupertino, CA to become the technical lead for the Java team.

I was responsible for Java Web Start and the Java Plugin on Mac OS X, as well as bundled application deployment technologies. I also had a hand in many parts of the AWT as well.
Software Engineer

NetGenics

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Worked on client portions of bioinformatics software, first in IFC (!) and then Swing.
Software Engineer

Metrowerks

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; MOT; Computer Software industry)

July 1996 — June 1998 (2 years )

Worked on Metrowerks' Java VM for Mac OS 9. Responsible for AWT, networking, etc. Part of two-person team that integrated Java into Internet Explorer on Mac.
Software Programmer/Analyst

CompuServe

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CSRV; Internet industry)

1990 — 1993 (3 years )