Welcome Eric Herrmann and Evan Kirchhoff
Today, am happy to announce a new addition to the Ansca team. Eric Herrmann, programmer extraordinaire, graphics guru & mobile developer, joins us as Director of Engineering from Adobe Systems. Eric and I first met at Macromedia while working on the first version of Flash Mobile Authoring. He led the Mac efforts for Flash Lite, Mac development for the Flash Mobile Authoring tool and then worked with me and with Walter on FlashLite 3.0.
Eric has a deep understanding of computer graphics, authoring tools, and runtime environments for both desktop and non-pc devices, and a degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. Eric will be in charge of our 2D graphics engine as well as maintaining a small footprint and increased performance on our rendering engine.
In addition to Eric, I am excited to have Evan Kirchhoff on board. Evan also joined us from Adobe (he worked as a Senior Engineer on the Verizon Flash Lite project called Verizon Dashboard, also known as FlashCast). Previously, Evan was the cofounder of Comrade Software, a San Francisco Flash and mobile development company that deployed mobile content on both Verizon Wireless and Softbank Japan.
With the engineering talent and deep technical knowledge of Walter, Eric and Evan (and more to come!) I strongly believe that we are poised to create the next generation graphics engine for mobile development, and build mobile solutions for everyone who wants to join the mobile revolution!
Carlos
