The Covero Team's Skills and Expertise

Covero is Jim Cole and Richard Cohn.

Their software analysis, architecture, and development experience is broad and deep, encompassing:

  • N-tier Web application design and development
  • High-quality, shrink-wrapped application software such as Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, and EFI's DocBuilder Pro
  • Performance analysis and tuning of web and desktop applications
  • A proprietary five-phase technology analysis process called SPEED
  • The architecture and development of the PDF and SVG standards

Richard Cohn

Richard Cohn

   Richard joined Covero in 1999 after spending eleven years at Adobe Systems, most recently as a Senior Computer Scientist in Adobe’s Advanced Technology Group. He designed the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format and was the architect of the initial versions of Adobe Acrobat. He is a co-author of the Scalable Vector Graphics language, an emerging W3C standard for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. He was a key contributor to Adobe Illustrator, Adobe PageMill, and other Adobe products. Richard obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Jim Cole

Jim Cole

   Jim Cole has been a full-time consultant since 1996. Prior to consulting, he was a key member and leader of teams that shipped many robust, commercial products, including several major versions of Adobe Acrobat, and several state-of-the-art laptop computers for Grid Systems. His technical experience is both broad and deep, encompassing Internet, multimedia, shrink-wrap applications, and system software. He also has a great deal of business and economic analysis experience, including a Master's degree in Economics that focused on the economics of the Internet. He also holds a B.S. in Computer Science, Phi Beta Kappa, from Indiana University.

Patents
We hold nine U.S. patents: