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posted 04/25/07 by Lisa Crounse Another Developer Spotlight - Cleve Ard

My last entry was about a guy named Nikolai and this one is about a guy named Cleve. If nothing else, the Impression team has some of the coolest names in the development world!

Q: Who are you and why are you here?
A: I am Cleve Ard and I have been at Autodesk for 8 years. I am at Autodesk and working on Impression because I enjoy it. Working on Impression and in computer graphics gives me the chance to solve lots of interesting problems and learn new things. I have been working with computers for over 30 years and it has usually been a lot of fun.

Q: What parts of the application do you work on?
A: The display subsystem is one of my major areas. This part of Impression is used to display the scene in the viewport and render it for exporting or printing. I work on the thumbnail manager, which renders the style and layer thumbnails. I am also responsible for the core functionality of appearance styles.

Q: What has been the most exciting part of working on Impression? (Have you had any “aha” moments?)

A: The most exciting part was getting R1 shipped. The end of a successful project is always an exciting time. When I started to get appearance styles working was very exciting, too.

Q: Stats – How many cups of coffee do you have a day? How many miles do you commute to work?

A:I don’t drink coffee. I work from home in North Carolina, so when I go into the office three or four times a year, it involves a long plane ride. I enjoy reading mysteries and science fiction and bicycle and play the guitar and piano when I get the chance.

A development engineer that doesn't drink coffee? As I've said many a time, we truly have a unique team!

Here's Cleve when he's not writing code:

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