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Jorge

Award-winning writer and illustrator, President of Pers

Jorge has created award-winning books, toys, and apps, including the transforming plush toys "The Blobbies"​, which won a Toy of The Year Award in USA and the "Ice Math Ninja"​ app http://www.pers.com/a/pr/pookie_tushka_imn_app.html which reached #1 Educational App at iTunes. Jorge has over 25 years of experience in Design & Development which included a position as Manager at Adobe Systems, Software Consultant at Cisco & Oracle, and Interface Designer at Apple Computer. During his time at Adobe, Jorge was the UI Visual Manager in charge of the Creative Suites (Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, etc). Many innovations, such as the breaking-the-border Splash Screens, the antialiased color toolbar icons, the 3D desktop icons, and the "Bridge"​ addition to "Creative Suites 2"​ were his creations. Jorge is now President of Pers, a company that has provided development services to some of the largest companies in the world, including Autodesk, Cisco, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Intel, Kodak, Microsoft, Reuters, Sonic, Sun, Oracle, and Unicef.