14 DAY TRIAL // Apple has just issued a formal announcement regarding the forthcoming departure of its Senior Vice President of Mac Software Engineering, Bertrand Serlet. Apparently, it was Serlet's decision to leave.
Taking up the role of senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering is, Craig Federighi, who currently occupies the Vice President position on the Mac Software Engineering team.
“I’ve worked with Steve for 22 years and have had an incredible time developing products at both NeXT and Apple, but at this point, I want to focus less on products and more on science,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering.
“Craig has done a great job managing the Mac OS team for the past two years, Lion is a great release and the transition should be seamless,” Serlet added.
Federighi will assume Serlet’s responsibilities reporting to CEO Steve Jobs, who is still on medical leave of absence.
According to Apple, Federighi is directly responsible how Mac OS X looks and feels today as he has been managing the Mac OS software engineering group for the past two years.
Serlet, however, has been with Apple since 1997, and has helped define, develop, and create Mac OS X after spending four years at Xerox PARC, as well as some time with NeXT (a company founded by Steve Jobs) in 1989.
He holds a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Orsay, France.
Federighi also worked at NeXT, but he spent more time (a decade) at Ariba, where he held several roles including vice president of Internet Services and chief technology officer, Apple informs.
Although he had worked at Apple before, Cupertino only got hold of him for good two years ago, when he was tasked with leading Mac OS X engineering.
Craig Federighi has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.