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'''Geoff Perlman''' (born January 6, 1964) is an American entrepreneur and author whose vision for cross-platform [[development tools]] has growing impact for developing applications on different operating systems.{{citation needed|date=May 2012}} His interest in cross-platform compatibility surfaced at an early age during exposure to [[technology]] at the local university. Carrying this passion with him throughout his life he has founded companies to allow ordinary people to create extraordinary things with computer software. Perlman has worked for a number of technology companies in his career, including [[AT&T]] and [[4th Dimension (software)|4D]], and he founded development tools company, [[Real Software]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.linkedin.com/pub/geoff-perlman/0/a38/406 |title=Geoff Perlman Linkedin Page |date=October 12, 2010 |last=Perlman |first=Geoff |accessdate=2010-10-12 |publisher=[[LinkedIn]]}}</ref> in 1996.

==Early life and education==

Perlman was born to a large, native-southern Californian family on January 6, 1964. The son of an electrical engineer who designed communications equipment for military purposes and a social worker, Perlman attended [[University High School (Irvine, California)|University High School]] in [[Irvine, California]]. Perlman first became interested in programming at age 10 while watching [[Star Trek]] and learning about the technology of the future. To feed this interest Perlman spent time at the [[University of California at Irvine]] computer science lab learning about [[mainframe computers]]. A few years later Perlman’s father brought home a [[Texas Instruments]] portable terminal that allowed him to further develop his [[programming]] skills. <ref>{{cite web|title=REALbasic Best Practices|url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.06/GeoffPerlman/index.html|work=REALbasic Best Practices|publisher=MacTech}}</ref>

==Early career ==

In 1984, Perlman took a job as a [[customer service]]/billing technician at [[AT&T]] in an office that housed approximately 300 employees. The office phone system reported the number of calls each employee would take per hour and staff managers reviewed this information on a weekly basis and compared it to employee’s seniority to determine when lunches and breaks would be allotted. Perlman went to his manager and suggested he could write a program to automate this process; something that took each manager a full day per week to do—his program would reduce the task to 15 minutes. He was given an office and a computer to build this application. <ref>{{cite web|title=REALbasic Best Practices|url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.06/GeoffPerlman/index.html|work=REALbasic Best Practices|publisher=MacTech}}</ref>

==Career==

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==Personal life==

Perlman currently resides in [[Laguna Beach, CA]], with his wife and two children. <ref>{{cite web|title=REALbasic Best Practices|url=http://www.mactech.com/articles/mactech/Vol.20/20.06/GeoffPerlman/index.html|work=REALbasic Best Practices|publisher=MacTech}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Why Remote Offices Mean Better IT Teams|url=http://www.cio.com/article/718227/Why_Remote_Offices_Mean_Better_IT_Teams|work=Why Remote Offices Mean Better IT Teams|publisher=CIO|accessdate=13 October 2012}}</ref>

== References ==

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