Adobe Community Experts

Jack Cardinal

Los Angeles, California

Biography

Jack Cardinal is a recognized leader in Flash Platform development. An Adobe certified Flash developer and designer, Jack has been creating Flash applications since Flash 4. His applications have powered automotive training and incentive events in over 25 cities across the U.S. He is a 2004 and 2005 Max Awards finalist, a 2006 Horizon Interactive Award winner, a FlashForward Conference speaker and a Senior Lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design.

In 1999 he founded IntoMotion, an interactive technology studio based in Los Angeles. Working with Flash, Flash Media Server, Flash Communication Server, Flash Remoting, MultiDMedia Zinc and other exciting technologies, the IntoMotion team crafts Flash applications for desktop, kiosk, Internet, and a diverse range of devices.

IntoMotion has been chosen on major projects for Activision, AIG, Bank of America, Belkin, Cox Communications, DeVry University, Disney, Ford Motor Company, J.D. Power, Kia Motors America, Maritz, Motorola, Red Bull, Scion, Toyota, USC and Viacom.

Credits

Websites

IntoMotion:
http://www.intomotion.com

Flash applications

http://www.intomotion.com/go/hoc
HomeOwnership Center – Bringing real time real estate shopping to a national deployment in Bank of America branches, the H.O.C. combines Flash, Flash Remoting and .NET on a gigantic 20” x 40” LCD touchscreen kiosk. Shoppers can search and map current properties, check rates, calculate payments, search and contact agents and loan officers. Through an automatic Idle Display the kiosk advertises it’s features and bank properties to attract interaction.

http://www.intomotion.com/go/xtabs
Xtabs Real Time Classroom – XTabs is a Flash eLearning application that presents a real-time program of interactive training modules. Application enables quizzes, tests, report cards, score boards, videos, drawing, collaborative exercises and contests in networked classrooms with real time remote control by a training facilitator. Simultaneous classrooms with unique content are tracked by central database where students are easily added and tracked. Xtabs has powered Volvo national training events since 2004.

Academia

Senior Lecturer, Otis College of Art & Design, Flash Interaction Design

Articles

Adobe Success Story - Bank of America HomeOwnership Center
Site of the Month - Bank of America HomeOwnership Center

Speaking engagements

• Art Institute, December 2006
• International Society for Performance Improvement Conference, May 2006
• Sand Diego Flash User's Group, December 2005
• Brazos Valley MMUG, November 2005
• Los Angeles Flash Extension, August 2005
• FlashForward SF, 2005
• How to Wow Seminar, Detroit, April, 2005
• Los Angeles SIGGRAPH, March 2005
• Los Angeles Flash Extension, March 2005
• FlashForward NYC, 2004.
• Los Angeles Flash Users Group, Sept 2003
• Los Angeles Flash Users Group, July 2003
• Internet World Web Essentials, March 2003

Discussion Groups

Other forums

MultiDMedia Community Advisor

Adobe forums

• Forums Nickname: LA Flash Guy
• Flash ActionScript
• Flash Design
• Flash Communication Server