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Rob Adams

Rob Adams is the User Research Specialist for Adobe Systems, Inc.'s Flex product line.  Before that, he worked for Macromedia, Inc. on Flash 8 and Flash Player 8 and contributed to the new video import workflow.  He has been with the Flex Builder 2 team almost since its inception and has contributed to the entire product, particularly the Design Mode.  In a previous career path, he was the lead developer for a large J2EE web application.  Today, he is dedicated to making great application designs not only possible, but ubiquitous.

Didier Agani

Didier Agani is Software Engineer responsible for Flash and Mobile R&D at Mobitween, an innovative Developer and Publisher of Vector Graphic Mobile Games. Didier mainly contributed to the design of the Mobitween's development platform.

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Simeon Bateman

Simeon Bateman is the Director of IT at Business Transitions LLC. He is responsible for all software development and server maintenance. Simeon has been working with ColdFusion daily since version 4.0 and is also the Portland ColdFusion User Group Manager. Simeon considers "community" a priority and as such is a supporter of several OSS projects including ARF!, Reactor, ColdSpring, and Fusebox. Always trying to adventure into untested waters with ColdFusion and Flex, you can keep up with his thoughts on his blog (http://www.simb.net/blog/).

Luke Bayes

Since early 1998, Luke Bayes has worked with companies such as America Online, Microsoft, Applied Materials, Entertainment Arts, Hewlett Packard, PowerBar, RockShox, Levi's and Macromedia to deliver an expansive set of distributed applications, business tools, and instructional content. He is the coauthor of the Certified Macromedia Flash MX Developer Study Guide and two Macromedia Flash Developer Certification Exams. He is a frequent speaker at industry events, serves on the steering committee of the San Francisco Macromedia User's Forum and is cofounder of both AsUnit, a tool set for Flash Application Developers, and the San Francisco Design Patterns Study Group. Luke has been consulting with Ali Mills since 2003 architecting and implementing visually compelling, data driven, application frameworks for a variety of clients. During this time, they have focused intently on design patterns, code reuse, and agile processes in the context of ActionScript development. His web site can be found at: http://www.lukebayes.com/.

John Bennett

John Bennett is a Senior Technical Architect at Adobe Consulting (AC), where he also leads the Architect Community for the Eastern US region. He is responsible for providing technical leadership on Rich Internet Application (RIA) and Intelligent Document Platform (IDP) projects for strategic Adobe customers. John has been developing RIAs since the release of Flash MX in 2002. He has worked exclusively with Flex since version 1.0 beta, and has architected some of Adobe's most technically sophisticated RIA projects. Most recently John has been on the forefront of the development of enterprise applications that integrate RIA user interfaces with business critical IDP forms applications.

John is certified as an IT Architect by IBM and as a Flash Developer by Macromedia. He earned a B.S. in Systems Engineering at the University of Florida and spent two years doing research at the MIT Media Lab. John has written numerous articles and papers on RIA best practices, and is often a speaker at MAX, Adobe's annual developer's conference.

Joe Berkovitz

Joe Berkovitz is Chief Architect at Allurent, Inc. in Cambridge, MA, a company specializing in Flex-based Rich Internet Applications for commerce. Joe has spent 27 years in the software profession, as an architect, interface designer and engineer. He was Chief Architect at startups Ruckus Network and Unveil Technologies; before that he spent 8 years at ATG developing many of the core components of that company's products, originating a number of key ideas with patents granted or pending. Prior to ATG, he worked at Houghton Mifflin Co., Stratus Computer and Bolt, Beranek and Newman, among others. His experience includes consulting as well as product development; he has worked with such diverse clients as Harvard Business School, Sony and BMG Music Club. Joe is also a pianist and has performed and recorded with jazz clarinetist Don Byron.

Bob Bisantz

Bob is currently a Principal Enterprise Architect at Fidelity Investments from Boston, MA, which is developing a suite of Flex and Flash Rich Internet Applications. Bob has spent 19 years in the software profession as an architect, developer and engineer - 12 years at Fidelity. For the last 5 years he has been in the Enterprise Architecture group to help enable Internet facing applications for Fidelity eBusiness. In 1999 Bob was awarded a US Patent for innovation on Fidelity's enterprise workflow system. Prior to Fidelity he spent 7 years as Member Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL in the Network Wireless Group on the development and delivery of product to the emerging market of cellular network providers.

Bob received his Bachelor's in Computer Science from Marquette University of Milwaukee, WI. Triathlons, Adventure races and Soccer coaching balance out his family and life experience.

Donald Booth

Donald joined Macromedia in 2000, working in the Technical Support department. He supported Dreamweaver, Authorware, Contribute, Fireworks and RoboHelp. He joined the Dreamweaver Product Team in 2005 where he works as a Quality Engineer and is a core member of the Spry development team. When unplugged from the laptop, he is into photography and stone carving. Check out his photos at http://www.dbooth.net/.

Chris Brichford

Chris Brichford is a Senior Computer Scientist working on HTML support in Apollo. He has been working in the software industry for 7 years .He has worked on Adobe Acrobat, CAD tools for asynchronous chips, build system tools, and Apollo.

Jason Brightman

Jason Brightman is the Director of Web and Emerging Technologies at Harris Publications, one of the nation's largest special-interest publishers with more than 70 titles. At Harris, Jason is responsible for the strategic direction, design, and development of the online brand extensions for the lead titles. Over the past year, he has transformed the websites into dynamic, market-leading genre destinations. The new sites deliver targeted music and lifestyle content to pop-culture enthusiasts, while providing an optimized response rate for the advertisers. The redesigns have generated dramatic increases in both page views and unique users, resulting in a very strong ROI—especially since Jason remade the sites without an increase in development costs. Before Harris, Jason created award-winning web and print designs for a variety of clients, including HBO, Verisign, BBC, and A&E.

Betsy Bruce

Betsy Bruce is a Web applications developer and Macromedia-authorized Dreamweaver and Authorware Trainer for MediaPro, Inc. Based in Seattle, she specializes in computer and Web-based training applications and consults with major corporations in the Pacific Northwest on both design and training. As an authorized trainer, she has traveled the country guiding groups from corporations to school districts in effectively creating dynamic Web content. A graduate of the University of Iowa, she also teaches Internet classes at the college level.

Christian Buchbauer

Christian Buchbauer is Alliance Director at Forum Nokia, Nokia’s global developer program.  As Alliance Director, Mr. Buchbauer oversees corporate relationships with major IT-Vendors and strategic partners worldwide. During his tenure with Nokia, he has developed a strong background of interfacing with multiple facets of the mobile communications industry.  Prior to joining Nokia, Mr. Buchbauer was with Borland GmbH, where he was responsible for Direct Marketing, Customer Services and Technical Support. Mr. Buchbauer holds diplomas in Electric and Information Science and in Electrical Engineering.

Hieu Bui

Hieu Bui's focus at WebAssist is to develop and manage relationships with large customers and strategic partners. His strong technical background allows Hieu to effectively combine technical and business requirements to help drive WebAssist's professional services organization. Most recently, he has played a key role in developing relationships with Fortune 100 companies such as Google, Yahoo!, and eBay. Hieu graduated with a bachelor of science in engineering from Harvey Mudd College.

Matt Buttler

As LiveCycle's Lead Architect, Matt Butler is responsible for translating the long term architectural view and product requirements into a complementary and compatible set of Services, along with the infrastructure to support those Services. Recently, Matt's focuses have been on an integrated design experience for LiveCycle applications and LiveCycle's service oriented architecture. In addition to his product responsibilities, Matt plays a key role in strategic acquisitions. Matt joined Adobe in 2002, following Adobe's purchase of Accelio (formerly JetForm). He had joined JetForm in 1998, and was the company's chief architect. Prior to JetForm, Butler worked at Nortel where he participated in the development of Nortel's next-generation network architecture. Earlier in his career, Butler spent 14 years at Simware. His final position at Simware was chief architect. While at Simware, he helped design one of the earliest data-aggregating server products.

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Ray Camden

Raymond Camden is the Vice President of Technology for Roundpeg, Inc. A long time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books and serves as a technical editor and contributor for the ColdFusion Developers Journal. He also presents at numerous conferences and contributes to online webzines. He created and runs the Common Function Library Project, an open source repository of ColdFusion UDFs and is the creator of the ColdFusion Cookbook. Raymond has helped form three Macromedia User Groups and is the manager of the Acadiana Macromedia Multimedia User Group, www.acadianammug.org. Raymond is a Adobe Community Expert and the proud father of three little bundles of joy.

Christian Cantrell

Christian Cantrell is an application developer at Adobe Systems. He uses a variety of technologies, but focuses primarily on Apollo, Flex, ActionScript, ColdFusion, Ajax, and Java. He blogs at http://weblogs.macromedia.com/cantrell/, and writes gadget reviews for Business 2.0.

Dan Carr

Dan Carr is owner, lead developer, and trainer for Dan Carr Design in San Francisco. With years of history developing for Macromedia, Dan has created a range of features for Flash, including e-learning templates and UI components for Flash MX Professional 2004. Dan teaches Flash design and ActionScript classes in San Francisco and develops e-learning and web applications for the public, as well as for Macromedia product teams.

Josh Cavalier

Josh Cavalier is the founder and CEO of Lodestone Digital, an Authorized Adobe Training Partner with offices in Charlotte, Cleveland and Houston. Prior to starting Lodestone Digital in 1998, Josh was Art Director for Handshaw, a leading e-learning production company. He has been in the print and web design industries for over fourteen years, and has worked in various digital media fields including medical visualization, digital photography, and packaging design.

Mike Chambers

Mike Chambers has spent the last 8 years building applications that target the Flash runtime. During that time, he has worked with numerous technologies including Flash, Generator, Central, Flex, and Ajax. He is currently in charge of developer relations for Apollo, a project which aims to bring the power of Rich Internet Applications to the desktop. Mike is a Senior Product Manager for Developer Relations at Adobe. He has co-authored a number of books and articles, and spoken at numerous conferences.

Fang Chang

Fang Chang is the Product Manger for Breeze Platform and Partners. Fang has been involved in software product management, marketing and development for over 9 years. Prior to joining Macromedia/Adobe, he worked at Intuit and Navteq. Fang is a graduate of UC San Diego, and holds Master of Business Administration and Master of Engineering Management degrees from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Andrew Chemey

Andrew Chemey has been involved in learning for over 10 years. Starting with Macromedia on the Authorware 3 development team he eventually moved to the Pathware/Learning Space development teams for Macromedia and Lotus. He has been on various development teams at Macromedia/Adobe, including Authorware, Flash, CourseBuilder, Captivate and Breeze.  He has worked to build and integrate AICC and SCORM standards-based content and LMSs alike.

Joe Chiaro

Joe Chiaro is a Solutions Architect for vertical markets at Adobe Systems, Inc. He serves as the technical lead and customer advocate for the Education, Government, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecommunications and Life Science markets. It is his responsibility to look for repeatable solutions that cross all of Adobe's products and verticals. Joe has over 12 years of experience working with customers in building document centric applications. He has spent the last 4 years as a Sr. Solutions Engineer in the Financial Services space creating innovative solutions for many of Adobe's largest LiveCycle customers.

Christophe Coenraets

Christophe Coenraets worked at Powersoft—which then became part of Sybase—from 1994 to 2000. He started working with Java in 1996 and became the Technical Evangelist for the company's Java and Internet Application Division. Christophe then joined Macromedia as the Technical Evangelist for JRun, the company's J2EE application server. In this position, Christophe started working on Rich Internet Applications and on ways of integrating Flash front-ends with J2EE back-ends. Christophe is currently the Senior Evangelist for Adobe's developer-centric Rich Internet Applications initiative. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 10 years.

Alexandru Costin

Alexandru is Founder and Division Manager with InterAKT Online, an Adobe Certified Partner company and producer of Dreamweaver extensions . He is proficient in several web programming languages, including Java, PHP and ColdFusion, and led several consulting projects to success. For Macromedia, he was in charge with the development of the ColdFusion MX 7 and the PHP5 support in Dreamweaver. Alexandru was also involved in designing PHAkt, the first PHP server model for Ultradev 4. Currently, he is in charge with managing the Developers Division, driving its product to success. MX Kollection 3, a professional suite of Dreamweaver extensions, is his most recent success in the attempt to improve the way developers and designers develop web applications. Alexandru is an active contributor to Dreamweaver forums and other developer communities and is a writer for the MXDJ and CFDJ magazines, and he keeps a blog with InterAKT insights and tales from web conferences.

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Frank DeRienzo

Prior to joining BrightTiger/Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe in June 1997, Frank S. DeRienzo had a distinguished military career with the US Army Rangers and Special Forces. He is a graduate of Gordon College and he holds an MBA from U-Mass. During his tenure with Adobe (Macromedia), he has focused on high availability and scalability through website clustering and web server integration with various hardware load-balancing and content-management platforms. Currently he is part of the Adobe Enablement Services team where his primary focus is on Breeze Server implementation and training.

Mariam Dholkawala

Mariam Dholkawala is heading a studio at Indiagames Ltd. where she caters to developing Flash based content on various platforms; the primary focus being mobile phones. With more than six years' experience working with Flash and other Macromedia products such as Director, she has been the project lead on numerous games and applications, including the award-winning Cryptic Capers and Acorn Mafia on the Flash Lite platform. She has also authored the article "Best Practices for Mobile Game Development" on the Adobe Dev Site. When not working on Flash games, Mariam likes traveling to new countries and learning about new cultures and languages - the current being Japanese.

Scott Dreier

Scott Dreier is currently with Adobe Consulting as a Technical Architect concentrating on Flex RIA development.  Prior to joining the consulting group, he was a development engineer with the Flex, Flex Builder and Flash teams.  Scott joined Macromedia in 1999 after a career developing GPS receivers for the construction and surveying industries.

Steve Drucker

Steve Drucker is the CEO of Adobe's Premier Consulting and Training Partner Fig Leaf Software based in Washington, DC. Since 1996 he has been implementing innovative, award-winning web sites with Adobe tools. As principal web architect and developer for the Voice of America, he oversaw the creation of VOANews.com  comprised of 44 sites in 44 different languages supporting 500K content items, 120m+ hits/month and output to web/rss/windows mobile/wap/blackberry devices. In addition to his varied development expertise, Steve is also an accomplished technical author - contributing to about a dozen courses, trade journal articles and books pertaining to web development. Most recently he served as course architect and lead developer for Adobe's recent revision of the official Advanced ColdFusion 7 courseware and penned a one day hands-on course featuring ColdFusion, AJAX, and Spry. Steve often teaches the courses that he writes. He became a certified Adobe instructor in October 1997, and earned an "Adobe Master Instructor" rating in 2003. Recently Steve has been focusing on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), techniques for effective courseware development with Adobe Breeze / Captivate, developing apps for handheld devices, having fun with Adobe Acrobat, and playing Frisbee with his 4 year old son.

Tony Duggan

Tony Duggan (age 41), the CEO, is the principal shareholder and co-founder of Tradocs. Before founding Tradocs in late 2002, Tony was director of consulting services at Bolero, the inter-bank initiative founded by SWIFT, together with leading financial institutions to develop a global electronic messaging system.

Prior to Bolero he was the head of supply chain development at Wickes a major UK hard goods retailer where his responsibilities included both operational supply chain management and systems development. In this role he lead a major project which consisted of the development and rapid rollout of Europe's then largest b2b e-document solution. This work was recognized by a prestigious UK Dept of Trade and Industry award for his innovative work on electronic supply chain.

This important electronic document initiative later led Tony and a number of colleagues to develop the Tradocs concept. The solution design for Tradocs was based on his intimate knowledge of the requirements of complex global supply chains involving retailers, manufacturers, logistics providers and banks. Prior to Wickes held management roles across a range of disciplines with Kingfisher the UK retailer and Harrisons and Crosfield a major UK industrial conglomerate.

This solution enables data from corporates, vendors, logistics partners and other parties in the physical supply chain to share data with their banks automatically as part of the document flow. You will learn how Tradocs and Adobe have addressed this challenge and in addition, facilitate the delivery of value added services which create significant cost savings and revenue generation opportunities to corporates, banks and vendors. The solution is implemented as a white label product by a number of leading logistics providers and banks including HSBC one of the world's largest banks.

Working in partnership with Adobe, Tradocs is now offering a feature rich document experience to its users. This joint solution leverages Tradocs market penetration with the feature rich functionality of Adobe LiveCycle Forms, Policy Server and Workflow.

Tradocs enables buyers, vendors, logistics partners and banks to send and receive documents electronically at low cost. The unique cost model and rapid rollout has supported rapid growth of the solution across a range of industry sectors including retail, manufacturing, commodities, insurance and financial service's.

Max Dunn

Max Dunn has been programming publishing-related software for over 15 years. He's co-founder and current president of Silicon Publishing, a software development firm in Fremont, California. Max has worked with Adobe FrameMaker extensively; as an early adopter of XML, he has participated in many structured authoring development efforts.   Silicon Publishing recently led the effort to extend Adobe FrameMaker 7.2 so it supports structured authoring in DITA. In partnership with Advance Business Graphics, Silicon Publishing is now expanding its suite of products and services with the addition of Silicon Assessment, a software product that will bring standards-based authoring and publishing to the testing industry. Max sees the DITA information architecture, coupled with Adobe rendition technologies, as the next advance in electronic publishing.

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Scott Fegette

Scott Fegette is a product manager for Adobe's Developer Relations team, focusing on creative rich-media development and workflows. His prior industry experience includes management positions on the Dreamweaver product team, the Community Support team, and as an engineering manager on the 2003 Macromedia.com global redesign/rearchitecture project. Before joining Macromedia in 2000, Scott was both the webmaster and online services director at former Santa Barbara graphics software company MetaCreations, and is at his core a professional musician, independent photographer, and gadget freak with a deep love for all things cinematic.

Ben Forta

Ben Forta is Adobe, Inc.'s Senior Technical Evangelist, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, Regular Expressions, JavaServer Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Over 1/2 million Ben Forta books have been printed in a dozen languages worldwide. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and official study guides for those tests, writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.

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Dave Gallerizzo

Dave oversees the growth and development of the Fig Leaf Software's consulting and creative services, web application development, and systems integration capabilities. In his role as Vice President of Consulting Services, Dave is responsible for focusing Fig Leaf Software's programming, consulting and creative resources, as well as its innovative spirit, on developing the best web applications to meet the client's business need. As a Certified Adobe developer and instructor, Dave brings to the leadership team a deep understanding of application development as well as entrepreneurial strength. Prior to joining Fig Leaf Software in 1997, Dave designed and implemented custom client server software for the Washington, DC area trade association market. Dave graduated from the University of Maryland College Park with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and currently holds an Adobe Master Instructor Certification, an Advanced ColdFusion Developer Certification, a CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer Certification, and a Google Enterprise Professional Certification.

Richard Galvan

Richard Galvan is an Adobe Systems, Inc., Web Tools product evangelist with 11 years experience educating and consulting customers about web technology. For the last 8 years he has been helping Adobe customers implement the latest Adobes technology into their own next generation Web projects.

David Gassner

David Gassner is President of Bardo Technical Services, an Adobe Solutions Network Training Center and Flex 2 Services Partner. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor teaching courses in Flex, Flash, ColdFusion, and Dreamweaver, was co-author of Adobe's Authorized Courseware for Flex 2, and is the author of the Flex 2: Essential Training and Flex2: Beyond the Basics video instruction series from Lynda.com. David has written technical articles and presented at Allaire and Macromedia conferences on Flex, ColdFusion, XML, Java, and other subjects.

David George

David George is a software architect for Adobe Flex. He is currently working on a new Flex-related product initiative. Previously, he led an effort to improve performance, he helped create the Flex application model, and he designed the original MXML language. Prior to joining the Flex team, he was an engineering lead for the first five releases of Dreamweaver. Before joining Macromedia, he built a multimedia runtime engine for Sybase, and he created a 3-D photorealistic renderer for Digital Equipment Corporation.

Chris Georgenes

Chris's animation career started many years after he graduated from the Hartford Art School (U-Ha!) as an illustrator in 1989.. Chris cut his teeth as an animator for Tom Snyder Productions (Scholastic) for 6 years, eventually working his way up to Director of Creative Development. The biggest feather in his cap during this time was Art Director and Co-Creator of Home Movies (Cartoon Network) and Science Court (ABC). Chris discovered Flash 3 back in 1999 and a year later was the art and technical director for several animated series for www.shockwave.com. Chris started his own design and animation company in 2002, using Flash as the primary development tool. His clients include Adobe, Macromedia, Ogilvy, Yahoo!, Digitas, Pileated Pictures, and AOL, to name a few. Chris is an Adobe Design Center author, a Certified Flash Designer, Adobe Community Expert, as well as the author and instructor of the Flash Design and Animation course for Sessions, Online School of Design.

Sheri German

Sheri German teaches Web Standards development at the Government Printing Office Federal Institute for Printing and Electronic Publishing, Web technology and technology education at Trinity University in Washington, D.C., and hands-on tutorials for the Washington Apple Pi MUG. In her own Web design work, she concentrates on Web sites for people in the arts, and has created many sites for dancers, musicians, and writers. Sheri is an Adobe Education Leader and Certified Dreamweaver MX 2004 Developer. Along with Kim Cavanaugh, she is the author of The Dreamweaver 8 Visual Encyclopedia (ISBN: 0471751766). Her other writing activities include contributing author to the Washington Apple Pi Journal, training materials for classes, and articles for CommunityMX, where she is the partner in charge of the JumpStarts (Dreamweaver standards templates) program. Sheri has an MA in Music, and when she is not developing sites or teaching, she is listening to classical music or taking a ballet class. She lives in MD with her husband, two children, three cats, and a dog.

Roger Gonzalez

When he isn't riding a motorcycle on twisty back roads, Roger Gonzalez wrestles with many of the twistier parts of the Flex Compiler. His career includes a great deal of work ensuring that the Internet is interesting, efficient, useful, and secure. He's also worked on distributed military simulations, video games, and autonomous robots, so he's fairly entertaining when plied with drinks.

Thomas Gonzalez

For over 20 years, Tom has been developing sophisticated software applications on a variety of platforms from the DEC/VAX micro computers of the early 80's to the latest operating systems and database platforms in use today. Along the way, he has directed the successful implementation of large scale software applications requiring many thousand man hours and cross functional teams of developers, business analysts, artists and engineers. His experience includes Analyst, Principal, Director, and CIO level roles at Northrop-Grumman, Solutions Consulting Group, BuySellBid.Com, and GHT. In most recent years, Tom's innovative work with dashboards and business intelligence applications have established his leadership in the arena of data visualization and immersive user experience in delivering dashboards and performance management systems for such companies as: BP/Arco, Arrow Electronics, SanDisk, and Peregrine Systems/HP. His many articles on dashboard and data visualization design have received international recognition and have been used as University course materials.

Tom Green

Tom Green is Professor, Interactive Multimedia through the School of Media Studies at the Humber Institute of Advanced Learning and Technology in Toronto. He is the author of seven books, that deal with Adobe Web technologies. His latest book, Flash 8 Professional and After Effects 7: Poetry in Motion Graphics by friendofEd is an exploration of the emerging relationship between Flash and After Effects. Apart from his books , Tom has contributed almost 100 tutorials to Community MX, written a number of articles on the subject of Flash and Flash Video for the Adobe Developer and Design Centers as well as such publications as Creative Arts and the Web Developer's Journal. He has also spoken at Conferences and lectured on the subject of Flash and Flash Video in a variety of locations around the world including the recent Flash in Education Conference in Beijing, the NAB in Las Vegas, Flashinthe Can and SparkEurope. In his spare time he writes tutorials for his site http://www.tomontheweb.ca/, is a member of the Adobe Community Experts group and is a founder of one of the largest Flash groups in existence, FlashinTO.

Ely Greenfield

Ely Greenfield is a Principal Scientist for the Flex SDK at Adobe. Ely joined Adobe as part of the Macromedia Director team in 1996 and developed a variety of products before joining the Flex SDK team in 2002 to help redefine what web applications can be. Ely has worked on a variety of tools and technologies over the past 10 years, from desktop applications to browsing tools to web based applications, and spends most of his time imagining ways to merge the best of these technologies into a single best of breed engagement platform. Prior to joining Macromedia/Adobe, Ely can't remember a single thing.

Andrew Guldman

Andrew Guldman is a Principal Engineer at Fluid, Inc., creators of award-winning online retail and merchandising solutions. Guldman has 16 years of experience architecting complex applications, performing object-oriented analysis and design, and programming in languages such as Java, ColdFusion, and Flash. He has been on the forefront of Rich Internet Application development since 2001. Guldman has led seminars, spoken at FlashForward, and authored whitepapers on building Rich Internet Applications and using video in Flash MX 2004. He also helped develop features for both Macromedia Flash MX and Macromedia Flash MX 2004.

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Alex Harui

Alex Harui is a member of the Flex team, focusing on the internals of the Flex component framework.  He has spent the last 4+ years using different versions of ActionScript to develop the infrastructure for the base classes and components of the various versions of Flex.

Diana C. Helander

Diana C. Helander is currently the Group Manager for Worldwide Standards for Adobe Systems. Her team represents Adobe in global standards organizations and industry associations responsible for setting standards, including PDF-based and XML data standards. These markets include financial services, manufacturing, and government.

Ms. Helander was previously responsible for managing and growing Adobe Acrobat’s presence in the manufacturing and AEC (building) markets. During her 12 years in technology marketing, Ms. Helander has held various positions in high tech organizations, including Autodesk, where she was responsible for marketing collaboration tools and services, launching Volo View and buzzsaw.com. Prior to Autodesk, Ms. Helander was the Director of Marketing at Tribe Computer Works, a remote networking equipment manufacturer, where she also guided the company through a corporate acquisition by Zoom Telephonics. She started her career as a technology consultant and project manager at Bank of America. Ms. Helander graduated from Amherst College.

Joshua Hirsch

Shortly after retiring from rock-stardom in the early 21st century, Joshua Hirsch became the Minister of Technology at Big Spaceship, where he has built award-winning websites and games for entertainment and consumer brand clients. Josh has spoken at conferences all over the world, sharing his expertise in Flash design and development. Josh lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Robert Hoekman, Jr.

Robert Hoekman, Jr., is a professional Interaction Designer and Usability Specialist, and is the cofounder of 33Inc. He spends his days designing and improving commercial Web-based software alongside Ajax guru and 33Inc partner Kris Hadlock. Over the past several years, Robert has worked with Go Daddy Software, Macromedia, Adobe, United Airlines, Ford Motor Company, and countless others to provide superior user experiences to a wide range of audiences. In addition to his other writing credits, Robert authored the movie-based training course Flash User Experience Best Practices (Lynda.com), the Flash design basics book Flash Out of the Box (O'Reilly), and the seven-part InformIT.com series Designing the Obvious. His newest book, Designing the Obvious, will be available in late 2006. The book focuses on seven guiding principles of great Web-based software and how to leverage them in any real-world project.

Simon Horwith

Simon Horwith is the editor-in-chief of ColdFusion Developer's Journal and is the Chief Information Officer at AboutWeb - a Washington DC based company specializing in staff augmentation, consulting, and training. Simon is an Adobe Certified Master Instructor and is an Adobe Community Expert. He has been using ColdFusion since its inception and specializes in ColdFusion application architecture, including architecting applications that integrate with Java, Flash, Flex, and a myriad of other technologies. In addition to presenting at CFUGs and conferences around the world, he has also been a contributing author of several books and technical papers.  Simon won the MAX 2005 Speaker Competition at last year's MAX conference. You can read his blog at http://www.horwith.com/.

Sue Hove

Sue Hove is Adobe Systems Incorporated's Senior Manager of Instructor Readiness for its Customer Training department. She has more than 17 years of experience in the computer industry in application design and programming, relational databases, training, and course development. She has applied her expertise for software vendors such as Informix, Powersoft/Sybase, and Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe. For the past ten years, she has been shaping Adobe's curriculum by writing and delivering its training course offerings and certifying other instructors to teach Adobe's courses worldwide.

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RJ Jacquez

RJ Jacquez is the Senior Technical Evangelist for FrameMaker at Adobe Systems Incorporated, where he champions these products both internally and externally and with over fifteen years of experience with Adobe FrameMaker and related technologies, RJ is instrumental in addressing customer requirements and market trends in future releases of these applications.  Before joining Adobe, Jacquez was Product Manager at eHelp Corporation where he spearheaded the development of an innovative software application that extended Framemaker’s publishing capabilities called RoboHelp for FrameMaker.  In addition, RJ was also the Senior Evangelist for Macromedia, Inc., where he promoted both Captivate and RoboHelp.  Jacquez has lectured extensibly on various topics, including single-sourcing, ePublishing, Help Authoring, XML, DITA and S1000D.  Notable conferences include WritersUA, FrameUsers, Adobe eSeminars, AODC and various STC Chapter meetings.

Scott Janousek

Scott Janousek is a senior Flash Developer working for the Boston office of Schematic. Prior to joining Schematic, Scott has ten years of diverse Software Engineering and Web Consulting background, five of which were dedicated to the creation of interactive multimedia, including: CD-ROMs, DVDs, Webcasts, Kiosks, RIAs, and Websites.

Today, Scott is an Adobe Certified Flash Designer and Developer, as well as a recognized Flash Lite Subject Matter Expert. In addition, he is also an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flash Lite 1.1 and Adobe Certified Developer for Mobile Application Development. He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

As an active and contributing member of the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group (AMaDUG), Boston Flash Platform User Group (BFPUG), and momoBoston (Mobile Monday Boston), Scott is passionate about the Flash Platform across mobile devices as well as the desktop. When he has had a chance, he speaks at new media institutes, user groups, and conferences about Flash and Mobile; including most recently, FITC 2006 (Flash in the Canada).

He is also a contributing author to the forthcoming publication, Foundation Flash Applications for Mobile Devices.

Check out his blog for more information about Scott and his latest Flash adventures and mobile endeavors.

Tom Jordahl

Tom Jordahl is a Senior Computer Scientist at Adobe and the architect for ColdFusion. As part of the original ColdFusion team, he has implemented a wide variety of tags, functions, and features in both the original (C++) and MX (Java) releases of ColdFusion. He is one of the primary implementers of the Apache Axis SOAP engine, and is the Adobe representative on the W3C WSDL 2.0 working group. Before diving into web services, Tom was the technical lead for ColdFusion on UNIX, leading the efforts to bring ColdFusion to Solaris and Linux. Prior to joining Allaire in 1997, he worked at the Open Software Foundation (OSF) on the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) and the OSF/1 UNIX operating system. Tom is currently hard at work on "Scorpio", the next major release of ColdFusion.

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Chafic Kazoun

Chafic Kazoun is the Founder and CTO of Atellis, a Washington, D.C. based firm that specializes in developing Rich Internet Applications and Products. At Atellis Chafic manages, architects, and develops next generation applications and components.Chafic has been actively involved in the Flash community, has delivered presentations at numerous conferences, and has contributed to published works. He is also a Team Macromedia Volunteer, the author of the upcoming book Programming Flex 2.0 by O’Reilly, and maintains a weblog at www.rewindlife.com

Jim King

Dr. King is a Principal Scientists at Adobe Systems Incorporated and now has the job of PDF Architect. This means he is responsible for guiding the current and future development of the Portable Document File format that is the basis for Adobe's Acrobat product line. Dr. King has been with Adobe since 1988 when he formed the Advanced Technology Group (ATG). He is currently an individual contributor in what is now called the Advanced Technology Laboratory (ATL) within the Office of Technology. Previously he worked within IBM  Research both in at the T. J. Watson Research center in New York and at the Almaden Research Center in San Jose, California. He is the inventor of many patented ideas and is well known for his ability to clearly explain the technologies on which Adobe's products are built.

Andrew Kirkpatrick

Andrew Kirkpatrick is Corporate Accessibility Technical Lead for Adobe. He attends to accessibility issues with product teams across the Adobe product line and works with customers and standards groups, including representing Adobe on the Section 508 refresh committee. Andrew is a frequent speaker and writer on accessibility including contributing chapters to Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance, a new book by Friends of ED. Andrew joined Macromedia in July 2005 from the WGBH National Center for Accessible Media where he was Director of Technology with a focus on accessibility consulting for corporate clients including America Online, Yahoo!, BT, Apple, and Macromedia. Andrew blogs about accessibility in Adobe products at http://blogs.adobe.com/accessibility/.

Kevin Ku

Kevin Ku is a Technical Architect for Consulting Services at Adobe. In that role, he provides professional services on Adobe enterprise product solutions, such as LiveCycle Workflow, Forms, Form Manager, Designer, Document Security, PDF Generator and Policy Server to federal, state and local government. As a technical architect, Kevin is responsible to provide technical leadership to Adobe's customers and partners in the design of solutions based on or including components of Adobe Enterprise Technology and relevant third party technologies. Also, to provide the architectural input to ensure that proposed solutions provide the required functionality to the end user, and operate correctly in the technical environments of the end user organization. Kevin has a proven record to carry many projects to success.

Kevin was previously a Consulting Manager with Blue Martini Software and prior to that a Technical Director at Integic Corporation. He received his Master degree in Computer Science from Michigan State University.

Rupesh Kumar

Rupesh is a senior engineer in the ColdFusion Server team at Adobe. He has worked on CFDocument and many of the Scorpio features including ColdFusion.NET integration. Before joining the ColdFusion team, he was with the JRun team at Macromedia where he worked on the web container. Prior to joining Macromedia, he spent more than 4 years with Pramati Technologies, India's no 1 application server vendor, where he was part of the core engineering team. At Pramati, he led the security team and was responsible for architecting and developing security provisioning system, certificate management system and other security infrastructures for the server. Having worked on two application servers gives him very good insight into Java, J2EE and other enterprise technologies. You can find him online at http://coldfused.blogspt.com/.

Annette Kunovic

Annette Kunovic, Managing Partner Annette is a graduate of Regis University with a degree in Computer Information Systems. She has extensive experience in developing administrative tools for ColdFusion applications and creating user-friendly interfaces and navigation. She is a certified Adobe Instructor and a certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer. She is also co-writing the new official Adobe curriculum for Flex titled Adobe Flex 2:Programming Visual Experiences. You can contact her at annette@trilemetry.com.

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Grayson Lang

Grayson Lang acts as both engineer and lead designer for the Acrobat 3D product. As an engineer, he works to add interactivity to 3D content through enhancements to the scripting capabilities of the platform. As a designer, his focus is on improving the user experience and usability of 3D within PDF. He has been working at Adobe for six years. Prior to Acrobat 3D he acted as the lead designer on Atmosphere, a tool for creating interactive 3D content for the web.

Michael Lebowitz

Michael Lebowitz is the co-founder and CEO of Big Spaceship, a New York based creative agency whose work has received numerous awards, including the highly coveted Cannes Lion, Key Art, One Show, and Clio Awards. He has lectured, led seminars internationally on design and interactive marketing, and been a juror for many industry awards – most recently at the Advertising and Design Club of Canada.

Eric Lerner

Eric Lerner is the Product Manager for Customer Success, working on Adobe Breeze. Mr. Lerner managed the rollout of Breeze to Adobe, following the Macromedia acquisition, with focus on adoption and ROI. Prior to joining the Breeze team Lerner worked as a Product Manager, and Program Manager on the Contribute product line. Lerner has been with Adobe, and prior to that Macromedia, for 6 years now.

David Liao

David Liao is the Software Engineering Manager at Ensemble Systems. He has architected LiveCycle solutions for various industries including Insurance, Banking, Government and Telecom. He manages and provides technical direction for Ensemble's development teams working on Adobe projects such as the creation of PDF Testing Suites, Integration of Adobe LiveCycle Forms for IBM DB2 Content Manager, and numerous industry specific custom solutions.

Joseph Lowery

Joseph Lowery's books about the web and web-building tools are international bestsellers, having sold more than 400,000 copies worldwide in nine different languages. His most recent books are the Dreamweaver 8 Bible and the upcoming Dreamweaver 8 Beyond the Basics from lynda.com. Joseph is the author of the recently published CSS Hacks and Filters as well as the co-author of Dreamweaver 8 Recipes with Eric Ott. A well-known speaker, he was presented at Adobe conferences in U.S. and Europe as well as user groups around the country.

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Ethan Malasky

Ethan Malasky is an engineer for Apollo with a long-standing interest in application development platforms. Over the last five years, he has worked on Central and the Flash Player, with a focus on security and an eye towards breaking out of the browser.

Ken Martin

BLITZ is an award-winning, full-service interactive agency that creates sophisticated brand experiences through their unique web strategies, marketing campaigns, advergames and rich internet applications. Come to this inspiring session to hear how BLITZ creates immersive experiences that connect audiences with brands such as GE, Microsoft, Epson, Electronic Arts, LucasArts, Warner Bros., and Cranium.

Peter Martin

Peter Martin is a technical architect in the Rich Internet Applications practice at Adobe Consulting EMEA. Peter has over 11 years commercial experience in enterprise software development and has been working with Java and J2EE for the last 7 years. Peter has been applying his experience of J2EE-based development to projects using Flex Data Service (FDS). Peter lives and works in Scotland and his experience has been gained in consultancy and product development for financial services clients.

Ashwin Mathew

Ashwin has worked in the software industry for over 8 years, in a variety of roles, ranging from lead developer to architect. His last assignment was at Sun Microsystems where he worked on peer-to-peer data integration and mobile access technologies. Ashwin is currently a senior engineer on the ColdFusion Server team at Adobe. In his spare time, he enjoys cycling and playing guitar with a loose conglomeration of musicians about town in Bangalore, India. You can find him online at http://blogs.sanmathi.org/ashwin.

Trevor McCauley

Trevor McCauley first began working with Adobe products while attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County where he instructed classes and taught workshops covering Flash, Director, and Fireworks as an aside to earning a BA in Visual Arts. Before becoming a Senior Support Engineer for Adobe Product Support, Trevor worked for a small production company developing content for websites and interactive CD/DVD ROMs. In his free time, he develops Flash and Fireworks content for his personal site, senocular.com, and moderates forums on popular Flash-related sites such as Kirupa.com, ActionScript.org, and UltraShock.com.

Alistair McLeod

Alistair McLeod is a Practice Leader in the Rich Internet Practice of Adobe Consulting in the EMEA Region. Alistair was one of the co-founders and former Development Director of iteration::two, a leading European software consultancy based in Scotland who specialized in Rich Internet Application technologies and who were acquired by Macromedia in September 2005. Alistair is recognized within the industry for his contributions during a number of Rich Internet product developments, and now works at the forefront of Rich Client technologies, providing thought leadership on the development of rich client solutions on the Adobe engagement platform. Alistair lead the development of the FlexUnit testing framework and co-authored "ActionScript 2.0 Design Patterns for Rich Internet Applications" in the ActionScript 2.0 Dictionary from New Riders and the official Macromedia Press title, "Developing Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex".

Thelbert "Mack" McNeely

Thelbert "Mack" McNeely, United States Navy Retired joined T-Mobile in 1999 after a 22.5 year career in our US Navy, during his last tour of duty he was assigned as the Training Director of Basic Military Orientation at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes.

Mack has taught Web Programming and Programming concepts as an adjunct at the Chicago based International School of Technology and Design and has completed the Authorware basic and Advance courses, Advance Flash Application development, Advance ColdFusion Development and Flex Development for Web Application developers.

As T-Mobile HR Manager of eLearning and Web Development some of his responsibilities include the creation of the company's Sales Intranet website, development of Multimedia Web Based Training applications, ColdFusion Web applications and Flex applications. He's responsible for the deployment of training computer for our Retail Training Stores and their associated images, maintenance and administration of our Breeze server used for T-Mobiles Sales New Hire Orientation program and multiple web servers. He provides consultation to our Instructional Designers on rich media development and deployment and consultation to T-Mobile's IT department on Breeze, ColdFusion, Flash Player and Authorware Web Player deployments.

Mack's holds Advanced Degrees for Southern Illinois University in Workforce Education and currently hold a 7 USGA Golf Handicap.

Ali Mills

Ali Mills is an expert ActionScript programmer with solid experience using the technologies that power rich internet experiences. Ali co-founded AsUnit and the San Francisco Design Patterns Study Group. He also founded the Hawaii Flash User's Group, serves as a committee member for the San Francisco Macromedia User's Forum, and served as a Flash instructor for the University of Hawaii Outreach College. In the past year he authored code examples for both the ActionScript 2.0 and ActionScript 3.0 Language References and Macromedia Press' book "Programming ActionScript 3.0". He is currently co-authoring the book "Design Patterns in ActionScript 3.0". Ali has been working with Luke Bayes since 2003 architecting and implementing visually compelling, data driven, application frameworks for a variety of clients. During this time, they have focused intently on design patterns, code reuse, and agile processes in the context of ActionScript development. Their company is Pattern Park.

Mike Morearty

Mike Morearty is a Computer Scientist at Adobe, working on the debugger in Flex Builder. Prior to Flex Builder, he was a developer on the Dreamweaver team. Before joining Adobe he was at Microsoft for 10 years where he spent a number of years working on Visual Studio's debugger, and also worked on interactive television and on sidewalk.com.

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Duane Nickull

As Senior Technical Evangelist, Duane maintains expertise in SOA, Security, Web Services and computational intelligence. Mr. Nickull has participated in most of the larger SOA standards work in the past decade. He currently chairs the OASIS Service Oriented Architecture Reference Model Technical Committee (SOA-RM TC) which has just delivered the first OASIS Committee Specification of a Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture. He served as a Vice Chair of the United Nations Centre for Facilitation of Commerce and Trade (UN/CEFACT) and a specially appointed liaison between the W3C, UN and OASIS standards consortiums. He has participated in writing the W3C Web Services Architecture, worked on Web Services Security and also co wrote the Mackenzie-Nickull Meta-model for Architectural Patterns. Mr. Nickull has written and contributed many technical articles and books on these subjects

Mike Nimer

Mike Nimer is a senior engineer on the ColdFusion engineering team, responsible for features such as Flex 2 Integration with ColdFusion, rich forms in ColdFusion 7, and the administrator API. Before joining the engineering team, Nimer spent three years working as a senior consultant with the Allaire and Macromedia consulting group, where he provided on-site assistance to customers with their web application, architecture designs and planning, code reviews, performance tuning, and general emergencies.

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Dave Oberholzer

Dave Oberholzer runs the team that programs news, information, and imaging content across Verizon Wireless' data platforms. These platforms include Premium SMS, Multi-Media Messaging, Mobile Web 2.0, and Brew. Before joining Verizon Wireless, Dave was Director of Carrier Services at InphoMatch, an inter-carrier messaging vendor. Prior to InphoMatch, he was General Manager of the Mid-Atlantic region for Predictive Systems, a network consulting company. Dave also served as an officer in the U.S. Navy where he flew carrier-based aircraft. Dave studied computer science at Villanova University and has his MBA and a MIS from the University of Maryland.

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Alessandro Pace

Alessandro Pace currently works for m-Qube, a Verisign company, as a Flash Mobile Software Engineer responsible for Flash Lite R&D. Alessandro is an Adobe Certified Flash Lite 1.1 Instructor and Developer and also the Manager of the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group. He works daily on his personal Flash Lite project Kero Mobile and he is very active in the Flash Lite developer community. You can visit his blog at http://www.biskero.org/.

Thom Parker

Thom Parker is the founder of WindJack Solutions, Inc. Thom has a broad engineering and programming background, having spent many years as a hardware engineer at Intel and over 20 years developing software in a variety of languages. Today, WindJack Solutions' sole focus is PDF development with an emphasis on Acrobat JavaScript, and Thom is actively involved in the PDF community. In addition to developing innovative commercial tools for Acrobat developers and users (PDF CanOpener, AcroButtons, and AcroDialogs), he contributes articles and tips on Acrobat JavaScript and maintains a Blog as the host of JavaScript Corner at AcrobatUsers.com. Thom has been both a speaker and trainer at many PDF events/conferences, and provides technical guidance on the Adobe Acrobat User to User forums.

Ted Patrick

Ted Patrick is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe Systems. He worked with Flash since FutureSplash Animator and watched its evolution from animation to application. Ted also helped Adobe with the development of ActionScript 3, AVM2, ASC compiler, and Flash Player 9 for some 16 months prior to Flex 2's release. Prior to joining Adobe in May 2006, he provided consulting services at PowerSDK Software and Cynergy Systems. Ted is actively involved in the Flex development community and works at Adobe to define the future of rich media.

Nigel Pegg

Nigel has been building Flash applications since the very beginning of the medium. Upon landing his dream job at Macromedia, he had the chance to help architect and implement both the V1 and V2 UI Component Framework, one of the foundations of many Flash and Flex apps. After 3 years, Nigel joined the Breeze Meeting team, where he discovered that multi-user, real-time applications were by far the most interesting apps to design and build. Late one night, he came up with a set of Components that could be used so that any Flash or Flex developer could build their own apps to fit within Breeze. He really wants to share the love!

Gunnar Penikis

Gunar Penikis is Senior Product Manager for Adobe Bridge and Adobe XMP at Adobe Systems Incorporated. He is responsible for defining platforms and products that empower the creative community to better manage media assets and workflow, enabling them to more efficiently express their vision. He has collaborated with international standards groups such as IDEAlliance, IPTC, PRISM, DISC, W3C, and Creative Commons to build awareness and drive adoption of metadata technologies. He has a strong understanding of XML and RDF technical frameworks, especially related to metadata standards. Previously, he was Product Manager for Adobe's Asset Management and versioning technologies. Penikis holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from Queen's University, Canada, and a Masters degree in International Business Administration from York University, Canada. He has been a featured speaker at industry events at more than 15 international conferences, demonstrating technology for audiences of over 3,000 attendees, including IFRA, Digital Asset Management Symposium, Global Society for Asset Management, Nexpo, Xtech and Seybold.

Bill Perry

Bill Perry manages global developer relations for mobile and devices at Adobe and is helping to shape the future using Adobe technologies. Bill and interacts and supports the mobile ecosystem including developers, media brands, content providers, operators and OEMs.  When he's not busy with work, Bill enjoys cycling and spending time with his wife and friends.

Albert Poon

Albert Poon is a Senior User Experience Consultant for Adobe Consulting focused on the design and experience of RIAs. As a consultant, Albert works with customers deploying RIAs to conceptualize, frame and design effective user experience. His experiences have been directed at designing better RIA experiences for broad and complex enterprise needs. Prior to joining Macromedia, Albert led a design team at Yahoo! and user experience projects at San Francisco consultancy, Phoenix Pop Productions.

Mike Potter

Mike Potter has been developing Web sites and Web applications for More than eight years. He has extensive experience with PHP, having created the Web site for the largest amateur sporting organization in Canada, the Canadian Curling Association. After developing that site, he went to work for OEone, where he helped build a Linux based desktop that ran inside the Mozilla Web browser and ran the Mozilla Calendar Project. Mike joined Adobe in 2005 and is now working in Developer Relations as an evangelist for open source and Web developers.

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Holly Quarzo

Holly Quarzo is Chief Creative Officer at echo11media, inc. Her expertise includes diverse facets of computer-based graphic design, Web design and multimedia. She has extensive experience designing and developing a wide range of computer-based learning applications -- from CD-ROM, to Internet and Intranet-based training. She has developed custom eLearning solutions for clients including AT&T Wireless, BellSouth, SYNAVANT and Compaq. Holly is also a top Adobe (Macromedia) certified instructor and Dreamweaver subject-matter expert, teaching Flash and Dreamweaver software applications. Holly has instructed professionals from organizations such as Boeing, Southern Company, Verizon Wireless, eTrade, Westinghouse, Federated Systems Group, the U.S. Navy and the University of Georgia. She has also taught multimedia and print design at the university level.

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Sven Ramuschkat

Sven Ramuschkat, a highly regarded specialist for Adobe server products Flex, ColdFusion, Breeze and JRun, certified Adobe Professional and Trainer co-founded Herrlich & Ramuschkat http://www.herrlich-ramuschkat.de GmbH (based in Hanover, Germany) in 1990. As CTO of Herrlich & Ramuschkat - a Adobe Solution and Training Partner - Sven is responsible for managing the product engineering and services organization. Sven holds a degree in Business Science from the University of Hannover.

Dale Rankine

Dale Rankine is the CEO of Moket, Australia's first Flash Lite development company. He's been working with Flash and interactive media for the past 10 years, holding many creative, development and management positions with interactive studios and companies in his hometown of Brisbane. In 2001 Dale also started the successful web-studio DRD Interactive, and continues to currently operate as Managing Director. Dale is also a Certified Adobe Instructor (Flash Lite) and is the manager of the Australian Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group. Dale has been a regular presenter at the webDU conference in Australia on the topic of Flash Lite and is always excited to share the vision he has for Flash on mobile devices. This is all a far cry from his previous life as a professional drummer but Dale keeps things interesting now outside of work by being father to his three daughters, drummer in his wife's band, comic collector and sci-fi junkie. Life wasn't meant to be boring!

Victor Rasputnis

Victor Rasputnis is a Managing Principal of Farata Systems. He's responsible for providing architectural design, implementation management and mentoring to companies migrating to XML Internet technologies. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Moscow Institute of Robotics. You can reach him at vrasputnis@faratasystems.com.

Bob Regan

Bob Regan is a solutions architect for vertical markets at Adobe Systems, Inc. In that role, he serves as the technical lead and customer advocate for the Education, Government, Financial Services, Manufacturing, Telecommunications and Life Science markets. It is his responsibility to connect with the specific needs, challenges and successes of customers working to create digital content and applications. Bob works with each team to help them collect customer experiences and communicate them into the product organization and assemble solutions based on these requirements. Bob Regan joined Macromedia in 2001 as the product manager for accessibility to launch Macromedia's accessibility effort. Since then, Bob has pioneered techniques in accessible rich media. He has helped write standards used by the W3C, The UK Office of e-Government and the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee.

Richard Relph

Richard Relph rejoined Adobe in 2000 to help third parties get more out of Acrobat 5 and PDF generally. A 30-year veteran of the computer industry (he remembers the 4004 and attended the Homebrew Computer Club - he's THAT old), he enjoys solving complex problems. Richard has worked for a few Silicon Valley startups (Cydrome, Elxsi, and Embedded Performance), spent 8 years at AMD, and consulted for many other companies.

Richard was the primary author of several articles in Dr. Dobbs Journal and has presented at the Embedded Systems Conferences. He also was an active member of the ANSI C Standards Committee.

Greg Rewis

Greg Rewis is the Worldwide Senior Evangelist for Web Tools for Adobe Systems Incorporated with nearly 20 years of computer industry experience. In this role, Rewis spends up to 200 days of the year on the road talking with customers, giving product demonstrations at trade shows and seminars, speaking at industry conferences, and leading specialized advanced training sessions featuring Adobe's Web Tools product line. Before Adobe, Rewis was Macromedia's Senior Web Tools Evangelist for its web publishing suite of software and web application development servers. He also represented the company's millions of customers in an advocate's role on the Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks product development teams. Rewis began his web career as the original Product Manager and Evangelist for GoLive Systems and its CyberStudio product, later acquired by Adobe.

Bogdan Ripa

Bogdan is one of the InterAKT founders and is now Designers Division Manager, creating a new breed of InterAKT products for the Dreamweaver web designers. Bogdan is active in the InterAKT board, holding a CEO position. He was instrumental in the successful design and release of most InterAKT products - as CTO, head of the Research and Development of InterAKT. Concerned in the company's sustainable growth Bogdan also spurred and unprecedented business reengineering process with the aim to achieve Six Sigma quality software in the near future. Prior to InterAKT, Bogdan worked for Cap Gemini (application for supervising the Ariane project, based on Linux), Vitacorp (Telephony) and Verilog (Java class parsers and analyzers). Bogdan is an expert in Internet software. He masters Ajax, XML, XHTML, JavaScript, PHP, ColdFusion, ASP as well as many other web technologies. He has graduated French Language Computer Science University in Bucharest (2002) and he was awarded many prizes at national computer science contests. Always striving for excellence, after he embraced the management area, he graduated in 2004 a Master in Engineering Management.

Donnie Robinson

Donnie's web career spans 11 years and includes experience in multimedia production, application development, content management and technical training.  It began with a single goal in mind: To master the finer points of being a ski bum. This adventure landed him in Vail, Colorado in 1995 and there his interest in web development took root as he was soon struck by the power of ColdFusion and the potential of a little product called FutureSplash.  His hard work, off the mountain, eventually landed him in Boston and an amazing 5 year run riding the Internet wave with Macromedia developing multimedia and instructor-led courseware for ColdFusion, Dreamweaver and Fireworks. Donnie is now an enthusiastic project manager for Trilemetry and currently focused on building highly functional business applications using cutting edge technologies.  He currently resides in a western suburb of Vail with his lovely wife and newborn son.

Christoph Rooms

Christoph Rooms worked at SilverStream from 1998 to 2002. Silverstream was one of the first J2EE application server players and got acquired by Novell. In 2002 Christoph joined Adobe and became a product specialist for the LiveCycle platform. He's involved in enabling the technical sales team in Europe and acting as a Technical Evangelist for the LiveCycle and Flex products. He is also responsible for the electronic ID competence center in Brussels, in this center Adobe's digital signature capabilities are demonstrated in combination with different European eID initiatives."

Brent Rosenquist

Brent Rosenquist is a Senior Computer Scientist working on several areas of Apollo including package signing and inter-application communication. He has worked in the software industry for 10 years. His diverse work experience includes working on launch performance and other features of Adobe Acrobat 7.0, distributed n-tier web based intellectual asset management systems and developing educational software for children with learning disabilities.

Dave Ross

Dave Ross works at Albany Medical College in Albany, NY, providing technical expertise in support of the College's educational goals. Dave has spent seven years in the information systems field, primarily involved with software development for the healthcare industry. He also regularly works with CFML, Java, C#, and a variety of other tools and technologies. He is the creator of ColdSpring, a framework for CFCs inspired by the J2EE Spring Framework.

Anthony Rumsey

Anthony Rumsey is a Computer Scientist at Adobe where he is currently developing technology that integrates the LiveCycle and Flex product lines. He has been with Adobe since 1998 and previously worked on the Form Server software product including its successful transition to a J2EE component. Anthony has also developed a variety of solutions incorporating standards such as HTML, CSS, XML, SOAP and JMX. He graduated from the University of Ottawa with a BSc. in Computer Engineering.

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Leo Schuman

After working since 1996 as a web developer, as well as Regional Master Instructor, courseware developer, and technical reviewer for Allaire, Macromedia, and Adobe, Leo recently joined the team as a Customer Training Specialist with Adobe Systems. He wrote the Adobe Flash 8: ActionScript 2.0 and Adobe Flex 2: ActionScript 3.0 authorized courseware, and has several thousand hours of classroom technical training experience with Flash, Flex, ColdFusion, and Dreamweaver, along with related tools and technologies. He holds multiple vendor certifications, including Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer, and is a recovering lawyer, "practicing what he preaches" through an ongoing volunteer web development and communications consulting practice in support of select non-profit organizations.

Chis Scott

Chris Scott is the lead developer for Retail Expert, Inc., providing loss prevention and performance management solutions for the retail industry. Chris has been developing internet based applications for over ten years, working with ColdFusion, Java, Flash and most recently Flex, and is a strong proponent of standards based practices and best of breed frameworks. Chris is co-creator of ColdSpring, a framework for ColdFusion Components inspired by the J2EE Spring Framework, creator of ColdSpring's Aspect Oriented Programming Framework, and has been involved with the development of the Model-Glue Framework, which he has enjoyed so much he decided to build a version for Java.

Mark Shepherd

Mark Shepherd is a lead engineer for Flex Builder at Adobe. Over the last 12 years he has done real-time and user interface engineering for Macromedia Director, Shockwave, and Flash. Previously, he created visual user interfaces for high-end video products.

Simon Slooten

Simon Slooten is founder and CEO of Prisma IT (1992), an Adobe Solution & Training Partner, based in Rotterdam , Holland. Since 1997, he has been an Adobe (Macromedia) Certified Master Instructor and an Adobe (Macromedia) Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7, Flash MX and Dreamweaver MX developer. He is co-author of official Adobe training curriculum for ColdFusion MX 7 and Flex 2. Simon has over 22 years of international experience in the computer industry in software design & development, consultancy and training. He started using the internet when he worked for a Digital Equipment (DEC) partner in 1985 and has been using ColdFusion and Flex since the early beta's of version 1.0. Simon is a regular speaker at Adobe/Macromedia/Allaire Developer Conferences (MAX), CF-Europe, Flashtival, and many other international events.

Vera Sparre

Vera Sparre heads product marketing efforts targeting mobile operators worldwide for the Mobile and Devices BU at Adobe, and also functions as the marketing liaison for Nokia.  In this role, Mrs. Sparre also works on marketing campaigns to inform developers and designers about the opportunities around “breakthrough mobile experiences” developed in Flash. Prior to Adobe. Mrs. Sparre held positions at Microsoft where she launched technologies including Windows 95, at AT&T Wireless International to explore licenses in Europe, at Nextel to launch handsets and the Nextel Business Networks in the Western US, at Charles Schwab to launch their Wireless Trading Services in the US and Japan, and finally at Kodak to launch their Mobile Services in the US and Europe. Mrs. Sparre holds an MBA from an exchange program between the Universities of Munich, Germany, and Rome, Italy.

Andrew Spencer

Andrew Spencer joined the T-Mobile team in 2004. He got his professional start in 1994, developing interactive marketing and training content for both business and educational institutions, including Novell and Utah Valley State College.

He then worked with publisher and retailer Deseret Book to replace their aging e-commerce system. The new system increased online revenues from thousands to millions of dollars.

In 2001 he joined PerfectPractice.MD (now AdvancedMD) and developed the first completely web-based practice management application suite—indiscernible from a desktop application. At the time, the technology and interface of the product were revolutionary. The technology is now commonly known as AJAX.

His web consultancy firm then worked to create advanced marketing, e-commerce and training solutions for a variety of large and small businesses, including T-Mobile USA and Curves International.

Now at T-Mobile, he leverages ColdFusion and Flex to deliver tangible business results.

Loni Kao Stark

Loni Kao Stark is a Senior Solutions Architect for Adobe Systems responsible for leading solutions and architecture strategy for the Manufacturing, Telecommunications, Life Sciences, Government, Financial Services and markets. With almost a decade of experience, Ms. Stark has helped Adobe's Global 2000 customers improve business results by automating and streamlining document-based business processes. Ms. Stark holds a bachelor ' s degree in computer science and liberal arts from McMaster University in Canada, and is currently completing a master ' s  degree  of management science and engineering degree at Stanford University. She is a published industry expert and featured speaker at events throughout the world. Most recently she co-authored, "Value Assessment of EPC/RFID in the Specialty Chemical Manufacturing Industry" for EPCglobal US, published June 2006.

Tim Statler

Tim Statler works in Developer Relations for the Mobile and Devices group at Adobe. In that role he makes sure developers have the tools, training, and resources they need to be successful creating great Flash content for mobile devices.

David Straus

David has been involved with business process (workflow) and business rules technologies since the early 90s, and has joined Corticon to lead its global marketing activities.  Throughout his career, David has held progressively senior positions within the enterprise software solutions space in product, business development and marketing. Before joining Corticon, David successfully founded OnDemand Inc., which was later acquired by Chordiant Software. Staying on at Chordiant, David successfully lead activities focused on product strategy, product management, solutions marketing and industry analysts.  David received his B.S. in Business and Operations from Indiana University, and has recently authored articles which have appeared in several highly respected business and technology publications.

Stephanie Sullivan

Stephanie Sullivan is principal of W3Conversions, a web standards redesign company. Her expertise with X/HTML, CSS, accessibility and web standards has made her the lead slicer/dicer/CSS chef for several progressive web companies. She is a highly proficient corporate trainer, speaker, consultant and CSS troubleshooter.

Stephanie is a member of the Dreamweaver Task Force (DWTF) for the Web Standards Project (WaSP) and an Adobe Community Expert. She is on the International Advisory Board for Web Developer's and Designer's Journal (formerly MXDJ) and is a partner at Community MX, a site where web developers of all levels increase their abilities through fresh daily content and author-monitored forums. She is regularly published in a variety of web and print publications including the Adobe Developer's Center.

Though she loves streamlining web sites, making them fast-loading and lean, she loves beach volleyball even more. She tears herself away from the little people in her computer at least three times a week to get sandy.

Prayank Swaroop

Prayank is an engineer with the Coldfusion team at Adobe. He is in charge of charting and image manipulation features of ColdFusion. He loves CF and creating new technologies which can help CF users to become superstars in their organizations. His blog has been a hit with CF users.

Stan Switzer

Stan Switzer has worked on FrameMaker, workgroup collaboration technology leading to Adobe Bridge, online file sharing and collaboration, and most recently was an architect for the LiveCycle enterprise software products. Stan has long been interested in client-server computing, and he was an early adopter of the NeWS windowing system, an innovative graphical client platform--at the time. Apollo and Flex seem like the fulfillment of this vision, and he's excited to be a part of making it happen. Stan is an engineer working on the Apollo platform and among other things is responsible for implementing the file I/O subsystem.

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Jeff Tapper

Jeff Tapper is the Chief Technologist for Tapper.net Consulting. He has been developing Internet based applications since 1995, for a myriad of clients including Harley Davidson, Toys R Us, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, Morgan Stanley, and many others. As an Instructor, he is certified to teach all of Adobe's courses on Flex, ColdFusion and Flash development. He has been working with Flex since the earliest days of Flex 1. Jeff has worked as author and technical editor for several books including "Object Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0", and "Flex 2 Training from the Source". He is a frequent speaker at Conferences and user groups. Jeff formed Tapper.net Consulting to focus on developing Rich Internet Applications and empowering clients through mentoring.

Anatole Tartakovsky

Anatole Tartakovsky is a Managing Principal of Farata Systems. He's responsible for creation of frameworks and reusable components. Anatole authored number of books and articles on AJAX, XML, Internet and client-server technologies. He holds an MS in mathematics. You can reach him at atartakovsky@faratasystems.com.

Jorge Taylor

Jorge Taylor is a Sr. Engineering Manager for Adobe Systems Inc., where he oversees the development of Dreamweaver and the Spry framework. With a deep interest in web technologies and web development practices, Jorge has spent the last ten years of his career building best-of-breed tools for web development. Before joining Adobe, Jorge spent six years at Macromedia helping to shape several releases of Dreamweaver and Dreamweaver UltraDev as an engineering manager. Jorge joined Macromedia through its acquisition of Elemental Software, where he oversaw the development of Drumbeat - one of the industry's first visual tools for web application development. When not immersed in all things web, Jorge pursues his musical muse as guitarist and front man for the indie rock band, Cronkite.

Christopher Thilgen

Christopher Thilgen is the Flash Lite Engineering Manager and has been working on Flash-related products for the last five years. During that time he was responsible for several innovations in the desktop player and the authoring tool including setInterval, the switch statement, SWF compression, the drawing API, the project panel, and XML, String, and Array performance improvements. He joined the Mobile and Devices team two years ago as a lead engineer on the Flash Lite 1.1 MMI and Flash Lite 2.0 products. He then became the Engineering Manager for Flash Lite 2.0, Flash Lite 2.1, and Flash Lite 2.1 for BREW. When he is not hanging around the ol' Flash Barn you may find him exploring San Francisco, visiting his family in Nebraska, or winging back to Texas to spend time with his dog.

Ivan Todorov

BLITZ is an award-winning, full-service interactive agency that creates sophisticated brand experiences through their unique web strategies, marketing campaigns, advergames and rich internet applications. Come to this inspiring session to hear how BLITZ creates immersive experiences that connect audiences with brands such as GE, Microsoft, Epson, Electronic Arts, LucasArts, Warner Bros., and Cranium.

Kevin Towes

Kevin Towes is Prime Consultant, Strategic Projects, Certified Adobe Trainer and Adobe Community Expert for the New Toronto Group. Over his long career in the new media industry, Kevin has played a leadership role in the Macromedia community by sharing his knowledge of the Adobe platform at conferences and user groups, and as an instructor at Ryerson University in Toronto. Kevin has also produced many leading-edge solutions using Flash Media Server, Flex, Flash and ColdFusion with a focus on the film, television, and radio industries. Kevin is the author of numerous articles and books on many Adobe technologies, as well as the official Adobe training material for Flash Media Server MX and Flash Video. At the New Toronto Group, Kevin focuses on helping customers learn, develop, and deploy strategic video and data communication solutions that use the Flash Player.

Howard Treisman

Howard Treisman is the Technical Director of Avoka Technologies, an Adobe Enterprise Partner based in Sydney Australia. Howard started working with the Adobe LiveCycle Workflow product four years ago (prior to its acquisition by Adobe), and the LiveCycle suite of products for two years. Howard has been instrumental in delivering several enterprise-class LiveCycle applications to customers in Australia and internationally. Howard also spear-headed Avoka's development of over 50 QPACs (re-usable workflow components), many of which have been developed in direct response to customer needs. Howard has a deep understanding of many of the published API's of the LiveCycle product suite, as well as many of the internals. He also has an excellent understanding of how to apply LiveCycle technologies to solve real-world problems. Prior to Avoka Technologies, was involved in building enterprise applications for customers using both client-server and web-based environments, as well as building development tools for companies like Gupta, Open Environment, and Borland. He is currently enjoying the challenges of integrating Adobe Flex with LiveCycle.

Nicholas Tunney

Nicholas Tunney is an Adobe Certified ColdFusion developer and Adobe Certified Instructor who has been programming ColdFusion for over 7 years. He is currently Senior Software Architect for AboutWeb, a consulting firm located in Rockville, Maryland. Nic is also a frequent author for the ColdFusion Developer's Journal and wrote and supports objectBreeze - a popular CF ORM API.

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Alex Uhlmann

Alex Uhlmann is a Consultant for Rich Internet Applications at Adobe Consulting EMEA. Previously, Alex was a Software Consultant at iteration::two, a world-leading Rich Internet Application consultancy based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Alex is the author of AnimationPackage, an open source ActionScript library that helps developers to create powerful, maintainable animations and primitive shapes in an efficient and easy way. Alex also contributes to the open-source Cairngorm project, a microarchitecture for RIAs based on J2EE patterns which was innovated by iteration::two over a number of Flash and Flex RIA developments.

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Pierre van Aswegen

Pierre van Aswegen is actively involved Ensemble's (http://www.ensemble.com) work with Adobe's cutting edge technologies. He has more than 20 years of experience practicing and mentoring solid software engineering principles. He has delivered seminars on software development using Ensemble's products at the Borland and Rational conferences. He was also the lead for Ensemble's development of plug-ins for the Rational Unified Process (RUP), and contributed to the development of the tools used for customizing RUP. His current mission is to ensure the architecture, patterns, and practices of Adobe solutions are practical, documented, and communicated.

Sanga Viswanathan

Sanga Viswanathan is the Lead Architect for Adobe's LiveCycle Platform. Sanga has extensive experience in the Enterprise Software space with key focus areas being Business Process Management ,B2B,SOA platforms and WS standards. Prior to joining Adobe, Sanga has worked on architecting, designing and building various application platforms with emphasis on security, identity management, BPM and web services. Sanga is currently immersed in building the next generation of the Enterprise business engagement platform at Adobe.

Jeff Vroom

Jeff Vroom is a Principal Scientist at Adobe in the Flex Data Services team.  Prior to Adobe, he was CTO of Tribal Fusion Inc an online advertising firm and before that he was Chief Architect of ATG Inc, a Java/J2EE ecommerce software vendor. Jeff has over 20 years of software development experience with 9 years of experience programming in Java for server based applications.  For the past 15 years, he has focused on the design of application frameworks to improve the productivity of developers with varied skill sets in writing maintainable applications with minimal compromises in terms of ease of use, performance, and scalability.

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Mark Walter

Mark Walter has more than 20 years of experience working with publishers and service providers to implement digital technologies that improve their productivity and profitability. He is currently Director of Business Development for Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), where he has been leading the company's expansion into custom publishing solutions based on Adobe InDesign Server. Prior to joining MEI, Walter most recently served as a Seybold consultant, analyst and senior editor of The Seybold Report, where he covered a broad spectrum of digital publishing and printing technologies and applications.

Jesse Warden

Jesse Warden is a Flex Consultant, specializing in Flex & Flash Development. He has spoken at many venues including MXDU 2003, 2005, multiple Atlanta Macromedia User Groups, and other venues about various Macromedia products and technologies. Jesse runs a blog at jessewarden.com where he contributes Flash, Flex, & ActionScript techniques, plugins, and sample projects to the community. Jesse enjoys coding, hanging out with designers, watching the History Channel, raving at da clubz, D&D, and playing games (all consoles, all PC genres). Will code for beer.

David Watts

Dave Watts, Vice President, Chief Technical Officer Dave founded Fig Leaf Software with Steve Drucker in 1992. As Chief Technology Officer, Dave Watts drives the technology vision and enhances Fig Leaf's competitive edge by developing the company's best practices, covering server configuration, performance tuning, application development, and application deployment. Recognized as an expert in the ColdFusion community, Dave has been developing browser-based applications with ColdFusion since version 1.5. He coauthored the best-selling ColdFusion book, The ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit, first and second editions with Steve Drucker and Ben Forta. Along with Steve Drucker, Dave co-founded the first ColdFusion Users' Group in Washington, DC. He regularly speaks at industry events, such as Macromedia MAX, and writes articles for various trade publications. As one of the First Macromedia-certified instructors, Dave combines exceptional teaching with course development. He received a perfect score on his ColdFusion MX Certification, and regularly pursues new certifications in other areas of interest.

Steven Webster

Steven Webster is a Practice Leader in the Rich Internet Practice of Adobe Consulting in the EMEA Region. A graduate of Computer Science and Electronics from Edinburgh University, Steven was an ASIC Designer prior to developing desktop software applications for hardware and software co-simulation. Steven then delivered a number of online banking, insurance and commerce applications in the UK, before founding iteration::two with Alistair McLeod. The author of Reality J2EE – Architecting for Flash MX, and co-author of Design Patterns for RIAs and Developing Rich Clients with Macromedia Flex, Steven has rapidly gained recognition as a thought-leader in the RIA community, most notably for the application of best-practices and methodologies from enterprise software development into the emerging discipline of Rich Internet Applications, and his role as project lead in the open-source Cairngorm architecture for Rich Internet Applications.

Stefan Wessels

Stefan Wessels, co-founder and technical architect of emerging media company Breakdesign.com has been working in the creative/technical environment for the past 8 years. Starting in Johannesburg where he was a graphic designer and systems architect. He later moved to Sweden where he worked as designer and programmer for Y&R Stockholm, creating flash campaigns for Ericsson, MTV, Saab, Xerox, Ford and KLM. At the end of 2001 he joined Nokia Sweden to become content designer and manager for their most advanced ITV projects. After returning to South Africa, he joined a leading UK design firm, where he created campaigns and content for the UK music and film industry. Feeling disillusioned with the dynamics between creative agencies and their clients, himself and Rick Treweek, an animator and illustrator, started Breakdesign.com at the end of 2003. Breakdesign.com is now a leader in creating innovative, edgy content and solutions for emerging media, and are working with Nokia, MTV, Disney and other leading brands. Currently Breakdesign.com is creating games and applications for the youth - and early adopter market as well as building mobile community platforms to enable these groups to communicate through emerging technology.

Jason Williams

Jason Williams is a Senior Computer Scientist of Software Engineering at Adobe. He has spent more than 13 years creating client and server frameworks that provide managed data services. Jason joined Macromedia through the acquisition of CyberSage Software, makers of Firefly, a data connection kit for Flash. He was co-founder and CTO at CyberSage Software. After joining Macromedia, Jason was the Senior Architect responsible for the Data Connection Kit, and its subsequent integration into Flash MX Professional 2004. After the release of Flash MX Professional 2004, Jason developed and released the Flash Remoting Components for Flash MX 2004 ActionScript 2.0, worked on Flex Builder 1.0, an advanced IDE for developing rich internet applications using Flash, and now one of the Senior Architects responsible for Flex Data Services, a set of client and server components that provide rich data services for the Flash platform. He has a B.S. in Computer Science and is also a published writer in the ACM SIGCE proceedings for compiler design and neural networks.

James Williamson

James Williamson is the Director of Training for Lodestone Digital and an Adobe Master Certified Instructor with over 12 years of print, web, and digital video experience. James has been a featured speaker at FlashForward, DevCon, and MAX. In addition to his training and speaking, James helped co-author New Rider's Flash MX 2004 Magic, and served as technical editor for PeachPit's Dreamweaver MX 2004 Hands-On-Training. He also serves as an occasional moderator at www.flash8forums.com. He is currently giddy over the birth of his second daughter in August.

Steve Wolkoff

Steve Wolkoff is Product Manager for Flash Media Server solutions at Adobe Systems, Inc. With years of experience at Doubleclick, Steve offers expertise in streaming media technologies, workflows, content delivery systems, and Flash media streaming, particularly in the broadcast and advertising sector.

Matt Woodward

Matt Woodward is Technical Architect and Lead Developer for Realty InfoLinks in Dallas, Texas. Matt is a certified ColdFusion developer, an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion, and is co-host of the ColdFusion Weekly Podcast. He has been working with ColdFusion since 1996 and also develops in Java, Flex, and C#. Matt is the release coordinator and a contributing developer for the Mach-II framework, and is an active author and speaker on best practices for object-oriented development in ColdFusion. Matt is heavily involved in the open source ColdFusion community with projects such as MachBlog and BoardFusion. He holds a Master of Science in Computer Information Systems degree as well as a Bachelor and Master of Music degree in trumpet performance. He is also on the editorial board of the Web Developer's and Designer's Journal. Matt's blog can be found at http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog.

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David Zuckerman

David Zuckerman is a software engineer on the Flex Builder team, in charge of coder features and the editing experience.  In addition to working on the editor, David created an extensibility framework for Flex Builder and has released an editor plugin that uses this framework to show off new Flex Builder features currently in development. Since he doesn't sleep as much as he should, David has been known to spend late nights or weekends adding new features to the product.  When David's not working on Flex Builder, fighting with Eclipse, or blogging about all of those things, he spends his time searching for obscure indie rock at Amoeba Records and taking pictures that he never bothers to post anywhere.