
"Currently based in Dallas, Texas, I am a Platform Evangelist at Adobe focusing on the Flash Platform. I have given presentations on Flash, AIR, and Flex all over the world at user group meetings, conferences, and pretty much anywhere someone is willing to give a listening ear. Outside of my day job I enjoy general aviation, gaming, and most recently wood working (it gets me away from the pixels)."
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative to JSR 286, 299, and 301. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90’s; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90’s; then Java and many of it’s frameworks beginning in the late 90’s. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front-ends for Java based back-ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.
Mudd Brick is a Premiere Adobe Training partner focused on software design, development and training of internet applications. At Mudd Brick we bring experience to every aspect of what we do. For the past 12 years, we have partnered with Adobe to provide solutions from ColdFusion applications to Rich Internet Applications using Flex and Flash software.
Jonathan Campos has been specifically building web applications since 2000 using a variety of tools and languages for many different clients. The technologies include: PHP, MYSQL, POSTGRES, Flash, Flex, AIR, Actionscript, Javascript, and Ruby. Jonathan is currently a Principal Architect at Miller and Associates in Dallas Texas and Co-Owner of UnitedMindset with friend Dimi Arhontidis. Jonathan leads various development teams and advises for multiple companies around the world along with being an active trainer in Flex development.
Matt Bugbee is an Interactive Developer currently doing Flex based Multitouch Research & Development at Miller and Associates in Dallas, Tx.
Mike has spent over a decade building web applications, the servers that run web applications, as well as providing consulting and mentoring help for development teams around the world. Currently Mike Nimer is the Director of Engineering and Architect of the nomee.com application. Before joining nomee, Mike was a founding partner of Digital Primates IT Consulting Group; providing mentoring and development support on the Adobe RIA and ColdFusion platforms. Prior to founding Digital Primates, Mike was a member of the Adobe ColdFusion engineering team where he was involved with a number of key features including PDF generation and the integration of Flex 2 with the ColdFusion Server.
Flash and Flex developer with over 10 years of experience, has done development on a wide range of projects including large scale websites, AIR applications and games. He has been in the interactive advertising field since 2003, authored a book on the subject in 2007 and is currently in the process of writing the 2nd edition.
Christopher Long has been a multimedia developer for over 10 years. He loves music and video and has worked with both of them extensively throughout his career. Using the Flash Platform, Christopher has developed microsites, rich media ads, and web based applications for a multitude of clients including some of the largest brands in the United States. In 2008 he founded Ovrflo Media, Inc., a web production house.
Dimi is a designer specializing in front-end UI design for web, and web apps.
Dimi has been designing for about 14 years now, started his design career in print and corporate branding, and moved to web and application design.
Carter Bradford has been working as an IT Consultant for the past 10 years with an emphasis on IT strategy and large-scale systems integration. Much of this time was spent working on international assignments including projects in Finland, Brazil and Japan. Prior to this, he was a research engineer working on various projects for the Department of Defense. Carter has been working with Flex since the 1.0 days and has a keen interest in the web and browser as a platform for enterprise applications.
Joel Hooks is a Flash Platform developer with experience in Actionscript 3, Flex, and Python. Joel spent the first 13 years of his professional career as a 3d animator and graphic designer working on computer based training applications from that perspective. His interest in programming goes as far back as "TELL TURTLE" and he has always been interested in the technological challenges related to developing software making work a little bit easier. With the introduction of Actionscript 3, Joel finally found a platform that allows him to architect useful tools while fully leveraging his experience as a visual artist. Joel is passionate about technology and enjoys exploring the landscape of frameworks, libraries, and tools that make his work constantly fun and challenging.
of Miller and Associates

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Welcome to a new month and some new sugar induced headaches. I hope that Halloween and October ended with a blast as we are quickly marching towards Turkey Day!
This month is another exciting month in the life of D-Flex!
Presenting at D-Flex this month we have Dave Shuck talking about Test Driven Development in FlashBuilder 4!
Everyone,
This week is D-Flex! Come join the largest Flex community in the
nation and see what is currently going on.
Why is this month special? Because this month was MAX, Adobe's annual
worldwide conference displaying the newest technology coming out over
the next horizon. This month different community members that attended
will be showing off some of the coolest things that they learned this
last week. We meeting from 7pm-9pm with a happy hour following. We
also have training starting at 6pm.
Please make sure to RSVP at: http://d-flex.org or
http://groups.adobe.com/groups/7fc5b9c696/summary
We made a big change to the Adobe Groups homepage today. Now, when you log in, you'll see a list of all groups that you have joined right there on the page.
No more bookmarking groups or having to go to your profile page to see the full list!