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Flash and the City Camp


Event posted 05/11/11 by Stacey Cook
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Title
Flash and the City Camp

Date and Time
June 9, 2011 to June 12, 2011 (GMT-8 Pacific Time US & Canada)

Address
Helen Mills Event Space and Theater Event Space and Theater Entrance: 137-139 West 26 Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) New York, NY 10001
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Speakers

Speakers

Flash and the City is designed to bring professionals together to talk about the web's latest technologies including but not limited to Flash, Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, mobile, UX/UI, HTML5, and JavaScript. We aim to combine these with through a series of well developed sessions.

To achieve this, we assembled approximately 40 of the most exciting speakers from around the world. They are leaders in their respective fields and well known in our community. Never before has such a collection of talented individuals, who have literally shaped the Flash, Flex, ColdFusion, Mobile, HTML5, JS, and UI/UX design industries, been assembled under one roof.


Adam Lehman

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Adam Lehman is the Product Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe Systems based out of Washington, DC. Prior to joining Adobe, Adam developed enterprise applications for the US Department of State and Johns Hopkins University. Adam has spoken at over 100 events on topics ranging from web development to application security. You can find Adam blogging at http://www.adrocknaphobia.com or follow him on twitter at http://www.twitter.com/adrocknaphobia.


Bartek Drozdz

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Bartek Drozdz is a freelance developer with 10 years of experience in Flash design and programming. He worked for several large and small interactive agencies, including Leo Burnett and Fantasy Interactive (F-I). He run a blog called Everyday Flash (http://www.everydayflash.com) where he publishes demos and experiments mainly in the area of Flash 3D. He is originary from Warsaw, Poland, and since a couple of years lives in Stockholm.


Chris Allen

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Chris Allen, Red5 project leader and Infrared5 CEO, will showcase some of the latest innovations his company is working on, and how they kept busy in a down economy. Chris will cover working with Flash, Flex and Red5, as well as other emerging platforms like the iPhone and Unity 3D. He will demonstrate how to use and combine these technologies to create next generation user experiences. Topics ranging from game development to building RIAs will be covered. Chris also hopes to show ActionScript programmers that learning new languages like Java, Objective C, C# or C isn”t as daunting as it might seem, and while sounding scary, developing with libraries like openCV is not rocket science. With extensive experience developing for the Flash platform and Java, Chris Allen is a leader in the Open Source Flash community. Over the last 10 years he has been a software architect and developer for various companies including Cambridge Technology Partners, Mass General Hospital and Scholastic. Chris is currently president and CEO of Infrared5, a consulting firm built around services for Red5 server, iPhone, Unity 3D and the Flash platform. He is also co-project manager and a Java developer for the Open Source Red5 project.


James Pearce

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James is a technologist, writer, developer & practitioner who has been working with the mobile web for over a decade. He is Senior Director of Developer Relations at Sencha. Previously he was the CTO at dotMobi and has a background in mobile startups, telecoms infrastructure and management consultancy. He speaks extensively on the topic of mobile web development, and has written books for both Wiley and Wrox.
James led the development of mobiForge, DeviceAtlas and ready.mobi, and is the creator of tinySrc, the WordPress Mobile Pack, and WhitherApps. He has declared every year since 1997 to be "The Year of the Mobile Web" - and is excited to think he might finally be right.


Chuck Freedman

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Chuck Freedman is the chief platform evangelist at litl, creating an ecosystem for Flash content as channels across litl devices throughout the digital home. Managing his 3rd Flash based platform, Chuck has also launched Flash/Flex SDKs for Yahoo! Maps and Ribbit. A graduate of Boston University’s College of Communication, Chuck loves engaging developers and has spoken at several conferences on Flash platform technologies. He has also launched modules for the homepages of eBay, eBay China, and Fidelity. His work reflects precision while remaining ambitious to push the envelope whenever possible. Follow Chuck at @chuckstar or on his blog: chuckstar.com/blog/.


Doug Winnie

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Doug Winnie is a principal product manager at Adobe focusing in interactive design for HTML5 and the Flash Platform. Doug has worked in the web and interactive industry for over ten years focusing on front-end web design and development. During his time at Adobe, Doug has led numerous teams to make web and interactive design workflows more efficient and powerful leading the Flash Catalyst, Fireworks, and Dreamweaver teams. In addition to his product management work, Doug is also the host of the popular “ActionScript 1:1 with Doug Winnie” series on Adobe TV. Now with over 50 episodes, Doug has taught thousands of people how to learn ActionScript and unlock the power of the Flash Platform for designers around the world. Doug is also an instructor at San Francisco State University where he teaches ActionScript and web design. Doug is also the co-author of “Adobe Flash Platform from Start to Finish” where he and his co-authors outline a complete workflow from ideation to publish for projects created with Adobe Creative Suite 5 and tools of the Flash Platform.


Duane Nickull

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Duane Nickull works as a senior technical evangelist for Adobe Systems, Inc. The main focus of his professional career has been to work for both the United Nations CEFACT committee and OASIS for the purposes of writing and building new architectures for global integration of multiple systems. Since 1996, he has worked on multiple enterprise architectures including many service oriented architectures (SOA) within various standards bodies including W3C, UN/CEFACT, OASIS and others. He has also contributed to many SOA papers and articles on service oriented architecture. His focus has shifted towards many web service standards in recent years. He has worked on many other interesting technologies including the first contextual XML Search Engine, an Alternative fuel hydrogen project and the new UN/CEFACT eBusiness Architecture and related technologies. Visit his site


Elad Elrom

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Elad Elrom is a technical writer, technical lead, and senior Flash engineer. As a technical writer, Elad wrote books covering Flash technologies. He maintains an active blog and has spoken at several conferences regarding the Flash platform. He has helped companies follow the XP and Scrum methodologies to implement popular frameworks, optimize and automate built processors and code review, and follow best practices. Elad has consulted a variety of clients in different fields and sizes, from large corporations such as Viacom, NBC Universal, and Weight Watchers to startups such as MotionBox.com and KickApps.com.


Keith Peters

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Keith Peters began playing with Flash in 1999. After a couple of years making really horrible Flash web sites and huge intros, he discovered ActionScript, and has not looked back. Keith's award winning personal experimental web site, www.bit-101.com features over 500 cutting edge flash experiments, with source available. It also has a series of tutorials on ActionScript which have been downloaded countless times and translated into many languages. Keith has contributed to eight books on Flash and written several magazine articles on various Flash subjects. Keith lives near Boston, MA in the USA, and is the Engineering Guru at Infrared5 (www.infrared5.com).


Peter Elst

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Peter Elst is a Belgian freelance Flash Platform Consultant, Adobe Community Professional, and Founding Partner of Project Cocoon – a collective of designers and developers based in South India. As an author to several books on Flash Platform technology, including the popular ”Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0” at Friends of Ed. He has been invited to speak at various international conferences and has had his work published in leading journals.


Jose Antonio Marquez Russo

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Jose Antonio Marquez Russo is a Senior Software Engineer at Motorola Mobility in Sunnyvale, California. As one of the organizers, he spends most of the year planning and helping Elad Elrom put together this fun and informative event. Jose is a very active member of the web development community, and has recently decided to focus on mobile web technologies. He recently relocated to the San Francisco Bay area while joining Motorola Mobility, and is very excited about the new location.
Previously, Jose has worked for many advertising agencies in NYC and focused on consumer apps and sites for both desktop and mobile. Leaving New York for California was a hard decision for him to make, but it is a challenge he is currently enjoying.
Connect with Jose: LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | jose at fatc.co


Brian Connatser

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Brian Connatser is a Channel Developer for litl. With over 14 years in the design and development field, Brian has lived through the common phases of a developer’s career. Starting as a 3D animator, web and multimedia designer for a start up that created work for many Fortune 500 clients. From the start up he moved on to do nearly 3 years hard time in Management before returning back to the production world that he missed so much. Today as an AS3 Developer, he creates channels for litl, specializing in AS3, Flash, Flex, build automation and source control. He is constantly learning and researching for new and better techniques to develop quality applications, automation and improving efficiency. He can be found on Twitter and Forrst as @connatser, or blogging at www.numbknuckle.com. Here he stays active in the Flash Community, attending conferences such as Flash and the City, RIAUnleashed, 360Flex and MAX. Also he enjoys helping with Flash Community Cares as part of the team that promotes giving back through the auction of Adobe Flash related items. Outside of the world of RIA he enjoys spending quality time with his wife, 2 young sons, and his Chocolate Lab and Blue Great Dane. While living in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, he enjoys mountain biking, wake boarding and keeping the top off of his Jeep.


Phillip Kerman

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Phillip Kerman is a software programmer, teacher, and writer. He fancies himself a comedian though this claim has been widely disputed. His long and tiresome career as self-appointed expert using Macromedia/Adobe tools (including Authorware, Director, and finally Flash) has been marked with a not-coincidental demise of whatever technology Phillip has exploited. In recent years, he's had a series of seeming break-downs first spending 1 year to produce over 100 anti-technolgy satire videos (including the cult-classic Why Adobe Updater) and then turning to street performing his Vaudeville inspired act Handbills Delivered for which he has been physically removed from only two venues despite requests to leave and never return to over 6 cities at which he was uninvited to perform during 2010 and 2011. To this day the public continues to debate exactly which of Mr. Kerman's skills most contributed to his global stardum.


Justin Mclean

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I have more than 15 years experience in developing web based applications and have worked on hundreds of web applications, database driven web sites, multimedia applications and semiconnected desktop applications. I run my own consulting company (Class Software) and have a long history with Adobe/Macromedia/Allaire. I’ve been using Flex and ColdFuson professionally since version 1.5 of both. I’m a certified Adobe trainer for ColdFusion and Flex, run regular training courses and an Adobe Community Professional for Flex. Over the last couple of years I’ve spoken at: WebDU (Sydney Australia), Flash Platform Code Camp Wellington (Wellington New Zealand), cf.Objective(ANZ) (Melbourne Australia), Edge of the Web (Perth Australia) and 360 MAX (Los Angeles USA), Arduino mini conference (Wellington New Zealand) part of the LAC2010, the Web Standards Group, 360 Flex (San Jose USA), cf.Objective() (Minneapolis USA) and Webinale (Berlin Germany). Probably a few I’m missed. I’l also attended Adobe MAX (Los Angeles USA), O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 Summit (San Fransisco USA). WebDU, Flash and the City and 360 Flex (Washington DC USA).


David Isbitski

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David Isbitski is a Sr. Developer Evangelist with Microsoft covering Windows 7, Silverlight and Phone. He enjoys talking about technology and has taught full-day courses on numerous Microsoft topics as well as being a presenter at VSLive!, XAMLFest, CodeCamps and other community events. Dave can be found on Twitter at @theDaveDev and his blog http://CoolStuffWith.Net.


Michaël Chaize

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I’m Michaël Chaize, Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist based in Paris. You can follow my Flash experiments on my blog: www.riagora.com I work with large accounts that need to understand the benefits of rich user interfaces, leverage the existing back-ends to add a rich presentation layer and measure the impact on the existing IT teams. I believe that intuitive user experiences in the Enterprise are key to successful developments of effective, efficient, engaging, easy to learn and error free applications. I like to promote concepts such as “Productivity by design” or “User Experience oriented architectures”. In my previous role, I worked as a Technical Sales in France and assumed the promotion of the Flash Platform in front of large audiences of developers and IT managers. Before joining Adobe, I founded a software company and taught RIA languages such as Flex and PHP in IT engineering schools.


Ben Stucki

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Ben Stucki is Chief Architect at Digital Analog LLC, where he creates some generally kick-ass web applications. His ability to fuse powerful server-side technologies with advanced client-side rendering have made him a critical asset to projects such as Universal Mind’s SpatialKey and B-Line Medical’s SimCapture, and his contributions to open-source projects such as Degrafa, FlexLib and Reflex have earned him recognition as an industry leader. Today, Ben continues to explore the boundaries of what’s possible online at benstucki.net.


Dee Sadler

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Dee Sadler is an Adobe geek girl and designer who codes. She is an Adobe Certified Instructor and CTT+ Technical Trainer, an Adobe User Group Manager and Adobe Community Professional for the Creative Suite. She is a frequent speaker at conferences including Adobe MAX in 2010, CFUnited, St. Louis Flash Camp, FATC, NCDevCon and many more, as well as conference organizer for D2W, a designer/developer/mobile workflow conference in Kansas City, MO. (July 14-16 of this year) Her favorite topics to speak on are CSS, Flash Catalyst, Fireworks and anything workflow related within the Creative Suite. Dee also did a few videos for Total Training on Dreamweaver CS5 and Fireworks CS5 (http://www.totaltraining.com/bios/deesadler.asp). She also has a workflow podcast on iTunes called D2WPodcast and just had an article in the Adobe Edge newsletter come out. Design 101 for Developers (http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge/january2011/articles/article6/index.html). Blog at macwebdiva.wordpress.com.


Paul Trani

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Paul Trani is a passionate 15-year veteran of the interactive design and development scene. As an Adobe Flash Platform Evangelist, Paul has earned a reputation as a dynamic and respected speaker. He has years of experience as a driving force for award-winning agencies, and he draws on that experience as a presenter, Adobe Certified Instructor, courseware developer, and Lynda.com trainer. Prior to joining Adobe, Paul led a team of interactive designers and developers at Starz Entertainment producing multi-million dollar web and mobile campaigns. Paul also maintains a blog at www.designupdate.com and can be followed on twitter @paultrani.


Demian Borba

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With more than 11 years in technology, interactive media, design, business and training, Demian is one of the 90 Adobe Community Champions (ACCs) and also a professor at UC San Diego. He is the CEO of Action Creations, an award-winning agency based in San Diego, with clients including General Electric, Adobe, Callaway Golf and ASP (Association of Surfing Professionals). Flash Camp Brazil organizer, Jornada Adobe organizer and manager of one of the most active Adobe user groups in Brazil: Jornada Adobe Brasil. Surfer, extreme sports admirer and always looking for new talents in interactive design and development to work in his agency.


Yakov Fain

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Yakov Fain works for Farata Systems, a company that provides consulting services in the field of development of enterprise RIA. He authored several technical books on Java and Flex. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Mr. Fain with the title of Java Champion, which was presented to only 150 people in the world. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group and NJ Flex UG. Yakov is Adobe Certified Flex Instructor.


Paul Taylor

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Paul Taylor works for Lab49 as a software engineer in New York City. Paul is an avid student of software craftsmanship, but often has trouble getting his thoughts down on paper. Paul writes a software-related blog at guyinthechair.com, an open source text layout framework for Flash called tinytlf, and dabbles in component framework theory and mobile development.


Brian Rinaldi

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Brian Rinaldi is as a community manager for the Adobe Learning Resources team, where he oversees community strategy for Flash Platform Community Help. In his role, Brian brings together active Adobe product users, Adobe product team members, authors, and experts to provide users the most useful, relevant, and up-to-date information about Adobe products. Brian blogs regularly at http://remotesynthesis.com and is a unreformed twitter addict @remotesynth.


Shashank Tiwari

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I am a technology entrepreneur, developer and author. I like to solve challenging computing problems, especially those that drive innovation. Being a polyglot programmer, I like to program in many languages, including Java, Ruby, Python, C++, C, ActionScript, JavaScript, Objective-C, Scala, PHP, Groovy and Perl. I must admit that I like to learn programming languages and if there is a new interesting one coming, I wouldn’t be far behind getting to grips with it. Over the last many years I have built some cutting edge enterprise and consumer software applications, many of which have leveraged large data sets and the web based programming paradigms. This means I also know a lot about data bases and persistence. I am very conversant with relational databases, embedded databases, object databases, text based data and XML. Having leveraged web based programming paradigms, I have first hand experience with a lot of web development frameworks, including but not limited to Adobe Flex/AIR, Spring MVC, Rails, Grails and Django. Not to forget, I obviously have worked a lot with HTML, JS and CSS. My experience and interest are varied and diverse and range a wide spectrum of application development realms that include the server, the client and the middleware. Of late the mobile and touch platforms, especially Android and PhoneGap have got me excited quite a bit.


Lisa Larson-Kelley

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Lisa Larson-Kelley began her career in print design, but was soon lured to digital media by a little application called Flash 4. In addition to hands-on development projects, she enjoys writing and teaching, with a knack for breaking down complex concepts and making them accessible. She has authored whitepapers, tutorials and e-seminars for Adobe, editorials and features for StreamingMedia.com; and co-authored the book Flash Video for Professionals, published by Wiley in 2007. Lisa has also presented at numerous industry conferences and user groups around the world, and is former co-manager of the FlashCodersNY study group. She has worked with many video-centric start-ups as well as companies like Adobe, Microsoft and L’Oreal. Lisa is currently consulting, teaching, and writing a second book, The Flash Video Guidebook. She shares news and musings about Flash video, web development and life in the big city on her blogs: www.flashconnections.com and www.LearnFromLisa.com.


Jeff Tapper

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Jeff Tapper is a senior consultant at Digital Primates, who has over a decade of experience developing Internet applications for a myriad of clients, including Major League Baseball, CBS, Toys “R” Us, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, and Morgan Stanley. As an instructor, he is certified to teach all of Adobe’s courses on Flex, ColdFusion, Flash and AIR development. He has been working with Flex since the earliest alphas of Flex 1.0. Jeff has authored several books, including Adobe Flex: Training from the Source series and Breaking Out of the Browser with Adobe AIR.


David Hassoun

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David Hassoun is the founder of RealEyes, a digital media firm based in Colorado that focuses on interactive motion media and advanced rich internet for the web, desktop and mobile devices utilizing primarily the Adobe Flash Platform. He has always had a passion for motion media, the power of video, and the challenges of usability and interactivity. He is an Adobe Certified Master Instructor, Adobe Community Champion, a member of the Flash Media Server Technologies Community Advisory Board for Adobe, teaches advanced RIA classes at the University of Denver, serves as the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group Manager and the Flash Media Server User Group Manager, and has taught and developed advanced Flash and Flex application courses. He is a recognized industry leader when it comes to Flash and video and has spoken at many national and international events, and has been published many times on Adobe’s Devnet website on a large range of video related topics and new technologies as they are being released.


Jun Heider

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Jun Heider is an Adobe Flex/AIR ACE and has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 2005. Jun works as Sr. Architect and Development Manager with RealEyes Media, an Adobe partner company based in Denver, Colorado. Jun also co-teaches Adobe Flex development at the University of Denver, University College. Jun loves to write and speak at conferences: 360|Flex, Adobe MAX, eLearningDevcon, CFUnited, Adobe Devnet, O’Reilly Inside RIA, and co-author of Professional Adobe Flex 3 by Wrox. In his spare time, Jun is also the lead guitarist, vocalist, and one of the programmer/technologists for the tech funk band the Compilers.


Kevin Suttle

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Kevin Suttle is a Channel Developer for the family-computing company, litl, as well as a designer, author and presenter. With strong roots in user interface, interaction, and experience design, Kevin approaches usability from a holistic, ’big-picture’ perspective. Ranging anywhere from information architecture, to performance optimization, to hand-crafting UIs for mobile and TV, Kevin’s deep fascination with the way people communicate with technology is what drives him to make things ”the way they should be.” In the past few years, Kevin has been a part of developing engaging content and contextual applications for brands like Pepsi, Honda, Procter & Gamble, and several major medical and higher-learning communities. An accomplished author, Kevin served as a Technical Reviewer for the Flex 4 Cookbook, was a reviewer for Learning ActionScript 3.0 (2nd ed), was a featured author for O’Reilly Media’s InsideRIA, and a contributor to UX Magazine. Kevin is an Adobe Community Professional, and speaks at a number of the top conferences in the industry including Flash and the City, FITC, and 360Flex. He’s received numerous accolades, including being listed among the ”Top Presentations of the Day” and having the ”Most discussed presentation on Twitter” by Slideshare. Follow Kevin on Twitter (@kevinSuttle), on Quora, and KevinSuttle.com for more.


Lee Brimelow

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Lee Brimelow is a developer evangelist at Adobe who is currently focusing on Flash gaming. He has worked in the past for companies like AOL, Netscape, frog design, and eBay. Lee runs the highly popular video tutorial site at http://www.gotoandlearn.com and writes a blog dedicated to Flash at the http://www.theflashblog.com. Catch him on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/leebrimelow.


Robert Reinhardt

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Robert Reinhardt, VP of [the MAKERS], is internationally regarded as an expert on multimedia application development and online video, particularly in Adobe Flash and AVC/H.264. Robert has served as an online video expert for award-winning sites such as abc.com's first Full Episode Streaming site and Nike SB's skateboarding documentary, Debacle. Selling over 200,000 copies worldwide in over 13 languages, Robert's books include the first seven editions of the Flash Bible (Wiley), as well as Video with Adobe Flash CS4 Professional Studio Techniques (Adobe Press). As an Adobe Certified Instructor and an Adobe Community Professional, he has also developed multimedia training for higher education and Fortune 100 companies. Robert's latest project, videoRx.com, enables high quality video encoding for optimized online deployment. http://www.videoRx.com Robert Reinhardt The difference knowledge + experience makes | Consultant @ [theMAKERS] { work: http://www.theMakers.com } { books: http://www.flashsupport.com } { blog: http://blogs.flashsupport.com/robert } { training: http://www.designprovideo.com }


Joel Hooks

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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. Joel currently resides in Fort Worth and works as a Flex consultant for Universal Mind providing clients with oodles of clean code and a focus on test driven development solutions. Joel can be found blogging on various Flex development topics at http://joelhooks.com Outside of developing software tools Joel owns a photography studio http://visualempathy.com with his wife who also collaborates on the raising and nurturing of his four children aged 13 to 4.


Rob Bateman

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Rob Bateman is an internationally renowned web developer and community leader who specializes in content for the Flash Platform, and has always held a particular fascination with 3D on the web. In 2007 he co-founded the Away3D engine with Alexander Zadorozhny, and has been leading development for the last three years. He lives and works in London UK where his production and consultancy company Away Media provides expert services in the field of browser based 3D content. He is also the co-author of the recent Away3D handbook: The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash, published by Friends of Ed.


Ryan Stewart

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Ryan Stewart is a Developer Evangelist for Adobe Systems. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics he started on the Flash Platform by building eLearning rich Internet applications in Flex 1.5 and ColdFusion 7 for the Wharton School of Business. He is a long time blogger and had a prominent blog on ZDNet where he covered all sides of rich Internet applications. He has spoken at a number of industry conferences including Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe MAX, 360|Flex, SXSW, PHP Tek, and Web Design World. When not working with the latest Adobe technology you can find him in Seattle where he enjoys making beer, mountaineering, and spending as much time as possible in the outdoors. You can email him at ryan@adobe.com or find his blog at http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com


Garth Braithwaite

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Garth Braithwaite is Senior Experience Designer at Adobe working on Flex and Flash Catalyst. Additionally Garth hosts RIA Radio; co-authored The Flex 4 Cookbook; recorded the Flex 4 Breakdowns; speaks at conferences like Flash and the City, 360|Flex, and MAX; and teaches.


Leonard Souza

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Leonard Souza loves instigating epic battles between the left and right hemispheres of his brain. Upon studying both Computer Science and Fine Art, he has worked hard at mashing the two disciplines into fun and exciting solutions to complicated problems. Today, he happily works for EffectiveUI as a Lead Experience Architect, where he is given many opportunities to play with art and technology. Over the years, Leonard has been fortunate enough to work with several outstanding companies such as Panasonic, DirectTV, Intel, MGM and Boeing, as well as many startups. Leonard lives in Las Vegas, Nevada with his wife and two young boys.


RJ Owen

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RJ Owen is a Senior Software Architect at EffectiveUI specializing in user interface development. Coming from a highly diverse technological background, RJ has worked in application technologies like C++ and Java, as well as web technologies like HTML5 and Flex. In the past five years RJ has spoken about development best practices 8 times around the US and trained clients in how to teach developers design in between doing real coding. RJ holds an MBA, a bachelors in Physics and Computer Science and lives in Denver with his family.


Alan Klement

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1994, the year Netscape Navigator was released, is the year Alan began experimenting with languages deployed on the web. At the time, he was in grade school hacking around with C++ but the language did not excite him as much was what could be done with HTML, Javascript and later Flash.
Based in New York City, he joined Powerflasher's FDT team in 2010 and works with its developers to create FDT and evangelists around the world to educate and train users.


Todd Anderson

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Todd Anderson is a Senior Software Engineer at Infrared5. With over 9 years of architecting and developing client-side applications, he has delivered web, mobile and desktop solutions with numerous companies in the enternainment and gaming indistries including Adobe, THQ, Condé Nast Publications and Motorola. A strong believer in giving back to the wonderful Flash Platform community that nurtured him away from a solid 8 hours-a-night sleep, Todd often releases code on http://github.com/bustardcelly and is the co-author of the Flex 3 and Flex 4 Cookbooks (O'Reilly) and AIR Create-Modify-Reuse (Wiley Wrox). He also writes about web and mobile technologies at http://custardbelly.com/blog and rambles about nothing on http://twitter.com/bustardcelly.
When not in front of a computer, Todd can be found hugging his wife, reading Eric Carle books to his son and taking things out of his dog's mouth - not necessarily in that order and (mostly) unrelated to each other.

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