Simeon Bateman

Simeon Bateman is a Portland area web application developer specializing in the Adobe Flash Platform. He is an Adobe Community Expert and an Adobe Certified Trainer for Flex and AIR. Simeon is also the Principle Instigator for PNW Rain LLC an RIA consulting and mentoring company.

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Chris Phillips - http://cfchris.com

Roy Martin - http://www.emergeinteractive.com/

Pizza Provided by Doug Reynolds - http://douglasreynoldsconsulting.com

Pete Mackie

Pete has been a software developer and publisher, first founding his own company, Seaquest Software, some thirty years ago, which is still going strong. His recent development efforts were as a volunteer code committer for the Eclipse IDE and working on PHP-based web sites for small start-up companies. Pete stumbled upon Adobe’s booth while attending EclipseCon 2006. Wondering what Adobe was doing at an open source centric conference, he stopped at the booth and discovered Flex Builder running on the Eclipse IDE. Pete instantly I recognized what Flex could do for RIA client/server applications. Rushing home, he installed the Flex Builder 2 beta and has been hooked on Flex software development ever since.

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.

Mark Piller is the founder and Chief Architect of Midnight Coders, an innovative and forward-thinking company specializing in products for RIA development, testing, integration and analytics. Mark has over 15 years of software development experience. For the past six years he has been specializing in building software infrastructure products designed to integrate Flex, Flash, and AJAX applications with a variety of backend systems, including .NET, Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. Mark is very passionate about ease-of-use of software and prides himself in creating technologies that clearly demonstrate that quality.

Past presenting experience:


Adobe MAX 2007
Adobe AIR Bus Tour
WebManiacs 2007
Dallas Flex User group
Denver Flex User group
Silicon Valley Flex User group
Seattle Flex User Group
New York Flex User Group
Dallas TechFlex 2008

Simeon Bateman is a Portland local who specializes in consulting and training around the Adobe Flash Platform and Adobe AIR platform.