Speakers

Sunday

Flex 101 – Intro to Flex
	Garth Braithwaite is an Flex Engineer at Rain who specializes in Interaction Design in HTML/CSS/JS and on the Flash Platform. Additionally Garth hosts RIA Radio, a weekly podcast for O’Reilly and InsideRIA; speaks at conferences like 360\|Flex, MAX, and Flash and the City; and teaches. Garth is an Adobe Community Professional (ACP), an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) for Flex 3 an AIR, and an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) for: Flex, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Acrobat.

I didn’t know Flex could do that OR A practical guide to connecting hardware to Flex.
	Justin Mclean has more than 15 years experience in developing web based applications and over that time has worked on hundreds of web applications, database driven web sites, multimedia applications and semiconnected desktop applications. Justin has managed his own consulting company Class Software for more than 10 years and has a long history with Adobe/Macromedia/Allaire products. Justin is a certified Adobe trainer for ColdFusion and Flex and runs regular training courses. Over the last year he’s spoken at many conferences both in his homeland of Australia and overseas.

Beginner Workshop with the Mate Framework
	Sid Maestre has been involved in web development for over a decade. In the early days I worked with Flash 1 through 4 before focusing on ColdFusion development in 2000. My current position is web developer for Santa Clara University and I do consulting through my company design over matter. I’ve expanded into Flex and AIR development over the past two years. In my distant past I got a teaching credential, so guess this workshop brings me full circle since diving into the tech industry. My involvement in the Adobe community includes managing the Bay Area ColdFusion User Group, speaking for the online ColdFusion meetup and organizing the first ColdFusion DevCamp in November 2009.

Hands-on Development with the Robotlegs AS3 Framework
	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 that makes people’s 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. Outside of developing software tools Joel owns a photography studio named Visual Empathy [http://visualempathy.com] with his wife who also collaborates on the raising and nurturing of his four children aged 11 through 2.

Keynoters

Deepa Subramaniam is a Product Manager on the Flex team primarily focusing on the Flex SDK. Before joining the Flex Product Management team, she was a lead Computer Scientist on the Flex 1-4 releases and has been working on Flex since its inception in 2003. She is the author of the Adobe Flex 3 for Dummies book and has a degree in Computer Science from UC Berkeley. You can learn more about her and Flex at her website:http://www.iamdeepa.com/blog

Speakers



	Zohar Babin is passionate about people, ideas, technology and video. You will always find him ready to chat about a cool idea or implement a creative solution. Zohar currently leads Community Development at Kaltura, provider of the first and only Open Source Online Video Platform. Before his current position, Zohar led Flash development at Kaltura, where he also created the first open source full featured online video editor written in Flex.Zohar is a community technology activist and a developer with more than 10 years of experience in programming, web, 3D and video production.Among his interests are collaboration solutions, open source, linked-data, digital art and the future of the web. Zohar is also a fellow manager of flashoo.co.il, the Israeli Flash Platform user group, organizer of meetups for the Israeli web developers community and frequently speaks at Flash and web events worldwide. This is Zohar’s second time at 360\|Flex (last was Italy), and he loves it!

	Bryce Barrand is a project manager at Rain Interactive (mediarain.com) where he is also a senior Flex developer. He has managed many enterprise level, large-scale projects (1000+ man hours) for companies such as HP, Myfamily.com, and Alfred publishing. He has a bachelors degree in film from BYU and an MBA from Neumont University. He enjoys taking an active part in the Flex community by contributing to open source projects. Previous experiences include presenting at 360 Flex and teaching classes at BYU.

	Simeon Bateman is the owner and Principle Instigator for PNW Rain LLC, an RIA application development and consulting company in Portland, Oregon. Simeon has a long history in the Adobe community, contributing and administrating some of the most popular open source frameworks. Simeon has been teaching Flex since version 1.5. He specializes in helping teams be successful building RIA’s and works for the opportunity to help developers have those “Ah-Ha!” moments.

	Nate Beck is a flasher / flexer from Seattle, WA. Nate has been playing around and working with Flash since 2001, and has been programming Flex since version 1.5 (2004). Nate has worked for a variety of companies including Boeing and T-Mobile USA. Nate also is the founder of BugQuash, an event the brings developers together to fix bugs in the Flex SDK, providing a more stable platform for everyone. Until making the leap out on his own, Nate worked as the Senior Adobe Developer for T-mobile’s research and innovation team. His job was to quickly prototype time and money saving solutions for the company. Nate was also the lead Flash developer for Snapvine.com and has an extensive background in widget and social network development. Nate’s widgets are loaded millions of times each day. In his free-time, Nate is a hobbyist game developer and an active contributor to the PushButton Engine open source game engine. Nate also is an avid gamer, His Xbox Live gamer tag is Knaughty. So if you play Halo or Tiger Woods Golf ‘09, hit him up. Oh, and if you see that gamer tag playing Viva Pinata… that’s his wife (or so he says).

	Garth Braithwaite is an Flex Engineer at Rain who specializes in Interaction Design in HTML/CSS/JS and on the Flash Platform. Additionally Garth hosts RIA Radio, a weekly podcast for O’Reilly and InsideRIA; speaks at conferences like 360\|Flex, MAX, and Flash and the City; and teaches. Garth is an Adobe Community Professional (ACP), an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) for Flex 3 an AIR, and an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) for: Flex, Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash, and Acrobat.

	Chase Brammer: A twenty something senior developer at Rain Interactive. Also attempting to get a masters degree in Information Systems Management at BYU while working. Has been working with Flash on a professional level since Flash 4.

	Hari Chinthalapale Spent over a decade building enterprise application & frameworks for financial and regulatory organizations. Visualizes possibilities on information management for government and non-profits on personal blog

	Huyen Tue Dao is a Flex/AIR developer for NASDAQ OMX and has been working in Flex for over three years. While she focus mostly on RIA development these days, she also handles backend development and has dabbled in databases. She also fancies development in C/C++, Java, and Perl. Originally wanting to go into video game development, she studied computer engineering at the University of MD but has since fallen in love with RIA development, data visualization, and User Experience.

	Renaun Erickson is a computer scientist at Adobe Systems Inc, specializing in ActionScript, AIR, Flex, ColdFusion, and PHP. He is a veteran speaker at 360 Flex conference as well as stays active in the community through http://renaun.com/blog/ and the Las Vegas Adobe User Groups. When not programming, Renaun enjoys driving over big rocks with his Jeep and spending time with his family.

	Elad Elrom is an Adobe Community Professional & a rising star of the Flash development world. He brings a fresh perspective, a strong background, and an inherent knack for the more subtle aspects of the Flash platform. He’s been involved very early in a number ofAdobe products. Elad Elrom is an associate development director for Sigma Group, a consultant, technical writer and technical lead. 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.

	Yakov Fain is a Managing Director at Farata Systems, a company that provides consulting services in the field of development of enterprise rich Internet applications to large and small customers. He authored several technical books, and dozens of articles on software development. Recently he co-authored the book “Rich Internet Applications with Adobe Flex and Java: Secrets of the Masters”. He’s a co-author of the O’Reilly book “Enterprise Development with Flex”. Sun Microsystems has nominated and awarded Mr. Fain with the title of Java Champion, which was presented to only a hundred people in the world. He leads the Princeton Java Users Group. Yakov is Certified Adobe Flex Instructor.

	Eric Fickes is a Multi tier internet programmer, all around internet enthusiast. Eric caught the internet bug in the mid 90s while doing internet support and Remedy ARS development. During his time as a the Remedy “web” guy, he used Coldfusion and ASP to build web applications for colleges to corporations. In this time he worked with web technologies ranging from ASP to ZOPE. Consulting for corporations became a drag, so he decided to drop Remedy and fully commit to the web. Still focusing on server side technologies he worked for various startups and dotcoms before settling down at Atlanta’s premier Interactive Design and Technology Studio, Wiretree.com. Eric has been the Lead Technologist for Wiretree.com since 2003. At Wiretree he builds applications ranging from AIR powered sound boards like ‘Mr.T in your pocket’, to full college sites, to internal management software for companies like Pump Audio.

	Dan Florio, aka polyGeek, started writing Actionscript back when gotoAndStop() was considered advanced programming – at least he did. Since then he has put aside the timeline in favor of Flex Projects. While working for Microsoft/XBox he helped prototype for the XBox Dashboard UX and the original Zune – which had a much better UX than the iPods of the day. He became a freelance developer after his stint at MS. During this time he decided to work on an old idea of his named RunPee.com. He considered it nothing more than practice for building database driven Flex applications and was hoping it would look good on his portfolio page. But then a few people found out about it. And they told others. And then that social media thing got a hold of it and before he knew it he was getting up early to do radio interviews instead of coding. Now he’s working hard to make sure that RunPee isn’t a one hit wonder.

	Anthony Franco considers himself a “serial entrepreneur.” He has founded many successful technology-based consultancy companies beginning in 1998. He is most proud of his success with EffectiveUI, which has experienced substantial grown in just four years, beginning with three employees to nearly 100 to date, and was awarded one of Colorado’s “Best Places to Work” by the Denver Business Journal in 2008. Anthony has an extensive consulting background, providing award-winning software and user experience direction to Fortune 1000 companies. Earlier on in his career, Anthony worked in feature post-production where he was responsible for managing technically sophisticated projects at Warner Brothers. He specializes in many disciplines including interface architecture, technology enablement and strategic product visioning. Anthony has served as a presenter and panelist at many industry trade shows and conferences including Adobe MAX, Web 2.0 Expo, Microsoft MIX, AJAXWorld Conference & Expo and AlwaysOn Media. Anthony has also authored several industry white papers and articles, including a book, soon to be published by O’Reilly Media, on the process for creating great software. He is also the author and creator of Anthony’s Blog, which details his thoughts on technology trends and applications in addition to the value and importance of usable software in creating exceptional user experiences.

	Matt Guest has been developing websites and Internet based applications for over ten years and has worked with many companies big and small to bring their visions to the web. Matt is currently the senior Flex developer at Nxtbook Media, LLC, a digital publishing company based in Lancaster, Pennsylvania

	Aaron Hardy is a senior flex developer at Rain, an industry leader in rich internet application development and member of The Society for Digital Agencies (SoDA). Aaron started developing his first interactive applications in Flash 4 ten years ago and has since been involved in creating applications at companies from startups (EnticeLabs) to large corporations (ExxonMobil, Novell). He graduated with a master’s degree in Information Systems Management from Brigham Young University and most recently was a senior developer for PianoMarvel, a 2009 Adobe MAX award finalist.

	David Hassoun is the founder of RealEyes Media, LLC, a digital media firm based in Colorado that focuses on interactive motion media and advanced Flash and Flex platform applications. David has always had a passion for motion media, the power of video, and the challenges of usability and interactivity. David is an Adobe Certified Master Instructor, teaches advanced RIA classes at the University of Denver, serves as the Rocky Mountain Adobe User Group Manager, and has taught and developed advanced Flash and Flex application courses. As a consultant or while employed with other firms, he has worked for a wide range of companies such as American Express, Chase Manhattan, Qwest, Boeing, Macromedia, Adobe, US Air Force, Bechtel/Bettis, and many more. David regularly performs advanced code and technical best practices reviews, and has provided directional advice for international industry leaders over the past years—including many technical, courseware, and application reviews as an industry expert.

	Caleb Adam Haye has been developing web applications since 1997. He now works full time as Principal of Fire, Inc., a Sebastopol (Northern San Francisco Bay Area) based interactive software collective, specializing in rich internet applications, social media, and innovative, emerging technologies. Caleb formed Fire in 2005, and since then he has worked with great companies like Intuit, Apple, Genentech, Visa, CafePress, SEGA, Harmonix , and Yahoo!.

	Jun Heider is a Sr. Developer and Technical Trainer with RealEyes Media, an Adobe partner company based in Denver, Colorado with a focus in Rich Internet Applications. Jun is an Adobe Flex 3 and AIR ACE and has been an Adobe Certified Instructor since 2005. Jun has worked with ColdFusion since 4.5, Flex since Flex 2 beta, and AIR since it was first available in pre-release. As a consultant or while employed with other firms, he has worked for a wide range of companies such as Beatport, A Beka Academy, Chase Manhattan, American Express, Examiner.com, Delicious Living Magazine, Adams Country, Bechtel/Bettis, and many more. Jun also co-teaches a class on Adobe Flex development at the University of Denver, University College. In addition to development and training, Jun loves to speak at conferences such as Adobe MAX, 360\|Flex, and CFUnited. Jun also loves to write, he has contributed to O’Reilly Inside RIA and has written articles for Fusion/Flex Authority and 360\|Whisperings. Jun is also a co-author of Professional Adobe Flex 3 by Wrox.

	Jeffry Houser is a technical entrepreneur that likes to share cool stuff with other people. Jeffry Houser is the Brains behind Flextras, a set of interface Flex Components that save you time and help you create better Flex interfaces. Jeffry has a Computer Science degree from the days before business met the Internet and has solved a problem or two in his programming career. In 1999, Jeffry started DotComIt, an Adobe Solutions Partner specializing in Rich Internet Applications with Flex and ColdFusion. Jeffry is an Adobe Community Expert and produces The Flex Show, a podcast that includes expert interviews and screencast tutorials. He also hosts the Flextras Friday Lunch Podcast, a weekly live Q&A session where you can get your questions answered. Jeffry has spoken at user groups and conferences all over the US, is the co-manager of the Hartford CT Adobe User Group, author of three technical books, and over 30 articles. In his spare time Jeffry is a musician, old school adventure game aficionado, recording engineer, and he owns a Wii. Find more about Flextras at http://www.flextras.com, or check out his podcast at http://www.theflexshow.com, or you can read his personal blog at http://www.jeffryhouser.com

	Kevin Hoyt is a Group Manager of Platform Evangelism at Adobe, Inc. where he’s been actively involved in furthering web technologies for almost ten years. As a Platform Evangelist, Kevin is responsible for covering a broad array of Adobe technologies, and spends upwards of seventy percent of the year presenting keynotes, session and hands-on labs at conferences and user group events across the globe. Prior to joining Adobe, Kevin held various information technology roles ranging from web design to enterprise infrastructure. Kevin lives in Denver, CO and enjoys photography and general aviation in his free time.

	Ellie Khabazian has been successful in obtaining favorable outcomes for clients in both mediation and trial. Ms. Khabazian is a member of the Orange County Bar Association, Orange County Banyard Inn of Court, and Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. Additionally, she is named by LegalForce as a “Best Lawyer”. Ms. Khabazian earned her law degree from Brigham Young University and spent her final year of law school as a visiting student at UCLA. Ms. Khabazian obtained dual undergraduate degrees in French and Business Administration with an emphasis in Corporate Finance from USC.

	Michael Labriola is a Senior Consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group. He has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. Michael is an Adobe Certified Instructor, Community Expert, Flex Developer Champion, and co-author of the both the Flex 2 & 3 Training from the Source books and Breaking out of the Browser with Adobe AIR. Michael is an international speaker on Flex and AIR topics who has consulted for three of the world’s ten most recognized brands. As a consultant, he mentors software development teams using emerging technologies and architects enterprise applications with high business impact. His free time is spent escaping from technology through wine and food.

	Richard Lord is Technical Architect and Lead Developer at BrightTALK, a web communications company based in London, UK. Richard’s 18 year career spans a range of development roles including lead developer, consultant, trainer and troubleshooter across a variety of genres including xbox and playstation games, desktop applications, educational software and web applications. Richard is particularly interested in the art of software development, studying new architectures and languages whenever possible. He also likes to encourage and help other developers to improve their skills. As a consultant he taught bespoke training courses for many clients and he continues to speak at conferences and user groups. Richard is the originator and lead developer of Flint, the open-source Actionscript3 particle system. Richard has been described as a renaissance man because of his work with mathematics, contemporary dance, and art installations. He considers this a complement.

	Drew McLean is a Senior Developer at EffectiveUI where he leads projects and architects software. Drew has served as a technical lead for clients like Image Group, Deloitte, Fidelity, and Hearst Publishing, and is also extremely tall in stature. Drew has a background in Architecture and joined EffectiveUI in 2005 as its second employee. In his free time Drew enjoys rock climbing and recently returned from an amazing trip to Thailand.

	Oz Michaeli is the co-founder of Spiralstorm Games and a long time Actionscript developer who has too decided to jump on the iPhone gold rush wagon rather early on. You may know him for his work on the Actionscript Fisix Engine, and now the Pixelwave engine. Oz considers Flash his first love and is always looking for ways to integrate it with his work on iPhone games.

	Giorgio Natili

	RJ Owen is a Senior Software Architect at EffectiveUI where he helps manage the development group and leads projects for small to medium sized teams. While RJ has worked in Flex since the 1.5 days, he has not yet acquired the ability to dodge bullets or shoot lightning. He is certified as an Adobe Community expert in Flex and has written and edited for O’Reilly. RJ contributes to O’Reilly’s InsideRIA.com, holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science, generally does well on standardized tests, and lives in Colorado.

	Aaron Pedersen is the co-founder of DevelopmentArc with James Polanco. He brings a over a decade of web application experience to the team from working with many startup and Fortune 500 companies. Aaron currently focuses on user interface technologies such as the Adobe Flash Platform (Adobe Flex, AIR) and JavaScript. He believes that up-front planning and team cooperation is key to the success of any web application for today’s web environment. Aaron was a speaker at Adobe Max 2009 in Los Angeles speaking about “Delivering Successful Flash Platform Projects” and “Workflows for the Flash Platform.” He was also a speaker at Adobe Max 2008 in both San Francisco and Milan, Italy speaking on “Flex Best Practices” for designers and for developers. Aaron has been a lead, planner and architect on projects that include many private and public web applications. Among the public sites that he is excited to highlight include: Lexus.com,Scion.com,Toyota’s “Build Your Toyota” configurator, the Yahoo Mail Flickr application, and WorkflowLab. WorkflowLab was the first chance for DevelopmentArc to implement Flex 4 Component Lifecycle research ideas into a production environment. WorkflowLab is now available on Adobe Labs.

	James Polanco is a web application architect and co-founder of DevelopmentArc, who focuses on the Flash Platform (Flash, AIR, Flex, etc.). He has been dabbling with Flash since the beginning, but became serious about development and research with the release of Flash MX. Over the years James has focused primarily on ActionScript development, design patterns and component implementations which became a natural fit for Flex development and web application planning and architecture. James has worked on, lead and planned projects such as Scion.com, Lexus.com, Toyota.com, Libsyn Podcast Analytics Dashboard, Fake Science Music Store, ILM The show, Adobe Kuler, Nortel’s Energy Efficiency Calculator, Adobe WorkflowLab and many other projects and applications for startups to Fortune 500 companies. He is an avid blogger, author, speaker and researcher focusing on technology implementations, best practices and analysis of web enabled tools and technologies. When he has free time (which is rare now-a-days), he is also a DJ, producer, snow boarder and amateur rock climber.

	Andrew Powell has been architecting and developing web applications for over 10 years using ColdFusion, Flex, AJAX, and Java. His background includes experience running IT Departments for firms in the executive search and aviation consulting fields. Currently, Andrew is a Principal Architect at Universal Mind specializing in ColdFusion, Java, & Flex. Currently, his focus is on integrating enterprise Java technologies such as Spring and Hibernate with Flex and AIR applications. You can read his blog on everything ColdFusion, Java, & Flex at

	H. Paul Robertson is a senior ActionScript developer/writer for the Flash Platform documentation team at Adobe Systems, currently working on Adobe AIR. Previously he worked as a web applications developer and has been the author or technical editor/reviewer of several books for Peachpit Press and O’Reilly Media. Paul is an Adobe Certified developer and holds a Masters degree in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. When he’s not developing RIAs and code libraries, writing about developing RIAs, or speaking at conferences about developing RIAs, Paul spends his time taking pictures, collecting kitchen gadgets, and trying to catch up to his three children’s level of mastery of Legos, Star Wars trivia, and other equally important subjects.

	Gary Rogers is a Senior Web Developer for Rain Interactive in American Fork, Utah. He has been in the web development field for nearly a decade doing what he loves. Gary is posses a strong background not only in all popular web application languages, but also a tremendous level of server administration experience. His skills in software automation tools and scripting have made him a valuable asset to Rain. He has performed software integration processes for companies such as HP, Kodak, and Costco to name a few. In his spare time Gary is a licensed private pilot and enjoys professional baseball, football and ice hockey.

	Kevin Schmidt has been involved in internet application development for over a decade working for small firms as well as Fortune 500 companies as an independent consultant working through the company he founded, Other Side Productions, LLC. He has written extensively on the subject of internet application development, publishing articles for trade publications as well as books on the subject. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on the subject of internet application development in the United States and abroad. He is an Adobe Certified Instructor and also a member of Adobe’s invite only volunteer tech support arm, Adobe Community Experts.

	Ryan Freakin’ Stewart is a Platform Evangelist for Adobe Systems. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics he started in the workforce 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 aspects of the RIA world. He has spoken at a number of industry conferences including Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe MAX, 360\|Flex, 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.

	Ben Stucki is an independent Flex developer and consultant with a background in standards-based web development. After a long love affair with Flash experimentation, Ben got his hands on Flex and created some of the first custom Flex components available on the web. Today Ben is working to bridge the gap between Flash and Flex developers with the Reflex Project – a light-weight, flash friendly RIA toolkit.

	Jeff Tapper is a senior consultant at Digital Primates, where he tries to stop developers from hurting themselves with code.

	Shashank Tiwari is a Managing Partner & CTO at Treasury of Ideas, a technology driven innovation and value optimization company. As an experienced software developer and architect, he is adept in a multitude of technologies. He is an internationally recognized speaker, author and mentor. As an expert group member on a number of JCP (Java Community Process) specifications he has been actively participating in shaping the future of Java. He is also an Adobe Flex Champion and a common voice in the RIA community. Currently, he passionately builds rich high performance scalable applications and advises many on RIA and SOA adoption. His clients range from large financial service corporations to brilliant startups, whom he helps translate cutting edge ideas into reality. He is also actively engaged in training and mentoring developers and architects in leading edge technology. He is the author of a number of books and articles, including Advanced Flex 3 (Apress, 2008) and Professional BlazeDS (Wiley, 2009). He lives with his wife and two sons in New York. More information about him can be accessed at his website.

	Randy Troppmann works as a Flash Platform developer-designer-hybrid at NAIT, a technical institute in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He also freelances for international clients and is the founder and Chief Architect for RunningMap.com. Randy has a BFA (1989) in Visual Communication Design and WebBuilder Diploma (2000) both from the University of Alberta.

	Michael VanDaniker is the Visualization Manager at the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory at the University of Maryland. Being a part of the University, Michael has the opportunity to introduce students with traditional programming backgrounds to the world of rich internet application development. When he’s not going over the Flex component lifecycle, he’s building applications which bring the benefits data visualization to the transportation sector.

	Andrew Westberg is the president of Swift Mako Software, Inc. He consults full time for Simplified Logic working primarily on the Nitro-LM software licensing and encryption product. He enjoys going hiking with the family and riding his rip-stik at the skate park. Andrew has a BS in Computer Science from Western Illinois University.

	Jesse Warden is a Flex & Flash Consultant. He’s worked on a variety of Flash & Flex projects, from small to Enterprise. He specializes in Agile processes, video, architecture, and disaster recovery. His art and agency background has given him an appreciation for design and a pragmatic viewpoint on development. Client list includes HBO, Disney, Ford, AOL, Boeing, Adobe, Bloomberg, MapQuest, and many others.

	Jacob Wright is an independent Flex consultant and architect. He has architected and lead development on many large rich internet applications and contributed to several open source projects. He enjoys crafting new solutions to old problems and is rarely satisfied with the status quo. He has a twin as well, so don’t be surprised if he tells you his name is Tyler.

	Tyler Wright is a senior ActionScript developer who has been coding and designing components and applications for the last 6 years. Tyler has experience teaching at the university and occasionally presents at Flash & Flex conferences, as well as the uFlash user group he co-manages. Tyler spends most of his day at Legato Media developing rich experiences for musicians and loves innovation in all fields. His time outside of work is spent contributing to community open source projects, including the Flight Framework and Reflex. Tyler will, on occasion, update his twitter status (@xtyler) or blog at xtyler.com.

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