SPEAKERS

Mike Brunt (Go2RIA)

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Hal Helms (Hal Helms Inc)

Hal Helms is a well-known speaker/writer/strategist on software development issues. Hal has a monthly column in "ColdFusion Developer's Journal" and has written and contributed to several books. His latest book is "Discovering CFCs" available at www.techspedition.com. Hal holds training sessions on Java, ColdFusion, and software development processes. He is the author of the popular "Occasional Newsletter" series. For more information, contact him at hal@techspedition.com or see his website, www.halhelms.com.

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Shlomy Gantz (BlueBrick)

Shlomy Gantz is the President and founder of BlueBrick Inc. He has over a decade of management experience in the hi-tech industry, and an extensive background in application development, database integration and project management. He works with Fortune 500 companies around the world. He frequently presents in technology and management conferences and various user groups across US and Europe. <br><br> Prior to founding BlueBrick, Mr. Gantz was a Senior Consultant for Computer Horizons, working for some of the nation's major airlines. Mr. Gantz was also the co-founder and vice president of technology for CoreActive ACG, a leading provider of web based solutions. <br>

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Cameron Childress (Sumo Consulting Inc)

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Barney Boisvert (Mentor Graphics)

Barney Boisvert is a Sr. Application Developer at Mentor Graphics primarily using ColdFusion, Groovy, JavaScript, along with a smattering of Java and Flex. He is the author of the CFGroovy and FB3Lite frameworks, was a core contributor to Fusebox 4, and has provided accepted patches to Fusebox 5, Prototype, Groovy, Hibernate and ColdSpring, in addition to building several micro-frameworks from the ground up. He is also an active member in local and online CF, Flex, and Java communities and occasionally speaks at user groups and conferences.

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Andrew Schwabe (IEXP | FusionDox)

Andrew C. Schwabe is currently the CTO and is a veteran CFML developer since 1998. Prior to working with IEXP, Andrew worked for 10 years as the President and Chairman of the Board of Internet Expressions, Inc. He has been the forerunner in developing numerous applications ranging from the free - CFX_RawSocket (a Java Custom Tag for ColdFusion) - to FusionDox (enterprise-level document management). Andrew has been deeply involved in developing many of these applications from the ground up, enhancing and using the ColdFusion platform to its fullest potential. In addition to his extensive ColdFusion experience, Andrew has been recognized in the business community, receiving the coveted Dale Carnegie Highest Achievement Award.

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Lawrence Cramer (Application Dynamics Inc | Cartweaver.com)

Lawrence Cramer has over 25 years of experience in marketing, advertising, and design. For the last decade he has focused on the web, his key interests being dynamic web design, development, and e-commerce. He has written numerous articles on these subjects for regional business publications and for the Adobe Developer Center. He speaks at web development conferences and teaches college courses on several Adobe products, and is a trainer for Lynda.com. Lawrence is an Adobe Community Expert, the CEO of Application Dynamics Inc., and the founder of Cartweaver.com. When he's not in front of a computer screen, you'll find him and his wife of 30-plus years behind the handlebars of a sport touring motorcycle seeing the sights of the Pacific Northwest. You can find his blog at blog.cartweaver.com, or contact him at- lawrence (at) cartweaver (dot) com.

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Josh Adams (Adobe)

Josh Adams is Senior System Engineer & ColdFusion Specialist at Adobe Systems Incorporated. In this role, Josh supports the ColdFusion sales team throughout North America. Josh is passionate about ColdFusion and the ColdFusion community: he presents regularly to User Groups and conferences throughout North America and is a longtime member, past President, and current Director of the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group.

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Dan Blackman (Mudd Brick Inc.)

Dan Blackman is the founder of Mudd Brick, Inc, an Adobe software development and training company. He provides services as a Senior Web Consultant, Mentor, and Adobe Certified Instructor to small to large clients alike. He holds his certifications in Flex, Flash, and ColdFusion 8. With 12+ years experience in software development and training, Dan helped deliver several highly recognized web applications. These days, he spends approximately 50% of his time teaching beginner to Advanced courses in Flex, Flash and Cold Fusion. Come enjoy the engaging experience at CFUnited this year and say hello if you see him at the conference!

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Ajay Sathuluri (TeraTech)

Ajay Sathuluri is a senior web/database engineer and Instructor for TeraTech, Inc. He has been using CF since 1999. He specializes in ColdFusion application architecture and database design.

Ajay has worked on several high-volume projects in the last few years that involved load testing, server tuning, and optimizing.

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Chris Scott (Managing Editor)

Chris Scott is an independent consultant in the Philadelphia area with nine years of coldfusion development experience and a strong interest in the implementation of open source solutions. Chris recently joined the development of the ColdSpring cfc container and began work on ColdSpring AOP, the first Aspect Oriented Programming framework for coldfusion

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Jeff Coughlin (Versatile Internet Solutions)

Jeff Coughlin is the owner of Versatile Internet Solutions (http://www.versatileinternet.com), a web application solutions provider. At Versatile Internet Jeff manages, architects, and develops applications primarily in the healthcare industry to meet clients' needs using Adobe-based products such as ColdFusion and Flex.

A ColdFusion enthusiast since 1999, Jeff is the Hartford ColdFusion User Group manager and is an active member of multiple ColdFusion (and Farcry) mailing lists. He has written several ColdFusion and Farcry CMS tutorials. You can find more information about Jeff, his tutorials, and his blog at http://www.jeffcoughlin.com.

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Sean Corfield (Railo Technologies US)

Sean is currently Chief Technology Officer for Railo Technologies US. He has worked in IT for over twenty five years, starting out writing database systems and compilers then moving into mobile telecoms and finally into web development in 1997. Along the way, he worked on the ISO and ANSI C++ Standards committees for eight years and is a staunch advocate of software standards and best practice. Sean has championed and contributed to a number of CFML frameworks and was lead developer on Fusebox for two years. This will be Sean's sixth time as a CFUNITED speaker!

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Joshua Cyr (Savvy Software)

Joshua is the CTO of Savvy Software, Inc. a company specializing in ColdFusion based Web Content Management technologies (www.besavvy.com). Joshua has been a Team Allaire Member (before Macromedia) and a developer of ColdFusion applications since 1995 (version 1.5!). Previous to Savvy Software Joshua was technology lead at Harbour Light Strategic Marketing (www.harbourlight.com).

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Mike Nimer (nomee.com)

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.

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Jeff Tapper (Digital Primates)

Jeff Tapper is a Senior Consultant at Digital Primates IT Consulting Group, which focuses on the development of RIAs and empowering clients through mentoring. Jeff has been developing internet-based applications since 1995, for a myriad of clients including Conde Nast, Harley Davidson, 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 and Flash development. He has been working with Flex since the earliest alphas of Flex 1, and started his ColdFusion development on CF 1.5. Jeff has written 9 books, and is currently working on his 10th. Among the more recent releases are including "Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source," "Breaking out of the Browser with Adobe AIR," and "ColdFusion 7 Web Application Construction Kit Volume 3: Advanced Application Development." Jeff is thrilled to be back speaking at CFUnited again. He has been a speaker at many past CFUnited Events, include CFUnited Europe, earlier this year.

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Joe Rinehart

Joe Rinehart has been designing and developing applications based on Adobe products for over ten years. By participating in the Adobe community, blogging and developing open-source development tools like Model-Glue, Joe has built a reputation as a leader in the Adobe development community. Published in magazines such as Dr. Dobbs' Journal and The Fusion Authority Quarterly Update, he's also a regular speaker at technical conferences such as Adobe MAX. Find out more by reading Joe's blog, Firemoss, at www.firemoss.com.

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John Farrar (SOSensible)

John has been working with computer programming since the late 70s with a few years of in other technical vocations. His projects have been used by Apple, Blue Cross, Brunswick Pro Bowlers Association, Haworth, Johnson Controls, Seiko and Sprint to name a few. The sites he helped create include enterprise grade commerce to cXML sites for clients. His passion for simpler ways to build sustainable solutions has inspired participation in open source solutions, beta testing and even a few projects of his own. (SOS, COOP) He loves to help SOHO business find solutions that use enterprise technology but without the enterprise approach. Approachable, Reusable (DRY) and Sustainable. He is also the author of "ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial" and now has been honored to receive the honor of being declared an "Adobe Community Expert" by Adobe. If you get time to chat with him you should enjoy his passion for creative technology.

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John Paul Ashenfelter (Transitionpoint)

John Paul Ashenfelter is CTO of TransitionPoint.com, where he builds web-based business applications using a mix of open source tools, ColdFusion, and Java. He has been the technical lead on a number of ColdFusion projects for startups as well as regularly serving as an architect for existing ColdFusion sites converting to Fusebox. A ColdFusion developer since version 2.0, John Paul has written several books covering ColdFusion, contributed articles to CFDJ, and spoken at several ColdFusion conferences.

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Peter Bell (SystemsForge)

Peter Bell is a passionate advocate of Application Generation and meta-programming in ColdFusion and writes the popular Application Generation blog (http://www.pbell.com). He has lectured internationally on using ColdFusion for application generation and to create software product lines and runs a company (http://www.systemsforge.com) that generates custom applications quickly and cost effectively.

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Dee Sadler

Dee is a typical Adobe geek girl. She runs a User Group (KCWebCore), co-manager of another (KCDesignCore) and helps with KCDevCore, plus is an Adobe Community Expert in Dreamweaver and InDesign, and loves everything CSS. She is also an Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver and Flash, with a passion for Fireworks and also teaches Acrobat. In her free time she is also an Adobe Freelance Professional who loves speaking on Adobe products.

Her desire is to bring designers and developers closer together and hope to bridge that gap with some new apps this year like Flash Catalyst.

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Scott Stroz (Alagad)

Scott is a Senior Software Architect at Alagad. He has been working with ColdFusion since version 5 and has been a Macromedia/Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer since ColdFusion MX. He has developed and fostered a passion for Flex, and her half-sister AIR. He is the author of Flogr, a Flex based ColdFusion log reader. Scott is also a blogger, author and frequent speaker at User Groups and conferences on various Flex and ColdFusion topics.

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Dave Powell (University of North Carolina)

Dave Powell has been doing graphics and web design since WAY back...ok...since '97 or so.

Starting with print design for major retailers and manufacturers such as Target, Wal-Mart, JC Penney, The Banana Republic, Fruit of the Loom, Vassarette, and Peds.

Not wanting to miss out on the dotcom &quot;boom&quot;, he defected to a web startup company where he became an Art Director. Dave got tired of the developers breaking his designs, and so he picked up ColdFusion and never looked back.

Seeking a bit of job security after the bubble burst, (and the familiar halls of his alma mater) he returned to the University of North Carolina where he currently is an ERP implementation analyst, and still finds some time to develop applications using Cold Fusion and Python on the side.

He also manages the Carolina Adobe User Group, which serves the UNC community, and is a member of the Triangle Area User Group.

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Chaz Chumley (W3Consultants)

Consultant, Instructor, Author, Husband and Father. Chaz has been specializing in web development and database design since 1995. He currently resides as CIO for w3Consultants, an Internet Application Development &amp; Hosting company as well as an Instructor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas teaching XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, Fireworks, Photoshop and ColdFusion. Chaz is also a contributing author and partner at CommunityMX as well as a User Group Manager for the Las Vegas Adobe User Group and a guest speaker at such conferences as Todcon and CFUnited.

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Gert Franz (Railo Technologies)

Gert Franz was born in 1967 and lives in Switzerland since 1998, somewhere next to Zurich. He's one of the founders of Railo Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started back in 2001. Next to the development of Railo he worked as a system engineer and database administrator, where one of his favorite web projects was and is for instance www.zinodavidoff.com or www.rtl.de. He's addicted to problem solving, performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server). Gert is a father of three and boyfriend of one.

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Brian Rinaldi (Synthenet Corporation)

Brian Rinaldi is a programmer, Adobe Community Expert, manager of the Boston ColdFusion User Group and organizer of Flex Camps in Boston and Miami. Brian is most well known for his efforts promoting open-source projects in ColdFusion, especially for maintaining the ColdFusion open-source list as well as the weekly updates, both of which you can find via his web site at http://www.remotesynthesis.com.

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Jake Munson (Idaho Power)

Jake has been developing ColdFusion based applications since ColdFusion 4. He is well known for building CFQuickDocs (http://cfquickdocs.com). He has given numerous presentations to various user groups, including the popular CF Meetup group. He also presented at CFUnited 2008. Jake is very passionate about the Internet, particularly about web standards and surrounding technologies.

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Dan Wilson (DataCurl LLC)

Dan Wilson, principal partner of DataCurl LLC, began his IT career at a fast-paced start-up during the dotcom heyday. He has since then held senior program and development positions in Technical Consulting, Health Care, Online Publishing and Government Contracting.

Dan is an avid participant in technology communities; currently serving on the board for the Triangle ColdFusion User Group in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina and regular contributor to open source projects based on ColdFusion, Flex and AIR platforms. You can find his thoughts on ColdFusion, Flex, AIR and other technology matters at http://www.nodans.com.

Dan spends a significant amount of time learning new technologies and techniques. He has taught and presented since 2001 after an invitation to design and lead courses in Web Development for established IT professionals at Metro IS. When not in front of a computer, you can find him biking, hiking, surfing and playing volleyball.

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Theo Rushin Jr (TwinTechnologies)

I am currently a Senior Web Developer and Instructor of technologies such as; ColdFusion, Flex, Flash, and SQL. I have been programming for over 20 years and was introduced to ColdFusion and Flash back in 1999. Since the pre-release of Flex 2.0 I've begun to spread the Good News about Flex and Flex development. Since then, I have never looked back.

Currently I am seeking to create the perfect synergy between the various web technologies such as ColdFusion (server), Flex/Flash/AIR (client), and SQL (model).

Artist, writer, and director. The web is my canvas, the technologies I use are my tools, and the applications I create are my works of art. I'm doing what I love and love what I'm doing.

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Yancy Wharton (ZoobieSoft)

Owner and Sr. Programmer of ZoobieSoft (www.ZoobieSoft.com). Worked for Fortune 500 companies like Comcast and Perdue Farms. Currently doing work for USMCCLL(US Marine Core Center for Lessons Learned). Coding in ColdFusion for 9+ years, and using other languages like iHTML, ASP, .NET, VB, C++, and now AS3. Manager of the Eastern Shore of Maryland Users Group (ESMUG.Zoobiesoft.com) Adobe Advisory Panel Member

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Marc Esher (Broadridge Financial Services)

A Longtime ColdFusion and Java programmer, Marc is currently working in the brokerage industry building custom print-on-demand and workflow software. He is a co-owner of the MXUnit Unit Testing Framework for ColdFusion. His primary professional interests, aside from programming, are process automation and improvement and automated testing.

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Douglas Knudsen (Universal Mind)

Douglas Knudsen is one of the many great and talented people at Universal Mind a scalable resource that completes your in-house team for RIA development and 2007 and 2008 Inc 500 member. He has been developing with ColdFusion since version 4 and entered the Flex development arena with version 1.5 while being a Application Developer and Manager at Alltel Communication Systems, Inc. A graduate of the University of Florida, Douglas is also a board member of the local Atlanta Flash/Flex user group and is very active in the group's discussion list helping answer questions in regards to developing in Flex and AIR as well as speaking on Flex development topics.

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Ben Nadel (Epicenter Consulting)

Ben Nadel is the chief software engineer at Epicenter Consulting, a boutique software company in New York City that specialized in developing high-end, customized business solutions with a focus on company extranets. There, he designs and develops rich, web-based software using Interface-Driven Architecture (IDA) - a development methodology that he evangelizes as the one true way to ensure software success. Ben Nadel is also an Adobe Community Expert as well as a certified Adobe ColdFusion developer. As part of his "community expert" duties, he is manager of the New York City ColdFusion user group and authors www.bennadel.com, one of the more popular ColdFusion development blogs.

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Todd Sharp (Sharp Interactive, LLC)

Todd Sharp has been working with ColdFusion since mid 2004. He blogs regularly about ColdFusion and Ajax and has several open source projects at his site http://cfsilence.com. Todd provides ColdFusion/Ajax development and consulting services through his company Sharp Interactive, LLC. You can contact him through his site or via email at todd@cfsilence.com.

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Oguz Demirkapi (NicheClick Media)

O?uz Demirkap? is a code poet and lover of all things related to intelligent web technologies. He started developing CGI web applications in 1994 and has developed cutting edge ColdFusion applications since 1997. Serving as Chief Technological Officer or Senior Developer for many well known commercial and Blue Chip companies in Turkey, Germany and the U.S., O?uz has been a fixture in the ever evolving realm of computer science and a selfless mentor to aspiring developers.

He remains active in various user groups such as Linux, ColdFusion, Flex etc. and was the founder and leader of CFTR - ColdFusion Turkey User Group, an emerging hub of ColdFusion development.

Presently he is the founder and user group manager for OCDev - Orange County Adobe Developers User Group (ocdev.org) which specializes in top flight ping pong tournament play and hosting leaders in the ColdFusion community.

A well known and highly regarded ColdFusion evangelist, O?uz has presented at numerous conferences and user group meetings in Europe and the United States. His main areas of interest lie in ColdFusion, Flex, Frameworks technologies, CMS, portal, e-commerce solutions and social web applications. Among his many achievements he is a renowned expert in i18N & L10N implementation.

As of today he is the CTO of NicheClick Media

You can reach his blog via http://blog.demirkapi.net

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Kurt Wiersma (American Academy of Neurology)

Kurt is an Advanced Certified ColdFusion developer and has been working with ColdFusion since version 4.5. By day Kurt works for the American Academy of Neurology and by night he consults on web applications for small to medium size businesses. In his spare tech time, he is a member of the ColdSpring, Mach II, and CFHibernate open source projects. He recently started a open source project called, Appbooster, which aimes to show best practices for using several different frameworks with ColdFusion.

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Doug Hughes (Alagad Inc)

Doug Hughes is a veteran programmer and the president of Alagad Inc (http://www.alagad.com), a successful small business specializing in web and application development, services and consulting. Doug also publishes a popular blog covering ColdFusion and other technical topics at http://www.doughughes.net.

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Luis Majano (ESRI)

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer currently employed at ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in Southern California. He was born in San Salvador, El Salvador and is the president of Ortus Solutions, a consulting firm specializing in Adobe ColdFusion & Java development. His background includes over 9 years of software development experience, architecture and system design. He is the creator of ColdBox (www.coldboxframework.com), an open source Object Oriented ColdFusion framework and is the Adobe ColdFusion user group manager for the Inland Empire. You can also read his blog at www.luismajano.com

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Raymond Camden

Raymond Camden is a software consultant. A long time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books including the ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and has contributed to the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update and the ColdFusion Developers Journal. He also presents at conferences and contributes to online webzines. He founded many community web sites including CFLib.org, ColdFusionPortal.org, ColdFusionCookbook.org and is the author of open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC blogging application.

Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.coldfusionjedi.com) or via email at ray (at) camdenfamily.com. He is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.

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Charlie Arehart (CArehart.org)

A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Expert. He's now an independent consultant providing troubleshooting/tuning assistance and training/mentoring for CF teams of all sizes and experience levels (carehart.org/consulting). A certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for CF 4 thru 8, he also runs the Online ColdFusion Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com, an online CF user group), and is a contributor to each of the 3-volume series ColdFusion 8 WACK books by Ben Forta. A member of the Adobe Customer Advisory Board for ColdFusion and with 26+ years in IT, he's frequently invited to speak to developer conferences and user groups worldwide.

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Adam Haskell (Kroger)

Adam Haskell is the lead ColdFusion Architect at The Kroger Co., and the Fusebox core lead. At Kroger he has the opportunity to mentor new projects as well as coach projects in danger of slipping. Outside of Kroger Adam is an active member in the CFML community as part of Team Fusebox, Open BlueDragon steering committee, MXUnit contributor, and a frequent participant of the cfConversations podcast.

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Mark Drew (Railo Technologies)

Mark has been programming CFML since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl, ASP and PHP he is still loving every line of code he has crafted with CFML.

He has been part of the CFEclipse Project developing a CFML IDE and Project Manager for the Reactor ORM as well as contributor to a number of frameworks.

At Railo Technologies he strives to develop CFML as a language and enhance the capabilities and offerings to improve current users and entice future developers

His career has concentrated on eCommerce, Content Management and Application Scalabilty for various well known brands in the UK market such as Jaeger, Hackett, Hobbs, Dyson, B&W, Diesel amongst others.

Mark is also a well known speaker at various conferences on subjects close to his heart such as ORM's, Frameworks, Development Tooling and Development Process.

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Andy Allan (Fuzzy Orange Ltd)

Andy is the owner of Fuzzy Orange, a UK based RIA consultancy, specialising in AIR, ColdFusion and Flex. An old skooler in the ColdFusion world, Andy has been on the scene since 1998. He's also the brains behind Europe's longest running ColdFusion conference; Scotch on the Rocks, based in Edinburgh, Scotland. As well as writing for UK based magazine Web Designer, Andy has spoken at Adobe MAX, ColdFusionCamp and User Groups worldwide. When not working, Andy can usually be found rocking away on Guitar Hero with his wife and daughter.

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Phill Nacelli (AboutWeb LLC)

Phill Nacelli has been developing software for over 9 years, and have been using ColdFusion since version 4.5. He has engineered and developed multiple web based applications for the federal government, non-profit association/education market and enjoys playing with the latest in programming techniques, frameworks and development tools. Phill is very active in the ColdFusion community via speaking at conferences, contributing articles, user group presentations, community forums/chat rooms and his blog, www.phillnacelli.net. He currently holds a position as Senior Software Architect at AboutWeb, a leading provider of technology and career development services to small businesses, corporations, associations and government agencies based in Rockville, MD. Phill can be reached by email at pnacelli@aboutweb.com.

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Simon Free (Simon Free)

Simon is an Adobe Community Expert and an Adobe Certified Instructor. Working on several high profile projects ranging from a start-up athlete skin care shopping cart application to a full blown CMS requiring multiple workflows for publishing and editing several types of content, Simon has been able to utilize a number of different technologies including ColdFusion, Flex, InDesign, Air, and Blaze DS / LiveCycle DS. Constantly learning, Simon is always looking for new challenges and reports his findings both to user groups and on his website http://www.simonfree.com.

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Dan Vega (STERIS)

Dan Vega is Web Developer for the eBusiness department of STERIS Corporation, and has been developing web applications with ColdFusion for almost 6 years. Dan has a passion for inspiring and educating others. He regularly blogs at http://www.danvega.org/blog/ about his daily findings and enjoys speaking to those willing to listen. He is also the co-manager of the Cleveland ColdFusion User Group (link to http://www.clevelandcfug.org). As co-manager, he regularly provides content to the group, answers members' questions and presents on a wide variety of topics at monthly Cleveland CFUG meetings, and has also presented to other user groups.

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Sean Woods (Adobe Systems, Inc.)

Sean Woods has been developing Oracle applications for over ten years and has been integrating ColdFusion with Oracle since the first day he laid eyes on it in 2002. He has since then developed an obsession with ColdFusion and often lies awake at night wondering why anyone would want to develop their applications with anything else. In his spare time, Sean can be found chasing his two young daughters around the lovely seaside town of Pacifica, California.

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Michael Smith (TeraTech, Inc)

Michael is CEO and founder of TeraTech, a 20-year-old Rockville, Maryland based consulting company that specializes in ColdFusion web application development for large socially conscious organizations. TeraTech is an Adobe Consulting Partner and winner of the CFDJ award for best consulting company five years in a row. Michael has been programming for over 25 years and has been coding in ColdFusion since version 1.5. He leads the Fusebox open source project that is used by over 10,000 developers worldwide. He writes for the ColdFusion Developer Journal and runs the CF Bug Hunt and CF Conf websites for the programming community.

Michael runs the MDCFUG (Maryland ColdFusion User Group) and has spoken at more than thirty national and international programming conferences and events. He founded the largest national ColdFusion conference, CFUNITED. He has an MA and BA from Cambridge University, England and graduated in the top 10 of his year. Michael volunteers at ByteBack, a non profit organization which provides computer training for unemployed and under-employed inner city residents. He has taught programming and methodologies at USDA, VOA, AOC and FDA.

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Brian Meloche (Dealer Tire, LLC)

Brian is the host and producer of <a href="http://www.cfconversations.com">CFConversations</a>, a ColdFusion/CFML podcast that has been in existence since just before CFUnited 2008. He is an Adobe Community Expert in ColdFusion, and the manager of the Cleveland ColdFusion User Group.

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John Mason (FusionLink)

John currently works at Fusionlink, a ColdFusion and Flex hosting company based in Atlanta. He has developed web applications with ColdFusion since version 2, and has over 15 years of experience with web development since his undergraduate days at Auburn University. John has an MBA from Georgia Southern University and holds a ColdFusion Advance, MCSA and CCNA certifications. He actively blogs at www.codfusion.com. John founded the Atlanta Flash/Flex User Group and currently runs the Online Flex Meetup. He also has been a long time board member of the Atlanta ColdFusion User Group.

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Doug McCune (Universal Mind)

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Thomas Gonzalez (BrightPoint Consulting)

Mr. Gonzalez is a frequent speaker and published author in the dashboard and data visualization space. His internationally recognized articles have been used in University curriculums, and he is often sought as public speaker to talk about his ongoing research and open source contributions with Adobe Flex and Data Visualization. For over 20 years Tom has followed his passion in developing innovative and value driven software applications, with proof-of-concept projects lasting days to multi-million dollar development efforts lasting years.&nbsp; During his career, working for such notable clients as Apple, Adobe, Business Objects, BP-Arco, Kimberly Clark, Northrop-Grumman, and Symantec, Tom has developed a multi-disciplinary approach to developing data-centric applications by uniquely combining his experience in data visualization, business intelligence, software architecture, and user-centric design. Tom graduated with honors from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied a unique combination of Computer Science, Visual Arts, and Economics. He currently resides in Carlsbad, California, with his wife and two sons.

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David Tucker (Universal Mind)

David is an Adobe Community Expert focusing on Rich Internet Applications. In addition, David servers as a Software Engineer with Universal Mind focusing primarily on Flex and AIR development. David also is an expert blogger at one of the leading Rich Internet Application blogs, InsideRIA.com (sponsored by O?Reilly Media and Adobe Systems). You can read David?s recent posts here. In addition, David writes a regular column for Adobe?s News Flash Newsletter (formerly the RIA Buzz Newsletter).

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Pete Freitag (Foundeo Inc)

Pete Freitag, President and Owner of Foundeo, Inc., has been a web developer specializing in ColdFusion since the mid '90s. Prior to starting his own company, Pete co-authored The ColdFusion MX Developer's Cookbook in 2003 and worked as CTO at ActivSoftware. At Foundeo, Pete provides consulting services, constructs web sites, develops products for web developers, and writes for his blog at www.petefreitag.com.

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RJ Owen (EffectiveUI)

RJ Owen is a Senior Developer at Effective UI. RJ was the lead developer on projects for Dow Jones, Random House and the Discovery Channel and contributed to ebay Desktop and the Adobe Video Workshop. In late 2007 RJ was featured on the Scoble show discussing RIA development and is passionate about the way that software affects and can improve people's lives. He is certified as an Adobe Community expert in Flex and co-authored the O'Reilly shortcut "Flex 3 Early Evaluator." RJ runs a flex blog called A Better Experience at rjria.blogspot.com, holds a degree in Physics and Computer Science, generally does well on standardized tests, and lives in Colorado.

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Jeremy Kadlec (Edgewood Solutions)

Jeremy Kadlec is the CTO @ Edgewood Solutions, where he focuses on core SQL Server Administration and Development needs for organizations on the east coast of the United States. Jeremy has worked to help the SQL Server community by leading both the Northern Virginia SQL Server Users Group and the Baltimore SQL Server Users Group over the last 5+ years. He is a frequent speaker at local user group meetings and national conferences. He is also one of the founders of MSSQLTips.com where he has more than 200 contributions to the community in the form of valuable technical tips. In addition, the community has benefited from his book entitled the Rational Guide to IT Project Management. Based on all of his community contributions, Jeremy was awarded with SQL Server MVP recognition in 2009. Jeremy can be reached at jeremyk@edgewoodsolutions.com and/or 410.591.4683.

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Greg Owen (EffectiveUI)

Greg Owen is a Senior Developer at EffectiveUI in Denver, Colorado. He graduated with an MS in Computer Science from Baylor in 2007 after working for EffectiveUI for six months. He has worked on projects for eBay, Discovery Channel, and MTV, among others. Starting with his experience working on eBay Desktop, Greg has become an AIR specialist. Besides Flex, Greg likes to work with Ruby, C++, and Java. In his spare time he follows the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Broncos and enjoys playing hockey and ultimate frisbee.

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Rob Rusher (On3)

Rob Rusher is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE), Community Expert, and Certified Instructor (ACI). In his role as Principal Consultant for On3, he leads an Adobe software enablement practice to help his clients build rich Internet applications and to rapidly increase their knowledge and skills to better support their organization's goals. He has taught and mentored the technical teams at Standard and Poor?s, eBay, IBM Global Services, the Social Security Administration, and other Government and Fortune 100 organizations.

Because of his depth of knowledge and long standing relationship with Adobe, Rob was selected to write the Certified AIR training course as well as the Cold Fusion and Flex certification exams. Rob has also co-authored four best selling books on building secure, cutting-edge and rapidly developed applications using Adobe AIR, ColdFusion and Flex. He is also very active is organizing and speaking at Adobe conferences and user groups. In addition to growing his software consulting practice, On3, Rob has been building expertise in rich client application development on a wider variety of devices and platforms that extend the applications to change the way we all create and live.

On3 provides consulting, mentoring and training services to help organizations grow their own experts from within. For more information, visit us at On3solutions.com. Rob Rusher maintains a weblog devoted to Adobe Flex and other Internet technologies at RobRusher.com.

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Lisa Heselton (kindred)

Lisa has a diverse background in many creative fields, including writing, video production, graphic design, Web development, and music. She also has a strong business sense, managing large and small projects and staff for over 20 years. Her marketing and business development talents have helped dozens of organizations flourish, whether they've been one-person entrepreneurial endeavors or huge corporations.

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Selene Bainum (RiteTech LLC)

Selene Bainum has been immersed with ColdFusion and SQL for over 13 years, and sees no end in sight. She loves finding the most efficient ways to perform tasks and often writes SQL in her sleep. Selene can usually be found plugging away on applications for RiteTech LLC, for which she is the Chief Architect and Co-Founder.

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Clark Valberg (Epicenter Consulting)

Clark Valberg is co-founder and CEO of Epicenter Consulting, a Manhattan-based firm that creates strategic software for organizations that want to use the web to transform their businesses.

Clark is a passionate advocate for "obsessively thorough software design" and is a founder of Interface-Driven Architecture, a conversation between business leaders and software architects that offers a radically different way of determining and developing custom software.

Clark is also the co-chair of the New York City ColdFusion User Group.

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Ryan Stewart (Adobe)

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Huyen Dao (NASDAQ OMX)

Huyen is an RIA developer specializing in Flex/AIR for NASDAQ OMX, but also working on backend development in .NET. She also has a soft spot for C/C++, Java, and Perl. An enthusiastic and dedicated code monkey, Huyen also has a deep interest in UI/UX and data/information visualization. A proud Terrapin, she graduated from the University of Maryland with a BS/MS in Computer Engineering.

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Nate Nelson (PSI)

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Rachel Lehman (Interfolio, Inc)

Rachel is a multi-disciplined designer-developer with a background in marketing, graphic design, and web development. She specializes in usability design and development with ColdFusion, Flex, AJAX and the Adobe suite of products. She is currently the User Experience Designer at Interfolio, Inc., a Washington, DC-based software company that builds SaaS solutions for higher education applicants and institutions.

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Gail (Montreal) Shoffey Keeler (AboutWeb)

Gail Shoffey Keeler, also known as ?Montreal?, is a Software Architect for AboutWeb, LLC. Montreal is currently working on an object-oriented, 508-compliant, custom framework for a government contract using ColdFusion and AJAX. Montreal has worked on a variety of projects including multiple web-based applications for a non-profit medical/educational association, several private E-Commerce businesses, and a publicly-owned power-plant company. Montreal has presented at several user groups on topics including Design Patterns; Advanced ColdFusion Custom Tags; and Application and Credit Card Integration. She has her Bachelor of Science in Information Technology, a Master in Information Systems and is currently working on her Doctor of Management/Information Systems and Technology.

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Mark Phillips (Vertabase)

Mark Phillips is a co-founder and principal at Vertabase project management solutions, the world's leading ColdFusion based project management software. As the product manager and creative lead, Mark has been responsible for numerous web-based and rich internet applications, along with working with hundreds of companies, such as Mercer Insurance Group and the City of Fort Lauderdale, to improve their workflow on thousands of projects. As one of the first true web-based applications, Vertabase set the stage for mass-market productivity tools, helping to define a now crowded industry. Through Mark?s leadership, Vertabase Pro software was a finalist for the 2006 ?Best eBusiness Software? and ?Best Web Application? from MX Journal and ColdFusion Developer?s Journal as well as excellent reviews from Project Magazine.

Mark has been involved in every Vertabase launch since the inception of the company in 1997. Since the launch of Vertabase 4.0, Mark has successfully lead all of the company?s product launches. As the product manager and a seasoned project manager himself, Mark has presented to ColdFusion and Adobe User Groups in the U.S. and Canada on software design, usability, project and time management. At the Internet User Experience 2009 and Creative Suite Developers Summit in Seattle 2009, he spoke on productivity, team and time management techniques. Mark also contributes articles to ComputerWorld Magazine, C|Net and in upcoming issues of Fusion Authority. He also contributes regularly to the Vertabase blog and tweets about project management, business and a variety of other topics.

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Damon Brown (Policy Studies)

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Jun Heider (RealEyes Media, LLC)

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 graduated from Regis University with a BS in Computer Networking and has a number of technical certifications.

Jun has worked with ColdFusion since 4.5, Flex since Flex 2 beta, and AIR since it was first available in pre-release.

In addition, Jun loves to speak at conferences such as Adobe MAX, 360|Flex, and Flexmaniacs. Jun also loves to write, he is an active blogger on O'Reilly Inside RIA and has written articles for Fusion Authority and Flex Authority. Jun is also co-authoring the upcoming Professional Flex 3 by Wrox.

In his free time, Jun loves to play music, his Xbox 360, snowboard, and hang out with his son Kobi, daughter Mia, and wife Michelle in Colorful Colorado.

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Andrew Powell (Universal Mind, Inc)

Developing applications, both desktop and web-based for over ten years, Andrew Powell is a leader in the RIA community. He is an expert in a strong variety of technologies with a heavy focus on helping clients extract the most value from Adobe?s suite of tools. Initially a Java developer, he has branched out and become an expert in Flex, ColdFusion, and AJAX. Recently, he has begun branching exploring how Java tools like Hibernate and Spring can enhance ColdFusion and Flex powered RIAs.

Graduating from Mercer University with a BBA in Computer Information Systems, Finance, and Management, Mr. Powell brings a business acumen to clients and their situations that is rarely seen in consultants these days. These skills allow him to help clients assess the enterprise-wide impact of Rich Enterprise Applications (REA) with a strong focus on the client?s bottom line.

As a member of Universal Mind?s team and an Adobe Community Expert, he provides training, development, performance analysis and tuning, and incident resolution services across a wide array of technologies. He also speaks nationally and internationally as a representative of Universal Mind on many RIA-centered topics such as Flex, AJAX, ColdFusion, and Java.

Mr. Powell resides in Marietta, Georgia with his wife and two daughters.

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Darren Pywell (Intergral)

Darren Pywell is co-founder and Chief Technical Officer at Intergral Information Solutions.

Darren has over 17 years of experience working at a senior technical level. Darren graduated from Staffordshire University in 1990, with a BSc First Class Honors Degree in Computing Science.

Darren began his career at Akebia Systems, a UK-based company that developed software for high-end medical and flight simulator systems. In 1993, Darren was asked by Hewlett-Packard to join their Dealer Information Services initiative as technical lead for the client software. DIS was a leading-edge world-wide project to provide HP dealers with Order Status, Product, Pricing, Sales + Marketing and Support Information using Internet technologies.

In 1998, Darren co-founded Intergral and assumed the role of CTO where he has been responsible for architecting and realizing Intergral's product portfolio.

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John Hawksley (Intergral Information Solutions GmbH)

John graduated from Staffordshire University in 1997 with a B.Sc. in Computer Science. After a couple of years freelancing, he joined Intergral in 1999. He has been involved as the software engineer (and later senior engineer) on every product shipped by the company since then.

John is an expert in CF and its internals, interactive debuggers, monitors, document management, analytics, and writing in the third person.

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Aaron West (Dealerskins)

For the past nine years Aaron has been heavily involved in the Web development space building enterprise-level, database-driven Web applications and leading technology teams. He's incredibly passionate about what he does and attempts to inject his enthusiasm and love for technology in all those around him.

In his overall strategy of building high performance teams and managing enterprise-level projects Aaron could be described as a "cohesion warrior." He strives each and every day to challenge those around him to build the absolute best software. This involves coordinating efforts from sales, marketing, executive management, product development, customer support, and ultimately the folks writing code, to ensure the best possible technology experience is delivered to customers. Aaron has a learned ability to communicate across an entire enterprise, from executive management and owners to customer support, bringing teams together to solve difficult business problems.

Whether it involves writing code or leading teams he aims to make a positive difference in the lives of those around him.

Aaron blogs regularly at http://www.trajiklyhip.com/blog and can be reached via phone or e-mail from links on his blog.

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Javier Julio (Arc90)

Javier Julio is a Software Developer at Arc90, a group of strategists, designers and technologists passionate about creating compelling web applications. He started working in ColdFusion and other server side technologies back in 2004 but since 2007 has transitioned fully to client side development. At Arc90 he develops various Flex clients, particularly modules that interact with a collection of RESTful web services. He has built Flex applications that interact with ColdFusion through Flash Remoting and has grown fond of developing in AIR. He also has a knack for building custom UI components.

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Terry Ryan (Adobe)

Terry Ryan is currently an Adobe Platform Evangelist for ColdFusion. He has been working with ColdFusion for 10 years. He?s presented at various Adobe ColdFusion events including cf.Objective, webDU, and Adobe Max. Prior to joining Adobe, Terry worked for the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in various roles around ColdFusion from Application Developer to System Administrator.

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Christophe Coenraets (Adobe)

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Yakov Fain (Farata Systems)

Yakov Fain is a Managing Director and a Partner at Farata Systems, a company that provides consulting services in the field of development of enterprise Rich Internet applications. 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 upcoming 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.

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Adam Lehman (Adobe)

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Michael VanDaniker (University of Maryland)

Michael is currently the Visualization Manager at the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory. His primary role is bringing the benefits of data visualization to the transportation sector. To this end, he leverages Flex and ColdFusion to create rich, web-accessible visualizations.

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Brian Kotek (Alagad, Inc.)

Brian Kotek has been building web applications for over 11 years for a range of enterprise customers and government agencies. His expertise lies in ColdFusion, Flex, AIR, Java, and object-oriented development. He is a frequent blogger, writes for publications such as CNET and Fusion Authority Quarterly Update, and is a regular speaker at conferences such as CF.Objective() and CFUnited. Brian is a member of the ColdSpring development team, and has assisted with a number of popular projects including Model-Glue, ColdBox, and Transfer. He also has released a number of open-source projects including the ColdMock mock object factory, ColdSpring Bean Utilities, UML to CFC Generator, and FormUtilities. Brian also moderates the ColdFusion forums at Devshed, and helps answer questions on a number of high-traffic mailing lists. For discussions on these topics and more, you can find his blog at www.briankotek.com/blog.

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Chris Peterson (Alagad, Inc.)

I am a software developer for Alagad, Inc. I started writing code when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, cut my teeth on BASIC on a 12 mhz system and never looked back. I love all things 'enterprisey', fast servers and fiber make me giddy, and I love talking shop. Find me at CFUnited and tell me the secret password 'stinky pants', and if I have any left when you find me you can get a free hand-crafted wooden twist pen =)

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Todd Peters (PaperThin)

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Sean Schroeder (Blue River Interactive Group)

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Janine Driver (http://lyintamer.com)

Janine Driver, Body Language Contributor for NBC's The Today Show, has been dubbed the "Lyin' Tamer" and that's L-Y-I-N Tamer because...she knows when people are lying! Janine is a world-renowned body language expert, international speaker, author and life coach. She has been seen on the Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN, the History Channel, ESPN, Fox News Live and many more. She is the author of The Masters of Success and will release her second book with Crown Publishing, ?YOU SAY MORE THAN YOU THINK: A 7- Day Plan on How to Use the New Body Language to Get What You Want?, February 2010. Janine's background is as fascinating as the subject matter she teaches. By day, she spent more than a decade as an award- winning Federal Law Enforcement Officer for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), training 30,000+ cops, lawyers and judges in the fine art of separating fact from fiction. By night, she thrilled audiences as a stand up comic who shared the stage with Chris Rock, Robin Williams and Ray Romano. Today, Janine teaches her recently de-classified body language strategies to thousands of businesses around the globe! Her motto: "If I can teach cops to get the bad guys to confess, then I can teach YOU to easily get the people in your life to say 'YES'!"

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Greg Wilson (Adobe)

Sr. Enterprise Evangelist for Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, LiveCycle and Acrobat!

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Bhakti Pingale (Adobe)

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Dipanwita Sarkar (Adobe)

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Manju Kiran Pacchhipulusu (Adobe Systems Inc)

Manjukiran is a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Adobe. With close to 5 years in the ColdFusion Product team, he has seen the releases of ColdFusion 7.0.1, ColdFusion 8, ColdFusion 8.0.1 and now ColdFusion 9. He has worked on features like CFThread, ColdFusion .Net Integration, CFExchange, ColdFusion Interfaces. In ColdFusion 9 timeframe, he has worked on ColdFusion-ORM. He keeps in touch with the ColdFusion community by actively participating in the forums and though blogs.

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Hemant Khandelwal (Adobe Systems Inc)

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Mike Collins (Adobe Systems Inc)

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Ben Forta (Adobe Systems Inc)

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Andy Matthews (commadelimited)

Andy Matthews is currently a Senior Web Developer for Dealerskins, Inc., an enterprise shop focusing on professional websites for the automotive space. He runs a successful freelance company, commadelimited; manages a recipe website called Coop Cookbook; is the author of several open source ColdFusion libraries: PicasaCFC, and ShrinkURL; has published an HTML/JS Adobe AIR Application, Shrinkadoo, featured in the AIR Marketplace, and is available to speak at User Groups or Conferences for the RIA crowd. Andy lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, two children, and two dogs.

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