Speakers
The following speakers are confirmed for Scotch 2008.
Charlie Arehart
A veteran ColdFusion developer since 1997, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Expert. He's a certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for CF 4/5/6/7 who served as tech editor of the ColdFusion Developers Journal until 2003. Now an independent contractor living in Alpharetta GA, Charlie provides high-level troubleshooting/tuning assistance and training/mentoring for CF teams. He helps run the Online ColdFusion Meetup, an online CF user group, is a contributor to the CF8 WACK books by Ben Forta, and is frequently invited to speak to developer conferences and user groups worldwide.
Ian Bale
Ian is a co-director of Celtic Internet, a consultancy company specialising in Internet based applications, with a heavy emphasis on private Intranet systems. Although well versed in most popular (and some, not so popular) Internet technologies, Ian specialises in ColdFusion and Flex. Ian has had several articles published in CFDJ Magazine. In the past Ian has also worked in the aerospace industry, writing software for Tornado jets, and in the telecoms industry working on mobile phone and digital data transmission systems.
Peter Bell
Peter Bell is CEO/CTO of SystemsForge (http://www.systemsforge.com) and helps Web designers to increase their profits and build a residual income by generating custom web applications - in minutes, not months. An experienced entrepreneur and software architect with fifteen years of business experience, he lectures and blogs extensively on application generation and ColdFusion design patterns.
Sean Corfield
Sean Corfield is the architect behind large-scale, high-availability websites for companies such as Macromedia, Toshiba, Oracle, Toyota and Thomas Cook. He is a frequent speaker on software design within the ColdFusion community, at user groups and conferences across the world. Sean has championed and contributed to a number of ColdFusion frameworks and his passion for standards and software engineering led him to work on the C++ Standards Committee for eight years. He is currently a freelance software architect and developer.
Jason Delmore
Jason Delmore is the Product Manager for ColdFusion at Adobe Systems Incorporated. Over the past ten years, he has worked in several roles including systems administrator, e-commerce engineer, application developer, database designer, architect, and development manager. Prior to coming to Adobe, he held the position of Director of Engineering for Deploy Solutions, a leading HR software provider. Jason spent the last couple of years on ColdFusion 8 and is currently working with the ColdFusion team, customers, and development community, to plan the next major release.
Mark Drew
Mark has been programming Coldfusion 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 ColdFusion, so much so that he decided to be part of the CFEclipse team and build an even better editor to write CF with. As a day job he is Product Manager at Design UK http://www.designuk.com, a London based agency providing ecommerce, content managament, CRM and creative marketing solutions to some of the rather more well known high street stores. Apart from this Mark still has time to develop CFEclipse (http://www.cfeclipse.org) and blog about coldfusion and related subjects over at http://www.markdrew.co.uk/blog/. Mark is also co-manager of the UKCFUG http://www.ukcfug.org and has spoken on a number of subjects including ORMs, Frameworks and CFEclipse.
Peter Elst
Peter Elst is a certified Flash instructor, Adobe Community Expert, and active in the Adobe User Group Belgium. Most recently Peter was the lead author of Object-Oriented ActionScript 3.0 (Friends of ED, 2007)
www.peterelst.com
Ben Forta
Ben Forta is the Adobe senior product evangelist and the author of numerous books, including ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, JavaServer Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, the certification tests and Macromedia Press study guides for those tests, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing, speaking, and writing about application development worldwide.
Gert Franz
Gert is one of the founders of Railo Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started back in 2001. Next to the development he mainly works as a web designer at New Impact (http://www.newimpact.com) One of his favorite web projects was for www.zinodavidoff.com. He is addicted to problem solving, performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server). He is the father of three and boyfriend of one and as far as he can remember, he studied physics in Munich some years ago.
Simon Gladman
Simon Gladman is development director at Tag Worldwide � an international design and production agency � where he manages fifteen programmers working on Tag's end-to-end advertising production solution, CMD. Simon has almost ten years of web application experience, working with ColdFusion SQL Server, DHTML and JavaScript. Before that he worked with Visual Basic and creating 3d animation for advertising. Over the last few years, he has been working with Flex and working towards a richer user interface for CMD. Simon is passionate about user interface design and is an occasional speaker at Flex user groups.
Doug Hughes
Doug Hughes is a veteran programmer and the president of Alagad (http://www.alagad.com), a successful small business specializing in web application development, training, and consulting. Doug authors or contributes to several well-known ColdFusion projects such as Reactor and Model-Glue.
Duncan Jack
Duncan Jack is a Business Consultant, specializing in the delivery of standards-compliant Web applications built using Rapid Application Development (RAD) techniques. Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Civil Engineering, Financial Services and Oil & Gas in the United States.
Kai Koenig
Kai is a German Software Solutions Architect living in New Zealand by choice but working world-wide. He has just started a new venture as a self-employed consultant for Adobe's and other web technologies under the brand Ventego Creative (http://www.ventego-creative.co.nz).
Kai is an Advanced Certified ColdFusion Developer since the early days of CF and an Adobe Master Instructor for the Flex, ColdFusion, Connect and LiveCycle curriculum. He holds a Master of Science degree in Maths, Computer Science and Philosophy and always tries to find a way of digging deeper into the theories of language and parser construction. His most recent hobby is re-discovering the joys of functional programming
Sanjeev Kumar
Sanjeev Kumar has been working as a computer scientist on the Adobe ColdFusion Development Team for last 3 years. During this stint, he was involved in developing pdf forms related features and language enhancements for scorpio. He has more than 9 years of experience designing and developing enterprise applications using Java/JEE/EAI technology.
Adam Lehman
Adam Lehman is the ColdFusion Specialist at Adobe Systems, Incorporated based out of Washington, DC, and has been a ColdFusion developer for over a decade. Prior to joining Adobe, Adam was the Senior Web Engineer for the U.S. Department of State, where he managed a team of developers, architected enterprise ColdFusion-based applications, and founded and managed the Department of State Adobe Developer User Group for over two years. His background also includes several years designing and programming e-learning applications for Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Nicolas Lierman
Nicolas Lierman is a senior application developer and chief architect of the Flex team at Boulevart where he leads the development of non service based product development and manages corporate client projects. Prior to joining Boulevart Nicolas has worked at a top Agency as a Flash platform developer, was a Flash video consultant for the movie industry in LA and created one of the first cross media experiences on national TV with an interactive dating show. He is also the author of he Analytics Reporting Suite for Google Analytics, one of the most popular AIR apps at the moment.
Luca Mezzalira
Luca is an Italian Flash platform developer and certified instructor who works on Flex, Flash, Air and Flash Lite projects. A writer for national and international technical magazines, and a member of actionscript.it, Luca also has his own multimedia agency based in Padova call m.art3
Neil Middleton
Neil is currently Lead Technical Architect at 2nd Byte in Surrey, whilst spending his evenings running Feed-Squirrel.com the RSS aggregator. Neil has been working with Coldfusion since 1999 and has particular interest in web usability and quality. Neil actually does have two cats called Bitmap and Jpeg.
Joe Rinehart
Joe Rinehart architects and develops Adobe ColdFusion, Flash, Flex, and Ajax applications for all manner of public and private organizations. By participating in the Adobe community and developing open-source development tools like Model-Glue, Joe has built a reputation as a leader in the Adobe development community.
David Rutter
David is the CTO for Tag Worldwide, a leading international design and production agency whose headquarters are in London. He has 20 years experience across a range of industries including advertising, finance and telcoms and and a range of technologies including ColdFusion, Java, and C++.
Andrew Shorten
As a Platform Evangelist for Adobe, Andrew spends time on the road travelling across Europe meeting with designers, developers, partners and customers to talk about Flex, Flash and AIR.
Amir Shoval
Amir joined RadView in November 2006 to manage the Product Management team and lead the planning of the product roadmap. Prior to joining RadView, Amir spent 10 years at Elbit Systems, where he designed, developed and project-managed large-scale turnkey programs for the defense sector. Before joining Elbit, Amir served for 7 years as a software developer in the Israeli army�s top computer engineering unit. Amir holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the Israeli Open University and an MBA from Tel Aviv University.
Scott Stroz
After spending over a decade working as a paramedic, Scott decided it was time for a change and started down the path of web development. Currently, 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.
Toby Tremayne
Toby is CEO of Lyric - a consulting agency based in Melbourne Australia offering architecture and development services, training, mentoring and process development. A certified ColdFusion and Flex Trainer with more than 10 years experience in the industry, he spends a lot of time harping on about coding standards and SDLC best practice. Author of the open source Flex-to-TransferORM adapter "Bender", Toby is passionate about enabling developers and designers to build their skills and careers and move from tradesman to artisan. Outside work he can usually be found spending time with his wife and son or in the dark corners of pubs practicing magic tricks. www.lyricist.com.au www.tobytremayne.com
Nick Watson
As a Technical Account Manager for ColdFusion, Flex and Livecyle Data Services ES, he is responsible for managing, driving and maintaing technical relationships with major customers in Europe that use these Adobe Enterprise technologies. He previously held the position of Senior Support Engineer and Senior Consultant for ColdFusion, JRun and Spectra during the Macromedia and Allaire days. His daily contact with customers and developers give Nick and excellent view and knowledge of how Adobe technology is deployed and used.
Neil Webb
Neil is a Flash Platform Developer who has been very active in the community for a number of years. He is a moderator on actionscript.org and regularly writed tutorials for various sites including Adobe Devnet, ActionScript.org and his own blog nwebb.co.uk. Clients include Cambridge University, FIFA, the MOD & Hutchinson Whampoa.
Matt Woodward
Matt Woodward is Principal Information Technology Specialist at the Office of the Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. He is a Certified ColdFusion developer, has been working with ColdFusion since 1996, and blogs frequently about OO development and software architecture (http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog). In addition to his ColdFusion work, Matt also develops in Flex, Java, and C#. Matt is the release coordinator and a contributing developer for the Mach-II framework, and he also co-hosts the ColdFusion Weekly Podcast (http://www.coldfusionweekly.com).