Andy Allan, Fuzzy Orange Ltd
Andy Allan is the CEO of Fuzzy Orange Ltd, a UK based RIA consultancy, specialising in AIR, ColdFusion, and Flex
An old schooler 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. As well as writing for UK based magazines, Web Designer and net mag, Andy has spoken at Adobe MAX, CFUnited, ColdFusionCamp, and to user groups worldwide.
When not working, Andy can usually be found rocking away on Guitar Hero with his wife and daughter.
Ben Nadel, Epicenter Consulting
Ben Nadel is the chief software engineer at Epicenter Consulting, a Manhattan-based software development firm specialising in innovative custom software that transforms the way its clients do business. He is also an Adobe Community Expert as well as an Adobe Certified Professional in Advanced ColdFusion.
In his spare time, he blogs extensively about all aspects of obsessively thorough web application development at www.bennadel.com.
Bruce Lawson, Opera
Born into the tech world when he was hastily delivered on a table in the Neasden Science Museum, Bruce evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He co-authored Introducing HTML5, the first book on the subject.
Previously, he’s been front-end technical lead for the Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority web sites, tutor to a princess’ daughter in Thailand, a movie extra in Bombay, and a tarot card reader in Istanbul. He blogs at brucelawson.co.uk, drinks Guinness and is training for a blue belt in kickboxing.
Chris Pelsor
Chris Pelsor is an American Developer and Experience Designer based in Norway. He works with various sizes and types of companies designing and engineering unorthodox solutions to unique business problems. Chris has worked with Vodafone US and UK, Sony, Pepsi, Microsoft and Adobe.
He has worked with mobile and device development since the early betas of the Flash 5 player on PocketPC and Nokias.
Recently, he has taken this experience and is helping businesses tackle the challenges of going mobile through content strategy and development.
In his newly revamped blog, SnogBlog, Chris is tackling subjects such as Design Thinking, Service Design, and Semiotics.
When he isn't busy with kids, beer brewing, or cavorting around the world, Chris also heads up a team of five gorillas that helps produce random bits for pubs.
Chris Mills, Opera
Chris Mills educates on open standards (such as HTML5 and CSS3) for Opera, the browser vikings, writing and editing articles on dev.opera.com and speaking at conferences and universities worldwide.
He also has a soft spot for Flash, having indulged in several acts of Flashturbation in his previous role as editorial director of publishing imprint friends of ED, of Flash Math Creativity and New Masters of Flash fame. He is also a heavy metal drummer.
Claude Englebert, Adobe Systems Inc
I am currently ColdFusion Product Specialist at Adobe for Europe, Middle-East and Africa. I have been using CF since version 4.5, and I was providing consulting and professional hosting services before joining Adobe.
My focus is our ColdFusion community of customers, developers and users here through marketing activities, partners management, customer meetings, a bit of evangelism, pre and post sales... well, in fact everything in relation with ColdFusion in EMEA.
Darren Walker
Hello. My name is Darren Walker and I am a ColdFusion developer. In the early 90s, I obtained a degree in Medical Laboratory Science at Otago University in Dunedin, New Zealand. Although I loved computers, it appeared obvious to me at that time that most computer programs that could have been written already had been, and therefore the software development industry was pretty dead.
Then, after Al Gore invented the internet, things suddenly got interesting. I went back to University to study Computer Science and ended up as "Web Master" at New Zealand Post in Wellington. Some young punk coder by the name of Jonathon Brown suggested we use this freaky language called ColdFusion to develop the intranet, and the rest, as they say, is cf_history.
The new millennium brought me to the UK where I have lived and ColdFusioned for the last 10 years. I have worked for agencies, medium size companies, start-ups, and large institutions. I have utilised CFML on complex content managed sites, high traffic ecommerce sites, internal web apps and custom CRM systems. I have applied ColdFusion to many industries; learning management, distribution and warehousing, telecomms, television and media, law and accountancy. I have coded CFML code structured in "form page - action page", Spectra, fusebox, custom frameworks, mach-ii, model-glue and spaghetti hell. I have designed procedural houses of straw and built object orientated skyscrapers of bricks.
I have been developer, designer, team leader, technical consultant, project manager, agile evangelist and ColdFusion contractor for hire. And now, quite proudly, speaker at Scotch on the Rocks 2011. Look forward to seeing you there.
David Stockton, Intergral
After graduating from Staffordshire University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree (with honours) in Software Engineering, David started his career developing desktop applications using Visual Basic.
After a period of working on interface design and prototyping for digital television set-top boxes, he made the move to web applications and working with ColdFusion in a variety of fields, from e-commerce to social networking.
After working for some time as an independent consultant / programmer, in 2006 David joined the team at Intergral Information Solutions, makers of FusionReactor and FusionDebug. David holds a senior consulting position for the Intergral UK team.
Gert Franz, Railo Technologies, Inc
Gert was born in 1967 and has lived in Switzerland since 1997. Back in the late eighties he studied astrophysics in Munich but switched later to IT as a profession and worked for several companies in the past as a database administrator and system analyst.
Since 2003 Gert has been involved in the Railo project and has lead the company since 2006. He is a father of three and boyfriend of one. You might have met Gert at one of the conferences in the past. If not, he will be presenting and attending at several conferences this year.
John Whish, Crisp eBusiness
John is the manager and founding member of the official Adobe ColdFusion User Group for Devon. An Adobe Certified Expert in Advanced ColdFusion, John regularly blogs about ColdFusion and contributes to several FOSS projects.
His hobbies include writing in the third person.
Mark Drew, Railo Consulting UK
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.
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.
Aside from all of that he is also works at Railo Consulting UK.
Matt Gifford, Fuzzy Orange Ltd
Matt Gifford, aka coldfumonkeh, is Lead Developer with Fuzzy Orange Ltd, and specialises in ColdFusion, Flex and AIR development.
Matt is the author of “Object-Oriented Programming in ColdFusion”, published by PackT publishing. He presents regularly at national and international conferences, user groups and online meetings, and has written tutorials and articles for online resources and leading UK industry magazines.
As an Adobe Community Professional for ColdFusion, Matt is a keen proponent for community resources and sharing knowledge. He regularly writes and releases open source ColdFusion applications and code samples, and loves a fresh Starbucks latte.
Find out more about Matt through his blog www.mattgifford.co.uk.
Peter Bell
Peter presents internationally and writes extensively on domain specific languages, NoSQL, agile architecture and requirements and estimating. He helps teams to develop great software quickly by improving the requirements gathering, estimating, project management processes, engineering practices and tools used.
He is on the program committee for Code Generation in Cambridge, England and the Domain Specific Modeling workshop at SPLASH (was ooPSLA). He has presented at a range of conferences including SoTR, CF United, cf.Objective, ooPSLA, Code Generation, Practical Product Lines, the British Computer Society Software Practices Advancement conference and the No Fluff Just Stuff tour. He has been published in IEEE Software, Dr. Dobbs, Information Week, Methods & Tools, NFJS the Magazine and is a regular contributor to GroovyMag.
He develops using ColdFusion (go Railo!), Groovy and Ruby and is looking for a chance to improve his Scala, Clojure and F# chops.
Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi
Raymond Camden is a software architect for FirstComp focusing on ColdFusion and RIA development. 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, and is the author of open source applications, including the popular BlogCFC (www.blogcfc.com) blogging application.
Raymond is an Adobe Community Professional. He is the happily married proud father of three kids and is somewhat of a Star Wars nut.
Raymond can be reached at his blog (www.coldfusionjedi.com) or via email at ray@camdenfamily.com.
Rob Rawlins, WeBoffins
Robert is a technologist. A firm believer that good developers spend only 10% of their time writing code and the remainder interacting with their team and the people who will use the software they create.
Providing half of the creative juices behind Think Blue, Robert was involved in all areas of product and business development, from hardware to software.
Since late 2009 Robert has started to share his ideas and abilities to help develop inventive applications for other businesses, by co-founding WeBoffins, a web development lab based in the bohemian north lanes of Brighton, East Sussex.
Rob Brooks-Bilson, Amkor Technology
Rob Brooks-Bilson is a consultant, author, and the director of architecture at Amkor Technology, a global leader in providing assembly and test services to semiconductor companies and electronics OEMs. His responsibilities at Amkor include development of strategic technology direction, planning of effective resource utilization, coordinating and directing technical development teams, and more.
He’s a frequent speaker at industry conferences as well as local user groups. Brooks-Bilson is also the author of two O'Reilly books, "Programming ColdFusion" and "Programming ColdFusion MX.".
Outside of work, Rob's a technophile, blogger, photographer, bed jumper, world traveler, hiker, mountain biker, and Adobe Community Professional for ColdFusion.
Sagar H Ganatra, Adobe Systems Inc
Sagar Ganatra is an Adobe ColdFusion QE from Bangalore, India, with more than four years of experience in the IT industry. As a ColdFusion QE he has worked on various features of both ColdFusion and ColdFusion Builder. Before joining Adobe he was employed with Keane – an IT services firm, here he was involved in developing web based applications and products.
He is very much passionate about web technologies and has a very good understanding of Flex, HTML5, jQuery, Java and of course ColdFusion. He writes on ColdFusion, ColdFusion Builder and other technologies at fusioned.blogspot.com.
Sean Corfield, Railo Technologies, Inc
Sean is currently CEO of Railo Technologies, Inc. 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, best practice and open source software. Sean has been writing open source software for almost twenty years.
Since joining the CFML community in 2001, he has championed and contributed to a number of CFML frameworks and was lead developer on Fusebox for two years. He released his own framework (FW/1) in 2009.
Stephen Moretti
Stephen has been developing commercial websites for over 13 years and using ColdFusion as his primary web technology since 1997. He originally started out creating one of the first newspaper websites to update their content daily from their newspaper content at the time of publication for Newcastle Chronicle and Journal Limited.
Since then Stephen has created web applications using ColdFusion for, amongst others, the BBC for their year 2000 broadcast, Formica Ltd and Europe, the Design Council and an alumni site for international children’s organisation Children’s International Summer Villages.
Stephen is now Software Development Manager for Enigma Interactive Limited in Newcastle where he has been lead developer for projects for clients such as Benfield Motor Group and ITV Signed Stories.
Over the years Stephen has been closely involved in the UK ColdFusion community running user groups and assisting with running ColdFusion conferences.
Steven Peeters, multimediacollege
Steven Peeters is an Adobe Certified Instructor who works for multimediacollege (Adobe Authorised Training Centre in Belgium and Luxembourg) and has 10+ years of development experience with different technologies such as C, C++, Java, Flex, AIR, etc. He is passionate about all things related to Flex, AIR and ColdFusion and he regularly teaches courses on those topics to a variety of profiles. In between teaching courses he also manages and works on technically complex projects to keep improving his skills.
As a Belgian ColdFusion User Group Manager Steven is also dedicated to sharing his knowledge with the community. He also writes blog posts on a regular basis on both his own website http://www.flexpert.be and on his company’s blog http://www.multimediacollege.be/blog. He is also the author of the upcoming book “Flash Builder & Flash Catalyst: the New Workflow” (April 2010).
When he’s not behind the computer you can find Steven spending quality time with his family or catching up on articles from about all areas in the science world.
Steven Erat
Steven's experience with database-driven Web applications began in Technical Support at Allaire in 2000, spanned across the Macromedia acquistion, and continued at Adobe where he was on the ColdFusion Engineering Team at as Lead Software QA Engineer where he rigorously tested the ColdFusion 8 server, specialising in LCDS integration. He then joined the Flex Engineering Team as Flex SDK QA Engineer where he worked on Flex 3 and 4 product development.
Presently, Steve is Senior Quality Assurance Engineer at FirstComp, providing testing of massive ColdFusion based web applications for the Insurance industry. Steven has spoken on LCDS for ColdFusion Developers at RIA Unleashed and CF Objective. His interests have also led to him to achieve the RHCE (Red Hat Linux Certified Engineer), as well as to complete a 2 year Boston University program in Professional Digital Photography, allowing him to launch Steven Erat Photography, specializing in dramatic portrait design and high end photo retouching.
Terry Ryan, Adobe Systems Inc
I'm a Worldwide Developer Evangelist for Adobe. My job basically entails me traveling the world and talking about the developer tools and technologies that Adobe has to offer or that we support.
I'm also the author of target="_blank">Driving Technical Change. It's about convinving reluctant co-workers to adopt new tools and techniques. To find out more, see about my Book.
I went to University of Pennsylvania, and received a Bachelors of Art in Psychology. While I was in school, I started working in various Psychiatric clinical practices. Gradually I shifted from psychological work to computing work. By the time I got out of school, my desire to do psychology was gone, and there were tons of tech jobs available.
I started out of school working at the Wharton School of Business. I moved from tech support to server admin to system programmer to developer. After 10 years there, I had done just about every technical job there is to do, and decided programming was where I belonged.
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