Speakers

  • 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.
  • Fred Anderson
    In 1995 Fred made the transition from full-time musician to full-time programmer. From the beginning ColdFusion has played a major part in his Internet-Based Applications. For the past seven years Fred has worked in the Real Estate market developing a property search engine and geo-spatial mapping tools. In the past year He has been working on iPhone applications powered by ColdFusion back-ends.
    As an active member and one time administrator of the Twin Cities ColdFusion User Group, Fred has presented on "ColdFusion AJAX w/jQuery", "Data Visualization w/CFImage", "Product Management w/ SVN and TRAC", "Screen Scraping w/ColdFusion".
  • Charlie Arehart
    A veteran ColdFusion developer and troubleshooter since 1997 with over 25 years in IT, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the community and a recognized Adobe Community Professional. As an independent consultant, he provides short-term troubleshooting/tuning assistance and training/mentoring for organizations of all sizes and CF experience levels (carehart.org/consulting).
    Besides running the 2000-member Online ColdFusion Meetup (coldfusionmeetup.com, an online CF user group), he also hosts the UGTV repository of recorded presentations from hundreds of speakers (carehart.org/ugtv) and the CF411 site of over 1000 tools/resources for CFers (cf411.com). A certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for each version since CF 4, Charlie's spoken at each of the major CF conferences worldwide and is a contributor to all three volumes of Ben Forta's ColdFusion 8 and 9 WACK books.
  • Laura Arguello
    Laura Arguello is co-founder of AsFusion, a company specialized in the development of Rich Internet Applications. Laura is known for her contributions to the Adobe developer community made through her blog and open source software, Mango Blog and Mate Flex Framework. She has also written articles about Flex and ColdFusion for the Adobe Developer Center, the WebDJ and the CFDJ. She holds a degree in Information and Computer Science with specialization in Software Systems from the University of California, Irvine and her main interests are user experience, software architecture and finding or creating tools that make the developer’s life easier.
  • John Paul Ashenfelter
    John Paul has been working with the web since Yahoo! was a web page updated twice a week by some guy named Jerry. He has worked with nearly every web development technology that is not Perl, and continues to enjoy not working with Perl. Strongly focused on agile development, John Paul has used ColdFusion since version 3.0 and has been a constant presence at ColdFusion conferences ever since. He also wrote ColdFusion for Dummies in addition to several other books and dozens of articles on web development, coldfusion, open source databases, testing, and other agile practices.
    Now John Paul focuses mostly on open-source development, including Ruby, Rails, and other emerging web technologies in addition to consulting on ColdFusion projects for startups, the Fortune 500, nonprofits, and educational institutions. He is particularly interested in the NoSQL database movement, the Javascript renaissance on the server-side, and the mobile application development space. In his spare time, he is a husband, father of two boys, and certified geek.
  • Simeon Bateman
    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 ColdFusion 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.
  • Peter Bell
     Peter Bell is a passionate advocate of Application Generation and meta-programming in ColdFusion and writes the popular Application Generation blog (http://appgen.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. He is also a member of the Railo consulting team.
  • Steve Blades
     Steve 'Cutter' Blades lives and works in Nashville, TN. Singer, Prophet, Poet, Priest, and sometimes Web Developer, Cutter has been working with web technologies since HTML 1 and Mosaic, and working with ColdFusion since '99. Cutter's blog, http://blog.cutterscrossing.com, focuses on ColdFusion and related development languages, technologies and frameworks, and he co-authored the first book on the http://www.extjs.com Ext JS client-side framework "Learning Ext JS".
  • Barney Boisvert
     Barney Boisvert is a Sr. Application Developer at Mentor Graphics primarily using ColdFusion, Groovy, and JavaScript, along with a smattering of Java and Flex. Most of the work he does there is centered around mining and visualization of corporate marketing data, and many of his "hobby" projects follow the same thread. He is the author of the CFGroovy and FB3Lite frameworks, was a core contributor to Fusebox 4, has provided patches to Fusebox 5, Prototype, Groovy, Hibernate and ColdSpring. He is an active member in local and online CF, Flex, and Java communities and occasionally speaks at user groups and conferences.
  • Rob Brooks-Bilson
     Rob Brooks-Bilson is a consultant, freelance writer, and the Director of Architecture at Amkor Technology. His involvement with ColdFusion goes back to version 1.5 and includes many Enterprise projects, the creation of numerous open source custom tags, and co-founding CFLib.org. Rob is an Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion, a member of the CFML Advisory Committee, manages the CFCDev mailing list and is a frequent speaker at ColdFusion user groups and conferences. Over the years, Rob has written many articles on ColdFusion and other technologies for various print and online magazines. He's also the author two O'Reilly books, Programming ColdFusion and Programming ColdFusion MX.
  • Thomas Burleson
     Thomas Burleson has been building software solutions for more than 25 years. His leadership and extensive experience have been instrumental in providing e-commerce and internet solutions for numerous companies including SAP, Oracle, Principal Financial Group, Sherwin-Williams, Adobe, Roundarch, and Universal Mind. Thomas has been involved in the development of SAP's Business Analytics Visualization tools, UniversalMind’s SpatialKey software, the Sherwin William's Visualizer software, JibJab, Oracle’s GeoSpatial software tools, and more...
  • Raymond Camden
     Raymond Camden is a developer for FirstComp, Inc. 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, ColdFusionCookbook.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.
  • Emily Christiansen
    Emily Christiansen is a Web Developer at ImageTrend who has been involved with projects such as the design and development of a cellular database and development of statewide hospital systems for tracking resources and patients in mass casualty incidents. Her specialties include ColdFusion development, OO development, Java development and software development practices and processes. She is a voracious reader and sings soprano at the Saint Paul Vocal Forum in Saint Paul, MN.
  • Sean Corfield
    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 and best practice. Sean has championed and contributed to a number of CFML frameworks and was lead developer on Fusebox for two years.
  • Jeff Coughlin
    Jeff Coughlin is the owner of Versatile Internet Solutions, 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 an Adobe Community Professional, he is the Adobe User Group manager for Hartford CT 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://jeffcoughlin.com/.
  • Jason Dean
     Currently employed by the Minnesota Department of Health, Jason Dean has been working in Information Technology for 12 years, focusing on application security for the past three. A veteran of the U.S. Coast Guard trained in both physical and information security, he held a secret security clearance and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology Management from American Military University. He keeps busy managing a ColdFusion User Group at the Department of Health, sitting on the board of the Twin Cities ColdFusion User Group, speaking at conferences and user groups, training, and blogging at http://www.12robots.com.
  • Steven Erat
     Steven is a Senior Consultant at Webapper Services, specializing in ColdFusion Tuning, Troubleshooting, and Development, and Flex Development. His experience with database-driven Web applications began at Allaire in 2000 where he provided Gold Support for premiere enterprise customers of Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe. Later, Steven was a member of the ColdFusion Product Team and eventually joined the ColdFusion Engineering Team at Adobe as Lead Software Quality Developer where he rigorously tested the ColdFusion 8 server. He then joined the Flex Engineering Team as Flex SDK Quality Software Developer, where he worked on Flex 3 and Flex 4 SDK product development.
  • Marc Esher
     Marc Esher has been developing ColdFusion and Java applications since 2000. He currently works in the financial industry building custom print-on-demand software. He is a co-project-owner for MXUnit and has contributed the Eclipse plugin along with several framework features. He has an abiding passion for team building, mentoring, and process improvement. Marc lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and children.
  • Peter Farrell
     Hailing from the frigid tundra of Minnesota, Peter J. Farrell has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. While studying music, Peter took his life-long interest with computers to a new level and started learning about web development technologies. He has been working with CFML since 2001 and is the lead developer of the Mach-II framework since 2005.
    Peter is a Senior Technologist for GreatBizTools, a human resources consulting firm. He and his wife, Allyson, live together in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
  • Simon Free
     Simon is an Adobe Community Expert, an Adobe Certified Instructor, and a Senior Web Developer for e-bim.com. 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 used many different technologies including ColdFusion, Flex, InDesign, AIR, and Blaze DS. Constantly learning, Simon is always looking for new challenges and reports his findings to user groups and on his website. www.simonfree.com
  • Mike Henke
     Mike Henke has been developing ColdFusion applications since 2000. He recently moved to the DC area from Omaha. His focus is advancing ColdFusion development with tools like Mylyn, source control, and open source projects. He blogs occasionally at www.henke.ws and has written for Fusion Authority Quarterly Update.
  • Shannon Hicks
     Shannon Hicks is a Senior Developer at Webapper, and concentrates on ColdFusion, Flex and AIR development projects. After over a decade as a ColdFusion developer, Shannon made the jump to Flex 2 during the public beta, and now splits his time between the two. You can currently find his CF and Flex examples and other ramblings on the Webapper Blog (http://www.webapper.com/blog/) and on his personal site http://www.iotashan.com/
  • Doug Hughes
    Doug Hughes is a veteran programmer who founded Alagad after briefly flirting with a career in computer animation. Doug has a strong record of achievement with large, complex web applications. His ability to learn and apply new technologies and techniques has helped Doug become one of the web application development industry’s most highly regarded experts.
    Doug’s current focus at Alagad is leading an application development team dedicated to helping organizations improve operational efficiency and performance. This commitment to client success has helped Alagad achieve record growth. A frequent speaker at industry conferences and user groups, Doug also regularly contributes to several well-known open source projects. In addition, his articles have been featured in numerous technical publications.
  • Brian Kotek
    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, Groovy, 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, the Swiz 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.
  • Jamie Krug
     Jamie Krug developed a love for programming early on, writing a BASIC program on a RadioShack TRS-80 to calculate "little league" baseball batting averages at an early age. He entered college as a computer science major, but ended up with a bachelor's degree in music and a mathematics minor. Long story, short: Jamie loves both music and programming, but programming generally pays a bit better. Primarily building Web applications in ColdFusion since 2001, Jamie is a passionate learner and also geeks around in Groovy/Java, Flex/ActionScript and Linux, among others. He also greatly appreciates and participates in many open source software projects.
  • Luis Majano
     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, CodexWiki (www.codexwiki.org) and open source enterprise wiki system and is the Adobe ColdFusion user group manager for the Inland Empire. You can also read his blog at www.luismajano.com
  • Mark Mandel
     Mark Mandel is a full time consultant and lead developer on several open source projects, most notably Transfer ORM, ColdSpring, JavaLoader and ColdDoc and has been working with ColdFusion for a number of years, including at his very own dot com back in the late 90's.
    Mark can often be found blogging at www.compoundtheory.com, which has housed his thoughts on ColdFusion, Java and various aspects of software development for several years. He can also be found as a regular poster on ColdFusion mailing lists as well as generally causing havoc in the #coldfusion channel on Dalnet irc network.
    When he's not too busy writing open source software and consulting he enjoys spending his extra time training martial arts in a wide variety of disciplines and reading way too much fantasy literature.
  • John Mason
     John is the lead developer for Merlin Manager, an AIR based ColdFusion server management and monitoring system. He is the founding member of the popular RIApodcast.com and the Online Flex Meetup - flexmeetup.com. John also founded and served as the first president of the Atlanta Flash/Flex Users Group, and is currently the president of the Atlanta ColdFusion Users Group, one of the largest CF user groups in the world. John maintains several popular open source projects at RIAforge.org such as Portcullis, a sql injection and cross-site (XSS) filter. He earned his MBA in 2001 from Georgia Southern University and is the current President/CEO of FusionLink, a ColdFusion and Flex hosting company based in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • Andy Matthews
     Andy Matthews is currently Senior Web Developer for Dealerskins, an enterprise shop focusing on professional websites for the automotive space. He is the author of several open source ColdFusion libraries on RIAForge.org and has developed multiple AIR applications with Flex, as well as HTML/JS. Andy loves designing rich user interfaces as well as writing the back end code to support them. He tweets: @commadelimited, he blogs: andymatthews.net, and he lives in Nashville, TN with his wife, two children, and two dogs.
  • Justin Mclean
     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.
  • Brian Meloche
     A ColdFusion developer since 1998, Brian Meloche is a longtime contributor to the community. Best known as the host of CFConversations, he's an Adobe Community Expert for CF and manages the Cleveland CFUG. Before that, he managed the Cleveland AUG and the West Virginia MMUG. Brian has been involved in several community efforts and has mentored several user group managers. Brian has also written several articles for the ColdFusion Developer's Journal and Fusion Authority. Since early 2004, Brian has worked for a successful wholesaler in Cleveland, Ohio, where he has been involved in several large enterprise web projects using ColdFusion. Brian's also a partner at LightWater Web Consulting Group, and is available for consulting opportunities. He lives in Cleveland with his wife, Julie, as well as several dogs and cats they have rescued.
  • Dan Nelson
     Dan Nelson is a Senior Developer at ImageTrend, with 5 + years of expertise in Adobe Flash technologies and ColdFusion. Dan’s experience in architecture and design has led to a leadership role in developing real-time apps and RIA’s for a variety of industries. Some examples of his work include high-availability emergency preparedness, response and management applications for State and Local EMS. Dan has also worked on many high-profile projects for clients like Russell Athletic, Caterpillar, Medtronic, and the Missouri Department of Health. In his free time Dan is an avid tennis player and enjoys exploring the unlimited possibilities of technology. His website is www.FlashDan.net.
  • Ezra Parker
     Ezra Parker has been developing with ColdFusion since 2000, and is a Senior Software Developer for Alagad, Inc. He is currently the Associate Director for the Model-Glue framework, and serves as the Co-Manager of the Inland Empire ColdFusion User Group. He also publishes a blog at http://www.cfgrok.com
  • Chris Peterson
    Chris is a father of 3, developer for Alagad, and former network admin and ‘computer guy’. He plays Magic the Gathering, loves to make pens and do-dads on the lathe, and is going to school for a BS in computer science. He seldom blogs at www.cfcode.net, frequently hangs out at #coldfusion on DalNet, and always loves to cook. He's a fan of all things server related, loves troubleshooting poorly running applications, and designing code to run under heavy load.
  • Jim Priest
     Jim Priest is a husband, father of two, developer, and avid motorcyclist. He currently works for SRA International as a Configuration Manager and Senior Software Development Analyst. He works
    primarily with ColdFusion, JIRA and Ant, but also dabbles with Powerbuilder, as well as creating handheld applications in Visual CE.
    Jim is an active participant in the ColdFusion community; co-managing the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group (TACFUG) in the Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina area. In 2009 he helped organize
    CFinNC, the first ColdFusion conference in North Carolina. He also contributes to several ColdFusion related projects including CFEclipse and the Model-Glue framework. He posts regularly to his blog
    at http://www.thecrumb.com. In his spare time he enjoys tinkering with Linux and flying remote control airplanes.
  • Rob Rusher
     Rob Rusher is an Adobe Certified Expert (ACE), Professional (ACP), and Instructor (ACI). In his role as Principle 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 ColdFusion 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.
  • Terry Ryan (Adobe)
     Terry Ryan is a Flash Platform Evangelist for Adobe. He specializes in ColdFusion. Previously he was a ColdFusion developer for over 10 years, working at the Wharton School of Business. He’s been blogging about ColdFusion since 2004 at both Aarrgghh and TerrenceRyan.com. He’s started and contributed to several open source projects on RIAForge.org. When’s he’s not traveling the world touting the advantages of ColdFusion and the rest of the Flash Platform, you can find him in his home office in Philadelphia, PA, USA.
  • Sean Schroeder
     After starting his own Internet services company six years ago (Studio Squared Inc.) with Blue River's Matt Levine, award-winning designer Sean Schroeder joined Blue River with a unique focus on solid design principles applied to the user experience. In collaboration with Matt, Sean is the founder and developer of Mura CMS, Blue River’s popular open source content management system.
  • Bob Silverberg
     Bob Silverberg has been developing software for nearly twenty years, the past ten of which have been devoted to web application development with ColdFusion. He runs a small development company from his home in Toronto, where he divides his time between client work, open source development and taking care of his two young sons. He is an active participant on a number of ColdFusion mailing lists and blogs at www.silverwareconsulting.com.
  • Dan Skaggs
    Dan Skaggs is co-founder of Web-Meister Designs, Inc., a web development consulting firm he and his wife started in 1999 as a part-time endeavor. In 2006, Dan transitioned to the role of independent consultant, working full-time through Web-Meister for clients of all sizes located across the United States. A web developer since 1998, Dan has been developing ColdFusion applications since 2000 and has held multiple ColdFusion certifications. Dan is a contributing partner to the Model-Glue MVC framework for ColdFusion. Dan also enjoys shooting, motorcycling, and amateur radio.
  • Lance Smith
     Lance Smith is a senior application engineer for O’Neil & Associates, Inc., a defense and commercial contractor in Miamisburg, Ohio. He has been developing with ColdFusion for over ten years, and has extensive experience in several aspects of the Web including design, development, architecture and optimization. He is a part-time instructor at Sinclair Community College and has taught such topics as Web design with Dreamweaver and digital media with Photoshop and Illustrator. Lance is an Adobe Certified Expert in ColdFusion 8. Lance is also actively involved in the ColdFusion community, and co-manages the Miami Valley ColdFusion User Group.
  • Jeff Tapper
     Jeff has over a decade of experience developing Internet applications for a myriad of clients, including Major League Baseball, 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, Flash and AIR development. He has been working with Flex since the earliest alphas of Flex 1.0. Jeff has worked as an author on several books, including Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source and Breaking Out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR.
  • Dan Vega
     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. 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.
  • Kurt Wiersma
     Kurt is an ColdFusion and Java developer who 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 and Mach II open source projects. He recently started a open source project called, AppBooster, which aims to show best practices for using several different frameworks with ColdFusion.
  • Dan Wilson
     As principal partner of DataCurl LLC, Dan Wilson runs both the consulting practice and ChallengeWave.com, a way to help employees start and stick with healthier lifestyles. Before launching DataCurl, Dan held numerous senior program and development positions in such industries as Technical Consulting, Health Care, Online Publishing and Government Contracting.
    Dan is an avid participant in technology communities; an Adobe Community Professional, manager of the Triangle ColdFusion User Group in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Managing Director of the popular Model-Glue framework and contributor to numerous ope