Appliness

Michael Chaize

Michaël Chaize is a Developer Evangelist at Adobe where he focuses on Rich Internet Application and Mobile applications. Based in Paris, he works with large accounts that need to understand the benefits of rich user interfaces, leverage the existing back-ends to add a rich presentation layer and measure the impact on the existing IT teams. He believes that intuitive user experiences in the Enterprise are key to successful developments of effective, efficient, engaging, easy to learn and error free applications. Before joining Adobe, Michael founded a software company and taught RIA languages such as Flex and PHP in IT engineering schools. He’s the editor in chief of Appliness.

Christophe coenraets

Christophe Coenraets is a Technical Evangelist for Adobe where he focuses on Mobile and Rich Internet Applications for the Enterprise. He has been working on Flex since the early days of the product in 2003. In his previous role at Macromedia, Christophe worked on JRun, the company’s J2EE application server. Before joining Macromedia, Christophe was managing Java and Internet applications Evangelism at Sybase and Powersoft. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 15 years.

Mihai Corlan

I have been working for Adobe since 2006. Since 2008 I’ve been working as a developer evangelist for Adobe. My current role is worldwide web developer evangelist. This means I write code, I write articles, and I speak. If you want to invite me to speak to your conference or user group just drop me an email.

I first started programming when I was in school – my first program was written in Logos and it was drawing the Hydrogen atom on the screen. Shortly after, I guess I moved up a little bit  because I started writing programs that were solving equations and other mathematic problems using BASIC, a pen, and a piece of paper (during communism era it was hard to get your hands on a computer). Since those early days I’ve worked with all sort of web related technologies and at some point I was even working as an Eclipse platform developer.

I am based in Bucharest, Romania.

Brian Leroux

Brian LeRoux was the lead software architect at Nitobi Inc. where he focuses on delivering web and mobile apps and helping developers all over the world write their apps. He is a contributor to the popular PhoneGap open source framework and is the creator of XUI and Lawnchair. Suffice to say, Brian believes that the future of the Web is mobile and will depend on web standards, open source and hackers, like you. Adobe acquired Nitobi and now Brian works as a a free/open source software developer at Adobe. He works on PhoneGap, XUI, Lawnchair and WTFJS.

Alan greenblatt

Alan Greenblatt brings 25 years of software development and technical management expertise to his role as Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe. He has been building and deploying large enterprise data integration applications using semantic web technologies on the backend and Adobe Flex on the front end since Flex was first introduced, and holds patents associated with that work. Over the years he has contributed significantly to the development of advanced media technologies offered by both Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. Alan likes nothing better than to see advanced technologies like Adobe Flex used to solve real business problems.

Brian Rinaldi

Brian Rinaldi is a community manager for the Adobe Community Help and Learning team, where he oversees community strategy for Flash Platform Community Help. In his role, Brian brings together active Adobe product users, Adobe product team members, authors, and experts to provide users the most useful, relevant, and up-to-date information about Adobe products.

Holly schinsky

Holly Schinsky is a Developer Evangelist for Adobe currently focused on mobile development using PhoneGap and HTML/CSS and JavaScript. She has over 16 years experience in software development including a large focus on Adobe Flex and AIR for front-end and mobile development and Java for development on the server-side. She has also been heavily involved in helping to build numerous developer tools to aid in productivity, including Tour de Flex, Adobe AIR Launchpad and PhoneGap templates.

Andrew Trice

Andrew Trice is a Technical Evangelist with Adobe Systems. Andrew brings to the table more than a decade of experience designing, implementing, and delivering rich applications for the web, desktop, and mobile devices. He is an experienced architect, team leader, accomplished speaker, and published author, specializing in object oriented principles, mobile development, realtime data systems, GIS, and data visualization.

Raymond Camden

My name is Raymond Camden. I’m a 38 year old married father of three living in beautiful Lafayette, Louisiana. I am a developer evangelist for Adobe. My primary technical focus is on ColdFusion, jQuery, Flex, AIR, and the mobile space. I’ve been lucky to have been invited to speak at many conferences over the years, including CFUNITED and the Adobe MAX conferences.

Maile Valentine

Maile is the assistant editor for Appliness magazine and has worked with Adobe both as an employee and consultant for 8 years now. Maile started with Adobe on the Technical Marketing team as a technical trainer for the Adobe LiveCycle Enterprise Suite (most recently Adobe Digital Enterprise Platform). She then went on to work with the Adobe Enterprise Evangelist team to support great Flex developer resources such as Tour de Flex and Flex.org. Maile is excited to jump into the world of digital publishing and dig deeper into leading edge HTML and related technologies.

Piotr Walczyszyn

I am a Platform Evangelist for Adobe Systems. This is a great job that keeps me constantly up to date with latest trends in web technologies field. With the current momentum of RIA’s it can be really exciting.

Looking at my background I received my masters degree at Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology in the faculty of Databases and Server Side Programming. X-icco an Open Source “XML Database Engine for Mobile Devices” was my masters thesis project. It was also my first but not last close contact and participation in Open Source community. Actually I continue this today in other projects and also as part of my job at Adobe evangelizing Flex and other related technologies.

Greg Wilson

I am a Sr Developer Evangelist at Adobe Systems focusing on the use of Adobe technologies in enterprise applications. Technologies include web standards, digital publishing, Flash platform, and anything mobile app related. Prior to joining Adobe, I architected and developed many large-scale, complex applications at Verizon, Motorola, NASA/Boeing and others and later co-founded Q-Link Technologies that was acquired by Adobe in 2004.