Speakers

AJ Dyka
Sydney, Australia

AJ has been working with ColdFusion since 2005 when Robin Hilliard trained me in CF7MX (always choose structKeyExists over isDefined!). Since then he's working in various roles as a contract developer as well as in full time roles working on a variety of eLearning applications. AJ is now working at Learnosity as Release Manager, where we are coding for legacy applications stuck on CF7MX and our own products using Railo 3.2. AJ thinks that it's time to give back to the community and share his insights on application server configuration.

Andrew Muller
Sydney, Australia

Developer, trainer, mentor, presenter and blogger, Andrew Muller has been involved with the production, development and education of Rich Internet Applications in Australia since 2002. Working with Flex since it's release in 2004 Andrew's development expertise with Adobe AIR applications has meant creating applications for the likes of Panasonic and Sony Music. Certified Adobe instructor for Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, Flash & Connect; Andrew is also both an Adobe Ambassador and a Adobe Community Professional.

Andrew has written articles for the Adobe Developer Center, labs.adobe.com, BuilderAu.com.au, SitePointInternet.au, Digital Media World, Australian Developer and International Developer magazines; and has spoken at Macromedia/Adobe related conferences both in the United States, New Zealand and Australia.

Andrew Myers
Tamworth, Australia

Andrew is a web developer employed by RISE (Racing Information Services Enterprises). RISE provides web solutions to the Australian harness racing industry, including the national harness racing website www.harness.org.au, and a number of additional sites which use Mura CMS. He has 11 years web development experience, and has been working with ColdFusion for the past 6 years.

Bjorn Schultheiss
Melbourne, Australia

Bjorn works at Webfirm as Head of Creative where he is responsible for the UX of their Adslot Product.Webfirm software quality relies on their automated testing environments and Bjorn's experience in Flash has enabled them to ensure the quality of their Adbuilder product.His long history as a Flash programmer has seen many contributions to the flexcoders group and locally in Melbourne with presentations on Flex and frameworks.

Brian Chau
Melbourne, Australia

Brian Chau is the Solution Consultant for Adobe Systems. Brian has been working for Adobe/Macromedia for over 10 years and is an Adobe Certified Expert in Dreamweaver and Flash. Brian is very experienced in web technologies and is a frequent speaker at Adobe seminars, tradeshows and education events. He also has his own blog at http://brianchau.wordpress.com where he shares his knowledge and thoughts on Adobe software.
 
Apart from work, Brian has great interests in all the latest and greatest (or smallest) electronic gadgets. He dreams one day he can have a robot that can be his lifelong friend/partner.

Chris Velevitch
Sydney, Australia

Chris Velevitch is a contract flex developer developer. Chris also the founder and manager of the Adobe Platform Users Group in Sydney.

Darren Tracey
Brisbane, Australia

Professional Software Developer for 23 years, web developer for 15 years, ColdFusion developer since version 3.

Darren has been a driving force in the Allaire/Macromedia/Adobe User Group space in Brisbane for over 12 years, setting up and at times being the manager of the Queensland ColdFusion User Group.

Darren has been on large Spectra projects, and several other technologies, but keeps coming back to his ColdFusion roots, and has now been on several winning Code Wars teams whipping up lightning CF solutions with the might of Notepad.

In his seventh year at Suncorp, he is now a System Engineer, responsible for Suncorp's large and growing corporate ColdFusion platform, and for many of the applications hosted on it. With Suncorp embracing Agile development methodologies, he has now a wealth of Agile knowledge with stories of triumphs and tragedy to share with you.

When Darren isn't at a computer, you might find him on a weight bench at the gym, or road cycling around Brisbane, kicking heads with Taekwon-Do, or flying his quadcopter with his iPhone.

Dennis Clark
Sydney, Australia

Dennis is a CF developer who spent the previous 12 years living in the USA and working in a large healthcare organisation there, but is now back in Sydney and working at Daemon. He's a contributor to the Model-Glue framework and has submitted patches to a few open source projects in and out of ColdFusion over the years.

Drew Bourne

Drew is a Senior Software Developer with movideo, where he crafts code for an online video SaaS and mentors the team on testing, API design, and being more awesome. Previous roles as Designer, Animator, and Instructor has given him the perspective to keep solutions user focussed, flowing and understandable. As an open source proponent, Drew is keen on building and sharing tools to improve developer productivity and software quality. To aid with testing Flash/Flex he ported Hamcrest to AS3 and authored Mockolate. 

Gavin 'Beau' Baumanis
Melbourne, Australia

Gavin is a Melbourne native and has been using ColdFusion since 2000, when he inherited a ColdFusion 4.0 application at RMIT University that displayed all the floor plans and space usage for the university's 5 campuses. In his spare time Gavin is the Patch Manager for the Apache Subversion project and lurker of several CFML related mailing lists when not riding his motorcycle  - looking for long sweeping corners.

Geoff Bowers
Sydney, Australia

Geoff's the CEO and application architect for Daemon Internet Consultants. As an Adobe Master Instructor, father of FarCry, and keeper of the Goog, Geoff keeps his hand in doing a bit of ColdFusion here and there.

No stranger to putting on a song and dance, Geoff's been invited to speak at Allaire/Macromedia DevCons (1999 Boston, 2000 Washington and 2001 Orlando), InternetWorld, FlashKit and other venues. Sick of traipsing off to the US, Geoff and fellow Daemonites founded webDU and decided to have the world's best technology conference right here in the Antipodes.

Apart from all the hard yakka working for Daemon, Geoff's a regular poster to the Daemonite blog, one of the lead developers behind FarCry CMS , and Master of Full As A Goog. And in his freetime, he's a CFUG regular and the list-admin for CFAUSSIE, FUGLI and a host of other Australian mailing lists. Geoff's also the co-author of the best selling "ColdFusion Developer Study Guide".

Himavanth Rachamsetty
India

Himavanth is a Quality Engineer at Adobe working with the ColdFusion Team.

He has been engaged with ColdFusion for 3 years now and has worked on many key features of ColdFusion including ORM.

Indy Nagpal
Auckland, New Zealand

Indy Nagpal has been working in the area of web application development for over a decade and has played many different roles during that time -- application development to project management to consulting. He has worked and trained across different countries and cultures and enjoys the challenges posed by working in different environments.

Currently he is the CTO of Straker Translations -- a New Zealand based company specializing in multi-lingual content management and translations.

Indy is a keen observer of emerging web trends and technologies. He regularly dabbles with new programming languages and software development practices. He is currently involved with the interesting and arcane world of machine translation.

Indy blogs occasionally at http://nagpals.com.

Jaime Metcher
Brisbane, Australia

Jaime Metcher is a technology strategist at the University of Queensland. He's spent 12 years innovating in the eLearning space, using ColdFusion versions 4 through to 9. In previous lives he's been just another perl hacker, and was working on 3D graphics software in the days when EGA was new and assembly code was a vital job skill.

Technology interests are centred around design patterns and domain modelling, in particular the translation (and what's lost in translation) between non-technical design patterns and concrete software models.

Justin McLean
Following Carmen Sandiego

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 15 years and has a long history with Adobe/Macromedia/Allaire products in particular ColdFusion (and still has the 3 floppies it originally came on). Justin is also a certified Adobe trainer for ColdFusion and Flex and runs regular training courses at Dynamic Web Training.

Kai Koenig
Wellington, New Zealand

Kai is a Software Solutions Architect from New Zealand. A few years ago he started new venture providing professional services for Adobe's rich client and enterprise technologies (and other web platforms) under the brand Ventego Creative.

Before that he spent a few years working as a Software Solutions Architect for Macromedia and Adobe partner companies in Europe and Asia-Pacific. Kai started his Adobe career quite a few years ago when using Dreamweaver 2 to build HTML web pages during an university class. From there he lectured in Java before moving into software development using ColdFusion, Java, Flex and other technologies.

Kai holds a variety of Adobe certifications and is 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.

He's an Adobe Ambassador in Asia-Pacific, an Adobe Community Professional for ColdFusion and runs the Flash Platform User Group in Wellington, New Zealand. Besides that Kai is blogging as Agent K in Blog in Black (http://www.bloginblack.de), regularly publishing reviews and technical articles on Adobe technology in several German IT-magazines and enjoying his life in New Zealand jointly with his wife Diane. 

Lachlan Hardy
Sydney, Australia

Lachlan Hardy runs the Dev Team at Ninefold, where he is responsible for evolving the site, management console, APIs and developer tools to meet the needs of Ninefold's customers. He has spent his career working on projects ranging between massive high-profile sites and applications as well as pretty little fun ones. Lachlan firmly believes in making a beautiful free and open web.

Mark Mandel
Melbourne, Australia

Mark Mandel is a full time consultant and lead developer on several open source projects, most notably ColdSpring, JavaLoader, Transfer ORM and ColdDoc and has been 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, causing havoc in the #coldfusion channel on Dalnet irc network and podcasting on www.2ddu.com.

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.

Mark Stanton
Sydney, Australia

Mark Stanton is a specialist in Internet systems design and development. Mark has a passion for many aspects of the web from usability & information architecture, to HTML, CSS and JavaScript, through to software design & development and languages such as ColdFusion, Java, ASP, PHP, Ruby and Python.

Mark is highly regarded within the online community and regularly provides support, consultation and presentations to other web geeks.He is a founding member of the Web Standards Group which aims to promote best practices to web designers and developers through a range of educational forums and activities.At Gruden, Mark's role is to further the technical capabilities of the company while ensuring a streamlined and efficient approach to development and helping clients maximise the effectiveness of their online projects.

Mike Brunt
LA, USA

Mike Brunt has been coding web applications since 1993 and began using ColdFusion at version 1.54 in 1995-6.  He designed and created the first on-line international industrial equipment mart in 1997 (Power Bank International) at the request of a Cummins Engine Company subsidiary.  In 1998 he worked with Kodak and Lucent Technologies to create a pioneering web based TeleRadiology cross-consult portal when Radiologists and Primary Care Physicians could review patient medical images.  

Allaire recruited Mike in 1999 to join a ColdFusion-JRun consulting team.  This team was dispatched world-wide to help Allaire then Macromedia clients design and troubleshoot ColdFusion applications.  In 2001 Mike co-founded his own company – Webapper Services LLC along with another Macromedia consultant, Patrick Quinn.  From 1999 to the present day, Mike has been very focused on the server-side of ColdFusion helping users worldwide to troubleshoot applications and to create strategies which ensure Enterprise level ColdFusion applications can be scaled effectively and efficiently.

Mike Henke
Omaha, USA

Mike Henke has worked with ColdFusion since 1999 for several companies in Omaha, NE and Washington, DC. He is an advocate for tools and practices to make developing ColdFusion more productive and easier with tools like Mylyn/Tasktop, ticket systems, and source control. Currently he is learning more about Git, Ruby on Rails, and ColdFusion on Wheels. He is an Adobe Community Professional and enjoys talking to people about ColdFusion. Mike occasionally blogs at http://henke.ws.

Mike McHugh
Sydney, Australia

Mike is the Solutions Consulting Manager Adobe Pacific. He has authored two books one on InDesign and one on Photoshop, published by Peachpit press.

Mike also hosts a popular online video show, http://www.creativesweettv.com/ . Mikes wife thinks he just mucks around with Photoshop most of the time whilst he is supposed to be working, and she is pretty close to being right.

Phil Haeusler
Melbourne, Australia

Phil has been developing desktop, web and mobile solutions for clients for over 15 years.  He is an independent software developer based in Melbourne, Australia with a TODO list he can never seem to get to the end of.

He also likes to try his hand at SEO: Dad, Husband, Mac, Flash, Flex, AIR, ColdFusion, iOS, Android, PlayBook, Codewar Quizmaster, Consulting, Cloud, Hosting plus a heap of other stuff but realises he isn't very good at it.

Richard Turner-Jones
Brisbane, Australia

An Adobe Certified Instructor and Developer, Richard has been in the multimedia and web application development field for more than 15 years.

A MAX award winner, he has been involved in the development of many high profile projects for the Australian Army, Airservices Australia, Suncorp and Dominos Pizza, to name but a few.

He provides training in Adobe applications (Flex, ColdFusion and the Creative Suites), as well as server and client side programming and technologies (e.g., PHP, ASP.NET, HTML, JavaScript, XML and CSS), as well as being active in promoting Adobe products and services to the community, managing the Brisbane Flash Platform Group and Brisbane Creative Suite Group.

Robin Hilliard
Sydney, Australia

Robin Hilliard is founder and CTO of RocketBoots, an innovative technology company providing advisory, application development and hard science services to some of Australia's leading organisations. From mobile apps and robots to RIAs, publishing workflow and computer vision applications, RocketBoots is here to prove that great software can change the world.

Formerly with Allaire and Macromedia, Robin is an experienced software architect and Adobe Ambassador with a BSc in Computer Science and Pure Mathematics from Sydney University. He is a passionate advocate for common sense approaches to solving real world problems with technology, from initial engagement to requirements, agile methodologies and all kinds of testing. 

Robin is the creator of several ColdFusion open source projects, a regular conference speaker and moonlights as the compare of CodeWar. He is based in Sydney, Australia.

Sandy Mamoli
Wellington, New Zealand

Sandy worked on her first Agile project with Sony Ericsson in 2003, got bitten by the Agile bug and has never looked back since. She is one of New Zealand’s leading Agile advocates and works as an independent Agile coach helping people to work, talk, and be as Agile as they possibly can and want to be. She coaches, teaches and re-factors organisations and individual teams and tries to learn as much in the process as she can. 

Terrence Ryan
USA

Terrence is a Platform Evangelist for Adobe in the US. Although he covers the entire gamut of Adobe developer technologies, Terry has a thing for ColdFusion and AIR.

Terrence has two main foci: ColdFusion and Higher Education. Basically he talks about ColdFusion to everyone and anyone, and talks about the Flash Platform to Higher Education.