Satori Canton

Satori is an Adobe Flex Champion. He has been an active part of the web development community since 1994. He now serves as the President and CEO of ActionScript, Inc.

In the mid 90's, he worked creating game levels and expansion packs for games like Duke Nukem, Quake, WarCraft, Diablo, Microsoft Flight Simulator, Redneck Rampage, and X-Wing vs. Tie Fighter.

In 2005, Satori's interactive media company acquired ActionScript.com and continues to develop applications, multimedia presentations and games for major corporations, specializing in online market consulting, gaming, "advergaming" and Flash/Flex/AIR and Silverlight application development.

Satori is also writing an upcoming book on Adobe AIR and is a contributing author at DMXZone.

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Mark Altenbernd

Mark is a technology consultant with a broad range of experience in computers, specializing in relational database design and programming. He has worked for large commercial banks and for AT&T Laboratories, and he has managed his own technology consulting firm. Currently he is focused on developing Rich Internet Applications using Flex and ColdFusion to access relational databases. He also develops applications that stream video on the Web. Mark’s particular strengths in technology include ActionScript, Flex, ColdFusion components, Oracle and PL/SQL, SQL Server and Transact-SQL, Flash Remoting, Flash Media Server, and relational database analysis and design. Mark graduated from Northwestern University with a BS in video production and from the University of Chicago with an MBA in finance. He has been a full-season subscriber to the San Francisco Symphony since 1978 and has accompanied the orchestra on several international tours.

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Randy Fong

Randy is a consultant who has worked both as a programmer and an analyst building database driven applications for major retail and banking companies, as well as small business on both the mainframe and the web.
    
His work background represents an alphabet soup of technologies. Flex 2, Actionscript 3, PHP, ASP, MYSQL, MS SQL, HTML, Javascript, Ideal DB, Datacom DC, IMS, VSAM, CICS, COBOL, JCL.
    
When he isn’t trying to learn all there is to know about Flex and Actionscript he is out playing tennis with his buddies in the warm California sun.

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Chris Bizzell

Chris Bizzell is a senior web developer for The North Winid Inc. in Greenville, South Carolina. Specializing in Rich Internet Applications, Chris has utilized Flash to create e-commerce and data management systems for numerous municipal and private institutions. Co-author of Flash.Net for Friends of Ed, Chris has published several tutorials regarding Flash and database integration.

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Tibor Gyorgy Ballai

Tibor "Tibi" Ballai attended the University Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, double majoring in physics and computer science.  He is an expert in Java, PHP, and integrating Flash/Flex with server-side systems.  He specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Low Level Languages (16/32 bit Assembly) and SQL.

In 2006, Tibi became CEO of our European subsidiarity ActionScrtipt, S.R.L. and controls operations in our European office.

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Nicolas Cannasse

Nicolas is leading research and developement at Motion-Twin, a small french company building internet flash games. Born in 1979 in Bordeaux, he has been programming since junior high school and learned a lot of different programming languages during this time.

His main interests are programming language design, compilers and virtual machines implementation. He wrote the popular open source ActionScript2 compiler MTASC, the Neko Virtual Machine, and more recently has been working on a new multiplatform programming language called haXe.

Nicolas's hobbies ? Programming and Japanese culture.

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Brandon Tyler

Specializing in ASP.NET, SQL Server and Flex, Brandon has become an industry pro at connecting back-end systems with compelling user experiences. He got his start in web development creating large scale e-commerce systems for multi-national corporations. With the desire to create ever more appealing web applications, he found himself turning his attention toward Flash and Flex. When he's not working on new applications at ActionScript.com, Brandon keeps busy by teaching and providing consulting services to clients.

Brandon currently serves as the Vice President of ActionScript, Inc.

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Benjamin Mace

Benjamin graduated from Virginia Commonwealth  University in 1997 with a B.F.A. in Communication Arts. His education focused on design fundamentals such as Typography, Color Theory, Design History and Process. After graduation he stumbled upon Macromedia Flash, which dramatically changed the course of his career by adding an interactive element to his work. Flash has since become his tool of choice due to its cross platform usability, ease of scripting and medium support. Benjamin currently designs and develops experiences for AOL and has worked with other companies such as EASports & Firstborn Multimedia. He also teaches, writes, experiments & moderates community boards dealing with Flash.

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Xavi Beumala

Xavi was born in 1980 in Barcelona (Spain). He has always loved technology and specially applied software architecture. A Telecommunications engineer graduate from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Xavi now works as a RIA annalist and maintains his personal weblog at http://www.code4net.com

He first used Flash when it was on its 4.0 version. Since then he has realized a lot the power, possibilities and capabilities that the flash platform has brought to his development. In his day to day work he also uses Java, XHTML/CSS and FMS to develop Content Management Systems, e-learning applications and real-time collaboration tools.

An enthusiast of books and eager to continue learning Xavi is currently deep in thought into the amazing world of Flex 2.0, AS 3.0 and team management techniques.

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John Bradley

John Bradley is a highly focused web developer, whose particualar areas of specialization include HTML, CSS/XHTML, Flash, Flex, ASP, ASP.NET, DotNetNuke, SQL, and graphical design.  He has a great deal of experience as a content manager, as well as various other web technologies has given him a very diverse set of tools from which to choose.

John attended college on an athletic scholarship, majoring in chemistry, as well as taking computer programming classes. He worked for a chemical company for eleven years, splitting time between research and development and chemical analysis. It was in this position where he began learning how to create analog and digital interfaces between automated reaction systems and computers, utilizing various types of software for process automation, statistical analyis and data acquisition.

He has worked as a web consultant for over eight years. Focusing on keeping a balance between highly structured architecture and short, sweet and to-the-point pragmatism, John offers a very unique skill - being able to morph his skills to his client's needs. He believes in taking a personable approach to the business aspect of web development, going to great lengths to ensure that the client's needs are met.

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Carlos Rovira

Carlos Rovira was born in 1973 in Madrid, Spain. His early interest in technology and computers lead him to Castilla-La Mancha University where he earned a Computer Science degree in 1999. Carlos is a Spanish developer with a creative and self-motivated nature that allows him to turn work into successful projects.

He is currently focused on Macromedia Flash client creation and integration with J2EE and PHP server-side technologies via Flash Remoting. Recently he discovered the new Macromedia Flex presentation server technology and it has become his newest passion.

He has been creating traditional web applications since 1999 in Spain. His large-scale web applications and data-driven websites include well-known clients such as Vodafone, BBVA, and DirectLine Insurance. Carlos is actively involved in the Flash community and maintains a personal blog at www.carlosrovira.com.

In his free time, Carlos enjoys playing guitar, listening to progressive and instrumental guitar music, and always finds time for his comic passion.

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Jed Wood

Jed came at the tech world from the field of Usability, but just couldn't keep away from actually making things. Now he uses Flash for mock-ups, interactive prototypes, and actual functioning applications. For the summer, he's at GE Healthcare as an intern on the Advanced Systems Design Team. At the Institute of Design in Chicago, he co-teaches the Interactive Media course while he's finishing his Master's in Human-Centered Design. His favorite projects involve Flash Remoting, PHP and MySQL, and any user-friendly implementation of Flash. He posted some notes over a year ago at usableflash.com, which he hopes to turn into a "real" site when he gets some time.

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Paul Prudence

Paul Prudence is an artist, writer and developer working in the realm of emergent visual based web technologies. He has been interested in developing, and writing about, interactive and generative art using Flash and other visual programming languages. He has had artwork, essays and articles published in numerous books and magazines on this subject. His Personal artistic sketchbook of computation art can be found at www.transphormetic.com. When not writing or producing interactive art he can be found working as a Flash consultant and interactive designer for a range of clients, commercial examples of his work can be found at www.slightspace.com.

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David Emberton

David has been a pioneering member of the Flash community since 1998. He got started writing tutorials for FlashZone as a way to get into freelance journalism, and then went on to work on ShockFusion, FlashChallenge and now ActionScript.com.

He has written columns here, there and everywhere, mostly CNET but now also InformIT and Australian Personal Computer. He's also the former lead author of the Flash Magic books series, and the creator of ActionScript training videos and the ActionScript Master Class seminar.

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Antonio Maldonado

Antonio Maldonado is the Director of Field Promotions for ActionScript, Inc.  Specializing in electronic media, he coordinates and produces all of our audio and video productions.

In 2007, Antonio created SinfulSecrets.com to showcase his culinary arts.

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Bob Clagett

Bob is half of the team that started Velocity Works in 1999, after graduating from the Savannah College of Art & Design, where he also taught Interactive Design.

He started out as a designer, working in Flash 3, but immediately found a strong pull to the development world. He built his first Flash based, database driven intranet when Flash 4 arrived, and has been creating data-connected Flash applications ever since. When he's not coding, Bob is either restoring vintage scooters and motorcycles, playing music with his band The Flight Out, or hanging out with his incredible wife, Ginny.

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