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Beau Ambur

Beau has dedicated most of his working life to building better applications. A top developer in the Flash® industry, Beau has worked with Flash since the release of Flash 3, as well as with its many iterations including Palm, PocketPC, Generator, Central, FlashCom, and Flex.

Prior to working with Flash, Beau had worked with Director and Shockwave, and has also contributed to the release of a number of Macromedia products including: Director (Woo), Multi-User Server (Mars), Central (Mercury), FlashCom (Tincan), and Flex (Royale).

Among other professional interests are speaking internationally on Multimedia Technology and residing as President of the San Francisco Macromedia User Forum.

Awards and recognition include the Webbys, FWA, Flashforward Film Festival, Communication Arts Interactive Annual, and Internet World Wireless Best of Show.

Site URL:  Metaliq

Branden Hall

Branden Hall is co-principal and CTO of Automata Studios, a consulting and development studio located outside of Washington D.C. He is an independent consultant for developing and deploying web-based technologies.

Branden has been involved with Flash and the Flash community since 1998.

He has been busy since then speaking at conferences, founding the Flashcoders mailing list, writing a number of articles and books on all sorts of web technologies, and writing code.

Branden is the co-author of "Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript" as well as "Flash Enabled" and numerous other Flash programming books.

He also teaches Flash at numerous educational facilities, and speaks at many industry conferences including Macromedia DevCon and SIGGRAPH .

Site URL: Waxpraxis  

Brendan Dawes

Brendan is Executive Creative Director with interactive design group magneticNorth, based in Manchester, UK. His portfolio of work includes projects for Disney, BBC, Golden Wonder, Benetton, Club 18-30, Volvic , Fox Kids, Channel 4, Kellogg’s, and Coca-Cola. As well as commercial work, Bren also has personal projects including the highly acclaimed Saul Bass website, and its quirky offshoot, Psycho Studio, an application that allows you to edit your own version of the Psycho shower scene online.

On his personal site, brendandawes.com, he explores the fusion of people, art, technology, and code using anything that comes to hand including Flash, Java, video, paper, Play-Doh, bits of string, and dead media to constantly explore what interaction design means.

Over the years Brendan’s work has been featured in numerous journals including idN, Creative Review, MacUser, Computer Arts, Create, Wired, Eye, The Guardian, and Communications Arts. He has also been featured in various books including New Masters of Flash, In Your Face Too - the best of interactive interface design and Personal Websites, as well as authoring Drag Slide Fade - Flash ActionScript for Designers. He has just finished writing his latest book, out in July, entitled Analog In / Digital Out.
Brendan spends much of the year speaking at various conferences around the world including the HOW Design Conference Chicago, Flashforward, New Media Age Congress London, Macromedia Web World Seattle, Art Directors Club of Spain, Madrid, Internet World Los Angeles, as well as various lectures at universities around the UK

Site URL: Brendandawes

Mario Klingemann

Mario Klingemann, alias Quasimondo, explores the grey area that is located somewhere in between Code, Design, and Art and thinks that “computational artisan” is the label that comes closest to describing his current profession. Whilst the focuses of his research are the secrets of computer-generated beauty and artificial creativity, he also provides solutions to real-world problems, especially if they are related to Flash or Processing and publishes his findings on:

Site URL:  Quasimondo

Todd Yard

After studying theatre in London, then working for several years as an actor in the US, Todd was introduced to Flash in 2000 and was quickly taken by how it allowed for both stunning creativity and programmatic logic application—a truly left-brain, right brain approach to production—and has not looked back.

He now freelances as a Flash developer in New York City, creating both silly animations and utilitarian applications. His personal work and experimentation can be found at his website: 

Site URL:  27 Bobs

Dave Yang 

Dave Yang is an independent interactive developer, consultant, and founder of Quantumwave Interactive Inc. in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

He is enjoying ActionScript 3.0, Flex 2, Ruby on Rails, and other geeky stuff. He is also a gadget fan, who is currently developing for mobile and not-so-mobile devices.

He was the technical director and lead developer for companies in the U.S. & Canada, developed rich internet applications, games, interactive kiosks, commercial and eLearning software for organizations such as: AOL, Art Gallery of Ontario, Discovery Channel, Disney, Government of Canada, Kraft, McDonald's, NBA, and Rogers.

He speaks at conferences such as Flash In The Can, Flash Forward, IBM Blue Horizon, CFNorth and MXNorth, is technical reviewer for various programming books and is a member of the Macromedia/Adobe Flash advisory board. 

Site URL:  Quantumwave | Blog

Jen deHaan

Jen deHaan was raised by wolves in the deep woods of the Canadian north. Canada's chief exports include motor vehicles (or their parts), lumber, newsprint, nonmetal materials, and wheat. One overcast day in 2004, Jen left her life as a Flash deseloper (designer/developer) in Canada to write Flash documentation and sometimes create Flash samples at Macromedia in San Francisco. Aside from her ongoing work at Adobe, Jen runs several community sites and forums for fun, and maintains a blog at weblogs.macromedia.com/dehaan. She believes that _root tends to be evil and misses Tim Horton's coffee.

Site URL: Flash MX 2004

Andries Odendaal

is a multimedia designer with Cape Town based multimedia agency "Wireframe."

He completed a national fine arts diploma in printmaking and sculpture in the early 1990's. He then went on to lecture in this area, specializing in sculpture and drawing. While taking time out from what appeared to be a text book career, he dabbled in computer design. He soon discovered that he was interested in 3D animation.

Today Andries is heralded as one of the most innovative Flash programmers in the world! Most recently he has been channelling his skills specifically into the area of Flash development and is the designer / Flash programmer behind sites like www.wireframe.co.za , www.wireframe.co.za/com-ebusiness.

Andries is co-author of the books, "New Masters Of Flash" and "Flash 5 Studio", both published by Friends Of Ed. Andries has been active in the web design community and on the conference circuit, presenting at FlashForward 2001 in San Fransico and New York etc.

Check this out! (Director plug-in requiered!) 

Site URL: Wireframe

Justin Everett Church

Justin is a professional Flash developer, Author, and instructor with eight years experience with Flash and ten years professional experience on the Web.

He works in his dream job at Yahoo! Inc. as the Rich Media Evangelist promoting Flash and other technologies as platform for development within the company.

Before that, as Interactive Director at Enluminent, which became eStudio, eventually went out of business and was re-formed as Blitz Digital Studio, he did some amazing work which was featured on Shockwave.com / AtomFilms.com.

The emphasis at eStudio was developing the advergaming capabilities for the studio with over 20 games for Warner Brothers, the US Army, NASCAR, and many other clients. 

He co-authored four books on Flash Game Development: Flash 5 Dynamic Content Studio, Flash 5 ActionScript Studio, Flash Games Studio, and most recently Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Game Programming. 

Site URL: Infinitum Design | Blog 

LordAlex Leon

LordAlex Leon is an active member of the Flash Platform Community and a well respected industry leader with over 6 years of experience creating content and applications for the Internet and Devices.

He is the founder of LordAlex Works (LAW), a Flash Platform consultancy firm based in Montreal helping new media and content providers deliver intelligent rich internet content and powerful applications with Adobe Flash, Flex and Flash Lite.

Site URL: Lord Alex