Professional Coldfusion 5.0

After getting his Master degree in Business Economics, Sander Duivestein started working for Cap Gemini Ernst and Young Netherlands in the summer of 1997. Soon he joined a special unit within this company named Warp11. This unit specializes in building cutting edge web applications. Sander, a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer and a Microsoft Certified System Engineer, is a Senior Developer within the unit Warp11.

With a B.Sc. in Physics, Pualo Rios is a senior computer consultant with more than 12 years of work experience in software development and databases, including five years of Internet development with Java, ColdFusion, and EJB. Pualo has provided consultancy in different roles as a project manager, database specialist, software architect, web developer and mentor in large projects in the manufacturing, pharma, telecommunications, banking and insurance industries.

Ryan O'Keefe has been working with web applications and databases for the last five years. He is an Allaire Certified Cold Fusion 4.5 Developer and currently works as a Senior Web Applications Developer building B2C and B2B applications in Cold Fusion and XML in Dallas, TX. Ryan began web development on Unix platforms writing CGI applications in PERL.

Robert Segal is a senior developer and development team leader at Fig Leaf Software. He is an Allaire Certified Instructor and teaches Fast Track to Cold Fusion, Advanced Cold Fusion Development, Allaire Spectra for Developers and Fast Track to SQL. Robert has been developing with Cold Fusion since version 1.5 and has been developing database applications for over 10 years.

Andrew Wintheiser is a founding partner and Chief Technology Officer of Lightburn. Lightburn is a technology-consulting firm, which specializes in web application development and database-driven programming. Andrew has been programming with ColdFusion for over 4 years, and is always excited to explore new technologies.

Nicole Ambrose Haynes is a software developer and instructor for Fig Leaf Software, one of the best know companies in the web development space. She holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Morgan State University and currently develops applications using the following technologies: ColdFusion, Spectra, JavaScript, DHTML, and SQL Server 7.0. She also has experience with C/C++ and Visual Basic.

Karen Little has been a Computer Consultant, Manager, Educator and Programmer since 1980. By 1985, around the time the first IBM PC came to the market, she founded Office Technology Academy (OTA), a highly regarded computer training school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, which she ran until 1991.
Karen left OTA due to a back injury and soon thereafter founded Clear Concepts, a consulting company providing training programs, documentation and technical illustrations to major manufacturing companies. During this time, she became an expert on electronic access control, co-authoring a book on the subject called Security, ID Systems and Locks; the Book on Electronic Access Control. She also wrote for numerous technical magazines and was Associate Editor and writer for Corel Magazine.
In 1998, to fulfill a life long dream, she moved to New York and never looked back! Today she's a Project Manager for web-enabled applications in Downtown Manhattan, where, on her day job, she designs, manages and programs ColdFusion-fueled projects.

Herb Guenther is an electrical and computer engineer by training. Herb Guenther is Lanex's senior Cold Fusion developer and is responsible for Lanex's configurator initiatives. Herb also administers Lanex's ColdFusion and IIS servers and assists in monitoring the performance of the hosting and network infrastructure.

Don Smith has experience organizing data and providing information for over 11 years, first with SQL on a mainframe and printed reports, later on the web. No computer language offered the speedy development time, the ease of use and the programmer community that ColdFusion did, so that became his language of choice. He soon learned that while application development offered a chance to create a business environment that would help dozens of people do their job better, the real rewards were in teaching new programmers about ColdFusion as an Allaire Certified Trainer for Fig Leaf Software in Washington, DC.

Karli Watson is an in-house author for Wrox Press with a penchant for multicolored clothing. He started out with the intention of becoming a world famous nanotechnologist, so perhaps one day you might recognize his name as he receives a Nobel Prize. For now, though, Karli's computing interests include all things mobile, and upcoming technologies such as C#. He can often be found preaching about these technologies at conferences, as well as after hours in drinking establishments.

Chris Ullman is a computer science graduate who has not let this handicap prevent him becoming a programmer fluent in Visual Basic, Java, SQL and Dynamic HTML. When not cutting up pictures by old masters to re-assemble them as dynamic jigsaws on his preferred browser, he's either found down his local soccer ground urging on his favorite team, Birmingham City, or at home trying to prevent his two new kittens from tearing up the house, or each other. All my love to Kate, who's always there to give me support and a home and usually tries to look interested when I explain the latest Internet based technology.

Daniel Newsome is the President and Founder of Denver based design and development firm Pop Fizz Media. A second generation computer professional, he taught himself to code in Pascal at the age of 12 and later went on to be hired by Microsoft at the age of 17. After working on early version of Visual Basic for a year, he left to pursue a degree in Applied Mathematics. Working his way through college by consulting, Mr. Newsome gained thorough knowledge of industries like Digital Photography, Telecommunications, Petroleum, Government Applications and full-life cycle software engineering. Now, as President of Pop Fizz Media, the average day finds him marketing, meeting with clients, overseeing a team of designers and developers, as well as programming Lingo, Cold Fusion, Java or PHP.

Matthew Graves, CPA, M.S. became involved with Allaire in 1996 while working on a business project for one of his clients. It was love at first sight and a year later he quit his job to become a full-time ColdFusion developer. He co-founded RapidCF where he served as chief technologist and business object developer. He is now an independent business consultant and system architect in Connecticut and New York City, specializing in implementation and late-phase project turnaround for both ColdFusion and Java-based systems.

Christopher Graves is President of RapidCF, a ColdFusion development company in Canton Connecticut (www.rapidcf.com). His projects span the gamut of ColdFusion's capability, from simple content management sites to intelligent agents and e-commerce sites integrated to legacy systems. Chris earned an honors Bachelor of Science degree from the US Naval Academy (class of 93, the greatest class ever), and was a VGEP graduate scholar. After graduating, Chris served as a US Marine Corps Officer in 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, and 2nd ANGLICO where he was a jumpmaster. In addition to a passion for efficient CFML, Chris enjoys skydiving and motorcycling and he continues to lead Marines in the Reserves.

Carmen Johnson has been a Graphic Artist/Illustrator for 15 years, a Database Developer for 7 years and a Cold Fusion Programmer for 3 years. Carmen has been involved in applications for the Internet since 1995 and is basically self-taught. She has taken the Allaire training courses for Cold Fusion and built a variety of different applications ranging from the very simple to the very complex.