Macromedia MAX 2005 - India
Speakers Bio
Greg Rewis
Chief Web Technologies Evangelist, Macromedia
In January 1999, Greg joined Macromedia as a Senior Internet Evangelist. Greg quickly mastered the Macromedia Internet product line, specialising in Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Flash. Drawing upon years of experience and knowledge of Internet issues and technologies to solve sometimes daunting problems, Greg is a respected expert within the industry and a valued resource for his colleagues.
After attending Louisiana State University, Greg served in the US Army attached to the National Security Agency working in the field of Electronic Communications Warfare. In Denmark he helped implement and train users in Desktop Publishing. He was Desktop Systems Manager for Egmont Publishing in Copenhagen.
Greg joined P.INK Software GmbH, headed by Andreas Poliza as the Product Manager. He rejoined Andreas Poliza at GoLive Systems in early '97, initially taking on the creation of a Support department, followed by the creation of GoLive's Evangelism and Training programs.
James Talbot
Chief Instructor, Macromedia
James has been with Macromedia for four years. Before he came to Macromedia, he worked extensively with client server systems building e-learning.
James started out at Macromedia as a Sales Engineer where he traveled around the world visiting customers and doing seminars. After the Allaire merger, he moved to New York City on the East Coast, from California, and worked for the Macromedia Educational Services team.
He has put together the Flash curriculum as well as assisting with other products. James has also worked on consulting projects for large customers including TV Guide, AOL/Time Warner and Boeing. He is the co-author of the new Object Oriented ActionScript 2.0 book by New Riders press.
James has also worked directly with the Flash engineers and provided guidance on future product direction. He develops curriculum, teaches courses, performs instructor certifications, and works on making customers successful. James has also worked on all of the Macromedia certification exams as well as contributing to Macromedia Press books, and has spoken at both DevCon and FlashForward each year these events have taken place.
Bill Perry
Developer Support Content Manager, Macromedia
Bill Perry is the developer support and content manager for mobile and devices at Macromedia. Before joining Macromedia, Bill spent the past four years developing Flash applications for mobile devices and the Internet. Prior to that, he created interactive applications for the U.S. government. Bill interacts with developers, mobile operators, and handset manufacturers from around the world, and when he’s not busy assisting the mobile community, Bill is researching alternative solutions for mobile applications using Flash and learning Japanese.
Chak Ming Fai
Server Product Manager, Macromedia South Asia
Chak Ming Fai is the Server Product Managerfor Macromedia South Asia and is responsible for developing key partner relationships with major IT vendors and solution providers. He also handles evangelism and technology transfer to developers.
Chak graduated from the National University of Singapore with a degree in Computer Science. Prior to joining Macromedia, he was with Microsoft Singapore, handling business development and content operations for MSN. He has also had technical field sales experience in IBM and running his own Web design startup.
Arron Fang
CTO and Deputy SVP of Aplix, iaSolution
Arron is one of the founder of iaSolution Inc. Graduated from National Chao-Tung University Taiwan, he's been devoted in embedded system engineering since '99. Starting from the first prototype of virtual machine for mobile phone, he leads on several technology and product development efforts and establishes iaSolution's international R&D teams.
Cyril Ferry
Head- Business Development-India, Indiagames Ltd
As Head of India Sales, he is responsible for developing the Indian market for Value Added Services and has extensive mobile experience.In this role he works closely with Operators, Handset Manufacturers, Global Publishers, Regional Developers, Licensors. He has also rolled World Cyber Games the biggest International PC Gaming Tournament in India , which is held every year for the last four years, this competition has created huge gaming community in India.