I am an Adobe Flex and Java/Spring Technical Architect employed by Universal Mind, an Adobe technologies consultancy in the RIA development arena. I have been part of the development team responsible for the Verizon Wireless Media Store since February 2008.

I began focusing on middle tier and back end engineering using the Java platform and related technologies (Spring, Hibernate, etc.) in 2009. I have also focused on Adobe Flex and ActionScript 3 development since late 2005. Prior to that, I developed numerous Windows applications using Visual C++ and MFC since 1994 and C and the Windows SDK since 1991 in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish languages. Software applications that I’ve participated in the development of have received three “product of the year” awards from national publications.

In addition to my software engineering expertise, I also offer expertise in audio and video production, compression formats and media authoring. I have a working understanding of the MP3 audio compression and MPEG2/4/h.264 video compression formats as well as the CD-Audio, CD-ROM and DVD media formats and the NTSC, PAL, and ATSC HDTV broadcast standards.

I have also produced corporate training/marketing videos, historical documentaries, commercial HTML/CSS and Flash driven websites, commercially replicated DVD titles and streaming media content for numerous freelance clients since 2001. I have several years of experience using the Adobe Creative Suite family of products including the After Effects, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Encore DVD applications as well as a variety of audio editing and media compression tools.

I am also happily married to my wife of 22 years and have three children ages 15, 17 and 21.

All told, I have been designing and producing software as well as audio and video content using electronic technologies since the early 1980s. I have made the TI-99/4A, Commodore 64, Commodore Amiga, IBM PC and most recently the Apple Macintosh my computing tools of choice during that time.