|
|
 |
Jim Heid
Longtime Lizard, Jim Heid is a computer and technology writer, Editorial Director at Avondale Media, and Conference Chair for many Thunder Lizard conferences. Jim’s been a Contributing Editor of Macworld Magazine since 1984, and currently writes about Web design and multimedia-related topics: digital audio and video, streaming media, Flash, authoring programs, and the like. As the Web Design Conference Chair for several of Thunder Lizard events, including the Web Design series and Macromedia Web, Jim flushes out the most important, cutting edge conference topics, and occasionally speaks on his favorite subjects, including streaming media, RealNetworks RealSystem G2, SMIL, and Apple's QuickTime. Jim will be your host and moderator for several sessions and panels. |
 |
Michael Hollister
Michael Hollister is Vice President of Art and Production and leads a team for the print and Web services at Fawcette Technical Publications. Michael has been working in the publishing business over 19 years with an emphasis in design, production, and manufacturing. His prior experience was at Miller Freeman and M&T Publishing as art director and in production for several technical magazines and books. Michael joins Thunder Lizard Conferences as co-chair for the Digital Workflow track and can be reached at |
 |
Michael Ninness
Michael Ninness grew up in the redwoods of Arcata in Northern California. In 1989 he moved to Seattle to study for a Graphic Design BFA at the University of Washington and fell in love with the Pacific Northwest. He paid his way through design school by teaching his fellow design students, his professors, and the professional design and photography community in Seattle how to use the Adobe and Macromedia design applications. His design career took a permanent turn when he accepted a job at Extensis Corp. in 1997 as the group product manager for digital imaging solutions. After initially resisting the job offer, he was challenged by the hiring manager to “come design the products you’d want to use as a designer”. He’s been hooked on creating design software ever since. After Extensis, he spent three years at Adobe as the LiveMotion group product manager, then nearly two years as a program manager and UI designer at Microsoft, designing new tools for professional UI designers. He is the author of Photoshop 7 Power Shortcuts and is a contributor to Photoshop User and Design Graphics magazines, and he dreams in keyboard shortcuts. Send your Adobe UI gripes and likes to him at . |
 |
Peter Truskier
Peter Truskier has over 30 years experience in the graphic arts, and has been working with computer technology in publishing for about 20 of them. His career has spanned working with copper engravings and indirect color separations to copydot scanning and computer-to-plate technologies, from manual page assembly to proprietary pagination systems and desktop publishing. As co-founder of Premedia Systems, Peter has worked extensively in publishing workflow automation as well as Mac OS X migration. |
Scott Benish
Scott has been designing interfaces and multimedia elements for over 9 years. His diverse projects include work for Nike, Nintendo, New Line Cinema, and Bonfire Snowboarding. He is a contributor to notable interactive design sites such as designinteract.com, digital-web.com, and bornmagazine.org and has won awards fromCommunication Arts and ID Magazine. He is the Brand Manager for Clip-n-Seal and freelances for an assortment of agencies, companies,
and individuals from his home in Portland, Ore.
David Blatner
David Blatner is the author of thirteen books on topics such as digital imaging, aviation, pi, and virtual reality. Specializing in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and QuarkXPress. David's books include Real World QuarkXPress (formerly The QuarkXPress Book), Real World InDesign, Real World Photoshop, and InDesign for QuarkXPress Users. He is a contributing editor for Macworld magazine, and has spoken at conferences and workshops around North America, Japan, and South Africa.
Scott Borhauer
Scott has been in the printing industry for more than 13 years, starting his career with RR Donnelley & Sons. He came to Brown Printing Company in 2000 where he currently oversees all the PreMedia efforts for Brown Printing as a Corporate Manager. Scott manages the architectural design and integration for BPC’s technology. A frequent speaker at industry events, Scott is a vocal proponent of JDF technology and the automation it provides for our industry. A member of many printing organizations, CIP4, IPA, DDAP, and TAGA, he is always advocating open standards.
Douglas Bowman
Douglas Bowman's highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Wired News and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. Doug's consulting firm, Stopdesign proves that beautiful, easily maintainable design can exist alongside simple, standards-compliant code. Prior to founding Stopdesign, Doug led the creation and implementation of design process and standards for an international network of sites under Terra Lycos and Wired Digital. He has written articles for A List Apart, and publishes design rants and CSS tricks at Stopdesign.com.
Steve Broback
Steve co-founded Thunder Lizard Productions, in 1991, which became a subsidiary of Fawcette Technical Publications in 2000. He produced the first conferences dedicated to the software applications Photoshop, Illustrator, and Dreamweaver. He also produced TLP's Web Design World, and Macromedia Web World whose attendees number in the thousands. Prior to his work with Avondale and Thunder Lizard, he taught Windows and Macintosh applications classes at the University of Washington, and is featured in over 40 instructional video titles.
www.avondalemedia.com
Russell Brown
Russell Preston Brown was a key contributor to the launch and development of Adobe Photoshop 1.0 and has continued to evangelize the software at seminars and events around the world ever since. In his role as Photoshop’s chief entertainer/instructor/evangelist, Russell has made memorable appearances on NBC’s Today Show and has been the featured speaker at numerous events including Macworld Expo, Seybold Seminars, AIGA Design, and more.
www.russellbrown.com
DL Byron
Byron produces award-winning, internationally recognized work and has been nominated for a prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Media Fellowship. With ten years of experience, he is an industry-leading expert in Web development, blogging, standards, and accessibility. An entrepreneur and an inventor, he also publishes independent media and is currently producing interactive projects for several clients.
www.Texturadesign.com
Sandee Cohen
A well-known instructor and the author of numerous books on Web graphics and Adobe Acrobat, Sandee will hold forth on Macromedia Fireworks and Flash and advanced PDF topics.
Martin Evening
Martin Evening is a London based advertising photographer and noted expert in both photography and digital imaging. As a successful photographer, Martin is well known in London for his fashion and beauty work. In his recent book Adobe Photoshop 7.0 For Photographers from Focal Press, Martin extends his expertise to brilliant writing about difficult technical and artistic subjects. He is also a regular contributing author for MacUser UK, PEI, and Image magazines. Martin is a highly sought after speaker and lecturer. He is a regular at the Thunder Lizard Photoshop Conference and PDN’s PhotoPlus Expo. Martin is also active in the Digital Imaging Group, a UK based digital imaging association and is co-host of the popular “Prodig” Mailing list.
www.martinevening.com
Jason Fried
Jason Fried, President, 37signals, is a passionate leader in the field of simple, clear, and elegant Web-based user interface design. Jason has spoken internationally, completed projects for every-sized client, co-authored Defensive Design for the Web (New Riders, 2004), and lead the design of Basecamp, a popular Web-based project management tool for creative services firms.
Greg Gorman
Greg Gorman’s work documents that peculiar obsession of the 20th century celebrity. His photography is timeless and not confined to has-beens, hot properties, and wannabes. Each shot gives a picture of human nature in its infinite range. Each picture is also a testament to the individual character. “For me a photograph is most successful when it doesn’t answer all the questions,” says Greg, “and it leaves something to be desired.” For more than two decades, he has continued to master the art of photography. From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Greg has developed and showcased a discriminating and unique style in his profession. Born in 1949 in Kansas City, Missouri, Greg attended the University of Kansas from 1967-69 with a major in photojournalism. He completed his studies at the University of Southern California; graduating with an MFA in cinematography in 1972. He currently resides in Los Angeles and Mendocino, Calif.
www.gormanphotography.com
Tom Green
Tom Green is a Professor, Interactive Multimedia through Humber College's School of Media Studies in Toronto. He is also the author of two very successful books — Building Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX and Building Dynamic Web Sites with Macromedia Studio MX 2004 — published by New Riders and is currently writing the RoboDemo Visual Quick Start Guide for Peachpit Press. Tom is a regular contributer to the MX Developers Journal and his article,"The Death of QuickTime", is rated as being among the magazine's most read on line articles. As a partner with Community MX, Tom has written over two dozen tutorials ranging from the use of type on the web, the creative use of streaming video in Flash to the inclusion of DVD content in web pages and color correction in Fireworks MX 2004. A founding member of one of Macromedia's largest User Groups in the world, Toronto's "FlashinTO", Tom is also actively involved with Toronto's new Dreamweaver User Group in Toronto, DreaminginTO.
www.tomontheweb.ca/Bio.htm
Dane Howard
Dane Howard has been telling stories with pictures for 12 years. As a designer and director of the creative process, he has developed creative strategies and products for Microsoft, BMW, Major League Baseball, Quokka Sports, NBC Olympics, Rolling Stone, and Disney. As a designer and now as a father of two, Dane is using his background in sequential media and experience-based design to express his passion for sharing the stories of his loved ones. His search has brought him to discover existing and evolving technologies that will shape the future of digital photography and self-publishing for the mass market. He maintains a personal project to document the events of his family. The interest in this project (www.chloehoward.com) spawned his recently published book, Sharing Digital Photos: The Future of Memories, to show others how to document and share life’s events. www.futureofmemories.com
Phillip Kerman
Phillip Kerman is a teacher, writer, and programmer with a decade of professional experience using Macromedia tools. He's written for Macromedia's DevNet site, their Developer Resource Kits, and the Central documentation. He has three Flash books in print including Flash MX 2004 for Rich Internet Applications plus a fourth one out before the end of the year. For proof that he can also program, check out the real-time cattle auction for www.stampedecattle.com that consistently sells millions of dollars of cattle during a single auction.
Steve Laskevitch
Steve Laskevitch discovered the joy of digital imaging while studying
physics in the 1980s, when he created science education and image editing
software. Since then, Steve has mixed the technical and creative as a
photographer, designer, illustrator, and consultant. An Adobe Certified
Instructor (and Adobe Certified Expert in Photoshop, Illustrator, and
InDesign), he's helped Adobe write expert certification exams. Steve is
passionate about helping others use powerful software tools to create. To
that end, he advises corporations and individuals on print and web
workflows, color management, and the Adobe Creative Suite. He teaches at the
University of Washington Extension, Cornish College of the Arts, and
elsewhere. Steve is the principal member of Luminous Works, LLC.
www.luminousworks.com
Joe Marini
Joe Marini was an original member of the Dreamweaver development team at Macromedia. He is also a regularly featured speaker at industry conferences and has authored or co-authored several books on Web development.
Thad McIlroy
Thad McIlroy is an electronic publishing analyst and author, and president of Arcadia House. A well-established expert in the technology and marketing issues surrounding electronic publishing and color imaging. In 1988 he founded Arcadia House, a consulting firm specializing in the implementation of electronic publishing technology in the graphic arts and publishing industries. In 1990 he co-founded (with Miles Southworth) The Color Resource, a publishing and distribution company devoted to books and training materials on color design, imaging and prepress.
Steve Mulder
Manager of User Experience at Terra Lycos, Steve leads information architecture and usability efforts for the many sites that are part of Lycos and Terra. Steve speaks regularly at Web design conferences and has written for Webmonkey.com and Adobe.com.
Kevin O’Connor
Kevin O’Connor hails from San Luis Obispo, Calif., a sleepy college town halfway between San Jose and Los Angeles. He has been a professional photographer for more than 30 years, a graphic designer and print production manager for twenty, and a color geek for almost ten years (before it was fashionable, something he’s never accused of being). A self-described “lazy man,” Kevin works hard at finding the easiest ways to do his work, and delights in teaching other people to share the efficient tools, tips, and techniques he’s adopted. You can send your color topics wish list to him at .
Eric Ott
Eric Ott has more than 10 years of experience as a pioneer in the Web industry. His position at Macromedia as the product manager for Dreamweaver enabled him to define the direction of this highly regarded web development platform from its early days. His knowledge and experience in Web design and development have given him strong insight into ways to achieve success on the web. Eric is currently the President at WebAssist. WebAssist partners
include Macromedia, PayPal, eBay, Interwoven, Yahoo!, and Google.
Thomas Phinney
Thomas Phinney is involved in the design, technical, historical, and business aspects of type and typography. His new typeface, with the working name of "Geode," is an upcoming Adobe Originals release. Thomas has worked with Adobe's type group for seven years, currently as program manager for fonts and core technologies, and has recently relocated to Adobe's Seattle offices. He has a master's degree in typography and design from the Rochester (NY) Institute of Technology, and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Chad Rolfs
Chad Rolfs was born and raised in East Wenatchee, a little town smack dab inthe middle of Washington State. He spent his childhood drawing pictures of dinosaurs and playing with Star Wars figures which eventually led him to a BFA from Berkeley and a secondary degree in multimedia. Chad has been with Adobe Systems in Seattle for the past 5 years working directly on Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. He moonlights at Adobe as a product trainer, teaching Photoshop classes in Seattle and Ottawa. Chad is also a freelance videographer were he combines his Photoshop expertise with his passion for video.
Leonard Rosenthol
Leonard Rosenthol, Chief Innovation Officer for Apago, has been involved in the software industry for almost 20 years. For most of the first part of his career, he served as Director of Advanced Technology for Aladdin Systems, developing their StuffIt line of products. Upon leaving Aladdin, he joined Adobe Systems as their "Designated Free Electron.” It was during his time at Adobe that Leonard began his involvement in PDF and electronic publishing. Since Adobe, Leonard has been instrumental is helping to proliferate support of PDF in the software industry through his consulting firm, PDF Sages, and the various seminars and speeches that he presents frequently at industry conferences and local user groups.
Bob Schaffel
Bob Schaffel is a senior product manager at Adobe Systems, Inc. He is currently the product manager of Version Cue™, the file version management feature of Adobe® Creative Suite. During his 4 years at Adobe, Bob has been focused on product development related to workflow and collaboration, and was the Adobe product manager involved in the creation of Job Definition Format (JDF). Prior to this, Bob was manager of emerging technologies for RR Donnelley & Sons where his responsibilities involved strategic and operational technology implementation for the production of electronic and printed publications. He has more than 20 years of hands-on and consulting experience in the graphic art and communication industry. Bob has spoken frequently both in the US and internationally on technology processes and strategies, and has authored many articles about desktop publishing.
Jeff Schewe
Jeff Schewe, a summa cum laude graduate of Rochester Institute of Technology, has been an award-winning advertising photographer in Chicago for over 20 years. Jeff’s photographic specialty has always been problem solving and his move into digital imaging allows even more control over the final photographic image. He has been doing digital imaging for over 10 years and is widely known and respected in the digital imaging community as a leading pioneer in the field. He speaks regularly at the Thunder Lizard Photoshop Conference and PDN's Photo Expo, and teaches at the Santa Fe Workshops. A feature consultant and alpha and beta tester for Adobe Photoshop, he has been listed in the Photoshop credits for “Creative Input”. Jeff has also worked to advance the photographic community and is a past President of the Advertising Photographers of America (APA). Jeff is one of 65 photographers worldwide named as a Canon Explorer of Light. He is also a member of Epson's Stylis Pro program and consults for a variety of companies. He is a past Apple “Master of the Medium” and has served as a member of Apple’s Customer Advisory Board.
http://www.schewephoto.com
http://www.pixelgenius.com
Chuck Sholdt
Chuck Sholdt and Weather Central have been recognized in the newspaper industry as a leader in workflow automation. Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of Apple Computer, used Sholdt’s software at Seybold Seminars in 1999 to demonstrate what can be done using AppleScript technology to automate production processes. Adobe Systems has produced numerous articles, white papers, and press releases featuring Sholdt’s work. He has also been featured in industry trade publications and is currently highlighted on Apple’s AppleScript Web site. Sholdt has used his creativity to automate newspaper production workflow using AppleScript, InDesign, Late Night Software's ScriptDebugger, Quark Xpress, and 4th Dimension.
Jeffrey Veen
Jeffrey Veen is a founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience consulting company. He launched HotWired.com in 1994, and is author of The Art & Science of Web Design and HotWired Style. Clients include PeopleSoft, PBS, and Macromedia.
|