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IdeaInteractiveMedia World Class Adobe Certified Instructors

IdeaInteractiveMedia Adobe Software Training Solutions are led by qualified World Class Adobe Certified Instructors. We pride ourselves in using the absolute best of the breed instructors worldwide in the industry in which we feel is the absolute determining factor to a better learning experience.

- Greg Hamer Master Instructor | AIR - Flex - ColdFusion Advance - Flash Media Server - Flash Video Development - Dreamweaver Advance - ActionScript 3.0 - Flash

Greg has been developing web applications since 1997 (and database and client-server applications even longer). His specialties include rich internet applications (with Flex and Flash), delivering video on the web, and database driven web applications. Greg is an active developer and Adobe Certified Instructor on all of the following technologies: Flex, Flash, AIR, Dreamweaver, Flash Video, Flash Media Server, ColdFusion, and JRun. Greg is also a SQL specialist and certified SQL instructor (MySQL, Microsoft, Oracle and Sybase). Greg is a frequent speaker at conferences including Adobe MAX, 360Flex, NAB and TODCon.

- Phillip Kerman | Flash - ActionScript

Phillip Kerman is an Adobe Certified Professional

Phillip Kerman is a teacher, writer, and programmer focusing on the Adobe Flash platform. He's programmed several games on MSN and Messenger Live including Sudoku Too and Jigsaw Too. He also programmed the real-time cattle auction site stampedecattle.com. Recently his focus is on cashing-in before Bubble 2.0.

He has trained and made presentations around the world, in such exotic locations as Reykjavik, Iceland; Melbourne, Australia; Barcelona, Spain; Amsterdam, Holland; and McAlester, Oklahoma.

Philip Kerman has authored many Flash books including:

  • Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
  • Macromedia Flash 8 @ Work
  • Macromedia Flash 8
  • Macromedia Flash 2004
  • Macromedia Flash 2004 Rich Internet Applications
  • ActionScript in Flash MX
  • Flash MX
- Charlie Arehart | ColdFusion

A veteran ColdFusion developer since 1997, Charlie Arehart is a longtime contributor to the ColdFusion community. A certified Advanced CF Developer and Instructor for CF 4-7 & member of the Adobe Community Experts program. He also now runs the Online ColdFusion Meetup, the world's largest CF User Group, and is a frequent presenter at conferences/user groups worldwide. Among his other accomplishments are:

  • Author of more than 50 articles, in the ColdFusion Developers Journal, FusionAuthority Quarterly Update, Adobe DevNet, Java Developers Journal, Community MX, and more
  • Presenter of more than 70 user group talks to hundreds of audiences and conferences
  • Host of the Online ColdFusion Meetup, the world's largest CF user group
  • Co-author, ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, all 3 volumes
  • Member, Adobe Community Experts program
  • Adobe Certfied Instructor
  • Host of the UGTV repository of recorded user group presentations from all over the world and over 100 speakers
  • Organizer of several other resources to help CFML developers in a variety of ways, from Tools to Consider as a CF developer, to getting started with the Apache Derby DB embedded in CF, and much much more
  • Member, Adobe User Group Managers program
  • Member, CFUnited Advisory Board
  • Co-author, ColdFusion MX Bible (2002)

Other resources he's created in the past, many with tips and info still relevant today:

  • His older CFMXPlus blog , from 2002-2003
  • His BlueDragon blog, from 2003-2006
  • His original tips list from 1998-2002, from before the days of blogging, at his former Systemanage site
  • Articles he did for the CFDJ before 2004, listed at Systemanage.com
  • more than 50 additional previous presentations he gave from 1999 - 2003
  • a few articles he wrote for Adobe/Macromedia in the past
  • Other resources he's contributed to the CFDJ (including a series of CF Advisor tips from 1999-2000) are available via CFDJ contributions (Articles and tips posted at CFDJ)
  • Several of other past BlueDragon articles at the New Atlanta site

And from his days before getting into ColdFusion:

The community site for a mainframe DBMS (Model 204), called the Ultimate 204 Site, which he ran for several years starting in 1996 (though the content no longer lives where it did, it's available courtesy of the fantastic web archive)

- John Daigle | Captivate - RoboHelp - Acrobat Connect (Formerly Breeze)

John Daigle is president of Evergreen Online Learning, LLC, based in Evergreen, Colorado. A frequent speaker at national online help conferences, John is an Adobe Certified RoboHelp, Captivate and Acrobat Connect (Breeze) Instructor. In 1993, he created www.hypertexas.com, the first website devoted to online help authoring. He has taught RoboHelp since 1992 and RoboDemo/Captivate since they were introduced.

Adobe's Developer Center website features 4 tutorial articles written by John:

His speaking engagements include the STC Manhattan Chapter and Workshop, STC annual conference in Minneapolis and the WritersUA conference.

John's clients include the MTV Television Networks, Walt Disney Company, Microsoft, McKesson Pharmaceuticals, and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. He also hosts and develops websites for hospitals, architectural firms among many more.

John is a member of the Society for Technical Communication and has a Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism from the University of Houston. He began his career in broadcast news as a reporter for the NBC television affiliate in Houston, Texas.

- Ayo Binitie II | Flash - ActionScript 3 - Flash Media Server

Ayo Binitie has been developing Actionscript applications with Flash and now the FlexSDK for over eight years. Currently he architects and leads the development of a number of medium to large scale Rich Interactive Applications. Personal experiments have involved the building of multi user Internet applications on the Flash Media Interactive Server platform, sound visualizations with Flash using the Papervision3D API and exploring various development techniques using Design Patterns.
Ayo has a sound knowledge of Object Oriented Programming principles and practice and have adapted classic core Java and C# design patterns to Flash/Flex application development. His grasp and understanding of application development using the Flash Media Interactive Server platform is high level and specialized. Since 1999 he has been a part of the Macromedia now Adobe, as a beta test programmer testing various Actionscript delivery technologies.

Notably Ayo has contributed to books, and written articles on Flash, Actionscript and Flash Media Server. His client base includes Nike, AKQA and many others.

Programming Languages and Skills

Core:
Adobe Actionscript 3.0
MXML                                           
Adobe Actionscript  2.0                                           
Adobe Media Actionscript

Rich Media Server Technologies:
Flash Media Interactive Server
Red5

Secondary:                            
Java                                                                         
JavaScript                                                                 
Cold Fusion                                                    
PHP
CSS, XML, XSL, XSLT.

Publications/Editorials

  • Co Author: Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Actionscript 2.0 Dictionary –(Berkeley: Macromedia Press, 2004)
  • Co Author: Flash Communication Server MX: Strategic Solutions for Online Interaction – (Berkeley: Macromedia Press, 2003)
  • Co Author/ Contributor: Flash MX: Upgrade essentials –(London: Friends of ED: 2002)
  • Book reviewer: Zero to Hero, Fireworks – (London: Friends of ED, 2002)

Online Publications and Lectures

-Mark Chrisman | Captivate | eLearning Specialist

Mark Chrisman is an eLearning Specialist based in Seattle, WA, who works for Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield, where he develops enterprise web-based training. He has over six years experience in training design, development and consultation and has presented at two national eLearning Guild conferences and has published two articles for the Adobe Captivate Development Center. He has a B.S. in Communications/Fine Art and a Certificate in Multimedia. He is also managing a Captivate Users Group in Seattle, which includes group presentations and workshops, as well as a blog and social network.

- Jeff Witchel | InDesign | Illustrator

Jeff Witchel graduated from Pratt Institute in 1973 with a B.F.A. (Cum Laude) in Advertising Design and Visual Communications. He has been an award-winning advertising art director, writer, designer, illustrator, and TV producer ever since.

Before starting his own advertising agency in New Jersey, Jeff built his career at top New York ad agencies such as Young & Rubicam, Grey Advertising, and Wells, Rich, Greene. Over the years, he has created award-winning work for many clients including AT&T, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Jell-O Pudding, The Plaza Hotel, and Pfizer. His many prestigious awards include N.Y. Art Directors Club Gold Award, One Show Gold Award, N.J. Art Directors Club Award, multiple Andy Awards, Graphis Annual, numerous readership awards, plus an Emmy Award nomination.

Jeff is a self-taught computer artist with over 20 years of experience. His initial introduction to the computer was with PageMaker, but he switched to Quark 1.0 when it was first introduced in 1987. Having arrived on the desktop publishing scene so early, Jeff became the “go to” guy for answers when others started getting into computer graphics.

As an Adobe Certified Expert, he’s provided online support for Adobe and is now an Adobe Certified Training Provider for both Adobe Illustrator CS3 and Adobe InDesign CS3. Jeff is one of just a handful of Adobe Certified Instructors in the New York metropolitan area. He also is a Quark Certified Expert in QuarkXPress 6 as well as a master of Adobe Photoshop and related applications. He counts among his training clients ad agencies, design studios, magazines, illustrators, and photographers.

Jeff has authored and been the Instructor for various training DVDs as well as online videos for both InDesign and Illustrator. He also writes online tutorials for www.LayersMagazine.com and is the author of “Layers Magazine Tips of the Day,” which are received by thousands of subscribers each day.

- Steve Weinrebe | Photoshop

As both a teacher and a photographer, Steve has enjoyed introducing students to Adobe Photoshop since 1991. In 1996 he became the ninth person ever to become an Adobe Certified Photoshop Instructor (there are still fewer than 200 in the USA). His book Adobe Photoshop and the Art of Photography: A Comprehensive Introduction (Thomson-Delmar Learning, 448 pgs.), provides a complete introductory Photoshop course featuring original photography and easy to understand text and illustrations, and also features original interviews with well regarded photographers at the end of each chapter.

In 2006 he received a Videographer award for multi-media training on the video applications of Photoshop. As a professional photographer, Steve has won numerous awards over his 30 year career and is published internationally. His stock photography is represented worldwide by Getty Images. He has toured for Calumet Photo, teaching Photoshop seminars, and has recently been brought on board to the Maine Media Workshops faculty to teach photoshop for photographers, and for videographers. Through his video production company Whole Cloth Productions™ , he produced an award winning children’s video.

Besides writing for Mode Studio, Steve writes tutorials for the Photoshop User web site, and a column for CreativeBlvd.com. Being both a fan of the liberal arts, and an entrepreneur, Steve has a BA in Philosophy from Beloit College, and an MBA, with honors, from Temple University.

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