About
I’ve been a Flash Platform Architect for many moons (about 10 yrs). I founded PXL Designs, LLC in December ’06 and have been going at it full time on my own since then. I quickly found out I was spoiled during the Internet-boom years, I missed the days of nerf gun fights and wearing shorts to work. So I decided being a full-timer wasn’t for me, it was time to strike out on my own and be adventurous.
I’m currently an Adobe Certified Expert in Flex with AIR, as well as a Flex Community Champion, and I write articles and sample Flex applications for the Adobe Developer Connection, and other Adobe teams regularly. I guess you can say I love my job my work and I don’t get a lot of sunshine.
I’ve spent most of my career as a programmer/consultant in the NJ/NYC metro area and made a break for it to see what it was like to be a business owner/programmer/janitor/so on and so forth. I’ve worked for many companies, huge corporations and small start-ups, and have mostly specialized in the Flash Player arena with server-side connectivity. Other technologies I work with include PHP, ColdFusion, C#, Java, SQL, and the list goes on. But somehow, over a decade long career I’ve always focused on the Flash Player because it was too much fun.
You’ll find a few of my contributions to the Flex community out on the internets, like the PXL MP3 Player built in Flex 3.0, the source code (written on the Cairngorm 2.2 framework) can be found here on PXL Blog.
With the help of my colleague Holly Schinsky we wrote Attest, the Adobe Flex 3 with AIR Developer Certification Practice Exam, which has gained an awesome reputation for helping developers pass the real exam with high scores. A new commercial version called Attest PRO was just released at Adobe MAX ’09 as well. We will always continue to support the free version as well as the commercial, and will be upgrading to Flex 4 soon.
You can find some good Flex/AIR code and info here on my personal blog, as well as some good laughs, fiery outrage, complete nonsense and late night ramblings as advertised.
When I’m not coding, I’m playing guitar (real guitar, not Guitar Hero, which I suck at), reading, writing, drawing, building something, BBQ-ing, playing with the dog, mountain biking, or giving the PS3 a work out. If it’s not one of those things, I find myself diving right back into technology like a true geek.
