Speaker Bios

Lee Brimelow

Bio coming soon. While you're waiting, check out Adobe.com, theflashblog.com, gotoandearn.com.

Zander Brimijoin

Zander Brimijoin brings 8 years of twisted animation and web experience to Big Spaceship.com. His graduate, professional, and independent work reflect his persistent focus to meld motion graphics and interactivity. His projects include music videos, pachinko minigolf, fusball sensor rigs, stop-motion and experience driven web sites.

Jennifer Deafenbaugh

Jennifer Deafenbaugh is a senior interactive designer at Blue Diesel where she concepts and develops interactive content for tablet PC's. She teaches digital art, design, animation and interactive concepts to both children and adults, and is an active art and technology advocate and mentor through the Fuse Factory Electronic and Digital Arts Lab. Her current projects include outdoor interactive projection artwork as well as art direction, graphics and production in local independent films.

Julian Dolce

Julian Dolce is Director of Creative Technology at Fuel Industries in Ottawa. A lot of people ask what that title really means and the simple answer is "I make cool stuff", which could be anything from a microsite, game, desktop application, iPhone application, or interactive installations. He also runs www.deleteaso.com where he posts some of his findings.

Golan Levin

Golan Levin develops artifacts and events which explore supple new modes of reactive expression. His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into the formal language of interactivity, and of nonverbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems. Through performances, digital artifacts, and virtual environments, often created with a variety of collaborators, Levin applies creative twists to digital technologies that highlight our relationship with machines, make visible our ways of interacting with each other, and explore the intersection of abstract communication and interactivity.Levin has exhibited widely in Europe, America and Asia.

See his work at flong.com

Wayne Lincoln

Wayne Lincoln brings over 50 years of experience, dating back to traditional block typography. His professional work shows his inner rage and contempt for corporate America, as well as his penchant for buggery. Lincoln says his philosophy can be described as “Man up…now get out of my face. Why the f#@%K are you still here?” He aspires to owning his own cabin in the woods where he can eventually clone hockey players to do his bidding.

Wayne is also a co-manager and co-founder of the Pittsburgh pittmfug.org.

John Lindquist

John is part of the Papervision3D team and runs the official tutorial and example site at pv3d.org. John worked as a freelance flash and flex developer for a number of years before settling down with his family for a career as a developer at Schematic. He aspires to one day open a music store and provide instruments to local schools and underprivileged kids.

Joey Lott

Joey is the co-founder of The Morphic Group , an Adobe Solution Partner specializing in Flex, Flash, and AIR application development. Joey is also the author of many books, including ActionScript 3 Cookbook, Programming Flex 3, Adobe AIR in Action, and Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns.

Dan Mall

Dan Mall is the Interactive Director at Happy Cog, a user-centered design agency based out of New York City and Philadelphia. Working for a range of clients from Fortune 500 companies to mom-'n'-pop shops, Dan has a passion for playing matchmaker between engaging art direction and intuitive interaction design.

When not at work, Dan enjoys being a newlywed, being a technical editor for A List Apart, singing/playing keyboards for contemporary-Christian band, Four24, and writing about design and other issues on his industry-recognized site, danielmall.com.

Stacey Mulcahy

Stacey Mulcahy is a Flex and Flash developer who once had a torrid love affair with Macromedia Director. When she's not building immersive interactive experiences, she can be found showing others how to do the same thing as a Flash instructor. She rants more than raves on her Flash-centric blog bitchwhocodes.com.

Ben Pritchard

Ben Pritchard is an Interactive Development Manager at New Perspective in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of Pixelfumes. Ben has over eight years of experience in the field and has won industry awards, including honors from the American Advertising Federation and Communication Arts. Ben is also comanager of the Pittsburgh Flash Users Group (PittMFUG) and an active blogger of all things Flash.

Jose R. Rodriguez

Jose Rodriguez is the founder and technical lead of JRVisuals, a company focusing on Flash game development for advertising and entertainment. The games JR develops have a focus on the game-play experience over all with a penchant for the old school arcade classics. JR enjoys the challenge of touching upon and combining various new media disciplines, as well as developing and nurturing new and interesting business ideas and relationships. He has also been published internationally on the subjects of Flash and Shockwave, and has presented at various industry conferences on the topics of new media and online games as advertising. JRVisuals as a whole has received many accolades for their work in the industry.

Craig Swann

Craig Swann is founder of the award-winning interactive agency CRASH!MEDIA and has been a core part of the Flash community since its inception. As an educator, curator, speaker, and writer of new media technologies, Craig has given more than 30 international talks on Flash interactivity, written and contributed to seven Flash books, and curated over a dozen new media events featuring some of the world’s brightest Flash and interactive developers.

His Flash work at CRASH! has received over a dozen awards and has been featured in both print and television. Craig’s interactive audio work was developed into the award-winning online music application Looplabs, which has been used by such clients as Coca-Cola, Sony, Miller, Bacardi, Calvin Klein, Volvo, and others.

When not working on client projects Craig has a strong belief that R&R is R&D and is continually dreaming up and prototyping interactive tools in the present in anticipation of the fast-coming future. www.crashmedia.com.