Speakers

Andy Allan is the owner of Fuzzy Orange Ltd, a ColdFusion consultancy, training and support company based out of Glasgow, Scotland. He is a regular contributor to the ColdFusion community, and co-manages the Scottish ColdFusion User Group.

Mark Drew has been programming Coldfusion since 1996, and even though he has had forays into Perl, ASP and PHP he is still loving every line of code he has crafted with ColdFusion, so much so that he decided to be part of the CFEclipse team and build an even better editor to write CF with. As a day job he is Product Manager at Design UK http://www.designuk.com, a London based agency providing ecommerce, content managament, CRM and creative marketing solutions to some of the rather more well known high street stores. Apart from this Mark still has time to develop CFEclipse (http://www.cfeclipse.org) and blog about coldfusion and related subjects over at http://www.markdrew.co.uk/blog/. Mark is also co-manager of the UKCFUG http://www.ukcfug.org and has spoken on a number of subjects including ORMs, Frameworks and CFEclipse.

Gert Franz is one of the founders of Railo Technologies GmbH and accompanied the development from when it started back in 2001. Next to the development he mainly works as a web designer at New Impact (http://www.newimpact.com) One of his favorite web projects was for www.zinodavidoff.com. He is addicted to problem solving, performance and database tuning (especially SQL Server). He is the father of three and boyfriend of one and as far as he can remember, he studied physics in Munich some years ago.

Peter Haak is a Senior Software Engineer currently working for the Euro Payment Group GmbH, a Payment Service Provider located in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Even if his center of work is based on the scripting language php he has constantly working on ColdFusion projects since version 4.

After starting out as a graphic designer in the DTP area he quickly evolved from screen-design to web-design. Since 1996 he has been programing web applications, e.g. online shops, communities and geo-based websites (Map24).

Harry Klein is cofounder and CTO at CONTENS Software GmbH, a leading supplier of enterprise content management software. He is a Certified Advanced ColdFusion developer and Microsoft MSCE. (http://www.harryklein.name)

Luis Majano is a Computer Engineer currently employed at ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute) in sunny Redlands, California. Please Support GIS!!.

He graduated from Florida International University and holds an Advanced Coldfusion MX 6,7 Developer Certifications.I have been developing software, networking and system design since 2000.

Darren Pywell is co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Intergral. Darren has over 17 years of experience working at a senior technical level. Darren graduated from Staffordshire University in 1990, with a BSc First Class Honors Degree in Computing Science.

Darren began his career at Akebia Systems, a UK-based company that developed software for high-end medical and flight simulator systems. In 1993, Darren was asked by Hewlett-Packard to join their Dealer Information Services initiative as technical lead for the client software. DIS was a leading-edge world-wide project to provide HP dealers with Order Status, Product, Pricing, Sales + Marketing and Support Information using Internet technologies.

In 1998, Darren co-founded Intergral and assumed the role of CTO where he has been responsible for architecting and realizing Intergral's product portfolio.