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James Ward

Technical Evangelist at Adobe Macromedia
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90's; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90's; then Java and many of it's frameworks beginning in the late 90's. Today he primarily uses Flex to build beautiful front ends for Java based back ends. Prior to Adobe, James built a rich marketing and customer service portal for Pillar Data Systems.


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Rob Frederick

Product and Program Manager at Snapvine.com
Mr Frederick brings over 10 years of technology expertise and management to Snapvine. Prior to Snapvine, Mr. Frederick was a Senior Manager at Amazon.com, where he was responsible for new product creation and strategy. He is credited with launching Amazon's mobile commerce initiatives in the US, Europe, and Japan, as well as launching Amazon's first Web Services progam (AWS) in 2002. Today the AWS program has over 120,000 active developers within the program, powers a plethora of 3rd Party merchant websites and applications, and is the most strategic program group within Amazon. In his seven years at Amazon.com , Mr. Frederick authored 13 patents, reported to the CTO and to the Senior Vice President, launched solutions that saved the company millions of dollars to their bottom line, and lead the development of strategic partnerships with companies interested in using Amazon's core services as a platform. His most recent responsiblities involved developing the strategy for Amazon's Subscriptions business and the launch/management of Amazon's DVD Rental programs in the UK and Germany. Prior to Amazon, Mr. Frederick was the TeleBrowser and DeviceTalk Development Manager at Convergence Corporation, a 10 person Bluetooth-based startup in Atlanta, that was acquired by Amazon in 1999. Mr. Frederick graduated from MIT, where he also worked on Pervasive Computing and Interactive Media initiatives at the MIT Media Lab.