Michael Eisner, Keynote
CEO, Walt Disney Company (1984 – 2005)
Owner, Vuguru, a multimedia production studio

Michael D. Eisner joined The Walt Disney Company as Chairman and CEO in 1984. In twenty-one years at its helm, he revitalized and reinvented Disney into a full spectrum entertainment enterprise. Under his leadership, the company began implementation of a continuing series of creative growth strategies that resulted in its annual revenues rising from $1.7 billion to more than $30 billion. Michael Eisner continues to be an Entertainment Innovator. His investment company Tornante launched Vuguru, a studio producing original programming for the Internet, portable media devices and cell phones.
During his stewardship, Disney animation experienced
a renaissance with hits including:

• The Little Mermaid
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Lion King
• Toy Story
• Finding Nemo
• The Incredibles

Disney also became a leader in live-action films with pictures such as:

• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Pretty Woman
• Sixth Sense
• Pearl Harbor
• Pirates of the Caribbean

During Eisner's stewardship Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disney Sea and Hong Kong Disneyland were opened; also the existing Disney theme parks were expanded. First class hotels were opened that were designed by the world’s leading architects at all Disney resort sites

Disney also acquired Capital Cities/ABC which included the ABC television network, ESPN cable networks and equity ownership in The History Channel, Lifetime, A&E and E!, The SoapNET and Toon Disney cable networks. Radio Disney and ESPN Radio were launched and Disney also developed such leading Internet sites as Disney.com, ESPN.com, ABC.com and Family.com

Mr. Eisner has been a leader in the entertainment industry for nearly forty years helping to shape this key area of the American economy.

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Brian Goldfarb, Keynote
Lead Product Manager
Microsoft

Brian Goldfarb and his team are focused on product planning, strategy, and marketing for the platforms and tools that designers and developers use for building the next generation of applications for the Web, Windows, and devices. This includes Silverlight, Expression Studio, WPF, ASP.NET, Commerce Server, IIS, Visual Web Developer, and more. Brian currently is the Director of the .NET Developer Platform team at Microsoft. Previously, Brian ran the Web Platform and Tools Product Management team focused on delivering and marketing Microsoft’s server side Web solutions. Brian graduated with degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Duke University.

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Max Wyss
"Guru of PDF scripting"
Principle
PRODOK Engineering

Max Wyss is the Principal of PRODOK Engineering, a consulting company based in the Zürich area in Switzerland. He is a well known figure in the Acrobat/PDF and Forms community, where he is known as the “guru of PDF scripting”. His custom-built JavaScript applications based on the AcroForms technology have been known to draw gasps even from Adobe engineers. Besides his consulting work for numerous clients, he speaks frequently at conferences, and conducts highly regarded intensive workshops in Switzerland, Germany, and the United States.
With a Master’s degree in engineering (dipl. Ing. ETH) from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, he brings a solid understanding of the underlying technical issues to PRODOK’s many technology-oriented clients.

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Christopher Smith
Author, Consultant
President
Aquent Graphics Institute

Christopher co-founded Aquent Graphics Institute (previously American Graphics Institute) in 1994 after leaving Quark, Inc. Christopher recognized that publishers, designers, and communications professionals needed assistance in adopting and adapting to rapidly changing technology. He quickly grew AGI to become the leading technology training and consulting resource for nearly every major advertising, media, publishing, and marketing firm in North America. In 2007 AGI became part of the Aquent, a $400 million business with 70 offices across 17 countries that represents 400,000 creative, marketing, and communications professionals.

Christopher is widely considered one of the foremost industry experts regarding electronic publishing software. He has authored or co-authored more than one dozen books relating to electronic publishing technology, including the Adobe Creative Suite for Dummies. Adobe Systems has entrusted him and the team at AGI with managing all content, creative, and production for the vast majority of the Adobe Classroom in a Book series published by Adobe Press. Smith has overseen development for multiple versions of the Classroom in a Book titles for InDesign, Acrobat, Illustrator, GoLive, Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements, and Audition. For the Adobe Creative Suite 3 products, Christopher and the AGI team have developed the new Digital Classroom series published with O’Reilly which includes books and training videos on the CS3 versions of Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, and Illustrator.

Outside of AGI, he has served as an elected member of a School Board where he had oversight of a $50 million annual budget in an enterprise with more than 900 employees and he currently serves on the board of directors of a private co-educational school in suburban Boston.

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Bob Connolly
President
pdfPictures

Located in Toronto, Canada, pdfPictures is a full-service production company that specializes in convergence technologies. For the past 16 years, pdfPictures has been producing award-winning DVDs, TV series, music videos, records, commercial and educational CD-ROMs, Internet web sites and, most recently, Interactive “Rich Media” PDF documents. The company features a team of highly skilled, multitasking professionals consisting of musicians, graphic artists, writers, on-air talent, still photographers, video camera operators, editors, computer programmers, and support staff, who try to push the boundaries of what can be done using “Rich Media” PDF as an Internet delivery platform.
Their clients include: General Motors, Ford, Mazda, Jaguar, Nissan, Toyota, Dell Computer, Apple Computer, Benjamin Moore, Pfizer-Parke Davis, Trinidad, Aruba Tourism Authority, Ontario Ministry of Tourism, VIA Rail, Bell Canada, and many tourist boards from around the world.
The company is led by Bob Connolly, an accomplished musician, writer, record, television, and movie producer with a vast rich experience in the print publishing industry. His knowledge of advanced PDF workflows originated while under contract to produce training videos for the Linotype Company. He has received several research grants from the Government of Canada to develop Interactive TV via PDF.
His most recent book is Dynamic Media: Music, Video, Animation and the web in Adobe PDF.

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Herb Paynter
ImagePrep Consulting LLC

Herb Paynter has deep roots in the graphic arts industry, with hands-on experience in all facets of design, photography, photoengraving, pre-press, and pressroom operations. He has held Journeyman positions as Multi-Color Pressman, Process Camera/Scanner Operator and Stripper/Platemaker. Mr. Paynter has owned and operated both pre-press and printing companies. He also has served as Print Production Manager for several in-house manufacturing companies.

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Jeff Miller
Sales Director for Americas
HumanEyes'

Miller brings to HumanEyes more than 20 years of photographic and graphic imaging sales and customer management experience. Throughout his career, Miller successfully supported a diverse body of customers that included city, county, state, and federal agencies; the United States Air Force; commercial printers and service bureaus; commercial photo labs; and Fortune 50 to 500 companies.
Most recently, Miller served as Vice President Sales, North America, for Matan Digital Printers. Prior to his tenure with Matan, Miller was Digital Imaging Sales Representative for Canon Business Solutions. He has also served as District Sales Manager for Ilford Imaging Inc. Miller began his imaging career as a photographer’s assistant and lab technician at Palmer’s Photography Studio in Dallas, Oregon.

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Arturo Toledo
UX Technical Product Manager
Microsoft

Arturo Toledo is the UX Technical Product Manager at Redmond. He is responsible for producing UX and Designer training resources for customers and field as well as helping the training partner ecosystem grow. Arturo studied architecture at La Salle University in Mexico City, did additional media and visualization studies at the University of Arizona. Post graduation, Arturo applied his multimedia design and development skills and founded Milton Frank Studio, a boutique interactive development studio.

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Fred Gerantabee
Training Manager and Instructor
Aquent Graphics Institute

Fred Gerantabee is an Emmy-award winning interactive designer, web developer and author based in New York City. Most recently, Fred was an interactive producer with ABC/Disney Interactive, working on ITV applications for hit shows such as Extreme Makeover:Home Edition, the Academy Awards and Toon Disney's JETIX Cards Live. Fred is the author of the Flash CS3 Professional and Dreamweaver CS3 Dynamic Learning series books on O'Reilly, and co-author of the Creative Suite 3 Desk Reference for Dummies (Wiley) with Chris and Jennifer Smith. Fred is an Adobe Certified Instructor and holds ACEs in Flash, Dreamweaver, Flash Lite and Contribute.

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Robert Colvin
Flash Architect
Kaplan University

Robert Colvin is the RIA manager for Kaplan online University and is primarily responsible for developing, integrating and maintaining rich clients with the Flash Platform. Having worked more than 11 years with numerous clients within the industry from London, England to Rio de Janeiro/São Paulo, Brazil, Robert still believes in the dot-com hype (get rich) to keep producing.
Robert also manages supports and maintains a monthly Adobe-sponsored User Group called South Florida Flash User Group or SFFUG.org.

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Jennifer Smith
Author, Instructor
Executive Vice President
Aquent Graphics Institute

Adobe Certified Expert and author of Adobe Creative Suite 2 for Dummies, Sams GoLive in 24 hours and lead technical writer for Adobe Illustrator CS2 Classroom in a Book and Adobe GoLive CS2 Classroom in a Book. Jennifer is Executive Vice President of Aquent Graphics Institute. She is the author of the upcoming Photoshop CS3 Digital Classroom, published by O’Reilly and AGI.

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J.P. Terry
Founder and CEO
SmartDoc Technologies

J.P. Terry is the founder and CEO of SmartDoc Technologies, a leading
company in the field of intelligent and dynamic document solutions. SmartDoc
(www.smartdoctech.com) develops interactive PDF systems for Fidelity
Investments, Merrill Lynch, PNC Bank and MetLife. SmartDoc Technologies is a
member of the Adobe Solutions network and a Google Enterprise Professional.
J.P. is the author of the Adobe Press book, "Creating Dynamic Forms with
Adobe LiveCycle Designer."

Prior to SmartDoc Technologies, J.P. founded BrandWizard Technologies and
was the CEO of BrandWizard from 2000 until 2005. Mr. Terry is a graduate of
the Rhode Island School of Design, the Omnicom Executive training program
and Wharton's Financial Executive program.

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Greg Heald
Instructor, Author, Editor
Aquent Graphics Institute

Greg has 20 years of practical design and production experience in both Web and print environments. He has served as a contributing author or editor on a number of books, including Dynamic Learning Adobe Dreamweaver CS3, Real World Adobe Acrobat, and several in the Adobe Classroom in a Book series for Adobe Press.
An Adobe Certified Expert himself, Greg has also contributed to the development of Adobe’s certification exams. His 10 years of training experience have brought him to many of AGI’s clients, including Verizon, L.L. Bean, and Reebok. Greg holds a degree in Advertising Design from the acclaimed College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University.

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Jim Healy
CEO
FormRouter, Inc.

Jim is founder and CEO of FormRouter, a form data collection and routing technology company. Jim is an enthusiastic technologist, and has been designing business models surrounding Internet communication software for more than a decade. Prior to starting FormRouter, Jim worked as an independent technology consultant, designing workflow solutions for financial institutions and large member-based organizations. His clients include GE, Dupont, and The United Way. Jim holds undergraduate degrees in Business and Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany.

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Michael Jahn
Director, Product Innovation
Magicomm

A graphic communications industry visionary, Michael is both a technical and marketing expert in a broad range of publishing workflow applications and technologies. With his background in sales, marketing, product development, and public relations, he quickly understands how to deliver complex products such as global communication solutions that cross a wide variety of mediums from high-end print to interactive web content. With a unique combination of creative talent and technical curiosity, he has lead international teams to accelerate product development, differentiate their product offerings, and establish market leadership during the launch and ongoing product life cycle.

Michael is an internationally recognized speaker at seminars and conferences relating to marketing and technical topics in the printing and publishing industry. He provides entertaining and thought provoking insight on a wide range of topics such as PDF, automated publishing workflows, color management systems, XML implementations and most recently, wearing Milk Cartons for shoes and evangelizing the biggest issue since global warming, cheese doodle color misrepresentation.

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Chip D. Culley
Vice President, North American Sales
XMPie

Chip D. Culley has more than 19 years of experience in publishing, graphics and digital video technologies. Before joining XMPie, he served as VP of Sales with Interra DVT, a provider of software products and consulting services aimed at companies involved in MPEG video-related application development Mr. Culley also held management positions at Minerva Systems, Indigo N.V. and Crosfield Electronics.  Chip is a graduate of McGill University School of Computer Sciences and holds a B.Sc. in Administrative Science from State University of New York.

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Duff Johnson
CEO
Document Solutions, Inc.

Industry veteran and CEO of Boston-based Document Solutions, Inc. (DSI), Duff Johnson has worked with hundreds of decision-makers and developers worldwide to create and implement business and publishing solutions using PDF technology.
Johnson currently chairs AIIM's PDF/Universal Accessibility (PDF/UA) Standards Committee, and has written numerous feature articles on PDF tools and technology for online and print publications. He currently dispenses expert tips and commentary on subjects ranging from Accessibility to Zone OCR via his "PDF Perspective" blog on AcrobatUsers.com.

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Lesa Snider King
Chief Evangelist
IStockphoto.com

As the founder of the free creative tutorial web site, GraphicReporter.com, and chief evangelist for iStockphoto.com, Lesa is on a mission to teach the world to create better graphics. She¹s a regular columnist for Photoshopuser.com, PlanetPhotoshop.com, Elements Techniques, Layers, and Macworld Magazines, plus she teaches at many conferences. Lesa is also New York Times technology columnist David Pogue¹s personal assistant, and the production editor/graphics goddess of his Missing Manual book series. You can catch her Graphics Tip of the Week live each Wednesday night on YourMacLifeShow.com and subscribe to her podcast, Graphic Secrets for Business, via the iTunes Music Store.

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Ed Krug
Aquent Consulting

As practice leader of Aquent’s consulting group, Ed Krug has managed the development of Aquent’s methodology for benchmarking marketing and creative operations, and led has engagements applying this methodology to some of the best-known brands around the world. Prior to joining Aquent, Krug spent more than twenty years working with clients to optimize operations in disciplines from back-office functions to print fulfillment to creative services, designing integrated service delivery models and providing tactical implementation support. His career has included senior analytical and business development positions on both coasts, London and India with Pitney Bowes, OfficeTiger, Spherion and Xerox. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Krug earned his BA in architecture.

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Linda Bruce
VP, Enterprise Sales
Managing Editor (MEI)

Linda Bruce has worked in graphic arts, typesetting, electronic prepress and publishing software industries for more than 25 years, including managing high-end systems and composition/prepress manufacturing operations. Her career has also included providing training and workflow consulting services to publishers in their conversion to Mac-based pagination, and serving in corporate sales at Quark, Inc. A 10-year veteran at MEI, Bruce has held marketing and sales positions across all product lines. For the past four years, she led the company’s business development efforts with the K4 Publishing System, workflow consulting services and next-generation cross-media publishing systems. She currently serves as vice president of enterprise sales at MEI and is a graduate of the University of Maryland.

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Dennis Bajec
Executive Director of Creative Services
Resource Interactive

Dennis Bajec is Executive Director of Creative Services at digital marketing agency Resource Interactive. For more than 13 years Dennis has pursued excellence and innovation in consumer products and digital experiences with clients such as Apple, Burton Snowboards, Kohler, Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Best Buy and Victoria's Secret. A judge in the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, his passion for great work has been recognized widely, in numerous publications and with virtually every national and international creative award including the International Clio Award, the OneShow Pencil, Cannes Lion, National Ad Federation Award, AdTech World Award, and New York Festival International Gold WorldMedal. Dennis holds a B.S. in Industrial Design from The Ohio State University. A known sufferer of technolust, Dennis resides in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, children, and the myriad of gadgets that have all equally captured his heart.

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Mayer Becker
National Practice Director
MarketSphere Consulting

Mayer G. Becker is National Practice Director for the MarketSphere Enterprise Marketing Management (EMM) practice.  In this role, he is responsible for delivery of client projects that help marketing departments transform themselves through adoption of an EMM strategy. During his 25-year career, Mayer served as vice president of Marketing and director of Marketing in several Fortune 1000 companies, including ADP, ITT Corp., Tribune Company and United Airlines. His experience crosses several disciplines including public relations, integrated marketing communications, life cycle marketing, CRM, and marketing operations.  Mayer earned an MBA from the University of Memphis in Information Systems.

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John Landis
Professor Emeritus at Kutztown University
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education

John Landis taught in the Communication Design Department for thirty-three years. Prior to his teaching appointment, John was Art Director of a Wilmington,  Delaware, design office with clients E. I. DuPont deNemours,  Armstrong World Industries, Atlantic Aviation, and others.
During his  teaching career, he freelance designed for various clients including  designing six cookbooks for health and ecology publisher Rodale,  Inc., Emmaus, Pennsylvania; a major corporate identity project for  the international offices of the United Methodist Churches, New York  City; numerous compact disc packages for the Vantage Recording  Company, Alexandria, Virginia; and printed materials for various non- profit organizations.
At Kutztown University he began the Communication Design Internship program; founded, edited, and  designed the alumni newsletter; and founded and regularly taught the  Campus Graphics course during which seniors respond to actual on- campus client requests for posters, brochures, and other printed  communications. He has had his design work accepted in numerous  exhibitions and annual publications and has received recognition for  teaching quality both locally as well as on the state and national  level.

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Doug Liles
Director, Partner Programs
NStein

Doug Liles is a dynamic speaker with domain expertise in workflow automation, content management, digital asset management, and dynamic publishing. Mr. Liles endeavors to bring a message that is both engaging and understandable for the target audience, having spoken in the past at Seybold, PMA, DIMA, PODi and regional advertising club events. His career focus has been on applying technology to connect brands to consumers through creativity and automation. He has successfully delivered solutions to leading end-clients in the entertainment, automotive, pharmaceutical, consumer packaged goods, and durable goods categories. Mr. Liles has served as a Senior Manager, Partner Relations for Quark and as a Business Development Director for Vertis. Mr. Liles currently is the Director, Partner Programs for Nstein Technologies (TSX-V: EIN) provides online publishing solutions to content-driven companies looking to generate revenue and reduce costs through the centralization, management and automated indexing of digital assets. Nstein offers complete online strategies and Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management and Text Mining Engine products in line with industry best practices.

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Larry Dean Miles
Senior Designer
Microsoft

Larry Dean Miles is a Senior Designer for MSN based in London. He attended the Design Center at the School of Design at Western Michigan University. He values taking chaotic ideas and turning them into strong clear concepts with distinct messages. Whether the final outcome is illustrations, photography, animation, music, writing, websites, videogames, or something in between, Larry is always excited about the challenge of trying something new.

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James Wamser
Sells Printing Company

James is a senior training specialist and Adobe Certified Expert at Sells Printing Company in New Berlin, WI.

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Jeff Ausura
Instructor
Aquent Graphics Institute

Artist/Interactive Designer Jeff Ausura is an Adobe Certified Expert and a contributing author to the Dynamic Learning: Dreamweaver CS3 book published by O'Reilly and AGI. He holds a BA in fine art from Bennington College and owns a lovely orange cat.

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Chris Moody
President
Aquent On Demand

As president of Aquent’s Marketing Technology Division, Chris has responsibility for leading the company’s software division. This division focuses on helping marketing organizations improve effectiveness and efficiency through the use of technology.

Prior to establishing the company’s software business, Chris served as Aquent’s Chief Operating Officer, in which position he was responsible for the day-to-day management of more than 700 employees across 70 offices.

Before joining Aquent, Chris served in senior consulting roles for three leading-edge technology firms: EDS, Oracle, and IBM. During his sixteen-year career, Chris has led engagements with more than 25 Fortune 500 companies. His views on marketing, technology, and organizational change have been presented at industry conferences including Comdex, HOW, and American Management Association events, as well as in publications including Network World magazine and USA Today.

Chris has a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Auburn University.

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Dennis Newman
General Manager Information Technology Services
PFS Corporation

PFS Corporation is America's leading third-party plan review agency for the modular and mobile construction industry. Dennis has written two white papers for the Manufactured housing industry on using and securing PDF files in engineering drawings. Dennis is a member of the PDF/E committee working to develop the ISO standard for using PDF in engineering files, and has worked extensively with both National and State agencies to develop regulations and standards to allow the use of digital signatures to replace the traditional 'wet stamps' on officially filed engineering drawings. 

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Jeremy Osborn
Training Director
Aquent Graphics Institute

Jeremy Osborn has more than 15 years of experience in web and graphic design, filmmaking, writing and publication development for both print and digital media. Jeremy recently served as the program director of Graphic & Web Design at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University. At CDIA he developed and taught the design curriculum which has become known for it’s emphasis on real world training for print design and an emphasis on web standards for web design.

Jeremy has contributed to several of the Adobe Classroom in a Book series including Adobe Acrobat 6 & 7 Professional, Adobe InDesign CS & CS2, Adobe GoLive CS2, and was the co author for Adobe Audition and the author of Adobe Premiere Elements. At AGI, Jeremy has provided in-depth training and custom consulting for students and corporate clients. Jeremy holds a MS in Management from the Marlboro College Graduate Center and a BFA in Film/TV from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

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Cathy Palmer
Designer, Instructor
Aquent Graphics Institute

Cathy Palmer has worked as an award-winning designer and production coordinator at advertising agencies and creative firms in Madison, Milwaukee and Chicago for over twenty years. She is based in the Midwest and available nationally for graphic design, print production, workflow & conversion consulting, and training.
Cathy offers solutions to improve productivity and efficiency in page production and digital integration of content. Her training uses real-world projects as examples; her consulting is structured to produce immediate benefits with existing documents and applications through workflow and process changes while providing cost/benefit analysis of file conversion and software migration.
As co-author of “A Designer’s Guide to InDesign and XML” from Adobe Press, Cathy is very interested in data-driven publishing and automated layouts, to make print production easier while freeing up more creative time for design.
Cathy currently works with Aquent Graphics Institute as a graphics software instructor on both Mac and PC platforms, in lecture/classroom and hands-on workshop settings. She also provides targeted technical consulting on digital design and print production topics.

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Eric Rowse
Instructor and Consultant
Aquent Graphics Institute

Eric works with AGI clients to implement PDF solutions to streamline workflows and capture efficiencies of electronic document distribution. He has led the conversion and training process of large business organizations as they deploy Acrobat across their enterprise, delivering training to hundreds of Acrobat users.

Educated as a designer, Eric received his Bachelor’s of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute, and continues to work with graphic design and multimedia applications. When not teaching at AGI’s New York City facility, Eric can frequently be found on the Long Island Expressway or the New Jersey Turnpike—look for the man on the motorcycle with a laptop slung over his shoulder.

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Chad Chelius
Technical Consultant, Instructor
Aquent Graphics Institute

Chad has a formal education in publishing technology, and has the trial-by-fire production experience that makes him a valuable contributor to every project on which he works. He’s served as the lead consultant for major InDesign migrations and Digital Asset Management implementations for clients such as Rodale Press (publishers of Prevention Magazine, Runner’s World, and multiple other magazine titles), and the publishing group of the National Geographic Society. He’s skilled in all aspects of print production, working with automation and XML. Chad holds professional certifications from both Adobe and Apple, which he uses in his role as a consultant and instructor for Aquent Graphics Institute.

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Cindy Valladares
Product Marketing Manager
Extensis

Cindy Valladares is Product Marketing Manager for Extensis and the subject matter expert for both the font management and digital asset management product lines. Ms. Valladares has years of experience in the graphic design, printing and publishing industries and has presented worldwide at industry events like Macworld, CeBIT, Seybold and Siggraph. Since joining Extensis, Ms.Valladares has led the research, market analysis and positioning for Universal Type Server, the newest addition to the Extensis font management product line.

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Jerron Smith
Instructor
Aquent Graphics Institute

A multi-faceted artist and video producer, Jerron works in multiple media. He has experience in both digital video and television production, and post-production work. Jerron is as an adjunct instructor in the Communication Arts department at the New York Institute of Technology, where he instructs courses in computer graphics methodology and technique. He is also a member in good standing with both ACMSiggraph and the Computer Graphics Society He is a contributing author to the upcoming Flash Digital Classroom, and Photoshop CS3 Digital Classroom books published by O’Reilly and AGI. Jerron completed his undergraduate work at New York’s esteemed Fashion Institute of Technology and The City University of New York, and then completed his Master’s studies in Communications Arts at the New York Institute of Technology. He also serves as an instructor for Aquent Graphics Institute.

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Dwight Kelly
President and Founder
Apago, Inc.

Dwight Kelly is president and founder of Apago, Inc., a company that specializes in software tools and custom development projects for the office documents and graphic arts industries. Apago is highly respected with many high profile clients of their products, including installations at Time Inc., The Washington Post, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, and The New Yorker.
Apago provides high-quality software solutions to streamline electronic document management and publication workflows, including custom development services and off-the-shelf products such as PDFspy, PDF Shrink, and PDF Constructor.

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Robert Underwood
Technical Consultant, Instructor
Aquent Graphics Institute

Robert has nearly 10 years of print production experience on top of his formal education in the graphic arts. He worked in production and later as Systems Administrator for Media News, publisher of multiple weekly newspapers in suburban Boston, prior to becoming a consultant and instructor for Aquent Graphics Institute. An Adobe Certified Expert for InDesign, he is an expert in multiple editorial workflow systems involving InCopy and InDesign, including K4, and Woodwing’s Smart Connection. Robert spends his spare time tinkering with multiple Apple laptop computers.

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Mark Walter
Director of Business Development
Managing Editor (MEI)

Mark Walter has more than 20 years of experience working with publishers and service providers to implement digital technologies that improve their productivity and profitability. He is currently Director of Business Development for Managing Editor Inc. (MEI), where he has been leading the company’s expansion into custom publishing solutions based on Adobe InDesign Server. Prior to joining MEI, Walter most recently served as a Seybold consultant, analyst and senior editor of The Seybold Report, where he covered a broad spectrum of digital publishing and printing technologies and applications.

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