Creative Director
MCSD.NET, MCAD, MCT
Published Author:
- Building Rich Internet Applications for Macromedia Press
- Building Database-Driven Web Sites with Dreamweaver MX 2004 for O'Reilly & Associates.
Contributing Author / Technical Editor for:
Weblog:www.simonallardice.com
Career Highlights:
Over 20 years as an IT Professional in the role of Software Engineer, Software Architect, Director of Operations and Technical Instructor
- Enterprise-level development experience for organizations such as the British Government, Lloyds Bank of London, and Union Pacific Technologies
- Experienced trainer - has taught advanced web development classes at Ojai Digital Arts Center and Stanford University's New Media Academy
- Invited speaker at several international Web development conferences including Flashforward and Macromedia UCON
- Created the inaugural Web Graphics program for SIGGRAPH, the world’s premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques
- Featured in the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Computer Graphics World and Korea's Web Design magazine
- Areas of specialty include Rich Internet Applications, relational database design and development, information architecture, user interfaces and web standards
Classroom Objective:
"The classroom shouldn't be an ordeal. I try to teach the way I'd like to be taught: with humor and energy, from someone with a deep understanding and enthusiasm for the subject. And no matter what level of knowledge, to still be able to talk about computers and programming like a human being. If you can't describe it without resorting to jargon, you don't really know it."