James Ward
Session(s):
Flex and the Cloud
James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe and Adobe’s JCP representative
to JSR 286, 299, and 301. 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 ’90s; Perl, HTML, and
JavaScript in the mid ’90s; then Java and many of its frameworks beginning in the late ’90s.
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.
