James has been with Adobe (formerly Macromedia) for over six years, on both the sales engineering and training teams, and has most recently been working with Flex and Flash Lite. He has traveled extensively throughout the world promoting Adobe products and certifying Adobe instructors as well as speaking at conferences. He has written Object Oriented ActionScript 2.0 published by New Riders Press and is currently working on a book about Flex Builder and ActionScript 3 to be published in May by Peachpit press. James has been an integral team member on high profile Rich Internet Application consulting assignments for companies such as AOL/Time Warner, JP Morgan, Fidelity and TV Guide.

James is actively involved in the Adobe worldwide instructor and developer community, and contributes to developer certification exams as well as organizing and speaking at user groups. James is passionate about Flash on devices as well as rich internet applications and believes both technologies will change the world for the better.