Adam Flater

Current

Technical Architect and Evangelist at Roundarch
Speaker at 360|Flex

Past

Software Architect at Universal Mind
Flex Software Architect - Consultant at J&J
Flex Software Architect - Consultant at Oppenheimer & Co.

Flex Software Architect - Consultant at Intuit
Flex Software Architect - Consultant at NASDAQ Stock Market
Flex Software Architect - Consultant at IHG
Software Architect at EffectiveUI
Flex Software Architect - Consultant at NBCi
Flex Software Architect - Consultant at eBay
Software Engineer at NameProtect, Inc. (a CSC Company)
Software Developer at IDG of Wisconsin

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Education

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

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Computer Software

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Adam Flater’s Summary

Adam Flater is a Technical Architect and Evangelist at Roundarch. His career has been centered on building innovative graphical user interfaces and research of emerging technology. Adam has designed and implemented solutions using Microsoft, Java and Adobe technologies. Since the beta release of Adobe's Flex 2.0 platform in October of 2005, he has been an active member of the Flex community. Adam has been a featured speaker at at several developers conferences including: The eBay Developer Conference, Fig Leaf's Web Maniacs, 360 Flex, The Adobe OnAir Bus Tour, The Adobe MAX Conference, and several industry groups. He served as a Software Architect for Universal Mind and EffectiveUI where he was involved with projects like eBay Desktop and NASDAQ's Market Replay (both Adobe MAX award winners). Adam is also the project founder and principle contributor to the Merapi Project, a bridge for Java and Flex.

Adam Flater’s Specialties:

Flex, AIR, Amazon S3, RIA, Distributed Team Development, Front End Architecture, Object Oriented ActionScript 3.0

Adam Flater’s Experience

Technical Architect and Evangelist

Roundarch

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

A History of Focus in the Web Channel

Roundarch was founded in June of 2000 by Deloitte and WPP. The vision was to create a new specialist consulting firm that combined WPP's creative and marketing capabilities with Deloitte's systems integration capabilities.

Our body of works ranges from high traffic consumer sites such as Hershey's and AVIS, to B2B extranets such as Bear Stearns and Agilent, to high traffic government sites such as the US Air Force and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. While our client base is diverse, they all share a common need to optimize the Web in highly competitive and complex environments.

Today, Roundarch is an independent entity, privately owned and operated by its senior management. We continue to use our unique blend of strategy, design and technology to optimize the Web for the world's largest organizations. And we continue to drive innovation in the space.
Speaker

360|Flex

(Internet industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

360|Flex is a community driven event. The sole purpose of the show is to bring the best of the Flex community together in one place to share war stories from the trenches and to allow the experts to share their deep technical knowledge to a large group. Another benefit is finally being able to put a face, voice and personality onto the bloggers, flexcoders and article writers that you've come to depend on.
Software Architect

Universal Mind

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2007 — March 2009 (1 year 4 months)

Universal Mind brings rich Internet applications to the agile enterprise - powered by innovative technologies such as Adobe Flex and AIR - delivered within your parameters of time, budget, functionality and performance.

In a field where talent is scarce, Universal Mind is a scalable resource that completes your in-house team for RIA development. We turnkey entire projects - or enable you to do so - at the level of engagement most comfortable for you.
Flex Software Architect - Consultant

J&J

(Public Company; JNJ; Pharmaceuticals industry)

November 2008 — December 2008 (2 months)
Flex Software Architect - Consultant

Oppenheimer & Co.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; OPY; Financial Services industry)

August 2008 — October 2008 (3 months)

Worked as an enablement provider to mentor and lead a team kicking off their first Flex 3 application.

Flex 3, XML Web Services
Flex Software Architect - Consultant

Intuit

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; INTU; Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — August 2008 (2 months)

Developed and architected a proof of concept Flex 3 application to be deployed in the Intuit Partner Platform Flex based cloud computing solution.

Flex 3.0, Intuit Partner Platform Cloud Computing Platform
Flex Software Architect - Consultant

NASDAQ Stock Market

(Computer Software industry)

March 2008 — July 2008 (5 months)

Worked with the NASDAQ team on Market Replay version 2.0. Market Replay is an extremely powerful replay and analysis tool, allowing users to view the consolidated order book and trade data for NASDAQ-, NYSE- and Amex-listed securities at any point in time.

https://data.nasdaq.com/MR.aspx

Flex 3, AIR 1.0, Amazon S3
Flex Software Architect - Consultant

IHG

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; IHG; Hospitality industry)

January 2008 — March 2008 (3 months)

Developed a Flex application that was an internal tool for IHG.
Software Architect

EffectiveUI

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

September 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Flex Software Architect - Consultant

NBCi

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; NBCI; Internet industry)

January 2007 — February 2007 (2 months)
Flex Software Architect - Consultant

eBay

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)

September 2006 — January 2007 (5 months)

Developed user interface elements for the alpha version of eBay Desktop (code name San Dimas) using Apollo (AIR alpha). Lead the production effort to develop a Flex SDK in Java for the eBay web services on the release version of eBay Desktop.

Flex 2, AIR Alpha (Apollo), Apache Axis 1.0, Java, ANT
Software Engineer

NameProtect, Inc. (a CSC Company)

(Computer Software industry)

2005 — 2006 (1 year )

Adam was hired to learn Adobe’s Flex 2.0 platform and create applications to enable employees to more efficiently search the company’s data warehouse of intellectual property data.

Application: Lexis Nexis Search Interface
Technologies: Flex 2.0, Axis Web Services, Java

A Rich Internet Application using Flex 2.0 that allowed internal clients to research Lexis Nexis sources more efficiently.
Added benefits to the Lexis Nexis HTML based web client were: ability to queue multiple queries, increased speed of importing into internal legacy applications, assistance in writing more efficient
queries.

This project was estimated to have saved approximately 10-15 minutes per report (the company’s main product). At a capacity of 80 reports per day, the company gained over 250 hours per month in efficiency.

Flex 2.0, Apache Axis, Tomcat, Java 5
Software Developer

IDG of Wisconsin

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years )

In his tenure at IDG Adam served as a consultant, product manager, and a mentor for junior developers.

Product: Venga
Technologies: Java - Swing, TCP Sockets, JavaMail

Venga was a communication application marketed to the dental industry. Modeled after legacy hardware based communication systems Venga was sold at a fraction of the cost. Venga was
known as one of the leading choices of communication systems in dental offices. Adam maintained the product and reseller relations, managed technical support, created and maintained an e-commerce solution for the product and administered major installations on site.

Java, HTML, JavaScript, IIS Web Server, MS Visual FoxPro

Adam Flater’s Education

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

1997 — 2001

Researcher, CIPS: Conceptual Image Processing
Dean’s Summer Research Fellow
Developed a Java-based Image Processing Package for Pedagogical use

Researcher, JVis: Java Visualization of Satellite Imagery
Funded by the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium
Utilized NASA’s CDF file format to analyze satellite data
Presented at the 2000 Wisconsin Space Grant Conference