Alaric Cole

Current

• Senior Flash and Flex Engineer - YUI at Yahoo!

Past

• Flex Developer at Dorado
• Flex Developer at Engel & Völkers Thailand
• Flash Designer / Developer (Self-employed)

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Education

• University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• Learning Flex 3 (O'Reilly)

Alaric Cole’s Summary

Flex specialist and long-time Flash Platform developer.
Author of "Learning Flex 3" (O'Reilly).
Accessibility expert.

Alaric Cole’s Specialties:

Flex 3, ActionScript 3, Flash, Adobe AIR, ASDocs, Ant build systems, ColdFusion, XML, SQL and relational database design,
Software Architecture, User Interface Design, Rich Application development, technical writing, accessibility

Alaric Cole’s Experience

• Senior Flash and Flex Engineer - YUI

  Yahoo!

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)

  Senior developer on a team that leads the development of Flash and Flex for all of Yahoo!. Consulted across the company on emerging products that use the Flash Platform, provided best practices and training. Created components for Yahoo! and the developer community.
  
  • Built ActionScript 3 Yahoo! Search API, included in the Yahoo! Search SDK.
  • Helped in creating first iteration of the Yahoo! ASTRA library. Built and provided support for open-source Flex and Flash components for it.
  • Created Flash-based audio CAPTCHA and assisted in ideation for next-generation CAPTCHA
  • Lead Yahoo! Open Strategy (YOS) for Flash.
  • Lead accessibility project and developed implementations for ASTRA components.

• Flex Developer

  Dorado

  (Financial Services industry)

  March 2006 — June 2006 (4 months)

• Flex Developer

  Engel & Völkers Thailand

  (Real Estate industry)

  October 2005 — February 2006 (5 months)

  Built a Flex application for viewing luxury real-estate properties. Included wish-list functionality and dynamic filtering of results. ColdFusion backend utilizing ActionScript Messaging Format (AMF) for fast results. Included both public application and administrative dashboard using Flex Charts and server-side PDF generation.

• Flash Designer / Developer

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Computer Software industry)

  2000 — 2004 (4 years )

  Worked on various Flash-based sites and web applications. Created ActionScript 2 administrative dashboard application and public-facing site, later migrated to Flex 2 (kxua.com)

Alaric Cole’s Education

• University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

  B.A. , Anthropology , 2000 — 2005

Additional Information

Alaric Cole’s Websites:

• Learning Flex 3 (O'Reilly)

Alaric Cole’s Groups:

•    Adobe Flex Developers
•    Adobe AIR Developers