Dan Orlando

Current

Flash Platform Consultant at Universal Mind
Principal Architect at VidClx
Author/Writer at Studio B Productions

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Past

RIA Flex/AIR Developer at Passalong Networks
Director of Application Development & Architecture at Vision Media Group, LLC
Technical Director & Applications Architect at Vision Media Group, LLC

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Education

Illinois State University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Dan Orlando’s Summary

Dan Orlando is currently a Sr. Flash Platform Developer for Universal Mind, specializing in enterprise class Flex and AIR applications. Dan has also written a number of articles and white papers on the Flash Platform for PHP Architect Magazine, IBM developerWorks, Amazon Developer Connection, Flash & Flex Developer Magazine, Adobe Developer Connection, and Zend Technologies. Dan was recently the Technical Editor for Professional Papervision3D (Wiley & Sons) and is currently authoring Flex 4 in Action (Manning Press), along with fellow authors Tariq Ahmed and John C. Bland II.

Dan is also a Principal Founder and Director of Video Technology for View Control Inc, and has played a role in the development of several important innovations for the Adobe Flash Platform, including the AWS S3 integration library, an AMF server that runs on C++, and an open source REST library for Flex.

Dan Orlando’s Specialties:

Enterprise application development, project management, business management, Actionscript 3.0 development, 3D programming, bleeding-edge user interface development, Unix/Linux networking, PHP and Java programming, and Flash, authoring software development and programming literature

Dan Orlando’s Experience

Flash Platform Consultant

Universal Mind

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Principal Architect

VidClx

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2009 — Present (9 months)

Adobe Flex/AIR Lead Architect, Infrastructure Development Team Lead
Author/Writer

Studio B Productions

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Animation industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Author/Writer of computer programming articles and books on advanced RIA development, primarily involving Actionscript 3.0 and Adobe Flex/AIR
RIA Flex/AIR Developer

Passalong Networks

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

July 2008 — January 2009 (7 months)

UI Developer of bleeding-edge 3D AIR application in conjunction with RED. See: http://www.joinred.com
Director of Application Development & Architecture

Vision Media Group, LLC

(Computer Software industry)

January 2006 — August 2008 (2 years 8 months)

Responsible for overseeing the development of client-server applications.
Technical Director & Applications Architect

Vision Media Group, LLC

(Internet industry)

January 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 7 months)

Overseeing the product development of Avijax, a Flex/Actionscript RIA application that gives video/movie producers and publishers the ability to host encrypted, Pay Per View video from their own web site.

Dan Orlando’s Education

Illinois State University

B.S. , Digital Arts Technology, Mass Communications, Music, Public Speaking , 1999 — 2003

Activities and Societies:

Sigma Chi, Student Government Association

Additional Information

Dan Orlando’s Websites:

Dan Orlando’s Interests:

RIA, Adobe AIR, Adobe Flex, Actionscript 3.0, music business, music composition, audio engineering, video production and post-production, PHP development for RIA, JAVA for RIA, developing 3D user interfaces for rich client-server desktop and web applications.

Dan Orlando’s Groups:

Vision Media Group, Passalong Networks, Sigma Chi Alumni, RED (joinred.com), Avijax PPV, Studio B Productions

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