Marco Casario

Current

Author at O'Reilly
Lead Author at Apress / FriendsOfED
Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers - Author at FreindsOfED

Founder and Author of FlexGala - Adobe Flex User Group at www.augitaly.com/flexgala
Senior Flex Architect Consultant at Adobe Systems Italy
AdobeGuru.com at Adobe Italy
CTO - Lead Flex Engineer at Comtaste
Adobe Guru Italy at http://www.adobeguru.com

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Past

Co Author - Flex 2 Professional Book at Wrox
Technical Editor at Apress / FriendsOfED
Founder of Flash Lite User Group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite/

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Marco Casario’s Summary

Marco has been passionate about informatics since he was little more than a child and used to program games in Basic for Commodore 64 before dedicating himself, while still very young, to innovative projects for the web using Flash and Director.
In 2001, he began to collaborate with Macromedia Italy. Since that year he has produced and headed a long series of presentations, conferences and articles, which you can find listed in detail in his blog (casario.blogs.com), which is currently receiving several thousands of unique visitors every day.

In 2005, Marco has founded Comtaste (www.comtaste.com,) a company dedicated to exploring new frontiers in Rich Internet Applications and the convergence between the web and the world of mobile devices—MobyMobile (www.mobymobile.com) and YouThruBiz (www.youthrubiz.com) are representative of their recent work.

Another example of Marco's achievements is that he is founder of the biggest worldwide Flash Lite UG (groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite/) and of www.augitaly.com, a reference point for the Italian community of Adobe users, in which he carries out the role of Channel Manager for the section dedicated to Flex (www.augitaly.com/flexgala.)

Marco is an Adobe Certified Instructor for Flex 3 an AIR (ACI) and an Adobe CertifiedExpert for: Livecycle Platform, Flash, and Dreamweaver.

He is author of the following book project:

AIR Cookbook (O'Reilly)
Advanced AIR Applications (FriendsOfED)
The Essential Guide to AIR with Flash CS4
Flex Solutions: Essential Tecniques for Flex 3 developers (FOED)

Other co-author and technical editor's jobs are:
Professional Flex 2
Essential Flash 8
Flash Application for mobile devices

Speaking Engagements:

MAX Europe 2008
MAX San Francisco 2008
FlashOnTheBeach 2008
FlexCamp London
MultiMania 2008 Belgium
FITC 2008
360Flex Europe
AJAXWorld Conference New York 2008
O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit
Adobe MAX 2007: Extending Flex Components
AdobeLive 2007

Marco Casario’s Specialties:

Marketing, Sales, Entrepreneurism, Technology, Flex, LiveCycle Data Services, BlazeDS, AIR, JEE, Actionscript 3, Flash, Flash Lite

Marco Casario’s Experience

Author

O'Reilly

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

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Author of AIR Cookbook (http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-AIR-Cookbook-Application-Developers/dp/0596522509)
Lead Author

Apress / FriendsOfED

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

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Author for the FriendsOfEd publication :

Advanced AIR Applications
http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=9781430209850

The essential Guide to AIR with Flash CS3

Flex Solutions:Essential Techniques for Flex Developers
http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590598768

Amazon Store:
http://www.amazon.com/Flex-Solutions-Essential-Techniques-Developers/dp/1590598768/ref=sr_1_1/102-6096582-5728938?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1177775614&sr=8-1
Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and 3 Developers - Author

FreindsOfED

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2006 — Present (3 years )

Book's sites :
http://www.friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590598768
http://flexsolutions.comtaste.com

This book provides just that, with more than 100 solutions to common problems in one handy volume.
Flex Solutions: Essential Techniques for Flex 2 and Flex 3 Developers faces problems and provides solutions that can be applied to any project, from the most simple to the most complex. The solutions range from customizing Flex components with ActionScript 3.0, using the data models and the ActionScript classes as Value objects, validating and formatting data, using RPC classes to access remote data, to optimizing data-exchange performance using AMF3.

Solutions are also provided for enhancing the security of Flex applications; and techniques are offered for optimizing the actual work environment by increasing the performance of Flex Builder, adding video content, and creating an AIR project to bring your web application onto the desktop.
Founder and Author of FlexGala - Adobe Flex User Group

www.augitaly.com/flexgala

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Adobe User Groups provide a forum of support and technology to Web professionals of all levels and professions.
FlexGala is the first Adobe User Group in Europe dedicated to Flex development.
Whether you're a designer, seasoned developer, or just starting out—Adobe User Groups strengthen community, increase networking, unveil the latest technology innovations, and reveal the techniques that turn novices into experts, and experts into gurus.
Senior Flex Architect Consultant

Adobe Systems Italy

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )
AdobeGuru.com

Adobe Italy

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — Present (4 years )
CTO - Lead Flex Engineer

Comtaste

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2004 — Present (5 years 3 months)
Adobe Guru Italy

http://www.adobeguru.com

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2001 — Present (8 years 11 months)

I intensively collaborate with Adobe Italy as a speaker and promoter of several events and roadshows.
Co Author - Flex 2 Professional Book

Wrox

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 2006 — November 2006 (3 months)
Technical Editor

Apress / FriendsOfED

(Non-Profit; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 4 months)

I was involved as Technical Editor for Flash 8 and Flash for Mobiles (Flash Lite) books.
Technical editors are people who edit technical information. They work in many fields, including engineering, computer hardware and software, science, medicine, law, banking, and website development for any business or activity.

Technical editors' primary job is to ensure documents are suitable for their target audience, thus technical editing is really a quality control job.
Founder of Flash Lite User Group

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/FlashLite/

(Non-Profit; 501-1000 employees; Wireless industry)

May 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 5 months)

Flash dramatically accelerates the development of great content and interfaces for mobile phones.
This group is for all Macromedia FlashLite developers who want to create some great mobile flash experience.

Flash Lite is the Macromedia Flash profile specifically developed for mobile phones. Flash Lite has seen explosive adoption by Japanese consumers and developers alike, and now it is quickly gaining adoption from operators and manufacturers outside of Japan.

This growth is driven by the powerful Flash rendering engine that delivers consistent experiences across operating systems, processors, and screen sizes. It is supported by the strong community of Flash developers around the world. The initial feedback is clear: