Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones Corp
Indianapolis, Indiana Area
- Current
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- Community Manager InsideRIA.com at O'Reilly & Associates
- Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones Corp
- Author at Wiley Publishing, Inc. / Wrox Pres
- Vice President at WowWee Maui's Corp
- Creator and Contributor at EverythingFlex.com
- Past
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- Senior Applications Developer at Herff Jones Inc
- Contributing Author at IFBIN Networks
- Internet Applications Developer at Herff Jones Corp
- CEO / Founder at ShopPal LLC
- CEO / Founder at HappyToad Design
- Education
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- State University of New York College at Cortland
- Nassau Community College
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Rich Tretola’s Summary
Rich Tretola currently holds the position of Rich Applications Technical Lead. He is an award-winning Flex developer and was the lead author of Professional Flex 2 (2007 ISBN: 0470102675) and sole author of Beginning AIR (2008 ISBN: 0470229047). Rich has been building Internet applications for over 10 years and has worked with Flex since the original Royale beta version of Flex in 2003. Other than Flex, Rich builds applications using ColdFusion, Flash, and Java. Rich is highly regarded within the Flex community as an expert in RIA and is also an Adobe Community Expert. He runs the O'Reilly/Adobe RIA portal at http://www.InsideRIA.com and also a popular Flex and AIR blog at http://blog.everythingFlex.com, and was also a speaker at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago.
Rich Tretola’s Specialties:
ColdFusion (CFML), ActionScript (AS), Adobe Flex (MXML), Adobe AIR, Java, Hibernate, HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, MS SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, MYSQL
Web & Application Servers
IIS, Apache, Tomcat, JRun, ColdFusion, Flex 1.5, Flex 2.0,
Eclipse, Crystal Reports, Homesite, Macromedia Flash, PrimalScript, Flex Builder, MS Excel, MS Outlook, Virtual PC, VNC, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Abobe Acrobat, Merak Mail Server, Perforce Source Control, Windows XP, Apple OS X
Rich Tretola’s Experience
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Community Manager InsideRIA.com
O'Reilly & Associates
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
November 2007 — Present (9 months)
Content manager for articles and guest bloggers for InsideRIA.com. Relational manager for all contributors of InsideRIA.com.
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Rich Applications Technical Lead
Herff Jones Corp
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
I am responsible for the architecture of the rich Internet and desktop
applications, created with technologies like Flex and AIR. I am responsible for development and also guide others’ development efforts on these projects, and mentor other programmers in rich application development. -
Author
Wiley Publishing, Inc. / Wrox Pres
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Software industry)
August 2006 — Present (2 years)
Lead author for the Wrox publication:
Title: Professional Flex 2
ISBN: 0470102675 -
Vice President
WowWee Maui's Corp
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Food Production industry)
July 2006 — Present (2 years 1 month)
Vice president and cheif technology officer.
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Creator and Contributor
EverythingFlex.com
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2005 — Present (3 years 4 months)
EverythingFlex.com is a blog dedicated to the proliferation of Flex through examples, tutorials, tools, and additional content.
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Senior Applications Developer
Herff Jones Inc
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
June 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 1 month)
Senior Applications Developer specializing in Rich Internet Applications.
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Contributing Author
IFBIN Networks
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 3 months)
IFBIN Networks is a technical publishing business and provides high quality software examples for learning and reuse. Our team is currently building 2 subscription products, Flash(R) by Example and Flex(TM) by Example and launched network operations in August of 2005.
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Internet Applications Developer
Herff Jones Corp
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
February 2002 — June 2006 (4 years 5 months)
Internet applications developer specializing in ColdFusion, MS SQL Server, Flex, Flash, Crystal Reports, Java, etc.
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CEO / Founder
ShopPal LLC
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2001 — January 2005 (3 years 10 months)
ShopPal.com is an online eCommerce solutions provider which allows its members to create fully functioning robust eCommerce websites through an online control panel. ShopPal is a ColdFusion application that was created by Rich Tretola and has been interfaced with many industry leaders including USPS, UPS, AuthorizeNet, SkipJack, PayPal, eBay, and more. This company was sold in January of 2005.
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CEO / Founder
HappyToad Design
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2000 — June 2003 (3 years 6 months)
This was a consultant business that specialized in ecommerce solutions.
Created and sold numerous ColdFusion custom tags and applications.
Custom ecommerce and other data driven ColdFusion applications.
Rich Tretola’s Education
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State University of New York College at Cortland
BSE, Education, 1991 — 1993
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Nassau Community College
A, Education, 1989 — 1991
Additional Information
Rich Tretola’s Groups:
Community Experts, Flex/AIR
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Adobe ColdFusion Developers member -
Adobe Flex Developers member -
Adobe AIR Developers member
Rich Tretola’s Honors:
Adobe Flex Derby 2006 Winner for StatPods
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