Rich Tretola

Current

Applications Development Team Manager at Herff Jones
Community Manager InsideRIA.com at O'Reilly & Associates
Author at Wiley Publishing, Inc. / Wrox Pres

Vice President at WowWee Maui's Corp
Creator and Contributor at EverythingFlex.com

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Past

Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones Corp
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

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Education

State University of New York College at Cortland
Nassau Community College

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35 people have recommended Rich

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301 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Rich Tretola’s Summary

Rich Tretola currently holds the position of Rich Applications Technical Lead at Herff Jones Inc. 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). He is also a contributing author on Adobe AIR Cookbook (2008 ISBN: 0596522509)

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 a popular Flex and AIR blog at http://blog.EverythingFlex.com, is the community manager of http://www.InsideRIA.com and was also a speaker at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago. He will be speaking at MAX 2008 in San Francisco.

For a non technical escape, Rich is also a co-owner of a chocolate bar manufacturing company located on Maui named WowWee Maui (http://www.wowweemaui.com").

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

Applications Development Team Manager

Herff Jones

(Privately Held; Consumer Goods industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

I am responsible for managing a team of developers and the development of new web applications both RIA and traditional. My responsibilities also include architecture and development of these applications.
Community Manager InsideRIA.com

O'Reilly & Associates

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

November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

Content manager for articles and guest bloggers for InsideRIA.com. Relational manager for all contributors of InsideRIA.com.
Author

Wiley Publishing, Inc. / Wrox Pres

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

August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

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 (3 years 5 months)

Vice president and cheif technology officer.
Creator and Contributor

EverythingFlex.com

(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2005 — Present (4 years 8 months)

EverythingFlex.com is a blog dedicated to the proliferation of Flex through examples, tutorials, tools, and additional content.
Rich Applications Technical Lead

Herff Jones Corp

(Privately Held; Consumer Goods industry)

July 2007 — May 2009 (1 year 11 months)

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.