Rob Gonda is a Director of Strategy for Sapient and former Editor-in-Chief of the AJAX Developer's Journal. He is an Advanced Certified Coldfusion Developer, member of the Adobe Community Experts, frequent contributor to the CFDJ and ADJ, frequent speaker at IT and developer conferences nationwide, co-author of Real-World Ajax, author of ajaxCFC, holds a BS in computer science and engineering, and an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship. He specializes in Rich Internet Applications and object-oriented architecture. Rob’s mission is to develop forward-thinking expertise that will ensure clients are always on par with rapidly changing technologies and maintain it’s ethos of evolving.

Specialties:

• Database designing and programming (MSSQL[7,2000,2005], Oracle, MySQL, PostGRE)
• Application Programming: Coldfusion, ActionScript, AJAX, Web Services, XML, UML.
• Frameworks: Coldbox, Fusebox, Model-Glue, Mach-II, Reactor, ColdSpring, Spry.
• Object Oriented Programming and Design Patterns
• Multilingual (English, Spanish, Portuguese, some Hebrew and French)
• Rich Internet Application Development: (Flash, Flex, AJAX, Adobe Apollo/AIR)
• Operating Systems (Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT, 2003, and XP, basic Unix)
• Writing and Editing.