Conference Chairs

Jim Heid Longtime Lizard, Jim Heid is a computer and technology writer, Editorial Director at Avondale Media, and Conference Chair for many Thunder Lizard conferences. Jim’s been a Contributing Editor of Macworld Magazine since 1984, and currently writes about Web design and multimedia-related topics: digital audio and video, streaming media, Flash, authoring programs, and the like. As the Web Design Conference Chair for several of Thunder Lizard events, including the Web Design series and Macromedia Web, Jim flushes out the most important, cutting edge conference topics, and occasionally speaks on his favorite subjects, including streaming media, RealNetworks RealSystem G2, SMIL, and Apple's QuickTime. Jim will be your host and moderator for several sessions and panels.

Michael Hollister Michael Hollister is Vice President of Art and Production and leads a team for the print and Web services at Fawcette Technical Publications. Michael has been working in the publishing business over 19 years with an emphasis in design, production, and manufacturing. His prior experience was at Miller Freeman and M&T Publishing as art director and in production for several technical magazines and books. Michael joins Thunder Lizard Conferences as co-chair for the Digital Workflow track and can be reached at mhollister@fawcette.com

Michael Ninness Michael is the author of Photoshop Power Shortcuts and is the conference chair of this year's Photoshop Conference. Michael will fire off Photoshop and Web graphics tips and, in an all-new session, show how to use Photoshop and Flash together.

Peter Truskier Peter Truskier has over 30 years experience in the graphic arts, and has been working with computer technology in publishing for about 20 of them. His career has spanned working with copper engravings and indirect color separations to copydot scanning and computer-to-plate technologies, from manual page assembly to proprietary pagination systems and desktop publishing. As co-founder of Premedia Systems, Peter has worked extensively in publishing workflow automation as well as Mac OS X migration.

Conference Speakers

David Blatner
David Blatner is the author of thirteen books on topics such as digital imaging, aviation, pi, and virtual reality. Specializing in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, and QuarkXPress. David's books include Real World QuarkXPress (formerly The QuarkXPress Book), Real World InDesign, Real World Photoshop, and InDesign for QuarkXPress Users. He is a contributing editor for Macworld magazine, and has spoken at conferences and workshops around North America, Japan, and South Africa.

Douglas Bowman
Douglas Bowman's highly publicized and hugely successful redesigns of sites like Wired News and Adaptive Path have pushed him to the forefront of standards-compliant web design. Doug's consulting firm, Stopdesign proves that beautiful, easily maintainable design can exist alongside simple, standards-compliant code. Prior to founding Stopdesign, Doug led the creation and implementation of design process and standards for an international network of sites under Terra Lycos and Wired Digital. He has written articles for A List Apart, and publishes design rants and CSS tricks at Stopdesign.com.

Daniel Brown
From database integration to image manipulation and photo retouching, Daniel has balanced a passion for right and left-brain abilities. With a background in prepress, Daniel formed and coordinated the Web development team at Metagraphics in Palo Alto California (now www.artmachine.com) with clients such as Apple Computer, Netscape, Sun, Silicon Graphics, and Hewlett Packard. In 1998, Daniel joined Adobe Systems in the role of Web Evangelist lending a hand in product development, marketing, interface design, and customer education. His role has since expanded to include DV and Motion Graphics as well. He is a frequent speaker and teacher at industry events worldwide. http://www.adobeevangelists.com

DL Byron
Byron produces award-winning, internationally recognized work and has been nominated for a prestigious Rockefeller Foundation Media Fellowship. With ten years of experience, he is an industry-leading expert in Web development, blogging, standards, and accessibility. An entrepreneur and an inventor, he also publishes independent media and is currently producing interactive projects for several clients. www.Texturadesign.com

Sandee Cohen
A well-known instructor and the author of numerous books on Web graphics and Adobe Acrobat, Sandee will hold forth on Macromedia Fireworks and Flash and advanced PDF topics.

Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow (www.craphound.com) is a staffer for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (www.eff.org), a member-supported nonprofit group that works to uphold civil liberties interests in technology law, standards, treaties, and policy. He is EFF's delegate to WIPO's Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, worked on the US Broadcast Flag and OASIS XrML efforts, and is moving to London this spring to work on EU IPR and DVB efforts. He will also be working for Creative Commons UK on ambitious open licensing schemes involving large institutional rights-holders.

Katrin Eismann
Katrin is an internationally recognized artist, author, and educator who has been working with digital imaging tools since 1989. Katrin's extensive teaching and speaking engagements address the latest tools and techniques of digital imaging and the impact they are having upon professional photographers, artists, and educators. In 1991, she had the good fortune to become the first intern at the Kodak Center of Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine. Three years later she was the Director of Education and had implemented a rigorous curriculum that focused on imaging, design, and multimedia. In 2002 she received her MFA degree in Design from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. She is currently working on a new book, Photoshop Masking & Compositing, and is dedicating more and more of her time to fine art. http://www.photoshopdiva.com

Martin Evening
Martin Evening is a London-based advertising photographer and noted expert in both photography and digital imaging. As a successful photographer, Martin is well known in London for his fashion and beauty work. In his recent book Adobe Photoshop 7.0 For Photographers from Focal Press, Martin extends his expertise to brilliant writing about difficult technical and artistic subjects. He is also a regular contributing author for MacUser UK, PEI and Image magazines.
http://martinevening.com
http://www.pacificstream.com/prodig

Brian Gaughen
In 1997 Brian started working for World Color where he has orchestrated Color calibrations throughout the Division on the Kodak Approval and other proofing devices. In 1998, he implemented Color Management with a RGB workflow throughout all twelve of the Que-Net facilities with success, integrating a closed-loop system. He also worked directly with the High Profile customers to insure the best possible color reproduction from Prepress to Press. He is currently calibrating and profiling the Epson Proofer to match the Kodak Approvals.

Linda Manes Goodwin
Linda Manes Goodwin is a consultant to the graphic arts industry, specializing in digital print production. Her twenty-four years experience in magazine publishing includes the traditional areas of manufacturing. For the past several years, however, she has focused on the design and implementation of digital workflows, which resulted in reduced costs, shorter production cycles and improved quality for her clients. She has defined the publishing process—from content creation through imaging of plates, for developers. As Vice President of Manufacturing for PC World from 1987-1999, she oversaw all aspects of magazine production, including prepress, press, paper and bindery. She is Vice President of the DDAP Association (Digital Distribution of Advertising for Publications).

Kelly Goto
Author of Web Redesign: Workflow that Works, and one of our most popular speakers, Kelly will discuss Web project management, interface design, user testing, and more.

R. Mac Holbert
Mr. Holbert is the co-founder of Nash Editions. Widely regarded as the world’s first digital printmaking studio, Nash Editions has established an international reputation for fine art photographic digital output. He has served as a Beta tester for Epson America, and numerous other software and hardware products.
http://www.nasheditions.com

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Andrew is Project Manager for National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at WGBH in Boston. He is focused on Web accessibility, with emphasis on streaming and interactive media accessibility.

Joe Marini
Joe Marini was an original member of the Dreamweaver development team at Macromedia. He is also a regularly featured speaker at industry conferences and has authored or co-authored several books on Web development.

Jon Meyer
Jon Meyer is an artist, a teacher and a computer scientist. He has fifteen years of experience in the software industry, as a software engineer and a researcher, specializing in computer graphics, animation, and user interfaces. He has worked as a Program Manager at Microsoft and as a Research Scientist at New York University¹s Media Research Laboratory. Meyer¹s photographs and installations have been in solo and group exhibitions, including the Bemis and the Aron Gilmartin Gallery in Seattle, and the Gulf and Western Gallery at New York University. He has taught multimedia in the Photography department at New York University, and at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. Born in London, Meyer received a B.A. in Artificial Intelligence from Sussex University and an M.S. in Computer Science from New York University. He is studying towards an M.A. Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, London.

Thad McIlroy
Thad McIlroy is an electronic publishing analyst and author, and president of Arcadia House. A well-established expert in the technology and marketing issues surrounding electronic publishing and color imaging. In 1988 he founded Arcadia House, a consulting firm specializing in the implementation of electronic publishing technology in the graphic arts and publishing industries. In 1990 he co-founded (with Miles Southworth) The Color Resource, a publishing and distribution company devoted to books and training materials on color design, imaging and prepress.

Steve Mulder
Manager of User Experience at Terra Lycos, Steve leads information architecture and usability efforts for the many sites that are part of Lycos and Terra. Steve speaks regularly at Web design conferences and has written for Webmonkey.com and Adobe.com.

John Nack
John Nack is Adobe Product Manager on the Photoshop team. Prior to Adobe, John was a Web designer in AGENCY.COM’s New York office. He developed sites in HTML, Flash, and other media.

Mark Newhouse
Web Designer, National Optical Astronomy Observatory. Mark has been creating for the Web since 1995, and shares his CSS tips at realworldstyle.com as well as for A List Apart, AirShare.org, and Digital Web.

Andrew Rodney
Andrew was the technical editor for Photo Electronic Imaging magazine and is currently the tech editor for Imaging Revue. He is one of only a hand full of Adobe Certified Technical trainers for Adobe Photoshop in the country and has been a beta site for Photoshop since version 2.5. Andrew has been featured in PDN, Publish, Photoshop User, Electronic Publishing, Digital Output and MacWeek. He lectures around the country on many aspects of digital imaging and color management. http://www.digitaldog.net

Jeff Schewe
Jeff has been doing digital imaging for over 10 years and is widely known and respected in the digital imaging community as a leading pioneer in the field. A feature consultant and alpha & beta tester for Adobe Photoshop, he has been listed in the Photoshop credits for “Creative Input”. Jeff has also worked to advance the photographic community and is a past President of the Advertising Photographers of America (APA). Jeff is one of 65 photographers worldwide named as a Canon Explorer of Light. He is also a member of Epson's Stylus Pro program and consults for a variety of companies. He is a past Apple “Master of the Medium” and has served as a member of Apple’s Customer Advisory Board. http://www.schewephoto.com
http://www.pixelgenius.com

Jeffrey Veen
Jeffrey Veen is a founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience consulting company. He launched HotWired.com in 1994, and is author of The Art & Science of Web Design and HotWired Style. Clients include PeopleSoft, PBS, and Macromedia.

Elizabeth Wimmer
Elizabeth Wimmer, Premedia Director, CMP Media, has led CMP’s transition to CTP, developed its internal and external digital advertising workflows and policies and was responsible for planning and implementing an in-house ripping system in 2001. With over 25 years in the publishing and prepress industries, she has had a broad range of experience with emerging prepress technologies and how to implement them for greater workflow efficiencies and cost savings.