Rob Gonda

Rob Gonda is an industry visionary and thought leader, speaks on emerging technologies conferences nationwide, and combines unique approaches to technology and marketing strategies. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the AJAX Developer’s Journal, an Advanced Certified Coldfusion Developer, member of the [http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/members/RobGonda.html Adobe Community Experts] , frequent contributor to the CFDJ and ADJ, co-author of Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters, author of AjaxCFC, holds a BS in computer science and engineering and an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship.

Rob recently joined Sapient from [http://www.ichameleongroup.com/ ichameleon/group/] where he was a founding partner and chief technical officer. He is part of the global technology leadership team, and brings with him over ten years of experience in web development and 360 marketing campaigns for clients such as Adobe, Coca-Cola, Guinness, Toyota, Taco Bell, NBC, and others.

He specializes in emerging technologies, marketing strategy, social media, and he is currently fascinated with rich internet applications, service oriented architecture, mobile, agile methodology, automation, behavioral targeting, multi-channel synergy, and identifying new trends.

Rob’s mission is to develop forward-thinking expertise that will ensure clients are always on par with rapidly changing technologies and maintain its ethos of evolving.

Web Sites

* [http://www.robgonda.com/ Rob Gonda's Personal Blog]
** His personal blog. Covers ColdFusion, Ajax, Flex, AIR, and other topics.

* [http://takemetoyourleader.com/ Take Me To Your Leder]
** His new marketing trends blog. Focuses on hot topics and future trends in consumer behavior, internet marketing, technology shifts, social media, and cutting edge digital marketing initiatives.

* [http://www.ajaxcfc.com/ AjaxCFC]
** Rob is author of AjaxCFC is the most popular ColdFusion/Ajax integration framework.

* [http://www.coldboxframework.com/ Coldbox]
** Rob is part of Team ColdBox, a proven event-driven CFC based ColdFusion Framework, specifically designed for high availability web applications.

* [http://www.riaforge.org/ RIAForge]
** Helped Raymond Camden to build RIAForge, a site where RIA developers that use Adobe technologies (among others), can host their open-source projects.

* [http://www.linkedin.com/in/robgonda LinkedIn Account]
** Business Social Networking Profile.

Articles

Numerous articles for [http://coldfusion.sys-con.com ColdFusion Developers Journal magazine] , Fusion Authority, Adobe's Developer newsletter, and other publications.

Books

* Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters, ISBN 0977762203

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