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Contributors

Feel free to contact us with questions of any sort, and if you're interested in helping with the Mach-II project in any way (development, documentation, sample applications) we'll be happy to discuss how we might be able to get you involved. Contact us now!

Team Mach-II – We're Community Driven

Matt Woodward

Community Manager & "Devil's Advocate"

Workshop Facilitator

Matt Woodward is a Principal IT Specialist for the Office of the Sergeant at Arms at the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. He has a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Nebraska, a Master of Music degree from Wichita State University, and a Master of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Phoenix.

Matt has been working with ColdFusion since 1996 and is the Release Coordinator for the Mach-II framework.

Peter J. Farrell

Lead Architect & Code Wrangler

Workshop Facilitator

Senior Technologist - GreatBizTools, LLC (corporate sponsor)

Hailing from the frigid tundra of Minnesota, Peter J. Farrell has a Bachelor of Music degree from the Peabody Institute at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. While studying music, Peter took his life-long interest with computers to a new level and started learning about web development technologies. He has been working with ColdFusion since 2001 and is the lead developer of the Mach-II framework since the 1.1.0 release.

Peter is a Senior Technologist for GreatBizTools, a human resources consulting firm. He and his wife, Allyson, live together in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

For gifts of thanks, check out Peter's Amazon wishlist.

Kurt Wiersma

Developer & Resident Geek

Workshop Facilitator

Kurt Wiersma is an Advanced Certified ColdFusion developer and has been working with ColdFusion since version 4.5. By day Kurt works for the American Academy of Neurology and by night he consults on web applications for small to medium size businesses. In his spare tech time, he is a member of the ColdSpring, Mach-II, and CFHibernate open source projects. He recently started a open source project called Appbooster, which aims to show best practices for using several different frameworks with ColdFusion.

Brian FitzGerald

Wiki Manager & Evangelist

Before shifting gears to earn an Associates of Audio Engineering, Brian FitzGerald completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Then, after a two year stint as a Multimedia Developer for Goelst USA specializing in client side Web technologies, Adobe Flash and the Creative Suite, he decided to focus on CFML. Since then, he has concentrated on Object Oriented architecture and design, specifically in the field of Educational Technology, as he works toward the release of a Spanish language learning platform due out early next year.

He and his wife Cinthia are both travel enthusiasts, and currently live in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Past Contributors

Ben Edwards

Mach-II Creator

Ben Edwards is a software developer, entrepreneur, consultant, author, and trainer. He's an original co-founder of the Mach-II project and responsible for Mach-II's foundational architecture and source code.

Ben is the founder of Redbird Software and creator of the Flex After Dark learning community. You can find his blog at http://bennybeta.blogspot.com.

Hal Helms

Mach-II Creator

Hal Helms is well known as a trainer and writer on software architecture and methodology. Hal has worked as lead architect and chief developer for a number of large applications for companies including RoomsToGo, Sun Microsystems, and UPS. Hal has authored and contributed to several books and co-created Mach-II.

Sean Corfield

Past Developer

Sean Corfield is the architect behind large-scale, high-availability websites for companies such as Macromedia, Toshiba, Oracle, Toyota and Thomas Cook. He is currently Chief Systems Architect and VP Engineering of Broadchoice, Inc. His passion for standards and software engineering led him to work on the C++ Standards Committee for eight years. He is a frequent speaker on software design within the ColdFusion community, at user groups and conferences across the world.