Rich Tretola
 
 
 
 
Rich Tretola currently is the rich applications technical lead at Herff Jones. An awardwinning
Flex developer, he is the lead author of Professional Flex 2 (Wrox, 2007) and
the sole author of Beginning AIR (Wrox, 2008). Rich has been building Internet applications
for more than 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:
//everythingflex.com, is the community manager of http://insideria.com, and was also a
speaker at the Adobe MAX 2007 conference in Chicago. Rich will be speaking at MAX
2008 in San Francisco. For a nontechnical escape, Rich is also a co-owner of a company
that manufactures chocolate bars located on Maui named WowWee Maui.