Forum Nokia Champion Personal Introduction Page

Mr. Alessandro Pace
A bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, with concentrations in digital signal processing and communication networks, and a master’s degree in telecommunications systems management, with a concentration in networking and mobile communications, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

I am from Florence, Italy, and I currently live in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

A mobile architect, I am the manager of the Boston Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group, an Adobe community expert on mobile devices, and a certified instructor and developer for Flash Lite 1.1 from Adobe. I am a WURFL contributor for Flash Lite and Jarpa co-founder of Mobile Monday Boston. I work daily on my personal Flash Lite project, Kero Mobile, and I am very active in the Flash Lite developer community. You can read my blog at biskero.org.

Development Areas of Interest

Mobile platforms

Flash Lite from Adobe, Symbian OS, S60, Series 40, Java™ Platform, Micro Edition (Java™ ME), Brew, Windows Mobile, and Mobile Web.

Application categories

Games, messaging, multimedia, video, music, distribution of mobile applications, multiplatform applications, user-generated content, location-based services.

Programming languages

ActionScript, C, C++, PHP, HTML, XHTML, WML, Python for S60, and Java™ ME.

Integrated development environments (IDEs)

Flash Professional IDE, Eclipse, Carbide C++.

Wireless device technologies

GSM, Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS), wideband code division multiple access (WCDMA,) general packet radio service (GPRS), EDGE, High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSPDA), 2G, 2.5G, 3G, 3.5G, Bluetooth, short message service (SMS), multimedia messaging service (MMS), Wi-Fi, WLAN.

Other areas of interest

Snowboarding, tracking, tennis, soccer, music, travel.

Personal Competencies

Languages

Italian (native speaker),
English (fluent speaker),
Spanish (can understand).

Mobile competencies

Design, architecture, and implementation of distributed mobile applications and platforms; mobile prototyping and demos; integration of Web services and mobile applications.

Forum Nokia Community activity areas

Discussion boards: Flash Lite, general, digital rights management (DRM).

Forum Nokia Discussion Board user name

biskero

Main Achievements

Applications

Kero Mobile: Kero Mobile is a Flash Lite service-oriented and distributed mobile application and platform that delivers on-demand content to mobile phones.

Books and other publications

How to protect Flash Lite content with OMA DRM 1.0.
Creating a Flash Lite 1.1 RSS Reader, an article about Adobe Mobile DevNet.

Speaking engagements

• Adobe MAX 2008 San Francisco: Twenty Tips and Tricks for Building Top-Performing Mobile Applications.
• Mobile Camp Boston, March 2008: Flash Lite.
• Adobe MAX 2007 Chicago: 20 Tricks for Flash Lite development.
• Adobe MAX 2007 Chicago: Mobile and Devices Boot Camp.
• Nokia Chalk Talks at Adobe MAX 2007 on various Flash Lite topics and Nokia technologies.
• O’Reilly’s Ignite Boston, September 2007: Flash Lite Mobile Technology.
• Forum Nokia Champion Day, Singapore, June 2007: Flash Lite and Nokia.
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 2007: Flash Lite mobile technology.
• Boston University, April 2007: Flash Lite technology and video.
• University of Massachusetts, March 2007: Flash Lite introduction.
• Adobe Webinar: Connecting to External Data Services Using Flash Lite.
• Forum Nokia Pro: Connecting to External Data Services Using Flash Lite.
• Boston Flash Platform User Group: Flash Lite 2 introduction.
• Adobe MAX 2006 Asia, Taipei: Video for Flash Lite 2.
• Adobe MAX 2006 Las Vegas: Connecting to External Data Services Using Flash Lite.

Awards

Co-developer of iShop, the winner of the Most Innovative Use of Flash Lite at the Macromedia (Adobe) Flash Lite contest in 2005.

Hosted Web pages

Biskero.org
Biskero.com.
FlashLite4Nokia.com.
FlashLite4SE.com.
Flashmobilegroup.org.
Momoboston.com.

Mobile communities in which you are active

• Adobe Mobile and Devices.
• Forum Nokia Discussion Board.
• Yahoo Flash Lite User Group.

Other achievements

• Forum Nokia Champion of the Month June 2007.
• Flash Lite 1.1 certified trainer.
• Fierce Wireless: Top 20 Wireless Industry Blog.
• Macromedia Flash Lite 2005 award winner: iShop Most Innovative Use of Flash Lite.

Contact Information

E-mail address

biskero@gmail.com

Personal Web pages

www.biskero.org

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