Location: ARGENTINA

Company: ITMaster Professional Training

Short bio:
Max Firtman is a mobile+web developer, trainer, speaker and writer. He is Nokia Developer Champion, Adobe Community Champion and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He wrote many books, including "Programming the Mobile Web" published by O'Reilly Media and "jQuery Mobile: Up and Running". He has a blog about mobile web development at www.mobilexweb.com and he maintains the website www.mobilehtml5.org. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, including OSCON, Breaking Development Velocity Conference, Google Developer Day, Nokia Developer Days, Campus Party Europe and many other events around the world. He has received different recognitions, including Nokia Developer Champion yearly since 2006; Adobe Community Champion in 2011, and a Google recognition for being one of the most innovative mobile developers.

Expert in:
Series 40, Java, Qt, Windows Phone, Web Technology, Graphics

Applications
Truco entupalma - Java ME argentininan-style card game, single and multiplayer MobileTinyURL.com - a free URL-shortener optimized for mobile keypads Widgen - a mobile widget generator without programming skills MobileHTML5.org - comparison table for HTML5 compatibility Gran DT - an argentinian fantasy soccer game Olé - a Symbian and a S40 sport webapp for spanish-speakers Clarin for N9 - main news site in Argentina

Books and other publications
jQuery Mobile: Up and Running, O'Reilly Media. 2012 AJAX Professional Web 2.0 (Spanish). 2nd. edition. Alfaomega. 2010 Programming the Mobile Web, O'Reilly Media. 2010 Visual Studio (co-author) (Spanish). Alfaomega. 2010 Mobile Development with .NET (Spanish). MP Ediciones. 2005 Java ME (Spanish). MP Ediciones. 2004

Speaking engagements
.toster, Moscow, Russia Nokia Developer Days 2011, Buenos Aires, Argentina Nokia Champions Day 2011, London, England Colombia 3.0, Bogota, Colombia Goto Aarhus, Denmark Breaking Development 2011, Nashville, IL. OSCON 2011, Portland, OR. Velocity 2011, Santa Clara, CA. Nokia Talk 2010, Miami, FL. Nokia Developer Days 2010, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Velocity 2010, Santa Clara, CA. Inside Mobile 2009, San Jose, CA. Full list at www.firt.mobi

Honors and Awards
Forum Nokia Champion 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 Adobe Community Champion 2011 Finalist in Sadosky 2007, a prize for Argentinean intelligence applied to IT. Prize in First Nokia MIDP Programming in Argentina (3P) Gold @ for Web Development