John C. Bland II

Since 2001, John has been developing websites, desktop, and mobile software as a contractor as well as through his company Katapult Media, Inc. In his career, he has worked with numerous small and enterprise companies including Turner Broadcasting, MySpace/Fox Interactive, Sprint/Nextel, NBA, NBC Universal, State Farm and more. His work on the CNN.com Live Player currently holds an Internet record set during The President Obama Inauguration. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Workiva.

He is also a co-author of the ColdFusion Web Application Framework for ColdFusion 8 and ColdFusion 9 as well as Flex 4 in Action. As an Adobe Community Professional, John continues put back into the community which helped mold him into the developer he is today.