Tom Green

http://www.tomontheweb.ca

Thanks for your time to do this interview! We're trying to make ActionScriptHero.org a community portal that explores that social aspect of the Flash community and get to know the people behind the names.

- How would you introduce yourself and your job to a non-technical person?
I am a teacher.

Everything I do such as writing books, doing tutorials for Layers and CommunityMX, writing articles for Digital-Web.com and for  a variety of products on the Adobe Dev Center, speaking at Conferences and other activities all spring from that job. In fact, my day job is Professor, Interactive Multimedia at Humber College in Toronto. Have been teaching there for close to 10 years. As such, I am very clear that I just adore working in the "Newbie Space. Several "names" in the industry have asked me about that and I tell them,"Hey there are a whack of people out there that want to be just like you. Think of me as being your set up guy. I'll give them the good habits before they start bugging you."

I also look at my being and Adobe Community Expert and an Adobe Educational Champion in the post secondary space not as "cool titles to add to my email sig". They,too, are nothing more than an extension of what I do.