Maximiliano Firtman is a developer focused in mobile and RIA development. He is a professor in web and mobile technologies, and founder of ITMaster Professional Training. He is author of many books in Spanish, including Java ME, ASP.NET, AJAX Professional Web 2.0. He is author of an upcoming book for O'Reilly Media.

He was speaker at dozens of events, including O'Reilly's Inside Mobile 2009 at San Jose, CA, talking about Mobile Widget Development.

He is founder and manager of ARFUG (Argentina RIA & Flex User Group), an official Adobe User Group covering many RIA technologies, including AJAX, Flex, AIR and Silverlight. He was conferencist in many events in Spanish and English and he published dozens of articles in magazines (.CODE, Digital Design, Users) and online (MaestrosDelWeb, Forum Nokia).

Talking about mobile technologies, he is a Forum Nokia Champion since 2006, a recognition program from Nokia for top mobile developers worldwide and he has developed many mobile projects as MobileTinyURL.com and Widgen.

He is expert in AJAX, Adobe Flex, Java ME, Widgets for Mobile, Mobile Web and iPhone development. He mantains updates about blog posts, articles, books and speakings at firt.mobi and twitter.com/firt.