M. Hossein Amerkashi is a Java/J2EE Software Engineer/consultant in Maryland.
Hossein, a full time Software Engineer/consultant, has been in the IT field for over 15 years. He is also the CEO of 3N Portal LLC, an IT consulting company, and works on large-scale Enterprise Application Software (EAS) development. He has extensive experience in Android Software Development using Google App Inventor, Android SDK, and App Inventor JavaBridge. He has a prominent role in the App Inventor community. He lives in Maryland with his wife and three kids.
Hossein has developed AppToMarket tool that has helped thousands of AI developers to auto-convert and publish their AI apps to Android Market. He has also developed and published many tutorials in his Weblog, apptomarket forum, and code repository.
Tony Barnes has been an IT Consultant for over 20 years. He is the founder of tAIR.info and has been working with App Inventor since 2010. He is also a forum moderator for the Google App Inventor Coffee Shop and Programming forums. He likes helping people learn App Inventor.
tAIR The App Inventor Repository-was started by him as a community-based site. Along with his right-hand helpers Gary Frederick and Gene Kupfer, he built a helpful community site and they are all very active within the App Inventor community. They host a weekly App Inventor Enthusiast webchat at 5pm Eastern U.S. time. You can get to it by pointing your browser to www.tair.info/webchat.
Roger Belk, aka Big Daddy App, has been developing Android apps for the past year. He is a self-taught 43 year-old Ironworker. He builds apps using Eclipse with the Android SDK, Java, and Google's App Inventor. You can check out his website at www.BigDaddyApp.com.
Roger is also a power user in Google's App Inventor forums, answering help requests from new AI developers, from the set up, How-To, and the Coffee Shop, just chatting and kicking around ideal for AI apps.
He has also worked on Animation 3.0 and Google App Inventor books.
J.S. McClellan has been working with computers for the past 25 years in various forms/fashions and is a computer/technology enthusiast. From programming with Apple Basic, Pascal, C+, to currently working with App Inventor and learning Eclipse, McClellan also enjoys learning and experiencing new things/technologies including programming languages that make it easier for people to make things which they can use. That is what drew McClellan's attention to Google's App Inventor. The ease-of-use of the product makes it enjoyable to use and help others to use too.