CorelDRAW Unleashed
User Conference 2008
Staff Experts

Listed below are some of the experts we expect to be involved in the CorelDRAW Unleashed User Conference 2008. As we get closer to the conference date, the list will be updated to reflect the current roster of experts.

Foster D. Coburn III is your host for CorelDRAW Unleashed. He's written eight best-selling books on CorelDRAW and has been training users for fifteen years, so he knows an awful lot about the CorelDRAW suite. His latest book is an eBook, CorelDRAW X3 Unleashed.

John Barker is the program manager for the acclaimed Project Sublimation educational workshop series. John is responsible for the coordination and management of over 36 educational workshops, seminars and speaking engagements held across the United States, Canada and, this year, in Europe. Additionally, he develops and implements all training materials for Project Sublimation, writes articles for numerous industry magazines and, speaks to many businesses and groups about the versatile and profitable world of dye sublimation.

Michael Cervantes is a Corel C-Tech Volunteer, a CorelDRAW Certified Expert, and Corel Certified Instructor. He is a Desktop Publisher who graduated from the Southern Institute of Business and Technology of Dallas, Texas, and a freelance Graphic Artist since 1989. He has published several articles about CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT, and he is constantly helping Corel users in Corel's support newsgroups.

Doug Downey has been designing signs, digital printing, Web, logos, branding and images now for over 25 years. He is a award winning designer in the logo and sign industry and keeps learning every day to be better than he was yesterday! His work can be seen at www.creativeink.ca and is a featured writer for Signcraft magazine.

Hunter Elliott has worked in print, photography, radio, television post-production, and now in the computer field. While he's still trying to figure out what he wants to be when he grows up, he runs The Daily .WAV (www.dailywav.com), does freelance graphics work in addition to his day job as a Web designer and network administrator, and spends more time than is healthy working on his computer.

Rikk Flohr founded his design firm, Fleeting Glimpse Images, in January of 2006 after serving as a corporate "marketing department" for ten years. After receiving his degree in Computer Science in the early 80s, Rikk turned to photography as a passion. Rikk has been taking pictures professionally since 1983 and has won numerous awards. His pictures and HD Video have been featured by Twin-Cities television stations, the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, the National Wildlife Refuge, and the National Park Service. In the spring of 2007, Rikk served a month long residency at Badlands National Park as the Artist in Residence. Rikk began using CorelDRAW with version 5 and is active in the on-line Corel Community today.

Scott Georgeson is the Aussie voice of the popular Click N Learn series of CorelDRAW and Corel PHOTO-PAINT training. The new WorkPlace Ready Training course for X3 brings Scott's total number of CorelDRAW training CDs to 31. He began his 18 year journey with CorelDRAW in the sign industry and was one of the first in Australia to ever operate a sign cutting plotter. Scott became a self inspired trainer of CorelDRAW due to the enormous number of calls he received about sign cutting. In 1999 Clicknlearn.com was born, and the Web exposed Scott to the rest of the world. Scott has been a regular CorelDRAW Beta tester and loves working with people to solve problems.

Jeff Harrison is a working graphic artist who consults with print shops who call him in for the tough jobs their in-house artists would rather not touch. He has produced artwork for almost every type of output imaginable. He's also a professional musician and audio engineer. He's a power user loaded with tips and tricks. Jeff is also very active in the on-line Corel Community. He modifies CorelDRAW's UI to make it wildly efficient for production use. As founder of macromonster.com, he avidly promotes the benefits of VBA macros for CorelDRAW.

Craig Mertens is the President and CEO of Digital Art Solutions, and the co-creator of the Smart Designs Art System. Digital Art Solutions was awarded the Corel Strategic Partner Award in 2006. Craig co-founded Digital Art Solutions in 1999 with his sister Nicole to provide software, hardware and training that assist in electronic art production. Craig is a CorelDRAW certified trainer and a past member of the Corel Product Advisory Group for CorelDRAW. Craig has been teaching art production seminars for industry trade associations and trade shows for the last 10 years. He is one of the industry's leading experts on the creation and transfer of electronic art. With over 20 years of industry experience, Craig approaches electronic artwork from both a technical and sales point of view. Craig is the co-facilitator of the Smart Designs Art Camps held quarterly in Tempe, Arizona.

Richard Reilly is a self taught CorelDRAW user. In 1996, Richard started using CorelDRAW for artwork creation and separation for the Textile Screen Printing Industry. In 1998, Richard started a freelance design company specializing in art creation and separation. The wave of business prompted Richard to switch his whole business around and offer a complete one stop shop for art, embroidery and printing in house.

Nathan Segal has been working as and artist and writer for over ten years. He has written Software Reviews, Tutorials, Tips and Tricks, Features, Profiles and Investigative Reporting. He creates his own illustrations, photographs and screen shots. He recently wrote The Corel PHOTO-PAINT X3 Insider, an ebook that shows you hot to boost your PHOTO-PAINT productivity with proven tips, tools, and techniques.

Tony Severenuk previously worked for Imapro Corp. where we was a film scanner and imagesetter technician. He started to work for Corel in 1993 as a support technician on CorelDRAW 4. After working in support for 5 years he wanted to take everything he had learned from being with customers to help the engineering team make the next version of CorelDRAW, a role he still enjoys to this day. Tony enjoys meeting and working with CorelDRAW users to see what they create with CorelDRAW and to see how he can help make those projects get done faster or with more creative freedom.

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