Yes you heard it right! I have just signed my offer letter to join Adobe as a Platform Evangelist. This is a huge move for me and I’m extremely excited about it. The reasons for the move are many but below are the three biggest contributing factors.
This is by far the biggest reason for the move. I feel like I’ve been doing the work of an evangelist for a while now. The only problem is that I have had to do most of it in the middle of the night because I also had 40 hours (on a good week) of real work to get done. I feel that my real talents lie in creating examples, recording tutorials, speaking at events, making videos, blogging, etc. The good news is that I will be able to do much more of that in my new position. Look for gotoAndLearn() to come back in a big way!
Focus on Flash
While I will be evangelizing the entire platform, my focus will be on Flash. Flash has always been my core and it is what I’m most passionate about. I’m not exaggerating things when I say that I owe my career to Flash. Along the way I have learned many other technologies as well but I will always consider myself a Flash developer first. It will be great being able to focus on the Flash community and helping it grow and prosper. In my opinion, the Flash community is an amazing combination of design and programming genius and it never ceases to amaze me.
Dream Team
Another huge factor in my decision to move is the team that I will be working on. Being able to work on a daily basis with Mike Downey, Ryan Stewart, Danny Dura, Kevin Hoyt, Mike Chambers, and the rest of the Adobe crew is an offer to good to pass up. There are so many things that I will be able to learn from these guys and I consider it an honor to be working with them. My time spent with them during the On AIR bus tour only reinforced to me how cool these guys are to work with.
There are of course many other reasons that contribute to my decision but I will keep those to myself 
. One thing I want to point out is that I am not leaving my current job because of any dislike for frog. I’ve loved the projects that I have worked on as well as the people that I’ve worked on them with. They are fully supportive of my decision as they know it is a great opportunity for me. As a side note, my current job will be opening up so shoot me an email if you’re interested. I highly recommend frog as an amazing place to work!
Another thing that people may wonder about is my past work with WPF and other Microsoft technologies. I am friends with and respect many people at Microsoft and that absolutely will not change. Adobe doesn’t want to hire one-sided drones and their hiring of both Ryan Stewart and myself are great examples of that. I will continue providing honest assessments of current interactive design technologies no matter who is behind them.
Except much more about my move here in the weeks to come. I am hoping to make it onto the 3rd and final leg of the bus tour and I am targeting the New York stop on the 24th as my first day. How can you beat that for the first day on the job!
Lee
Awesome man, congrats! Adobe’s two most recent additions of you and Ryan are top notch.
Cheers,
ewH
Congratulations Lee!!!
you deserve this job!!
Thanks dude!
Awesome news, Lee, congrats!
Can’t wait to see you kicking some ass *officially*
dude, I totally saw that one coming, congrats on this new endeavor, I am sure u will rock as u’ve been doing it!
Congrats, Lee!
It’s about time! Just keep a seat warm for me
Schweet! Adobe hires the deer assasin!
Watch out deer!
mesh
wonderful news. you are an awesome presenter, creative, have a great sense of humor, and you know how to properly eat on the road
Wonderful, congrats on this Lee it’s a really cool move.
Working for Adobe must be a dream come true.
Congratulations again and can’t wait to see the new gotoandlearn site.
That’s pretty sweet dude, maybe Adobe will finally hook it up with some free hosting, jk.
Very happy for you and all my congratulations, but may be a little happy for me too, wishing to get some new Video Tutorial on gotoAndLearn ….
Totally sweet. Congrats man. I went to the AIRBus tour myself, and i can totally see why you leaped on this.
Enjoy the dream job!
Lee, you dog! Congrads! You deserve it with all your hard work. You killed at the onAir in Dallas (and I’m sure you did in every city). Dude, give Adobe hell to make them even better and secure our jobs. If you need a guest presenter on gotoAndLearn.com let me know. P.S. Get me a job too.
Congratulations, Lee! It’s great to hear that you’re moving up and doing what you want. Good luck with the move, and don’t forget about us little people…:)
Congrats lee!
… You’re an awesome prototyper, and funny guy so you’ll no doubt win the kiddies over with your work.
I expect to see “Pooper” inside AIR/FLASH now.. this time with the Adobe logo and at the keynote @ MAX…
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Scott Barnes
Lee Brimelow Fanboi #29120
Microsoft.
Welcome, Lee!
Congratulations Lee.
Congratulations, Lee! We’re very excited to have you joining the team. I know you are going to kick some major ass!
Congratulations!
DUDE! saweet! Congratulations are in order, though I guess this means your WPF work will disappear
Now you have an excuse to get to this end of the planet and drag Ryan with you 
P.S. need an executive coffee boy?
Congrats!
Congratulations! I too saw this coming.
So what *exactly* are you going to be doing? Just going around to events, spreading the word about Flash, and getting involved in the community? AKA things we all do for free, but now you get paid for
Have fun!
Congrats Lee! It sounds like an awesome opportunity at the right time. I am sorry we didn’t get a chance to chat more on the Bus tour. Ping me when you get a chance, would love to keep in touch with you.
Mark
Props, dog! Welcome aboard!
Awesome news – congratulations Lee! Looking forward to seeing you kick out even more cool stuff now that it will be your full time gig.
Best of luck!
Congratulations on the new job Lee! Can’t wait to see the stuff you do. I hope you still get some time to do some WPF stuff and present at our user group
We would love to have you!
Take care
Congratulations have lots of fun over there.
Congratulations with your new job! You really deserve this!
Great news. Perhaps we’ll see you in the UK.
Congrats. Lee, Flash could only become better when you are around there ! Greetings from Belgium.
hehe
great news
really great news, I love the way Adobe handle best people out there
That’s huge Lee, congratulations and all best !!!
Congratulations! You’re living the dream.
One great site that I think is very much along the same lines as gotoandlearn is railscasts.com. I think Have an entirely flash interface for goto and learn, while logical, is not the best move given that google won’t be able to index any of the content which makes it harder for people to find. Plus having comments and/or the code from the videos would be great. Just a thought.
Congrats!Keep up the great stuff
Congrats Lee!
Can’t wait to see what comes next for gotoandlearn.
I was bummed you weren’t on Bus Tour in St. Louis
Hey Lee! – Great news indeed. The Flex/RIA community is darn lucky to have you. Keep crankin’ out the sweet examples.
Congrats man! Your contributions to the Flash/Flex community finally paid off. Do I hear GTAL hosting?
iBrent
Big congrats!
Fabulous! Because I loved gotoandlearn()! It opened my eyes to many possibilities in Flash. What a gain for Adobe. And congratulations to you, Lee.
wonderful
looking forward to the big come back of GTAL!
Nooooooooooo
. That’s the sound of my sadness that we lose a great community voice in the XAML/WPF/Silverlight space. That said I’m very happy for yah and glad to see you rewarded for your great work.
Let’s still grab lunch sometime soon…..I promise not to whine the whole time….ha!
Kurt
Lee, major congrats for you… but more so for Adobe. They just brought on a top developer, and all around good bloke. I can’t wait to see what you come up with now you have those 40 hours back!
I’m so stoked for Adobe – can’t wait to see how you change the world for the better! Thanks for being so open and sharing your knowledge and experience.
Hi 5! Deer Assassin you are the chosen one!
wonderful news! the community adores you Lee!
Congrats! You are one of the lucky few that gets to work at a job doing exactly what they love to do! Well deserved!
Very cool Lee. I’m really looking forward to GTAL coming back full swing. I’m guessing this will give you more time to interact with the community too. (which is something i’ve been wanting to do for a long while now).
It would be very cool to get a blog going with all the big dogs in flash . A place your all of you guys to post your experiments that gets updated much more frequently than your personal blogs.
Congrats, and welcome!! I look forward to seeing you around!
Congratulations Lee.
You looked so Adobee on the bus!
I wish you the best..
Congrats Lee! Getting paid to do what you love definitely rocks
That Rocks!
Contratz!
Congratulations, Lee!
Please can you report to the Air team, that the Browse (BrowseForOpen, etc…) method crash on all mac OSX !!!!!
Thx
JP
Congrats Lee! You do awesome work; love the 3D carousels.
Congrats Lee!
Stay biased?
Lee.
What?? The king of Flash blogs is going to Adobe. What a great match. Let me add my voice to the chorus. Congrats on your new job.
We’ll miss you in the WPF/Silverlight world though.
I know it has been said already but congratulations! I look forward to gotoandlearn() coming back. Good luck with adobe.
Lee, this is a perfect job for you, congratulations on making it happen. I hope you can come to Yahoo to present or do a workshop soon; your energy and enthusiasm are infectious. Now, will Adobe shell out some back pay for all those late nights the past couple years
I CANT WAIT FOR gotoAndLearn(); TO “COME BACK IN A BIG WAY”!!!!
VIVA LEE! VIVA LEE! VIVA LEE!
It’s a really good news for adobe as well to hire sommeone like U!!!
congratulations!!!
me too I CANT WAIT FOR gotoAndLearn()
Congrats Lee! This can only mean good things for the Flash community.
That’s just THE news of the day, no month – no year. I respect your work deeply. As an educator myself, I’m always funned of the work you do. I often direct people, seeking insight, to visit your site. I’m looking forward for some “Flash-Player-fulltime-focus” from You. It is destined to be great.
All the best and gratz from
ockley
Congratulations Lee and I wish you the best.
That’s too cool – you lucky dawg. Good for you!
Gratz Lee!!!
This is great news. I just hope you will still have time to make some new tutorials for GTAL
Fantastic work Lee, i could picture no one better for the job, big congrats
Congratulations .. Wonderfull lee , go ahead
Congrats! You really deserve it!
Congrats Lee! I’m totally jealous!
Best of luck with it…
Realy congratulation you eserved this job, we are patiently waiting for new gotoAndLean Tutorials
Congratulations, Lee. I’m sure Frog is sorry to see you go. I have to say that I enjoyed gotoandlearn tremendously and am happy to see you at Adobe. I have to wonder, though, as a big of WPF are you really a “platform evangelist?†Regardless, nobody deserves the job more than you. I raise my glass to your continued success.
- Jason Cook
Nice one Lee.. glad to see your migration to the mothership. Been a fan of Adobe for years.. we all have, and glad to see someone with your expertise contributing to the success of the company. I’m keeping my eye on the stock!. When are we gonna see you in the Seattle Area?
Ben@Microsoft
Hi Lee,
I work for Sony Interactive. We are currently looking for Flash Designers, Web Producers and Web Developers. I would love to network with you.
If you know of anyone that is currently looking for a new gig, please forward them to me!
Lee, this is such awesome news! It funny that just a year ago at FlashForward you said you could never see yourself leading a session. It is crazy how much can change in a year. Adobe choose the perfect guy for the job!
p.s. I love the new layout.
Fantastic news and a long time coming in my opinion! Congrats Lee and congrats to Adobe! Can wait to see the additions to gotoandlearn!
Congrats Lee … I hope everything goes smoothly …
Lee you really deserves it! You make people love flash…
Congrats! Keep up the good work so we can all reap the benefits!
Congrats Lee! Well deserved!
Congratulations Lee!
-abdul
nice.
I learn flash from your gotoandlearn site.
Congrats Lee! everything i learned in flash i got from you. knock ‘em dead!
Who else, You deserved it man. Congrats from the bottom of my heart and Thanks for the all the experiments and tutorials shared.
Congratulation Lee, couldn’t have gone to a better bloke!
Lee that is awesome, I heard about this a while ago, but havn’t had the chance to get to you about it, so I hope this message reaches you.
The adobe air tour, meeting you at Frog, and even just speaking with Ryan Stewart was something awesome for me and has really helped push me more towards the web, interface, and keeping an up to date look on how design in that world is being implemented.
Thanks for the great contact and I hope to stay in touch as I move out of this imprisonment they call college and become more open to learn things that are out there.
Congrats lee! your videos are helping me so much. Thanks a lot, keep making more training videos for ppl like us.Cheers!