Our June Meeting will feature a new speaker, but a regular attendee of BFPUG, Todd Yard.

I personally have known Todd since the earliest days of my Flash career, when we’d answer questions and share funky ActionScript 1.0 code on Flashkit and Were-Here. We’ve also worked together on a number of books for Friends of ED, as co-authors and an author/tech reviewer team. He is one of the authors of the highly acclaimed “Object Oriented ActionScript for Flash 8″ and the upcoming “Object Oriented ActionScript 3.0″. And for the last year, we have been co-workers at Brightcove. So it’s about time I tapped him to speak at the user group!

Here’s the official bio and presentation description:

Todd is currently a Senior Software Engineer at Brightcove in Cambridge, where he has been working for the past two and a half years on “the future of Internet television”, dedicating the majority of his time on leading the development of the Flash-based video player client, backend templating system and developer APIs. Before Boston, Todd was in NYC working as a partner with Ego7 on the their Flash CMS and collaborative application suite while freelancing on projects for companies like GE, IBM and Mars. He has contributed as an author to over 10 friends of ED books on Flash as well as providing numerous tutorials to Web Designer and Practical Web Projects magazines.

For the presentation, Todd will take a brief nostalgic look at some cool projects past before offering a peek at his current, exciting work at Brightcove, where he is busy architecting the next generation of the Brightcove players, taking advantage of the new Flash player AVM and ActionScript 3.0 to create an open-ended templating system that will make it a cinch for developers to deliver truly customized video experiences.

The meeting will be Wednesday, June 27, 7:00 pm, at the New England Institute of Art.

See you there!

Keith