Rob Brooks-Bilson is a freelance writer and a senior technology manager at Amkor Technology, where he has worked since 1996. Rob's involvement with ColdFusion goes all the way back to version 1.5 and includes several large-scale projects, the creation of numerous open source custom tags, and more recently, the open source Common Function Library Project, where he coordinates several libraries of freely available functions. Rob is a member of Team Macromedia and is a frequent speaker at ColdFusion user groups and conferences. Rob also has his CF certification as a Macromedia Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5.0 Developer.

Rob is the author of O'Reilly's Programming ColdFusion MX, 2nd Edition (covering CF MX 6.1). He has written several articles on ColdFusion for Intranet Design Magazine, CF Advisor, and CNET's Builder.com.