About
DevelopmentArc is a boutique consulting and development firm that specializes in Web Application and User Interaction front-end development. Founded by Aaron Pedersen and James Polanco, DevelopmentArc has over 22 years combined industry experience from just our two founders alone.
Aaron Pedersen
Founding Partner / Web Application Architect
Aaron Pedersen is the co-founder of DevelopmentArc with James Polanco. He brings a over a decade of web application experience to the team from working with many startup and Fortune 500 companies. Aaron currently focuses on user interface technologies such as the Adobe Flash Platform (Adobe Flex, AIR) and JavaScript. He believes that up-front planning and team cooperation is key to the success of any web application for today’s web environment.
Aaron was a speaker at Adobe Max 2009 in Los Angeles speaking about “Delivering Successful Flash Platform Projects” and “Workflows for the Flash Platform.” He was also a speaker at Adobe Max 2008 in both San Francisco and Milan, Italy speaking on “Flex Best Practices” for designers and for developers.
Aaron has been a lead, planner and architect on projects that include many private and public web applications. Among the public sites that he is excited to highlight include: Lexus.com,Scion.com,Toyota’s “Build Your Toyota” configurator, the Yahoo Mail Flickr application, and WorkflowLab. WorkflowLab was the first chance for DevelopmentArc to implement Flex 4 Component Lifecycle research ideas into a production environment. WorkflowLab is now available on Adobe Labs.
James Polanco
Founding Partner / Web Application Architect
James Polanco is a web application architect and co-founder of DevelopmentArc, who focuses on the Flash Platform (Flash, AIR, Flex, etc.). He has been dabbling with Flash since the beginning, but became serious about development and research with the release of Flash MX. Over the years James has focused primarily on ActionScript development, design patterns and component implementations which became a natural fit for Flex development and web application planning and architecture.
James has worked on, lead and planned projects such as Scion.com, Lexus.com, Toyota.com, Libsyn Podcast Analytics Dashboard, Fake Science Music Store, ILM The show, Adobe Kuler, Nortel’s Energy Efficiency Calculator, Adobe WorkflowLab and many other projects and applications for startups to Fortune 500 companies. He is an avid blogger, author, speaker and researcher focusing on technology implementations, best practices and analysis of web enabled tools and technologies. When he has free time (which is rare now-a-days), he is also a DJ, producer, snow boarder and amateur rock climber.