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Richard Calentine is a Sr. Value Strategist at Adobe Systems Federal team, supporting Federal, Civilian, State & Local, and Canadian customers by helping answer the “value” question. He works with customers to understand the current state metrics to calculate the potential future state incremental financial benefit by identifying areas for improvement and performing a functional analysis. Working with Customer Success Managers for post-sales communication and with customers for best practices in the implementation of Adobe solutions and value achieved. giving the information back to the pre-sales team. Richard has been at Adobe for eight years, supporting Public Sector for the last five years. Richard has spent the last 16 years in digital marketing, with 7 of those years as a customer of Adobe, in various positions, from digital analytics, site optimization, process improvement, and customer experience.

Wendy Dinova-Wimmer is a Senior Digital Media Architect in Adobe's Office of Public Sector CTO. She focuses on using Adobe's digital media tools to create innovative solutions for our public sector customers. Prior to joining Adobe, she spent over two decades as an employee and in support of the federal government, where she used her expertise in multimedia forensics, 3d animations, video production and visualization.

Marianique is currently the noncommissioned officer in charge, Strategic Communications, at the Army & Air Force Exchange Service headquarters in Dallas. In this capacity she serves as a creative director and leads teams in producing multimedia products supporting AAFES initiatives and relevancy communication products on print, web, and social media. She is the sole military public affairs specialist on the AAFES HQ staff and advises Corporate Communication and General Counsel on Department of Defense visual information policy. She has served in the Air Force for almost ten years as a public affairs specialist, photojournalist, and multimedia producer, garnering awards in writing, photography and video production at the major command, Air Force and Department of Defense levels, including Air Force Photographer of the Year in 2015 and 2017.

Shangning is a New York-based award-winning graphic designer, illustrator, and all-around creative. He focuses on commercial art, illustration, branding, data visualization and infographics.

He also sits on the jury for a number of design contests, such as Poster hero 6th, Vega Digital Awards 2016-2019, Muse Creative Awards 2016-2019, COW International Design Festival 2016, International Reggae Poster Contest 2016-2018, The Rookies International Design Awards, and etc.

In the past few years, he received more than twenty global awards for his work. His works were exhibited in many cities around the world.

His design works also have been published in many design magazines and featured on more than thirty graphic design blogs. His work has currently been featured by the Adobe InDesign 2020 as the Splash Screen.

He always believes good design can save the world with passion, dream, and love!

Tammy Black is a Senior Creative Director at Booz Allen Hamilton with over 20 years of experience (14 as a federal contractor) in project management, creative direction, visual design, user experience design, brand development, and brand strategy.

She excels at supervising creative teams who concentrate in visual and UX design, working closely with them to ensure the highest of design standards.

Tammy has led the creative direction across many platforms and products, most recently for Recreation.gov where she oversaw a design team to develop branding for everything from the website to slick sheets to branded socks. Her team’s work garnered Hermes Creative and National Association of Government Communicators awards.

Paul is a Digital Media Solution Consultant at Adobe. His long and varied design career has included work as a photographer, curriculum designer, user experience designer, and front-end web developer. In addition to his work at Adobe, he currently leads the Adobe Creative Cloud Meetup group in McLean, VA, which has over 300 members.

A Senior Digital Media Public Sector Solutions Consultant at Adobe, Clint helps Adobe public sector customers realize the benefits of digital transformation. He’s held a variety of positions in his 20-year career at Adobe and comes from a print, graphic arts, and photography background. He’s published in a number of magazines, newspapers, brochures, and marketing pieces, and he’s co-authored two books on the printing industry. 

Elyjah is currently a Video and Multimedia Technician for the City of Roseville where he produces video content, manages photography needs, and provides broadcast services for the Roseville City Council and various other boards and commissions. He has been with the City since 2015 and prior to that worked for Youtube channels SMOSH and BuzzFeed.

Elyjah studied Digital Film and Video Production at the Art Institute of California – Sacramento where he achieved his B.S. His creative and technical prowess as well as his understanding of viral content has been recognized by the California Association of Public Information Officers for his work on the City of Roseville’s monthly web series and his contributions to other campaigns and initiatives by the City of Roseville.

Elyjah has been using the Adobe Creative Cloud throughout his career for video, photography, design and beyond. When he is not making videos, he’s either trying new restaurants, playing with his 3 dogs, or exploring Downtown Sacramento.