Wallace Jackson has authored numerous Apress book titles, including several titles in the ever popular Apress Pro Android series, Java and JavaFX game engine development titles, digital image compositing titles, digital audio editing titles, digital video editing titles, digital illustration titles, VFX special effects titles, digital painting titles, Android 6 new media content production titles, and now JSON and HTML5 titles.Wallace is currently the CEO of MindTaffy Design, the new media advertising agency which specializes in new media content production and digital campaign design and development, located by La Purisima State Park, in Northern Santa Barbara County, on the Point Conception Peninsula, halfway between their clientele in Silicon Valley to the North, and Hollywood, The OC, West Los Angeles, and San Diego to the South. Mind Taffy Design has created open-source, technology-based (HTML5, JavaScript, Java 9, JavaFX 9, and Android 6.0) digital new media i3D content deliverables for more than a quarter century, since January of 1991. The company’s clients consist of a significant number of international brand manufacturers, including IBM, Sony, Tyco, Samsung, Dell, Epson, Nokia, TEAC, Sun Microsystems (Oracle), Micron, SGI, KDS USA, EIZO, CTX International, KFC, Nanao USA, Techmedia, EZC, and Mitsubishi Electronics, among others.Wallace received his undergraduate BA degree in Business Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles, or UCLA, and his graduate degrees in MIS/IT, Business Information Systems Design and Implementation, from University of Southern California located in South Central Los Angeles (USC).Wallace also received post-graduate degrees from USC, in Entrepreneurship and Marketing Strategy, and completed the USC Graduate Entrepreneurship Program. Wallace earned his two USC degrees while at USC’s night-time Marshall Schoolof Business MBA Program, which allowed him to work full-time as a COBOL and RPG-II programmer while completing his business and IT degrees.
