Welcome to the monkey house.

digital primates IT consulting group has been bringing knowledge, experience, and imagination to every client relationship since 1994. What started as a group of college students that accepted root beer as payment is now an industry leader in RIA technologies. We’ve come a long way since then, and in 2007 we expanded our tribe of talent even further by merging with our colleagues from Tapper, Nimer & Associates. You won’t find a more qualified and experienced group of RIA consultants anywhere else.

Digital Primates is an Adobe Solution Provider, a Microsoft Registered Partner, and a member of the Cisco Systems Consultant Program.

Michael Labriola

  • Senior Consultant

  • Adobe Community Expert - Flex
  • Adobe Certified Trainer - Flex
  • Flex Developer Champion

Michael has been developing Internet applications since 1995 and has been working with Flex since its 1.0 beta program. He specializes in developing applications with high business impact using emerging technologies.

Michael worked as an author and technical editor on Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source and has published a series of articles on Adobe’s Developer Center teaching others to integrate Flex client and server technologies. As a frequent speaker on Flex topics and contributor to Flex mailing lists, he is known throughout the developer community. Michael also speaks Spanish, Italian, and pretends to speak more Japanese than he actually knows.

Jeff Tapper

  • Senior Consultant

  • Adobe Community Expert
  • Adobe Certified Master Instructor - Flex, Flash, ColdFusion
  • Flex Developer Champion

Jeff has over a decade of experience developing Internet applications for a myriad of clients, including Harley Davidson, Toys "R" Us, IBM, Dow Jones, American Express, and Morgan Stanley. As an instructor, he is certified to teach all of Adobe's courses on Flex, ColdFusion, and Flash development. He has been working with Flex since the earliest alphas of Flex 1.0. Jeff has worked as author and technical editor for several books, including Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source and Object-Oriented Programming with ActionScript 2.0, and sits on the editorial board of Web Developers & Designers Journal.

Mike Nimer

  • Senior Consultant

  • Adobe Community Expert
  • Adobe Certified Trainer - Flex, ColdFusion
  • Flex Learning Advisor

Mike is a former member of the Adobe ColdFusion engineering team. There he was responsible for the integration of Flex 2 with ColdFusion Server as well as many other current features of ColdFusion. Before joining the Adobe engineering team he worked for three years as a senior consultant with the Macromedia consulting group, assisting clients on-site with their architectural planning, code reviews, and performance tuning.