Dave Watts

Dave founded Fig Leaf Software with Steve Drucker in 1992, and shared Steve’s vision of Fig Leaf Software as a world-class development and training company. As Chief Technology Officer, Dave Watts drove the technology vision and enhanced Fig Leaf's competitive edge by developing the company's best practices, which covered server configuration, performance tuning, application development, and application deployment.

Recognized as a leading technology expert by Google and Adobe, Dave has been developing web applications with ColdFusion since version 1.5 and implementing Google Enterprise solutions since 2005. He coauthored the best-selling ColdFusion book, “The Cold Fusion Web Database Construction Kit, First and Second Editions,” with Steve Drucker and Ben Forta. Dave co-founded the first ColdFusion Users’ Group in Washington, DC. He was the most prolific poster on the CF-Talk mailing list for the last several years until it was discontinued, and had answered several thousand questions on ColdFusion and related topics. Now, he answers ColdFusion questions on the Adobe-sponsored He regularly speaks at industry events, such as Adobe MAX, and writes articles for various trade publications. As one of the first Adobe certified instructors, Dave combines exceptional teaching with course development. He received a perfect score on his ColdFusion MX Certification, and regularly pursues new certifications in other areas of interest. Dave was the second person ever to be certified by Google, Inc. as a Google Enterprise Professional Certified Trainer for the Google Search Appliance, Google Mini and Google Workspace.

When not developing or teaching, Dave enjoys playing with new gadgets and technologies. In addition, he has served as an expert witness on IT and internet issues in the civil court systems of Maryland and New Jersey.