AdvancED Flex Application Development

R Blank is CTO of Almer/Blank, an Adobe Solution Partner based in Venice, California that specializes in video and application development for the Flash Platform, for clients including E! Entertainment Television, Microsoft, Apple, and IKEA. For over 12 years he has been an interactive designer, developer, consultant, teacher, and author, specializing in the planning, development and release of rich interfaces; R has specialized in Flash since 1999. R holds four Flash Certifications, was one of the first 50 Macromedia Certified Flash Developers in the world, and is a contributing author for the Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Designer Certification Exam. R also founded and manages LAFlash.org, a community of over 1,300 Flash industry professionals, and home to three Macromedia Users Groups for Flash. R also serves on the Information Technology Faculty at the University of Southern California (USC) Viterbi School of Engineering. Previously, R co-founded and served as Director of Product & Design at Wildform, where he co-created Flix, the first video encoder for Flash (now owned by On2). R has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BA in History from Columbia University.Blank, R. is the author of 'AdvancED Flex Application Development', published 2007 under ISBN 9781590598962 and ISBN 1590598962.