R. Blank

R Blank is CTO of Almer/Blank

(http://www.almerblank.com), an Adobe Solution Partner based in Venice, California, that specializes in video and application development on the Flash platform for clients including Apple, IKEA, Mattel, Microsoft and the House of Blues. He is also the Training Director at the Rich Media Institute (http://richmediainstitute.com), the Adobe Authorized Training Center that he co-founded, and serves on the faculty at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering (http://itp.usc.edu). Previously, R founded the LA Flash Adobe User Group (AUG) http://laflash.org, which managed over seven years to become the largest AUG in the world with over 3,000 registered members. and he co-founded Wildform http://wildform.com, where he co-created of Flix, the first video encoder for Flash (now owned by Google). He is the author/instructor of “Practical ActionScript 3 http://www.richmediainstitute.com/ondemand/practicalas3 and Unlocking ActionScript 3 Fluency: Events and the Broadcaster http://richmediainstitute.com/ondemand/actionscript3events_and_broadcaster, from the Rich Media Institute, an on-going series of video tutorials on the Open Source Media Framework on the Adobe Developer Connection http://www.adobe.com/devnet/video, lead author of AdvancED Flex applications: Building Rich Media X http://friendsofed.com/book.html?isbn=1590598962 (Friends of ED, 2007), the author/instructor for the JumpStart Adobe Flash CS3 training DVD from Magnet Media http://www.zoom-in.com/products/flash-cs3. He has also written numerous articles for the Adobe Edge newsletter, http://www.adobe.com/newsletters/edge. His personal blog is RBlank.com, http://www.rblank.com