Brad Umbaugh is a senior developer at EffectiveUI in Denver, Colo. He graduated from Ohio State in 2001, moved to Denver and spent the next few years writing C++ and Perl code for Lockheed Martin and Paragon Dynamics. A couple of years ago he started dinking around with Ruby on Rails and Flex, which got him excited about rich Internet applications and led him to EffectiveUI, where he has worked on projects for Matchmine, Discovery Channel and Franklin Covey.