Russell is a multimedia developer, author, and teacher specializing in visualizing science, data, and story ideas for the Web. Russell is an adjunct at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and at City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School of Journalism. Russell’s extensive teaching experience in Flash includes instructor positions at the College of San Mateo, the Center for Electronic Art (San Francisco), CellSpace (San Francisco), and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. He has taught at national conferences and regional users groups, corporate settings, and at journalism workshops sponsored by the Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism. His clients have included Pearson Education, Quality Medical Publishing, the Center for Public Integrity, the New York Times, and the Asia Society. He has authored several books on advanced Flash: the Flash Advanced VisualQuick Pro Guide series, published by Peachpit Press in association with Adobe Press. He also wrote Adobe’s official training manual, the Flash Professional Classroom-in-a-Book for CS4 and CS5, and co-authored a rich PDF on multimedia journalism with Jane Ellen Stevens called Storytelling with Flash CS3 Professional. He has written about Flash in magazines such as SBS Digital Design and MacWorld. Russell earned his Masters in Medical and Biological Illustration from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.