Kirk Baumann is a Web developer living in the Pittsburgh, PA area and specializing in Flash development and graphic design. Kirk has been involved with photography and graphic design for over 30 years. A love of the visual arts led him to the Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, where he received a Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in photography. Select photographs from Kirk's senior thesis project, which consisted of a series of light painting images, were exhibited at the G.H. Dahlsheimer Gallery in Baltimore in 1983. In his final year at the Maryland Institute, Kirk was one of a select group of students nominated for the Walters Gallery traveling scholarship. In the 90s he worked as production manager for the photo division of Wy'East Color in Portland, OR, and became fascinated by digital imaging techniques. He started to digitize some of his own photographs and taught himself HTML and Adobe Photoshop. Kirk completed the Multimedia Professional Program at Portland State University and got a job as a graphic designer and developer for a small multimedia company in Portland, OR. He later left to work for himself as an independent contractor and worked on multimedia projects for clients such as Intel, Weyerhaeuser and SAS. In 2002 Kirk began working on a major e-learning project for Nike, Inc. He became an employee of Nike in 2003 working on the Sports Knowledge Underground (SKU) learning project. In 2005 Kirk and his family moved back east to the Pittsburgh area to seek help for his son who had been diagnosed with Autism and to be closer to family. He now works as an independent contractor again and continues to work on the Nike SKU project as well as projects for Intel and many other clients.