Bryan Zug's Flat Hatter Collaborative

Bio

So, a bit about me.

My name is Bryan Zug and I do strategic business development (my twitter stream | resume).

Currently I’m Director of Business Development at Lilipip. We create animated videos about products, services, and concepts for businesses, start-ups, and non-profits.

Here’s a few words on why the work we do at Lilipip is so important — especially to businesses navigating what Edelman’s Steve Rubel calls "The Attention Crash".

But beyond words, the best way to explain what we do is to show you — so take a look at this video we did for Zappos to get an idea of the kinds of things I help folks develop.

Beyond Lilipip, I also help the fine folks at Phinney Bischoff Design House (PBDH) as an Interactive Strategist on a per project basis. They are a great brand and design firm on Capital Hill in Seattle.

I’ve been working with design firms in Seattle (like PBDH and Methodologie) for a while and have done interactive business development / technical direction / web strategy for a slew of interesting projects ranging from The Coca-Cola Company to Boeing to The Gap, Inc. (The Gap + Old Navy + Banana Republic, etc), Teo, and The Shops at the Bravern.

I’ve spent a lot of time developing repeatable and profitable interactive workflows and crafted staff development approaches for designers/project managers making the transition from print to interactive work.

Previous to the Seattle design scene, I was an eLearning systems technical developer working for places like Children’s Hospital at Stanford and Children’s Hospital Seattle.

In my time with those healthcare organizations, I worked on rich internet application development, technical project management, eLearning strategies and healthcare IS communication coaching.

I’ve worked as a web and multimedia developer since 1996 — Past projects have included WBT, e-commerce, content management systems, user interface design and multimedia development for clients like Children’s Hospital Stanford, O’Reilly Publishing, Children’s Hospital Seattle, Bermuda Fire & Marine Insurance, Volkswagen / Audi of Latin America, Premera Blue Cross, and Perkins Coie law firm, among others. I’ve also performed quality assurance systems analysis for Real Networks and associated client partners such as CNN, ABCnews, CBS, FoxSports, Major League Baseball, NASCAR, and E!

Since 2006, I’ve worked as the video producer for O’Reilly’s Ignite Seattle gatherings (as seen on Lifehacker) — an every other month-ish event that we started here in Seattle and has now gone nationwide.

Some of the articles and presentations I’ve published include Sys-Con’s MX Developer’s Journal, the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), the Cerner Health Conference, and Seattle Mind Camp.

I’ve also been known to teach an introduction to Macromedia Captivate classes which I developed for content experts at Children’s Seattle. As for other training experience, I’ve instructed college and high school classes that include electronic media design, advertising, public speaking, and sex education. My BA is in sociology from Pepperdine University in Southern California.

I live near Seattle in Renton, Washington with my beautiful wife Jen, my daughter Ruthie, my son Thomas, our dog Scout, and anyone who may be renting a room and eating meals with us at the moment (which was Gayle, then Aaron + Kayla + Maddie, then Greg the Leer jet pilot, then James the Amazon fraud preventer, and Pasha the airline mechanic turned medical school student).

When not doing web development, my family and I are a part of an artful and thoughtful Christian community in Downtown Seattle — a gathering of misfits learning what it means to live as ones who have been loved much.

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