el Presidente of pinch/zoom
Greater Seattle Area
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- President at pinch/zoom
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- El Presidente at Fling Media
- Director of Strategy, Principal & Co-Founder at Blue Flavor
- President at Fling Media
- Design Director at Dwango Wireless
- Producer at Classmates.com
- Producer at Childrens Hospital and Regional Medical Center
- Producer at 3DEF
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Brian Fling’s Summary
Brian Fling has been a leader in creating interactive experiences for both the web and mobile mediums. He has worked with hundreds of businesses from early stage start-ups to Fortune 50 companies like Boeing and Best Buy to leverage new media around the needs of real people.
Brian is a frequent speaker and author on the issues on mobile design, the mobile web and mobile user experience. He was the primary author of the free dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's guide, downloaded thousands of times over. He is currently writing O'Reilly Media's first "animal" book on mobile, Mobile Design and Development due out later this year.
Currently Brian is the founder and president of pinch/zoom.
Brian Fling’s Specialties:
user experience, web design, print design, mobile design, mobile web, mobile apps, iPhone, iPhone sites, iPhone Web Apps, iPhone Native Apps, graphic design, information architecture, layout, web standards, web development, usability, Web 2.0, Mobile 2.0
Brian Fling’s Experience
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President
pinch/zoom
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
April 2009 — Present (4 months)
pinch/zoom is a interactive collective focused on building the next generation of mobile and web applications. We are seasoned experts with a passion for creating something new and cool. We believe in transparency, honesty and putting every ounce of energy we have into whatever we touch.
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El Presidente
Fling Media
(Internet industry)
April 2008 — April 2009 (1 year 1 month)
At Fling Media we help people with their websites—whether it is a corporate website, a community site, a mobile site, a web application—basically anything that fits into a web browser. We provide end to end services for both desktop and mobile sites, including helping you figure out how to get the most from your site, how to create an intuitive and compelling design, and create HTML & CSS templates using nothing but Web Standards.
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Director of Strategy, Principal & Co-Founder
Blue Flavor
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
July 2005 — April 2008 (2 years 10 months)
One of the four founders of this Seattle-based interactive agency. The initial idea behind Blue Flavor was to create an "anti-agency agency," providing the transparency of an in-house with the agility of an outside agency. We provided mostly web and mobile design and development services.
During my time as a Principal and managing partner we grew from the original founders to a complement of ten, and increased our revenue by 300%. -
President
Fling Media
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Design industry)
1998 — November 2005 (7 years)
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Design Director
Dwango Wireless
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)
March 2004 — April 2005 (1 year 2 months)
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Producer
Classmates.com
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; UNTD; Internet industry)
February 2004 — March 2004 (2 months)
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Producer
Childrens Hospital and Regional Medical Center
(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
March 2002 — February 2004 (2 years)
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Producer
3DEF
(Wireless industry)
1999 — 2000 (1 year)
Initially hired to design a web and mobile web (early WAP) based email, calendar and contacts tool. The company later became one of the first MVNO-E's in North America. Designed a variety of branded mobile content portals featuring monophonic ringtones and carrier logos.
