Brian Fling
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 to leverage new media around the needs of real peoples.
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.
Garrett Murray
Garrett Murray has been designing and developing for the web for over 10 years, helping a large list of clients including Pfizer, Lonely Planet and the United Nations. In addition to web work, Garrett continues to explore interface design and application development by creating products like xPad, an OS X application, and Ego, an iPhone app.
When not working on the web, Garrett also makes short films and creates Maniacal Rage TV, a critically-acclaimed podcast and sketch show.
Garrett is the co-founder and head of development at pinch/zoom.
Charlie Barr
Charlie brings to pinch/zoom over ten years of experience in project management and sales. He has had the opportunity to work with clients in a wide range of industries from construction to accounting. As a District Sales Manager with ADP he created direct networking programs with CPAs, Bankers, Clients, and other business partners to promote ADP’s HR software product. In 2006 Charlie helped to start Planet Financial, a small company with a focus on both residential and commercial loans. As a manager at Planet Financial Charlie learned to wear many hats from marketing to sales training.
As a balance to his experience in finance and HR/payroll, Charlie has also established himself in the fine arts community. For the last six years he has maintained representation in 4 prominent galleries in Washington, Idaho, and Arizona. Locally, he is represented by Gunnar Nordstrom Gallery in Bellevue, WA.
This unique blend of interests and experience allows Charlie to connect with a diverse group of clients on both a practical and creative level.
Cheryl Gledhill
Cheryl has been working in the web industry for 15 years in Australia and the UK across a variety of industries - from finance to telecommunications to geeky gadgets and one memorable stint developing search strategies for an adult website.
Cheryl is a frequent speaker on topics such as web standards, digital marketing, usability and search engine optimisation. She is passionate about creating beautiful, usable, accessible products and applications, and is striving to help create a better web. She is really excited to work with Brian and the gang at pinch/zoom as there is so much potential in the mobile landscape.
Cheryl has previously worked with companies such as Virgin Money, British Telecom, 3 Mobile, Macquarie Bank, Bankers Trust, Firebox.com, OzEmail and Penguin Books.
David Kaneda
David Kaneda is a web developer and UI designer in Philadelphia, PA. He has a long history of designing and building standards-compliant sites, with a broad range of clients in architecture, higher education, music, fashion, and software. His passion for the web has led him to contribute to a variety of open source projects, like CakePHP and jQuery. With Jim Dovey, David designed Outpost, a popular iPhone application for Basecamp.
Recently, David has launched WebKitBits, a blog focussed on the WebKit browsing engine in the iPhone, Safari, Chrome, and Android. He has also recently released jQTouch, a jQuery plugin for mobile WebKit development.
Jim Dovey
Jim Dovey has been working as a software engineer since 1999, during which time he's designed and implemented network and serial protocols, and written libraries and applications for Windows, Linux, PalmOS, and the Macintosh.
For seven years he was the chief architect of Mac OS X software for Hi Resolution Systems in the UK and Canada, delving into the inner workings of OS X on a daily basis to implement fine-tuned control of almost every aspect of the system. This lead to the creation of alter-ego 'Alan Quatermain' and a stint writing software for the AppleTV, and eventually the formation of a partnership with designer David Kaneda in the iPhone development company Morfunk.
Over the last 12 months, Jim has worked on iPhone applications and trained people in Mac & iPhone development, written software for Final Cut Server integration and transitions, and created a large-scale distributed digital signage system based on (what else?) the AppleTV.
Scott Gledhill
Scott Gledhill has been working online for 10 years and works with XHTML, CSS and JavaScript to create easy to use, accessible and web standards compliant websites and applications. Whilst working for large corporations Scott created methods and communication tools to make these web standards idealogies work in larger, more complex development environments.
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is also one of Scott's core specialties, which he incorporates into his development and design work, as well as consults on best practice strategies for companies of all sizes. Scott has long believed that SEO success can only be achieved by balancing all elements of web design such as usability, information architecture, great design and solid coding architecture.
Scott often speaks and writes on subjects such as corporate web standards, web accessibility and search engine optimisation. He's previously worked with companies such as News Digital Media, Colonial First State, Fox Interactive Media and Sydney University.
Tim Connor
Tim Connor is a web developer based in Wellington, New Zealand. He has a long background of enterprise software development in a range of industries including banking, government and online gaming, in both New Zealand and the UK. Nowadays he works as an independent IT consultant specializing in Ruby on Rails.
Tim builds web applications end to end, from database management and tuning to XHTML, CSS, and Javascript. His real passion is seeing ideas turned into beautifully crafted applications, and strongly believes in standards compliance, usability, and accessibility.