Product + Design + Ops + Laughter
My name is Bryan but most people call me zug. I am a user experience (UX), product development, and operations leader who is deeply involved in Seattle’s tech community.
I’ve helped lead teams at Zillow, Amazon, Techstars, and Children’s Hospital Stanford and am a co-founder of Ignite Seattle – the public speaking event where people gather to share diverse ideas, hear challenging stories, and build curious and open minded community. You can reach me via direct message here.
What gets me up in the morning?
Developing high performing & generous teams is my jam.
I love helping disparate tribes recognize the beauty in one another and collaborate toward creating things they could never do alone: designers and developers, pragmatists and dreamers, right anglers and curvers, bizdev and writers, skeptics and believers.
I work to give first to those around me, because I am forever in debt to those who gave first to me.
Maybe we can step into better stories
I live in Seattle with my amazing wife Jen, my daughter Ruthie, and my son Thomas. When not doing geek stuff, my family and I hang out with artful and thoughtful makers in urban Seattle – a muster of misfits who believe there are better stories out there than those dominated by entropy, sorrow, fear, and tears – and anytime we find ourselves in a dead-end story, we have the freedom to step into a better one.
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