Brendan Sera-Shriar

Chief Communications Officer and Founder at Brendan & Brendan Consulting

Montréal, Québec, Canada

Brendan Sera-Shriar a.k.a. digibomb Brendan Sera-Shriar has been an interactive designer, developer, college and university professor, community manager, author, consultant, and professional speaker at some of the largest corporations and festivals in the world, including Microsoft, Mozilla Firefox, Sun Microsystems, WordCamp, BlogWorld, SXSW and more. His work has also appeared in TechCrunch, TechVibes, WordPress TV, and a host of other blogs. He was also featured in the October 2012 issue of Marketing Magazine. Not only does Brendan help others build their businesses he has also founded a few himself, including StartupBump, Creer Magazine, and PressWork just to name a few. Despite being known best for his work as a WordPress designer, developer, and WordCamp speaker and organizer, Brendan’s best communications skills lie in his ability to help organizations understand how they can build communities around their products and services. Brendan is currently working on an e-book with his new business partner Brendan Tully Walsh who he has founded Brendan & Brendan Consulting with.

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Interests

social, open source, php, css, wordpress, drupal, twitter, flickr, blogging, web development, web design, advertising, marketing, branding, startups

Specialties

Public Speaking, Presentation Desig,n Project Management, Event Production, Documentation, Blogging, Social Media and Strategy, Training, Marketing, Branding, Creative Campaigns, Community Management and Building, Connecting People.

Work experience

(November 2012 to present)

Chief Communications Officer and Founder, Brendan & Brendan Consulting

We help small businesses, startups, and individuals build and manage their communities, develop content, generate leads, and much more!

(July 2011 to November 2012)

Founder and Senior Designer/Evangelist, PressWork

Conceptualized, design work, social, branding, theme design, etc.

(January 2001 to November 2012)

Freelance, digibomb

· Freelance web design/development and corporate branding.
· Web development and RIA (Rich Internet Application) Design/Development
· Project Management/Lead
· Open Source contributions and development
· Social Media consultation and development

(September 2011 to September 2012)

Sr. Community Manager, Mega Brands

I manage all the social channels, I blog, attend/speak/exhibit at conferences and tradeshows, online building tutorials, mange and run contests, event planning, make magic!

(2010 to 2011)

Community Manager, Vanilla Forums Inc

Community Manager, Evangelist, themer, designer, front-end development, and documentation.

(May 2008 to May 2009)

Flash Technical Director / Senior Flash Developer, Lifecapture Inc

· Responsible for a team Flash developers/designers
· Worked on 2 major projects for the Bell fund & Alliance Films
· Was responsible to co-ordinate between design and technical departments
· Aided Project Mangers with scheduling and timelines
· Researched new technologies
· Developed back and front-end Flash, papervision3D,

(January 2000 to May 2009)

Instructor, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

Professor, School of Communication Arts. Consultation regarding course
development and implementation. Instruct large groups in web animation, graphic
design, game design, web development in Actions Script, PHP, CSS, XML, Java, X/HTML,
MySQL, fundamentals of computer hardware and software, desktop publishing and print
production, graphic design skills, typography, UI/interface design, branding, and digital
photography. Programs taught in include: DTP, DMA, RTV, GRA, TCN, MFD.

(January 2005 to March 2008)

Income Manager, red5

(September 2002 to March 2003)

Internet Marketing Agent and Technical Director, Paramount Webmasters

· Responsible for developing new client projects.
· Consultation regarding the direction of current client cases

(September 1999 to April 2000)

Internet Consultant, Training Inc

· Consultation regarding course development and implementation. The Courses ranged
from Basic Web Design to the advanced Web Master Course.
· Masterminded the design of the entirely revamped Web Dept., which included instructor

Education

(1997 to 2000)

CGT at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

PHUG – Open Source Culture, Toronto, ON
Co-founder and director. Seminar and Workshop leader. http://www.phug.ca
Rich Media Institute, Toronto, ON
Lead workshops/seminars for professional development
http://www.richmediainstitute.com
WordCamp Montreal, Montreal, Qc
2009 Guest Speaker
http://wordcampmontreal.org/
WordCamp Toronto, Toronto, On
2008 Guest Speaker – WordPress Plug-in Power
2009 Organizer
http://wordcamptoronto.com/
FSOSS (Free Software and Open Source Symposium), Toronto, On
2008 Guest Speaker – Open Source Design
http://fsoss.senecac.on.ca/2008/

(1997 to 1999)

Computer Graphics Technical at Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

Computer Graphics Technical. Diploma Graduated with honors.
Courses included business, marketing, communications, and technology.

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PHUG Open Source Culture, Toronto, ON
Co-founder and director. Seminar and Workshop leader.