Brian brings a wealth of online education experience from both the student and content perspectives and the creative energy to create exciting new opportunities for information sharing. On his way to The HubEDU, Brian enjoyed five years managing a forward-thinking faculty technology support department at Bastyr University in Washington State and assisted with implementing online course offerings and LMS adoption.

Chris is a career entrepreneur who can bring an idea from the whiteboard to full production and release. Chris was most recently the Director of Product at Panopto. He initialized a project for Red Llama, a surgical simulation company he co-founded, which became the company’s main focus. Over the course of his career, he co-founded and served as CTO of Static Factory Media LLC and managed several projects for the UW Human Interface Tech Lab.

Demonstrated achiever with exceptional knowledge in marketing communications, copywriting, technical writing, copyediting, and customer support. A very versatile, enthusiastic professional, driven to be a successful team-player. Encompasses a positive attitude, an excellent work ethic, and highly skilled at learning new concepts quickly. Works well under pressure, in a timely manner, and communicate ideas clearly and effectively. Additionally, ha

Over 13 years in higher education as a professor, scholar, leader and administrator. PhD from Virginia Tech Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

Jim Blalock has over 15 years of software engineering experience and leadership in enterprise e-Commerce, Meta Search Engines, Auction sites, Classifieds, Web Portals, Yellow Pages, White Pages, Local Search, and Travel web sites. He has both back-end and UI/UX experience and is fluent in SQL, Java, JavaScript, Ruby, and Node.js.