Design Evangelist, Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area
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- Design Evangelist at Microsoft
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- Senior Designer at Avenuea | Razorfish
- Owner at aidlin.studios (Sole Proprietorship)
- Product Designer at Microsoft / MSN
- Web Designer at RealNetworks
- Education
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- Florida State University
- Microsoft
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Tim Aidlin’s Summary
Currently a UX Designer and Evangelist with Microsoft, using xHTML, CSS, and jQuery/JavaScript to create dynamic sites and web-applications.
I also use Microsoft Expression Studio software to work with developers to design and build next-generation applications harnessing technologies such as WPF and Silverlight.
Tim Aidlin’s Specialties:
13+ years design and production experience
User-Interface & User-Experience expertise
Public-speaking and demonstration experience
Technologies:
• Symantic xHTML, CSS (some JavaScript)
• WPF & Silverlight
• XAML, XML
• Microsoft Expression Blend, Design, Web, & Encoder
• Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator / InDesign / Premiere / AfterEffects
• Adobe Flash / Dreamweaver / Fireworks
• Digital Video & Photography, encoding & streaming via various formats
Tim Aidlin’s Experience
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Design Evangelist
Microsoft
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
Currently a Design Evangelist with Microsoft, working with developers to design and build next-generation applications using Microsoft technologies such as WPF and Silverlight.
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Senior Designer
Avenuea | Razorfish
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; AQNT; Online Media industry)
June 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Senior designer responsible for concept & design for clients such as Microsoft, Cingular, and GeekSquad.
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Owner
aidlin.studios (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Online Media industry)
August 2002 — July 2005 (3 years )
• Art Direction over multiple projects with various clients to develop websites and collateral materials
• Design, HTML and Flash creation and implementation
• Project management with multiple clients and multiple projects of varying types
• Financial management of clients, costs, and vendors
Recent Clients:
• Hasbro (GI Joe, NERF, Sorry!, Play It Now, VideoNow)
• Microsoft (MSN Messenger, MSN Shopping, “Longhorn”)
• Avenue A / Match.com
• RealNetworks
• Infospace (including Dogpile, Excite, and WebCrawler)
• Lux
• Luminous Parrot Technologies
• Modern Digital
• MediaPro
• Publicis
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Product Designer
Microsoft / MSN
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Online Media industry)
August 2004 — June 2005 (11 months)
• User-Interface design for current site: http://shopping.msn.com
• Development of design standards for next-generation shopping site : http://beta.shopping.msn.com
• HTML, CSS, & JavaScript coding and standardization of design elements
• Development and creation of internal tools for the generation and modification of XML and RSS modules
• Content development and design standards for Microsoft Windows Marketplace site:
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Web Designer
RealNetworks
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; RNWK; Online Media industry)
April 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 5 months)
• Design, content maintenance, and project management for Corporate Internal Website
• Project management over multi-divisional teams (IS, Consumer Systems, HR, and Executive) to provide solutions to company-wide communications problems
• Internal Communications, including email and video broadcasts to all employees, including International
• Video production : Senior Producer of a monthly streaming-video broadcast focusing on major RealNetworks corporate initiatives as well as corporate-wide broadcasts
• Developed and managed many company-wide automated processes, including Purchase Order Requests, Employee Review, 401k enrollment, and others
• Responsible for the design and management of Jobs site featured on http://realnetworks.com/company/jobs
Tim Aidlin’s Education
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Florida State University
B.A. , English, Philosophy, Fine Art , 1991 — 1995
- Activities and Societies:
- Editor-In-Chief of Elephants and Other Gods, a literary journal of fine art, literature, and poetry. Started in 1993, "Elephants" achieved small, but international recognition for publishing strong, emerging poets, writers and artists. By 1995, "Elephants" had achieved a subcription-base from as far away as France, Belgium, and Tokyo.
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Microsoft
- Activities and Societies:
- Silverlight for Designers
Additional Information
Tim Aidlin’s Websites:
Tim Aidlin’s Interests:
new media, art, painting, photography, film, social-networks, simulacra, Silverlight, WPF, web-technologies, user-interface design, ui, user-experience, ux
Tim Aidlin’s Groups:
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User Experience Group
Tim Aidlin’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- consulting offers
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
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