founder at HeyIndie
Portland, Oregon Area
- Current
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- founder at HeyIndie
- Robot at Robot Loves Kitten
- Creative Director at Wesumer
- Creative Director & Founding Partner at SMITH Magazine
- Past
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- Online General Manager at Portland Monthly
- Founding Partner at Thinkcorps
- Technology Editor at Wired Digital, Hotwired.com
- Editor at Wired Magazine
- Education
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- University of Pennsylvania
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Tim Barkow’s Summary
My hats include creative director, interaction designer, and Web developer. I like smart interactive environments with strong interactive fundamentals, and love pushing the envelope where possible. My background covers design, development, programming, marketing, management, strategy & planning, editing, copywriting, and copyediting.
At SMITH, created the New York Times Bestseller "Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs from Writers Famous and Obscure" (HarperPerennial). Also, the SMITH-produced graphic novels, "Shooting War" (Grand Central) and A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge (Pantheon).
Through Powered by SMITH, we brought our community expertise to a variety of clients, including The Constitution Center, Chow, Rick's Picks, Urbis, as well as providing consulting expertise in projects for clients like Newsweek, Honest Tea, Turner, and AARP.
Tim Barkow’s Specialties:
Web project management, development, graphic & interaction design. Technology writing and editing. Consumer packaged goods & technology marketing, advertising, technical copywriting. HTML, Javascript, PHP, CodeIgniter, Ruby on Rails, among others. Robots, kittens.
Tim Barkow’s Experience
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founder
HeyIndie
(Online Media industry)
September 2009 — Present (3 months)
HeyIndie creates tools for smarter online publishers. We're currently testing our first product offering. If you're an online publisher or blogger who writes product reviews, I want you to test our product! Please get in touch.
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Robot
Robot Loves Kitten
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
Lead a boutique Web application design and development studio, specializing in community and information visualization.
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Creative Director
Wesumer
(Internet industry)
October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)
Currently in charge of design and development. Wesumer is a tool to help you live a more sustainable life, launching in April.
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Creative Director & Founding Partner
SMITH Magazine
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Online magazine focused on conversational media. Produced the hit webcomics Shooting War (Warner Books 2007) and AD: After the Deluge, as well as NYTimes Bestseller Not Quite What I Was Planning (Harper Collins 2008).
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Online General Manager
Portland Monthly
(Publishing industry)
July 2006 — September 2007 (1 year 3 months)
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Founding Partner
Thinkcorps
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2000 — May 2004 (4 years 5 months)
Web design, development consultancy which began as more of a technical marketing consultancy.
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Technology Editor
Wired Digital, Hotwired.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)
July 1997 — March 1998 (9 months)
Ran the technology channel at Wired News, supervising a small team of staff writers and freelance stringers creating technology news stories and features for Wired's online news site. Moving from a monthly magazine schedule to three publishing deadlines per day, I burned out pretty quickly, I'm afraid.
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Editor
Wired Magazine
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
September 1994 — July 1997 (2 years 11 months)
Tim Barkow’s Education
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University of Pennsylvania
BA , English, Mathematics , 1987 — 1991
- Activities and Societies:
- Daily Pennsylvanian, 34th Street magazine
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Tim Barkow’s Interests:
interaction design, furniture design, new media art, architecture, urban planning
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PDX Technology Professionals - Portland Oregon -
Silicon Florist
Tim Barkow’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
- career opportunities
- new ventures
- job inquiries
- expertise requests
- business deals
- reference requests
- getting back in touch
