Tim Diggins

Current

• Founder at Clever Plugs
• Chair of Governors at Horizon School, Hackney
• Owner at Red56 Design & Technology

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Past

• Technical Director at Soda Creative Ltd
• Research Scientist at Xerox Research Centre Europe
• New Media Director at Teamworks Advertising

• General Manager of Interactive / New Media Director at Teamworks
• General Manager at Teamworks Interactive
• Web/Multimedia Developer at Red56 (Sole Proprietorship)

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Education

• Chelsea College of Art and Design
• University of Oxford
• University of California, Berkeley

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Tim Diggins’s Summary

Software designer for creative software, with varied experence as project manager, architect, interaction designer, programmer on web (Web 2.0 back to Web 0.5), database, UI and 3D-authoring projects. Have worked at several points on the process
(R&D, UI prototyping, development, product rollout and iteration).

Strong experience and interest in application of best practice agile methodologies and insights (TDD, Iterative, pairing, YAGNI, DTSTTCPW) for small and very small creative development teams.

Tim Diggins’s Specialties:

Active Knowledge (since)
Java, Tomcat, Servlets, Ant (2000)
Spring, Cruisecontrol (2006)
Java Swing, Processing (2005)
Test Driven Development (2004)
Python (2004)
Ruby, rails (Emerging 2008)
Mod-python Turbogears (2006)
SQL - MySql (1998)
XML (1999)
HTML/JavaScript (1995)
Photoshop, Illustrator (1992)

Historical Knowledge
Basic, Pascal, LISP (1981)
Omnis 5, Omnis 7 Filemaker Pro (1993)
Visual Basic, Macromedia Director (1994)
ASP/JavaScript, MS-SQL Server, Access/Jet (1998)

Tim Diggins’s Experience

• Founder

  Clever Plugs

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Consulting, software development, process and plugin design for realtime 3D interactive broadcast use (particularly for users of Brainstorm Multimedia's eStudio platform)

• Chair of Governors

  Horizon School, Hackney

  (Primary/Secondary Education industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Owner

  Red56 Design & Technology

  (Computer Software industry)

  December 2007 — Present (2 years )

  developing social networking websites

• Technical Director

  Soda Creative Ltd

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2004 — December 2007 (3 years 3 months)

• Research Scientist

  Xerox Research Centre Europe

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  2001 — 2002 (1 year )

  Brought design and ui expertise into a multi-disciplinary team comprising user studies (ethnographers), product designers, image processing technologists and interactive systems designers.
  
  * Deep conceptual innvoation in the arenas of ubiquitous computing and smart environments.
  * Worked on mobile device interfaces, designing innovative and compelling prototypes for demonstrating software inventions with near-term business benefits.
  * Worked on methods for translating the outputs of ethnography into usable design ideas.
  * Researched long-term innovations for domestic life in collaboration with European partners Mixed Reality Lab, Nottingham and Philips Design, Amsterdam.

• New Media Director

  Teamworks Advertising

  (Design industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years )

  Teamworks Chaucer House White Hart Yard London SE1 1NX

• General Manager of Interactive / New Media Director

  Teamworks

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

  1997 — 2001 (4 years )

• General Manager

  Teamworks Interactive

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry)

  1997 — 1999 (2 years )

  Teamworks, 46 Loman St, London SE1 0EH
  Founded new media and web technology offshoot of marketing company. Delivered eBusiness consultancy and new media planning to clients such as Hewlett Packard, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, among others. Oversaw, project managed and acted as information architect and technical director on a variety of database-enabled websites.

• Web/Multimedia Developer

  Red56 (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  1994 — 1997 (3 years )

  RED56, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QN
  Created multimedia art for public and installation display. Delivery of technology and design solutions in small (1-5 person) design teams for variety of clients.

Tim Diggins’s Education

• Chelsea College of Art and Design

  1990 — 1993

• University of Oxford

  , MSt. European Language and Literature , Modern Greek Poetry 1911-1967, Methods of Criticism and Literary Theory , 1986 — 1988

• University of California, Berkeley

  , BA (with distinction) , Linguistics, Literature , 1983 — 1986

  Semiotics, Syntax, Semantics, Modern Greek, Medieval Welsh, Russian