Tim Frick

Current

• Owner at Mightybytes, Inc.

Past

• Freelance Instructor at Ascend Training
• Part-time Adjunct Instructor at Columbia College Chicago
• Partner at Floating Code, LLC

• Multimedia Designer/Journalist at Ameritech (now AT&T)

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Education

• Columbia College Chicago
• Michigan State University
• Michigan State University

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Industry

Media Production

Tim Frick’s Summary

I am the owner of a Chicago-based media design firm with extensive experience on projects from small to large for clients ranging in size from Fortune 100 companies to one-person startups. Design and user experience drive all that we do at Mightybytes, be it a quick and simple one-day turnaround design comp or a complex, year-long interactive educational software title or video production project. I have also authored an interactive process guide titled 'Managing Interactive Media Projects' from Delmar Cengage Learning and regularly present at conferences, seminars and workshops on various aspects of design and media production.

Tim Frick’s Specialties:

Mightybytes creates rich media experiences using design, motion, video, sound, music, animation and interactivity to tell our clients' stories and brand their products.

Tim Frick’s Experience

• Owner

  Mightybytes, Inc.

  (Media Production industry)

  January 1998 — Present (11 years 11 months)

  See above.

• Freelance Instructor

  Ascend Training

  (Computer Software industry)

  July 1998 — January 2009 (10 years 7 months)

  I occasionally give seminars and teach workshops and classes on various creative software products and technologies, including blogging, content management systems, video software, and several applications in the Adobe Creative Suite, including After Effects and Flash.

• Part-time Adjunct Instructor

  Columbia College Chicago

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 1998 — June 2000 (1 year 10 months)

  I taught interactive media production classes for junior and senior-level students at the college. Syllabi covered the entire process of a typical interactive project, from pre-production and planning through design, programming, implementation, testing and debugging. Emphasis was on individual expression and creative vision.

• Partner

  Floating Code, LLC

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  May 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 9 months)

  Partner in media-centric design and animation firm.

• Multimedia Designer/Journalist

  Ameritech (now AT&T)

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; T; Online Media industry)

  1994 — 1996 (2 years )

  Partnered with USA Today to create a networked multimedia news channel that serviced Ameritech's 22,000+ employees and contractors in five states. Led a team in implementing new technologies, design overhauls and creative content updates several times each day. Equal parts journalism, design, animation, video production and technology, this right brain/left brain position appealed to my fascination with digital convergence and the future of networked creative content deployment technologies.

Tim Frick’s Education

• Columbia College Chicago

  MFA Program , Film/Video , September 1990 — December 1994

• Michigan State University

  Bachelor of Fine Arts , English and Film Studies , September 1984 — December 1989

• Michigan State University

Additional Information

Tim Frick’s Interests:

project process, design, media in all its forms, long distance cycling, mountain biking, environmental conservation, music, progressive politics, new technology, skiing, film, photography, travel, fiction, all things Lake Superior.

Tim Frick’s Groups:

Adventure Cycling Association, Association for Multimedia Communications, Illinois PIRG, MoveOn, World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, American Marketing Association, Association for Educational Publishers

•    Linked n Chicago
•    Web Video Marketing Council
•    BizBash—Event Planners Gather
•    American Marketing Association, Chicago Chapter (Chicago AMA)
•    Columbia Alumni Association & Network - CAAN
•    Content Management
•    Chicago Interactive Marketing Association (CIMA)
•    Digital Marketing
•    SpeakerMatch
•    Ex Ameritech
•    Social Media Mafia
•    Creative Professionals
•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    Business Marketing Association of Chicago
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    StoryStudio Chicago
•    MarketingProfs
•    Flash Animation Professionals Network
•    Go Green Expo
•    Adobe After Effects Group
•    AEP
•    Chicago Motion Graphics
•    Children's Publishing
•    International Film & Video Production Forum
•    Chicago Web 2.0 and Social Media Marketing
•    Future Social Media
•    KID Toyology | Super Group
•    The Designers Accord
•    Social Media Marketing Mavens
•    Social Media and Online Marketing Chicago
•    Social Media for Higher Education
•    Top Recommended People
•    SAUVE ART FOUNDATION
•    World Business Chicago
•    Semantic Search
•    Social Media Success
•    Enterprise 2.0 and Collaboration
•    Social Media Metrics & Buzz Monitoring

Tim Frick’s Honors:

Mightybytes has won a dozen awards for our work in little over the space of a year:

6 American Graphic Design Awards
3 Communicator Awards
3 Creative Shake Awards

Tim Frick’s Contact Settings

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