This Guy, Over Here.

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Tim Knap•ton (/'næp tən/):
n. Design/code geek; Tinkerer.

Hi! I'm Tim, a designer who can develop, here in the San Francisco Bay Area. I got started at a very early age (12!) crafting software in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Since then I've been practicing alongside really talented people (including some real industry-changers) at places like leading software corporations, startup operations, multimedia companies, and research labs.

My Specialties

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• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• Bootstrap
• SQL

• UX Design
• UX Strategy
• UX Research
• Heuristics
• Visual Design

Timeline

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• 1987:

  First witnessed in eastern North America

• 2005:

  Started college!

• 2006:

  Started working in Penn State's CSCL Lab for John Carroll and Mary Beth Rosson

• Summer 2007:

  Went to Grenada to teach computer programming to students and teachers around the island.

• Fall 2007:

  Studied abroad in Freiburg, Germany

• 2008:

  Summer internship at a media startup in Long Beach, CA

• 2009:

  Started working at AccuWeather's Research & Development group

• 2010:

  Graduated college and moved to California to start working with Intuit

• 2015-2018:

  Consulted in and around San Francisco at places like Vungle and Frame

• 2018:

  Started at Equinix working on their customer and developer portals.

• 2021:

  Joined KSOC as their founding designer.

Education

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The Pennsylvania State University, 2010

Information Sciences &
Technology (HCI/CS)
B.S.

Information Systems &
Statistical Analysis
Minor

German Studies
(Linguistics/Arts)
B.S.

Experienced With

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