Tim Chambers Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Software Development and Technology Consulting. Project management, front-end and back-end development, user interface design, user experience design, research, and consulting for numerous businesses, design firms, developers, and startups.• Designed and built serverless GraphQL API and serverless Vue.js front-end app to run an international in-store screen advertising platform• Worked with Agile teams to build custom modules, components, and create custom CMS plugins to implement customer-specified functionality• Performed emergency cloud server configuration and tuning, helping client recover from outage of a legacy Python web publishing platform due to unexpected traffic event• Designed custom APIs and developed front-end location-based interface for retail commerce startup

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Founder. Finding and curating interesting and culturally-important artwork, telling stories about the art and its context, and producing and issuing limited-edition fine art prints. Custom printing and photographic services for artists, galleries, and museums.• Specified high-availability ecommerce platform able to stay online collecting orders during peak traffic events• Created custom data and metadata retrieval scripts to automate collection, organization, and curation of image assets used in photo essay featured in media outlets• Implemented custom inventory and logistics management systems to successfully process large order volume, and manufacture and ship on-demand

San Francisco Bay Area

Software QA Engineer. (2012–2015) Black box software quality assurance engineer for professional and consumer photography editing software applications and macOS.• Responsible for testing UI for tentpole macOS and Photos features highlighted in major keynote presentations• Led a team of contractors triaging new issues reported during beta and product launches, working with engineers to prioritize, fix, and qualify updates for critical issues• Developed novel way of testing image decoding, helping discover and correct errors in RAW image decoding algorithms for popular cameras prior to launch

San Francisco Bay Area

Lead Developer, Business Intelligence. (2006–2012) Led a team of developers on a Rapid Application Development team, designing applications to automate and improve business processes for various operations business units.• Designed logistics data warehouse tracking worldwide shipments, with automated status updates collected from several vendors, allowing for near-real-time reporting during high-profile product launches• Built custom business intelligence applications and dashboards, allowing operations clients to view KPIs and make just-in-time resource allocation changes• Business process automation and re-engineering, enabling clients to move from manually-updated spreadsheets to reporting driven by near-real-time data feeds

Sacramento, California Area

Design Director. Establishing design direction for print, web, and video campaigns; pre-production for in-house and outsourced offset press and large-format signage; directing and producing live-event and pre-recorded video.

Sacramento, California Area

Founder, Developer. Founding and operating small business performing commercial web application design and development; in-house server hosting and management; domain registration; online payment processing.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Photography

Graphic Design

Computer Science