📜 Resume

Tim Ganter

👋🏼 Hey there! Tim Ganter here. I've been making web sites since 1998, that's...26 years!?! 😳 Have worn many hats over the years including project management, sales, designer, front end developer, backend developer, and researcher. My forte is in front end development and design. I get enjoyment seeing technology spring to life and be used by people.

👨🏻‍💻 Experience

Adobe Research — Senior Research Engineer
August 2017 - present · 6 years 8 months

Worked with cross-functional teams to develop ambitious A.I. first web applications prototypes. Adobe Podcast, Project Blink, & Project Stardust. Multiple responsibilities including technical leadership, mentorship, project management, UX engineering, backend engineering, database schema design, kubernetes, infrastructure, and CI/CD. Mentored 9 interns and 3 full-time engineers. Co-authored 5 patents, 2 papers, and one dataset.

Studio Ten Four, LLC — Founder
June 2008 - Aug 2017 · 9 years 2 months

Founded and operated a successful web development and design company targeting clients in higher education, non-profits, and small businesses. Worked with clients to develop custom web applications, websites, and branding materials. Developed and maintained a customized Laravel, Drupal, and WordPress. Managed contract developers, designers, and interns.

Bellevue College — Web Development Instructor
2015 · 0 years 3 months

Captivate students with a refreshing approach to HTML, CSS, PHP, and WordPress. 4.71 out of 5 student evaluation rating for instructor knowledge and preparation.

Shidler College of Business — Lead Web Developer
2005 - 2008 · 3 years 5 months

Transformed the digital identity of the Shidler College of Business website as part of a major rebranding effort following a $26M donation to the school.

  • Vendor Management: Collaborated with branding firm to translate print style guides to digital UX/UI for the web.
  • Triage requests: Proactively designed and launched a web support ticket system to improve tracking and service of support requests from departments in the college.
  • Mentoring: Teach assistants and interns on how to use new ticket system and make updates to website.
OTTED at The University of Hawaii — Lead Web Developer
2005 · 1 year 0 months

Acted as project manager, web developer, and designer. Migrated all content from old site to new site. Gathered content from co-workers. Redesigned and launched the website with DotNetNuke as a content management system. Logo design for office and related departments.

Shareholder.com — Lead Senior Web Developer & Product Manager
2001 - 2005 · 4 years 8 months

Hired while in college into a full-time position leading the design and launch of the company’s most profitable offering. Won a $10K company “initiative” award.

  • Product Management: Effectively merged internal and external technical and business requirements to improve the second version of the company’s flagship product. Coordinate the development with engineering team and communicate the new features to the company’s sales, client services, and web development teams.
  • Client Relations: Elevated the reliability of customer-facing solutions to maintain high satisfaction from high profile clients including: Microsoft, Merrill-Lynch, FedEx, Mattel, Johnson & Johnson, McDonalds, Yahoo! & more.
  • R&D: Went above senior management expectations by positioning the company to stay ahead of industry and technology trends when developing new products.

💡 Patents

Never thought I'd ever have my name on a patent. But here are 5!

  1. US-20230237093-A1 Video Recommender System By Knowledge Based Multi-modal Graph Neural Networks
  2. US-20220414338-A1 Topical Vector-Quantized Variational Autoencoders for Extractive Summarization of Video Transcripts
  3. US-20220076026-A1 Thumbnail Video Segmentation Identifying Thumbnail Locations for a Video
  4. US-20220076707-A1 Snap Point Video Segmentation Identifying Selection Snap Points for a Video
  5. US-20220076706-A1 Interacting with Semantic Video Segments Through Interactive Tiles

🫶🏼 Volunteering

Volunteer Industry Mentor, Ada Developer Academy
August 2017 - 2020 · 3 years 1 month

Mentor Ada students on career path, what it’s like working as a developer in tech, at Adobe, etc.

Volunteer Web Consultant, 501 Commons
2014 - 2017 · 3 years 7 months

Enhance non-profits understanding of web planning best practices while also providing training on wireframing, information architecture, content management system selection, and site maintenance.

Volunteer Web Consultation, Impact Hub Seattle
2014 - 2017 · 3 years 7 months

Counsel members on SEO, content development and key website management considerations during monthly 30 minute consulting sessions.

👨🏻‍🎓 Education

Shidler College of Business at The University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
MBA · 2006

Focus areas: entrepreneurship, marketing, organizational science.

Worcester Polytechnic Institute
BS Mechanical Engineering · 2001
Concentration in Machine Design. Music minor. Near minor in Computer Science.