Tim Bishop

1413 Bonita Ave
Berkeley, CA 94709
(510) 528-0784


Professional History

Project and Product Management for Start-ups, since 1989

Director of Program Management
GetActive Software
2004-current

Manage the development and release of new software functionality at GetActive Software, an ASP for non-profit and advocacy organizations. GetActive hosts the websites and/or advocacy, fundraising, and community web pages for 300 organizations ranging from Oxfam America and the Humane Society, to the Environmental Defense Fund. I am responsible for:

Consultant, Internet marketing,
business, software development and project management
2003-2004

Did a wide variety of internet marking, business development, project management, software development and writing consulting projects, including:

Vice President of Product Development
Onscreen Systems, Inc.
2000-2003

Led design and development of Onscreen’s innovative product, TVtopia, a downloadable Windows entertainment application with automatically updated TV listings, directory of fan and official web sites, user-to-user interactive games, chat, and instant messaging:

Grew Onscreen from a 3-person software contracting company to a 20-person product development company:

Director Of Web Products
MyTurn.com
1999 – 2000

Created a companion web portal, www.MyTurn.com, for the users of MyTurn's low-cost computer, the Global PC:

Built web products development team for MyTurn:

Director, Operating Systems Business Unit
Geoworks
1998-1999

After 3 years at Geoworks, was promoted to run the newly created 35-person business unit responsible for the development, marketing and sales of Geoworks’ new flagship operating system, GEOS-SC:

Program Manager and Product Manager, Operating Systems
Geoworks
1995-1997

Managed Geoworks’ development of GEOS-SC, a brand-new portable graphical operating system for mobile phones and embedded devices. Development took place in 4 sites, included both Unix and Windows based C++ development environments, and required debugging on 3 platforms.

Software Project Manager
EO, Inc
1993-1994

Promoted to Project Manager for EO’s next generation smart phone product, responsible for coordinating work of 100+ developers:

First led team that localized EO’s PenPoint 3.0 operating system into Japanese and wrote software to enable PenPoint to run on NEC’s hardware.

Documentation Localization Manager
GO Corporation 1992-1993

Managed the writing, translation, and production of over 2,000 pages of end-user and SDK manuals and online help for the PenPoint operating system into Japanese.

Documentation Project Manager
Zetatype Desktop Publishers, Inc
1989-1991

Estimated, scheduled, and organized projects for this small business specializing in hi-tech product documentation.

Operations Manager
Neil & Associates
1987-1989

Managed the production of deposition and trial transcript summaries for this legal services business.

 

Technical skills

Expert:

Windows, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Homesite, Movable Type, pMachine, HTML, and CSS.

Familiar:

Linux, Solaris, Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl, Wiki, Dreamweaver, TopStyle, Perforce, Powerpoint, Lotus Notes, and Groove.

 

Education

Oberlin College,

History and Economics, 1983

Languages

Near-fluent French, some Spanish, tourist Hausa.