Bio Tim Gorree
My Career Highlights
1988 - 1991 Graphics Technician at Joh. Enschede Security Printing in Haarlem, the Netherlands, at the lithography department producing security printed products such as stamps, banknotes and credit-cards.
Experience with industrial scale computerized communication production hardware and software equipment.
1992 - Bought my first Apple LCII running Photoshop, Illustrator and QuarkXpress
1994 - 1997 Professional artist airbrusher at Art Light
1996 - Brief internship at Digistar Internet Services in Thompson, Manitoba, Canada
1999 - 2000 Co-Author of the book "From Surfing to Homepage" published in 1999 (1st edition) and 2000 (2nd edition) by Sybex Publishing
1999 - I built a student collaboration Extranet website for the MBA Unit of the Helsinki University of Technology in Finland (now Aalto University)
1999 - 2001 System Specialist, Business Engine, pipeline management, Product Process Creation Solutions, Broadband Solutions, Nokia Networks
2001 - Winner of Venture Challenge Award for Virtual Characters Mobile Application at Nokia
2001 - 2004 - Nokia Communications Officer for Nokia Online Services at Nokia Networks from 2001-2004, responsible for all internal and external communications
2004 - Founder of Helsinki Times in 2004, possibly the only blog in the World that turned into an actual Newspaper in 2007
2005 - 2006 Proposal of Mobile Application Store based on RSS Feeds at Mobile Software Unit, Enterprise Solutions, Nokia
2006 - 2010 Core Team Member of Nokia 2.0 from 2006-2010, Concept Owner of Avatar Concepts at Nokia
2006-2011 Digital CEO of Nokia in Second Life
- Initiator and producer of Nokia Virtual Shop in Second Life and delivering keynote speech for it's actual CEO.
- Facilitator and technical enabler for countless enterprise workshops and meetings inside virtual worlds using 3D Simulation and Collaboration Technology
- Various Public Speaking engagements about Virtual Worlds at Helsinki University of Technology, MetaMeets, Imagina, Learing Miles, Sula Pinta YLE Radio, Producer Day, YLE with Tuija Aalto 2006 - 2013
- Silver IMAGINA Award, Monaco for Best Intraverse in 2009 for Nokia Presence in Second Life
2011 - Initiator of Virtual IPO of Nokia on Empire Avenue
2011 - #267 'Most Influential on the Internet' according to Fast Company Magazine Influence Project
2013 - Helped organise an Art Exhibition and produced immersive mobile game with over 2000 attendees for Finnish rock-star legend Andy McCoy
2013 - Personal manager of Anthony Dyson, creator of R2D2 in 2013 during Robotics Week Finland
Founder of Digistars LLC in 2014 in Helsinki, Finland
2014 - Built IQGalleries.com for a well known Art business in the Netherlands
2014 - Helped to establish PeterPanBike.com for a global motorcycle tour operator
2015 - Re-built JuhaniPalmu.com for Finlands internationally most famous and best selling contemporary artist Juhani Palmu
2015 - Produced Gamification App with and for Executive training company Learning Miles
