Derek Timmerman
Owner Principal at Timmerman Group Inc
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Timmerman is a seasoned design and branding principal with over three decades leading interdisciplinary studios and teaching design practice. As Owner Principal of Timmerman Group Inc., he helps startups and established companies position, elevate, and contemporize brands, packaging, and promotional strategies. He combines deep hands-on experience across graphic, industrial, interior, exhibit, and web design with strengths in design management and marketing. Previously he ran Timmerman + Associates, delivering national and international branding campaigns and managing accounts up to $1.5M, and taught branding and production at OCAD for nearly 27 years. Derek’s advantage is his ability to synthesize diverse expert perspectives—leveraging technical craft and collaborative teams to refine strategic positioning. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs an MFA in Design with a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to creating memorable, market-ready identities.
11 years of coding experience
BA, Graphic Design, BA, Graphic Design at University of Illinois ChicagoMFA, Design, MFA, Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (17)
i18next-backend8
plugin7
backend6
ejs6
fetch6
expressjs6
javascript4
nodejs4
i18next4
browser3
typescript3
deno2
middleware1
router1
react-router1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
dtimmerman/rm-demo
Oct 2014 - Sep 2019
A demo email + form submission application using JS, Node, Express.
Contributions:47 commits, 2 pushes in 5 years
ejsnode-expressexpressjsnode-jsjavascript
dtimmerman/react-redux-tic-tac-toe
Mar 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 issues in 1 year
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