Tidal Lock is the consulting firm of Timothy Quinn, a senior technology professional with over ten years experience in project management and technical deployment.
Starfish
Developed to manage critical maintenance workflow at the Toronto Star, Starfish is a web- and email-based issue management platform which allows departmental stakeholders to assign, track and manage multiple concurrent tasks. Starfish was officially released in beta in early 2009, and currently manages all internal workflow for Star Media Group Digital.

Additional features include: extensive web-based administrator management; multiple user tiers; robust error management; MediaWiki and Twitter integration.
Starfish

Join me at a U of T Writers Co-op workshop

I'll be participating in a group discussion of Octopus Intelligence on March 26, 2010, as part of the University of Toronto's Writers' Co-operative workshop series. The event is free of charge and open to the public. Location information will be posted when available.

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Project management

PMI-compliant project management is a part of every Tidal Lock project, regardless of whether a single line of code needs to be written.

Technical specification

Documentation, even in an agile development environment, ensures that proper requirements have been captured and technical challenges considered. Tidal Lock is proficient at business documentatiom (project proposals, budgets, schedules, project scope), administrative documentation (status reports, change orders) and technical documentation (application architecture, information architecture and usability assessment, technical specification, test plans).

Web development

Core competencies include HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, XML, RSS, with consultative expertise in ASP, JSP, Flash, Facebook and mobile development technologies.

Incubation

Tidal Lock invests in unique business applications and opportunities, contributing technical management and/or web development services. Please inquire about specific joint venture opportunities.