INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

TIMOTHY J. HARRINGTON, CHAIRMAN, INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY BOARD

A career focused in learning and mentoring, Tim Harrington has worked in secondary education, post-secondary education, and privately developing community learning centers in New York, California, Georgia, and Arizona where he has focused on curriculum design, organizational development, strategic planning, and leadership mentoring. Harrington is actively involved in community development, designing academic programs for emerging career fields, and cultural growth. He lives in Glendale, Arizona with his wife, Anne and their two sons Taylor and Chase.

Harrington has worked in education since 1986, where he has served as teacher, mentor, administrator, and coach. Most recently, he served as Dean of Academic Affairs for The Art Institute of Phoenix where he was responsible for leading the academic affairs departments, registrar office, and learning resource center in all aspects of day-to-day operations, professional development, and strategic planning. He currently teaches design and drafting, game theory, and educational leadership for ITT Technical Institute, DeVry University, and Grand Canyon University, respectively.

Harrington has enjoyed coaching and mentoring naturally throughout his academic career. Tim joined the professional/personal coaching community in November, 2004 in order to fulfill a lifelong ambition of providing greater one-on-one mentoring to individuals and companies striving to grow through operational improvement and personal commitment. He has served as a sports coach, youth coach and coach trainer, mentor teacher, administrator, leader, advisor, and instructor.

Harrington has worked with companies in the entertainment and digital media fields to shape curriculum designed to meet the growing need of visual communications, digital arts, animation, game design, and visual effects industries. He has worked closely with personnel development departments, hiring departments, engineering teams, and industry leaders in defining curriculum that would prepare a digital workforce for the future.

Tim holds a Masters of Art in Education from San Jose State University and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Arts Education from The State University of New York at Oswego. He has completed coursework toward a doctorate in education leadership through Argosy University.

At Gecko, Tim is the Chief Advisor who is going to drive the International Advisory Board and give Gecko the global edge.

MIKE McLAUGHLIN, ADVISOR

Mike McLaughlin graduated from The Art Institute of Phoenix, in Arizona, with a BA in Media Arts and Animation. During his studies, Mike acquired the skills that he now uses to work at a professional level with programs such as Maya, 3Ds Max, Photoshop, After FX and Flash.

Mike has always considered himself an artist and has used his creative background and training to be the driving force behind the CG work that he now helps to produce. Drawing, painting, sculpting and even poetry are a few of the things he has found joy in over the last 15 years.

He has a great interest in cinema and the way that stories are told on screen. He also enjoys video games and a good comic book every now and again. It is very important to him to find ways to be creative and finds satisfaction in working with a team to accomplish a common goal.

At Gecko, Mike is in the International Advisory Board. Under his able guidance, Gecko is confident to produce world class animation.