About Tim Courtney

Welcome! If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed . Thanks for visiting!

I am a young professional living in the western Chicago suburbs (Wheaton). My primary interests include interactive marketing, web/software usability, community development, entrepreneurship, LEGO, and flying. In my free time I like to meet new people, read, jog, cycle, and be outside.

Currently, I am responsible for Marketing and Customer Service at XNet, a boutique server hosting and colocation provider in Lisle, IL. I also co-host XNet’s Silicon Prairie Social, a well-attended networking cocktail for the Chicago Suburbs.

Between 1999 and 2005, I co-founded and led LDraw.org; the LEGO CAD developer and user community around the software and parts libraries that enable LEGO builders to document their models virtually. Thanks to the LDraw tools, people can share what they build online as model files, beautiful 3D renderings, custom building instructions, and even animations.

Oh, and I wrote a book on LDraw (with Steve Bliss and Ahui Herrera) that was published by No Starch Press in 2003, and even talked about virtual LEGO on G4TechTV’s The Screen Savers.

I’m looking to meet: People with high energy and cool ideas, old friends, new friends, and people who are always improving.

You can contact me via email by using my first name @ this domain. I’m also on Facebook, LinkedIn, AIM (rarely), and Twitter.