About Tim
Tim Hodson is a maker, problem-solver, and builder of systems and teams.
Tim calls himself a jack-of-all-trades, though he prefers polymath or Fixer of Everything. The old saying suggests this is a limitation, but Tim sees it differently. In complex organisations, the real value isn’t just in deep specialisation – it’s in the ability to integrate across domains. Tim builds bridges between technical depth and customer understanding, between system design and people development, between strategy and execution.
Tim translates the language of engineers for business stakeholders, and vice versa. He sees opportunities that specialists miss because he’s not confined to a single domain’s assumptions. Where a specialist optimises within their silo, Tim optimises across boundaries – connecting dots, finding elegant solutions that serve multiple needs simultaneously, and understanding how changes in one area ripple through others. His breadth isn’t about surface-level dabbling; it’s about understanding enough across multiple disciplines to design solutions that actually work in the messy reality of how organisations operate.
A Career that careered…
Tim Hodson is morphing. He started out life as a bespectacled child with a keen interest in taking things apart. He then progressed to doing creative things with paper, wires, light bulbs and model train speed controllers. Tim has been interested in stage craft, puppetry and magic for many years, and is hopeful that those things will come together into the magic show that he is writing called The Great And Marvellous Show.
He developed an interest in puppetry thanks to his sister’s reactions to a small fluffy squirrel called Squidge. He built his first puppet theatre as an A level project, and went on to use it as a children’s entertainer for several years. He graduated to small scale invention of towers and devices suitable for an Edwardian gentleman during his first degree doing Design Crafts in Hereford. He then mastered the art of caring for information in all its guises through an Information and Library Management Masters at Hereford (passed with distinction don’t ‘cha know!).
He embarked on a voyage full of problem-solving and trouble-shooting in 2007 with Talis, and has built a vast collection of knowledge about the intricacies of library systems and how they work in conjunction with Reading List systems. He now has over 18 years of experience in the world of library and knowledge technology.
As Head of Customer Success at Kortext, Tim leads a team of Customer Success Consultants who both support and encourage customers to get the most out of their investment, through partnership, consultancy and answering any question. As a maximiser, Tim prefers to make things better when they need fixing and bring new ideas and innovations to the table that will meet the user’s needs.
Tim is also one of the directors of a community based, volunteer powered, bicycle repair and maintenance organisation called Wolverhampton Bike Shed. They exist to provide affordable bike repair to the people of Wolverhampton and are to be found in all weathers, with a queue of people ready to get back on the road with a working bike!
Hobbies
Tim strongly believes that he has never been bored in his life. There is no excuse for that sort of thing. There is always something to read, to learn, to do, to observe, or to think about.
So here is a list of things that Tim has spent time doing… He will literally have a few projects in each of these areas that he’ll pick up, put down, and regale you about. (Sorry colleagues!) In no particular order…
- Photography
- Stage craft
- Show control systems (DMX, OSC, Qlab, QLC+)
- Building a one man magic show
- Tinkering with electronics
- Fixing broken things
- Building useful automations in the house
- Puppetry
- Magic and illusion
- Furniture rennovation
- Upholstery
- Tailoring his own shirts
- Sound mixing
- Public Address Systems
- Audio Visual systems
- Music technology (midi, OSC,)
- Building fires
- Coding
- Cooking
- Sensor networks
- Staring at trees and watching flowers grow
- Gardening
- Cycling