Zimmer | |
---|---|
Photo by Peter Tangen | |
Vital Statistics | |
Hero | Zimmer |
Alias(es) | Zimmer Barnes |
Identity | Public |
Alter Ego | William Zimmer Barnes |
Category | Social Activist |
Location | [[Location::Knoxville, TN, USA]] The following coordinate was not recognized: Geocoding failed.The following coordinate was not recognized: Geocoding failed. |
Status | Active |
Superhero Activity | |
Team | |
Affiliates | N/A |
Foes | Hate, Ignorance |
Actions | N/A |
Physical Description | |
Gender | Male |
Outfit | |
Colors | Black, Gray |
Symbol | "Zimmer" in Binary |
Equipment | Computer |
Abilities | Tech skills, EMT license |
Zimmer is a Real Life Superhero currently living in Knoxville, Tennessee. He was a co-founder for the New York Initiative, as well as the founder of Zimtelligence. He is known for deliberately not cultivating a secret identity, unlike the norm for many RLSH, due to his feelings over the similarity of maintaining a RLSH persona with being "in the closet" as a gay man.
Zimmer has also spearheaded The Oracle Project, and is likely one reason for popularization of the term "Oracle", as he was one of the first RLSH to emphasize the gathering of intelligence and data to combine it with the use of technology.
History
Zimmer co-founded the New York Initiative (NYI), the founding branch of what would later become the The Initiative Collective, a coalition of various Initiatives based around a location. While he was a member of the NYI, Zimmer served as the Technology Officer, Researcher and Field Medic. He was featured prominently in the Documentary "Superheroes" by Michael Barnett, along with the other three founding NYI members.
He left the NYI in March of 2012 to establish his own company, Zimtelligence. From the Facebook post addressing his departure:
"I'm no longer a member of the NYI or any Initiative team. I officially left March 4, 2012. I have nothing to do with anything Zero or the team has done since then. It's not the team I fell in love with anymore. I wish them well with their current and future projects, and hope they can do some real good in their communities."
Despite his statement to the contrary, Zimmer would later work again with Zero on occasion, including sharing a guest spot on an episode of Heroes 101 Radio.
Gallery
Shade, Samaritan Prime, (unknown), Life, Zimmer
External Links
The Real Life Super Hero Project: Zimmer
Wikipedia Entry on Zimmer - removed as of 4/13/2017