In his personal life, Parker is still a passionate baseball fan and an amateur writer. They not only make the daily Universal Crossword, but also the entertainment, sports, financial and music editions. As the CEO of Master Puzzles, Inc., Parker works with Java programmers and puzzle masters to set the standard for all online puzzles. In fact, according to Guinness World Records, Parker is the world's most syndicated puzzle compiler of today. The Universal Crossword would become the web's first syndicated crossword puzzle. In 1996, he sequestered himself away in his room and began to develop an interactive crossword programmed with Java that was fun, intuitive and easy to use. However, he eventually hit the glass ceiling, which led him to quit his job and to pursue a dream of creating crossword puzzles. At Bridgestone/Firestone, Parker rose steadily through the ranks. In 1978, Parker was attending the University of Maryland in College Park majoring in economics.įollowing graduation, Parker worked for a local tire retailer for a number of years before taking a position with Bridgestone/Firestone in 1987, as a store manager. In fact, by the age of sixteen the Pittsburgh Pirates recruited him, but his parents refused to let him go. The Mail Tribune gets its comics and puzzles from Universal Uclick syndicate, where Timothy Parker worked as a crossword writer and editor since the late 1990s. And almost four years ago, devastating accusations of plagiarism emerged regarding Parker’s conduct as a crossword editor.
He touted himself as America’s most solved crossword constructor. Parker excelled in both academics and sports, playing baseball and football. For the uninitiated, Timothy Parker was the crossword editor for Universal’s syndicated puzzle and USA Today, both of which are owned by Universal Uclick. However, improvement in his family's status could not compare to the wealth of his classmates at the prestigious Gilman School, a boys preparatory school in Baltimore that he received a scholarship to attend. In 1999, together with Universal Press Syndicate’s Uclick division, Parker founded The Puzzle Society, and is the founder and senior editor of the Universal Uclick line of crossword puzzles and games. Spending the first part of his life in an extremely poor neighborhood, Parker and his family later moved to a nicer neighborhood as his father's business grew. By early 1997, Parker’s puzzle became the 'Universal Crossword' syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate to newspapers and clients worldwide. Crossword puzzle artist, Timothy Parker was born on April 7, 1960, in Baltimore, Maryland, to a family of ten children.
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