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Self-employed computer consultant in
website design, programming, and training. Specialty is creating easily updatable web sites,
allowing
small business owners to become self-sufficient in maintaining their own sites.
Fixing broken web sites is another frequently used skill, as is setting up Ecommerce.
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Experience
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Over 30 years in the computer
industry with expertise in numerous programming languages
including PHP, Javascript, Python, Perl, MySQL, Modula2, Fortran,
Bliss, Lisp, C, Mumps, and various assembly and scripting
languages. Can set up E-commerce, PHP-nuke sites, Joomla sites, Blogs, Photo Galleries, Zen Cart and many other
PHP packages, including some of my own shareware.
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2000 - to date
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Self-employed web consultant,
Albuquerque, NM 2000 - 2007
Fort Collins, CO 2008
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Bermuda Bridge Club
- Redid this site using the JOOMLA content management system
which allows them to easily keep the site up-to-date
themselves. It includes many new custom components for Bridge Clubs
which show game results, masterpoint races, and pair summaries.
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Australian Pool Filter Covers and Outdoor Timber Pool Furniture
- Created custom pricing and shipping calculators using Ajax technology to call out
from javascript
to a database via a PHP and mySQL program
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Online store for Jazz guitarist Jimmy Bruno
- Created this Zen cart store with downloadable music tracks for sale. Created a store template
that matches the main site's look and feel.
Made a custom nightly job for emailing physical orders to the fulfillment house.
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Bobby Wolff - the Autobiography of a Maverick
- Created this simple two page site to publicize Bobby Wolff's tell all book,
which was put together extremely quickly using the images from the book cover.
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HOKOJI - A Buddhist Community in Taos
- Created this small site which uses CMS Made Simple so that they can edit their pages easily.
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The Concilio Network
- Custom backend software for JOOMLA-driven site and
extranet for an international financial services network.
- Community Outreach Program for the Deaf, NM
- Used the Joomla content management system with a template from JOOMLAshack
to create an economical site they can keep updated themselves.
- United States Bridge Federation
- Used the Joomla content management system with the Community Builder add-on to create a site they can keep updated themselves.
Created custom joomla modules and components to use with scripts in Python to show the hand by hand play records of these Bridge Championships. Loaded membership data onto the site from an Excell file and created a custom Paypal dues payment module. Created team entry component (members only) using the latest auto-complete javascript software for filling in team members.
- Harvard class of 1972 35th Reunion
- Used the Joomla content management system with the Community Builder add-on to create a college reunion website with lists of who is coming to the reunion that are dynamically created by the site members themselves. Member-only areas include a modern facebook, a message board, and small personal photo albums.
- PHP/MySQL Programming via subcontract to other web designers
- Created custom doctor request system for referrels, refills, and records processing
- Created custom on-line quiz scorer.
- Created custom JOOMLA components and modules for management of specialized database information./li>
- Created custom form to database to Paypal and return processing for conference registration.
- Created custom form to database to Authorize.net Ecommerce processing with relay response for charity event sign-ups.
- Customized OScommerce shopping carts, added forum, specialized shipping and other features from existing contributions.
- Kup and Sourcer Marketing Blog
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Converted another designer's custom design to a tableless CSS template for Wordpress and set up the WordPress blog
- Economic Snapshots
- Created custom PC-based Python tools for this concise economic report to facilitate publication of their analysis of current economic events.
- San Luis Valley Colorado Mountain Land for Sale from kcciland.com
- This web site was created to the user's desired layout with active link points on the map. Different contact information is loaded for the different sales people, Colorado Mountain Land - kcciland2.com and Colorado Mountain Land - kcciland3.com. It includes the ability to easily upload new lot maps and photos. Drop-down menus are used at the top and bottom - each slightly different.
- ALBUMOAA - ALBUQUERQUE CHAPTER,
The Military Officers Association of America
- Created this closed membership site using the PHP-nuke dynamic content system, including the event calendar and photo gallery add-ons. My own shareware content display module allows the user to add content sections to the main menu. My RTF conversion modules assist in publishing stories and content.
- NMRID, New Mexico Interpreters for the Deaf
- Created this site using PHP-nuke dynamic content system with much customization for a closed membership site. Nuke theme adapted from their existing graphics. My own shareware Documents module allows the user to upload Word or any format documents to the appropriate areas on the site and have them automatically listed and clickable.
- Handmade Beaded Jewelry from Copperfield Bazaar
- Online Beaded Jewelry Store.
Uses the Gallery software to display their designs with my own added shareware for paypal buttons.
- Overeaters Anonymous
- Created a Python tool to convert their monthly QUARK format magazine to their web template.
- Hotel Buy Sell, Hotel Brokers
- Created user login and listing management programs using PHP and mySQL, built on the existing hotel listing system. My shareware javascript slide show is used in the home page header.
- Pat Durgin, realistic Southwestern oil paintings
- Created this site using the artist's own work to illustrate it and enhance it.
Uses the Gallery software to display her paintings with my own added shareware for paypal buttons.
- Albuquerque Master Gardeners
- Site to inform the general public about gardening in the Albuquerque area and to
provide a online community area for local Master Gardeners. A PHP-nuke website with
many custom changes for a membership organization,
including closed membership loaded from an excell file.
- New Mexico Bridge Clubs
- Designed and created this web site. Created an
interactive form and a Python CGI program for the online display of a pair's
results summary. Have created similar sites for several
other Bridge Clubs (click for Bridge sites portfolio).
- Free Bridge Lessons from Kitty Cooper
- Author of my own PHP-nuke bridge teaching site.
- Futures for Children
- Set up the online credit card processing for this site using the Skipjack gateway. This site
helps Native American children get an education with the help of a mentor.
- Norrico, Inc
- Designed and implemented this Scripophily store site (Paypal based).
- High Country
Gardens
- Streamlined daily web order downloads by creating some Python scripts. Created admin login
and image uploading and management for
the backend of the new website using PHP and mySQL. Wrote Python script to generate RTF format format
files from text files of data.
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1990-2000
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Assistant Vice President,
Technology sector
Bank of New York, New York, NY
- Created and implemented an online documentation center on the
company intranet. This included creating a training course and a
manual for authoring HTML documentation.
- Chief troubleshooter and manager for VAX and Alpha technical
support team.
- Coordinated the implementation of clustering across all
departments in the bank involving about 300 people.
- Created and maintained tools and utilities in DCL, Modula2,
and LISP.
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1986-1990
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World Champion
Bridge Professional, London, UK and New York, NY
- Represented the UK for an EEU gold medal and a European
bronze.
- Upon return to the USA, my US team won the World
Championship.
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1980-1985
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Assistant Vice President
Banker's Trust Co, New York, NY
- Managed and was chief troubleshooter for a technical support
team for VAX and PDP-11 computers (MACRO-11, DCL, Fortran).
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1978-1980
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Self employed part-time
consultant, New York, NY
- Part-time contract work in Assembler and Fortran on PDP-11s
in order to be a partially stay-at-home mother.
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1975-1978
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Senior Software Engineer
Digital Equipment Corporation, New York, NY
- Troubleshooting and projects in Fortran, MACRO-11, RSX on
PDP-11s.
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1974-1975
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Consultant
AGS Computing Inc, New York, NY
- Money Transfer projects: Fortran and MACRO-11 on
PDP-11s.
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1973-1975
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Software Engineer
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA
- TYPESET-11 project: Assembly language on PDP-11s.
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1972-1973
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Systems Programmer
AHS Medical Systems, Woburn, MA
- Assembly language and MUMPS on PDP-11s.
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Education
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1972 A.B. cum laude, Fine Arts,
Harvard University
- First program written in Fortran at NSF summer program at
Brown University in 1966.
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Interests
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Bridge, genealogy, gardening, art,
digital photography, the Internet.
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