Kristen Pol - Resume
OBJECTIVE
As of October 2008, I have enough contract work to last through 2008. I have been doing telecommuting contracts from Scotts Valley, CA, and starting in 2009 would like to find additional part-time contracts doing web/LAMP/Drupal programming, search engine optimization (SEO) and/or Java development. My preference is for contracts that allow for substantial telecommuting and/or are located within the Santa Cruz area.
SUMMARY
- 15 years experience in technical positions in academic, Fortune 100 and startup environments.
- 10 years experience in technical leadership positions as Project Lead, Architect and Senior Developer.
- 11 years experience in web design and development including SEO, e-learning, e-commerce and B2B.
- 13 years experience in object-oriented design, developing clean, extensible and reusable software.
- MSEE from Stanford, BA Physics and Mathematics from UCSC, and post-graduate coursework at Stanford, UCSC and San Jose State in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Art/Design.
EDUCATION
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, 9/94-6/95; GPA 3.7/4.0
MS, Electrical Engineering; Full Department Academic Fellowship
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ, 9/92-6/94; GPA 3.9/4.0
BA, Physics; BA, Mathematics; Honors in double degree; University Honors
EXPERIENCE
CRUZTECH, Scotts Valley, CA, 1/01 – present
Founder and Chief Architect: Responsible for programming and search engine optimization (SEO) consulting projects as well as product research, development and commercialization activities. Designed and developed several web and GUI products for commercial distribution. Projects include development of manufacturing, education, and developer applications, and SEO for large websites. Details are available at www.cruztech.com.
LUTRIS TECHNOLOGIES, Santa Cruz, CA, 12/97 – 1/01
Consultant – Application/System Architect: Responsible for overall architecture and design on 6 web projects for 4 clients (Adaptec, CancerTrust, Qusic, Petroglyph). Responsible for design and development for core subsystems of 9 web projects for Lutris and 3 clients (Adaptec, Qusic, Kinko’s). Sole ownership of 4 projects for Lutris and Kinko’s. Responsibilities included creating project plan, requirements definition, functional specification, use cases, prototype plan, vendor recommendations, schedule, application and system architecture, subsystem design, integration strategy, QA plan and deployment process. Application Architect (technical lead) for one of Lutris’ largest projects (Adaptec/ roxio.com) with a team 20 Lutris consultants and 10+ Adaptec staff, and a budget of over $1.5 million.
HEWLETT PACKARD, Components Group, CSSD, San Jose, CA, 7/95 – 12/97
R&D Systems Engineer: Designed and implemented software and hardware for characterization and testing of isolation and infrared components. Developed data analysis and web-based software tools.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY, EE Department, Stanford, CA, 3/95 – 6/95; Graduate Researcher
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Physics Labs, Santa Cruz, CA, 9/92 – 9/94; Technical Assistant IV
SCRIPPS INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY, UCSD, CA, 6/93 – 9/93; Undergraduate Researcher
SELECTED SKILLS
| Language | PHP, Java, SQL, HTML, XML, JavaScript, Perl, C/C++, Unix Scripting |
| Web | LAMP, Drupal, E-learning, E-commerce, App/Web Servers, Servlets, CGI, JavaScript/DHTML, CSS |
| SEO | Keyword Research, Content Optimization, Website Optimization, Wordtracker, Overture |
| Java | Swing/JFC, Java3D, Java2D, AWT, Threads, Reflection, Servlet, Applet, JDBC, J2EE, EJB |
| Design | OOD, N-Tier System Architecture, N-Layer Application Architecture/Design, Information Architecture, UML, Object-to-Relational Database Design, Internationalization |
| Process | Full Project Lifecycle, Requirements Gathering, Use Cases, Build vs. Buy, Vendor Selection |
| Data | Oracle, Informix, MySQL, XML, XML Schema, XML DTD, ExoLab Castor |
| Team | Training, Mentoring, Code Review, Performance Review |
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