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KITTY MUNSON COOPER
Fort Collins, CO

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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.
Experience
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, and many other PHP packages including some of my own shareware.

2000 - to date

Self-employed web consultant,
Albuquerque, NM 2000 - 2007
Fort Collins, CO 2008
  • Albuquerque Home for Sale, UNM Pueblo-Style Home
    • Created this simple one page site for a local realtor to publicize a local UNM area home for sale. Created a two page site, including my garden shots, for my own Albuquerque Home for Sale.
  • 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.
  • HOKOJI - A Buddhist Community in Taos
    • Created this small site which uses CMS Made Simple so that they can edit their pages easily.
  • 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 JOOMLA components and modules for management of specialized database information.
    • 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
    • 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.

1990-2000

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.

1986-1990

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.

1980-1985

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).

1978-1980

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.

1975-1978

Senior Software Engineer
Digital Equipment Corporation, New York, NY
  • Troubleshooting and projects in Fortran, MACRO-11, RSX on PDP-11s.

1974-1975

Consultant
AGS Computing Inc, New York, NY
  • Money Transfer projects: Fortran and MACRO-11 on PDP-11s.

1973-1975

Software Engineer
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA
  • TYPESET-11 project: Assembly language on PDP-11s.

1972-1973

Systems Programmer
AHS Medical Systems, Woburn, MA
  • Assembly language and MUMPS on PDP-11s.
Education
1972 A.B. cum laude, Fine Arts, Harvard University
  • First program written in Fortran at NSF summer program at Brown University in 1966.
Interests
Bridge, genealogy, gardening, art, digital photography, the Internet.





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