Kristen Walker - Web designer, programmer, DJ, artist, and all around creative/technical person.

Education

B.S., Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001

Experience

Graphic Designer, Torre Argentina Cat Refuge in Rome
Designed a brochure that is used in tourist kiosks and hotels in Rome to promote the shelter. Designed their first volunteer manual which has been in use for over 2 years now.

Currently working on the cover for the Gatti di Roma DVD.
You can see a copy of the Gatti di Roma video cover here.

View the brochure I designed that is placed in hotels and tourist kiosks in Rome:
Side One of Brochure , Side Two of Brochure
Note: this is a tri-fold brochure, so you have to imagine it folded.

Engineer, Producer, and Host, KCSB
Engineered, produced, and hosted a 2 hour radio show that aired once a week on KCSB, 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara, California. The show featured new alternative rock artists, interviews with musicians, politicians, directors, and others. My show also featured current events and commentary. I was the sole engineer and host for the show, and operated all of the equipment, including the mixing board, turntables, CD players, and more.

Arranged interviews with interesting people including writer and director Anna Dudley and Santa Barbara City Councilman Das Williams.

Created a web site for the show that greatly increased the ability of my audience to get information about the artists and topics covered during the show as well as give me feedback.

Covered current events by recording comments and interviews on location with a Sony Minidisc.

Used Cool Edit Pro to edit interviews and create show ID’s.

Listen to some samples of my audio work.

Engineer, Green Hills Software
Worked with a variety of operating systems daily, such as Solaris, Linux, HPUX, and Windows XP/2000/NT/ME/98. Wrote Perl scripts to automate testing tasks, such as creating, compiling, and executing sample programs with the Green Hills’ tools. Created comprehensive test plans to test many of Green Hills’ tools features, such as code optimizing, memory leak finding, and hardware breakpoints.

Collaborated with Japanese engineers from ADAC and NEC in getting the ICE (In Circuit Emulator) from NEC and debug server from ADAC working correctly with our debugger.

Read a review of my work at Green Hills Software.

Web Designer and Requirements Analyst, Virtual Business House
Managed the project of specifying the design and functionality of the web site and intranet of Virtual Business House. Researched many tele-conferencing tools and data sharing tools in terms of usability and security. Used Absalution Enterprise Portal software to design the site. Prepared a clear and concise tutorial for Virtual Business House staff that I used to give tutorials covering how to use the features of their intranet such as collaborative information sharing, discussion forums, personalized content, personal calendar, email reminders, and more.

The new intranet that I designed for Virtual Business House made long distance collaboration between the Stockholm and Malmo office possible and greatly increased communication between staff in these two offices.

Read a review of my work at Virtual Business House.

Programmer and Tech Writer, IXOS
Developed a programming guide for the OLE Application Programming Interface for a document archiving product. The programming guide demonstrated how to connect and access document archiving functions in different languages such as C++, Java, Basic, VBScript, and Java Script.

The programming guide that I wrote as an intern was selected to accompany product documentation.

Read a review of my work at IXOS.

Other Stuff

I had an article published on the VegSource web site. Read the article on VegSource.

I've also developed a mouse that can be used with the feet for sufferers of repetitive stress injuries from computer use.