Kathy Block

Current

• Freelance Web Developer at Nehmedia
• Freelance Web Developer at Kathy Block, Web Developer

Past

• Contract Programmer at Modis
• Systems Engineer at Compaq

Education

• The Generous Support of my Fellow Programmers
• North Harris Community College

Recommended

1 person has recommended Kathy

Connections

25 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Kathy Block’s Summary

Designer of database intensive internet applications for a wide variety of business uses. Building sites that get found by Google so your potential customers can find you. Quickly building applications that match your business so you can get on with your business rather than fiddling with software.

I work with: Adobe Flex, Ajax/Javascript, PHP, MVC Frameworks, MySQL, HTML, XML to name a few tools in my toolbox.

Kathy Block’s Specialties:

Internet database applications and integration, Adobe Flex, Ajax/Javascript, PHP, MVC Frameworks, MySQL, HTML, XML.
Search engine optimization of websites ( SEO ).

Kathy Block’s Experience

• Freelance Web Developer

  Nehmedia

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)

  Working with a small team building an Adobe Flex based search engine marketing analysis tool called SiteTraxer. We started with Flex when it was new out of the gate. It's been a fantastic tool allowing us to build fully interactive browser-based systems in a fraction of the time you might expect such systems to take.
  
  Also, part of a team building a beta subdomain site for Hoovers: http://people.hoovers.com/

• Freelance Web Developer

  Kathy Block, Web Developer

  (Internet industry)

  January 2000 — Present (9 years 7 months)

  Built a number of real estate websites for several local brokers and realtors. Most are listing sites although some were simple brochure sites for individual realtors. Several have thousands of pages generated from MLS listing data. The feedback I get on these sites is that they produce considerable leads.
  
  Also have build sites for a number of local construction contractors and small stores. You can see my site for more detail.

• Contract Programmer

  Modis

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ASI; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1993 — April 2001 (7 years 8 months)

  Contractor assigned out to quite a few companies such as Compaq, Tenneco, Panhandle Eastern, Halliburton, Exxon and Amoco. I worked on a wide variety of client/server database applications using a number of different tools and languages, Sybase, C and C++, Powerbuilder, HTML, CGI using both Perl and C, Visual Basic and Access being just a short list. Toward the end of this period I was working predominantly with Access VBA with a Sybase/Oracle backend. These systems made heavy use of stored procedures.
  
  In the majority of these assignments I was responsible for the design of the system as well as coding. I met with the clients, got to know their business and the systems they were currently using. We then worked together to design a clear specification for the project complete with timelines for deliverables. Usually I did the coding myself although in a couple of cases I had other programmers reporting to me to help with the work.

• Systems Engineer

  Compaq

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CPQ; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  September 1989 — September 1993 (4 years 1 month)

  Worked in Manufacturing Systems Support for CCM5 - Options under Bob Remels. In this group I developed several different test data collections systems using C, Sybase, Powerbuilder, dBase, and Clipper. I was responsible for collecting requirements from the manufacturing groups in the factory, coding those requirements, and finally putting them in production complete with training classes I developed and taught. I then supported these applications throughout their life on an on-call basis in a factory with round the clock shifts. Often these systems needed to integrate with systems supported by other groups.

Kathy Block’s Education

• The Generous Support of my Fellow Programmers

  Computer Science 1984 — 2007

  I was primarily taught real-world programming through the generous support of many people I've worked with over the years. Many thanks to Dan Tapp, Mark Main, Liz Hecht, Barry Block, and Ahn Nguyen who have both challenged and enlightened me over the years! Where would I be without you guys!

• North Harris Community College

  Computer Science 1982 — 1983

  Activities and Societies:

  Spent my high school years here coding in Basic and Cobol, hanging around the lab, and testing programs on my Atari 400 (which I couldn't afford the floppy drive for). I also did some freelance work debugging games for the Apple IIe at the time. Basically, I was an Atari kid who spent my youth playing with code. Aaah, the days ...

Additional Information

Kathy Block’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Portfolio

Kathy Block’s Interests:

Internet Database Integration, Real Estate, Guitar, Teaching Guitar

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