Kelly Jo Horton

Current

Technical Marketing Professional (Contractor) at SignaCert

Past

Technology Marketing Professional (Contractor) at RNA Networks
Co-Founder, PR/Marketing Specialist at Proteus Creative
Corporate Applications Engineer, TME (Customer Engineer) at Mentor Graphics

Owner/Consultant at Visionaries (Sole Proprietorship)
Contract Technical Instructor at SQLSoft
Technical Instructor and Course Developer at Atlas Telecom
Software Support Engineer, TME at Mentor Graphics
Technical Support Engineer at Frame Technology (startup)
Technical Support Engineer at Sun Microsystems (startup phase)

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Education

San Diego State University-California State University
University of New Hampshire

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Kelly Jo Horton’s Summary

Seasoned professional services and technology marketing professional. Exceptional ability to understand highly technical concepts and communicate them clearly through various forms of media to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Self motivated individual who can balance multiple projects and deadlines with ease. Excellent interpersonal skills demonstrated with both internal and external customers. Highly skilled at building relationships with, and gathering information from global, geographically disparate engineering teams.

Currently seeking a full-time permanent position in the Portland Metro Area. Prefer under 30% travel.

Have been consulting for the past year. Clients include WaveMetrics, SignaCert, RNA Networks, Market Specific Media, and SecondsOut.com (UK).

Kelly Jo Horton’s Specialties:

• Working knowledge of Java, C, C++, Pascal, HTML, PL/SQL, SED, Awk, Perl, various shell languages and AMPLE (Mentor Graphics proprietary extension language).

• In depth knowledge of UNIX, Solaris, Linux, HPUX, SQL, and Oracle database administration.

• Development and delivery of training.

• FrameMaker expert.

B.A. in Journalism with an emphasis in Advertising. Minors in Television and Film, and Spanish.

Kelly Jo Horton’s Experience

Technical Marketing Professional (Contractor)

SignaCert

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year)

Privately held startup in the Trusted Computing software industry.

Gather product information and customer use cases to be used in the development of training documents, technical marketing collateral, and web content.
Technology Marketing Professional (Contractor)

RNA Networks

(Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2008 — July 2008 (3 months)

Created basic collateral: datasheet, company profile, user's guide, quick start guide, reference manual, and diagrams.
Co-Founder, PR/Marketing Specialist

Proteus Creative

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

January 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 6 months)

Privately held startup that develops theme parks and destination resorts worldwide. Headquarters in Las Vegas and L.A. www.lasvegaswet.com
Corporate Applications Engineer, TME (Customer Engineer)

Mentor Graphics

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MENT; Computer Software industry)

February 2001 — January 2006 (5 years)

Publicly held company in the EDA Software industry.

Well-respected member of a professional services team that provided award-winning complex pre and post-sales support for a number of EDA tools.

* Speaker at user's groups.

* Evaluated and made recommendations on new support center in Hyderabad, India.

* Developed and Delivered training worldwide.
Owner/Consultant
Visionaries (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Publishing industry)

January 1990 — January 2000 (10 years 1 month)

* Recommended and contracted by Frame Technology to provide training worldwide to the following companies: Hewlett-Packard, Data General, Pyramid, Silicon Graphics, Sun Microsystems, Fred Meyer, Motorola, and others.

* Designed layout for all HP printer manuals produced in Camas, WA.

* Successfully managed large localization and translation projects for HP and local translation companies in more than 20 languages.
Contract Technical Instructor

SQLSoft

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

May 1997 — April 1998 (1 year)

Privately held company specializing in Oracle Certification and Microsoft Certification training.

* Delivered the following courses for ARIS: Relational Database Design, UNIX System Administration, Intro to SQL and PL/SQL, Oracle Architecture & Administration, and Oracle 7 Application Tuning.

* Created a custom database tuning class for Tektronix.
Technical Instructor and Course Developer

Atlas Telecom

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

October 1996 — April 1997 (7 months)

* Developed and delivered a variety of course modules in the Atlas PCS Messenger voicemail system. All modules included material on voicemail software, system hardware, and telephony interfaces.

* Spearheaded a project to build a sample voicemail system to be on display at the company headquarters. Built, installed and configured an entire voicemail system from the ground up, including: building the hard drives, installing hardware into industrial-grade racks, and installing all software (OS and applications).
Software Support Engineer, TME

Mentor Graphics

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MENT; Computer Software industry)

February 1994 — October 1996 (2 years 9 months)

Publicly held company in the EDA Software industry.

Well-respected member of a professional services team that provided award-winning complex pre and post-sales support for a number of EDA tools.
Technical Support Engineer

Frame Technology (startup)

(Computer Software industry)

1988 — 1990 (2 years)

Privately held startup in the Desktop Publishing software industry. Purchased by Adobe.

* Recruited away from Sun Microsystems to become the first full-time technical support engineer for Frame Technology.

* Implemented first call tracking system and first training courses.

* Editor of internal company newsletter.
Technical Support Engineer

Sun Microsystems (startup phase)

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; SUNW; Computer Hardware industry)

November 1985 — March 1988 (2 years 5 months)

Privately held (now publicly held) startup in the computer hardware industry and software industry.

First line of contact for all internal software engineers when reporting defects . Proactively created and implemented training system, including all presentation materials and the BugTraq Users Guide.

Kelly Jo Horton’s Education

San Diego State University-California State University

1980 — 1984
University of New Hampshire

Journalism: Law of Mass Media 1983 — 1983

Activities and Societies:

One of 10 students at SDSU chosen to do a semester exchange to UNH for Fall semester.