Kimberly Blessing

Current

• Senior Manager, Web Development at Comcast Interactive Media
• President and Chief Consultant at KimmieCorp

Past

• Computer Science Instructor at Bryn Mawr College
• Principal Front-End Architect at PayPal, Inc.
• Web Development Platform Manager at PayPal, Inc.

• Co-Lead at Web Standards Project
• Acting Director/Senior Manager at America Online, Inc.
• Program Manager at America Online, Inc.
• Senior Interactive Media Developer at America Online, Inc.

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Education

• The George Washington University
• Bryn Mawr College

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Industry

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Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Kimberly Blessing’s Summary

Over 10 years of experience in Web development in a wide variety of environments, with a strong focus on implementing Web standards, training and developing technical teams, designing and implementing publishing systems, and process development.

Kimberly Blessing’s Specialties:

Semantic HTML/XHTML, CSS-driven layout, client- and server-side programming, graphics and code optimization, search engine optimization, online marketing, and people development.

Kimberly Blessing’s Experience

• Senior Manager, Web Development

  Comcast Interactive Media

  (Public Company; CMCSA; Internet industry)

  January 2009 — Present (11 months)

• President and Chief Consultant

  KimmieCorp

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  May 1997 — Present (12 years 7 months)

• Computer Science Instructor

  Bryn Mawr College

  (Internet industry)

  September 2008 — December 2008 (4 months)

  Developed and instructed Web Application Design and Development (Advanced Topics in Computer Science, CS380) in Fall 2008.

• Principal Front-End Architect

  PayPal, Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)

• Web Development Platform Manager

  PayPal, Inc.

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  November 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 9 months)

• Co-Lead

  Web Standards Project

  (Internet industry)

  January 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 6 months)

• Acting Director/Senior Manager

  America Online, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

  April 2004 — February 2005 (11 months)

  Head of Web Development and QA within the Studio organization.

• Program Manager

  America Online, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

  March 2002 — March 2004 (2 years 1 month)

  Head of technical strategy and standards for the Web Development organization within the Studio@AOL. Managed the AOL Styleguide and the AOL Technical Guidelines, evangelized and provided training on Web standards and site optimization, conducted code reviews, and administered internal Web sites.

• Senior Interactive Media Developer

  America Online, Inc.

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

  June 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 9 months)

  Web developer and technical team lead for the eCommerce division and AOL@School product.

Kimberly Blessing’s Education

• The George Washington University

  M.Sc. , Computer Science , August 2001 — May 2003

  Completed requirements for the Computer Security and Information Assurance Graduate certificate.

• Bryn Mawr College

  B.A. , Computer Science , 1993 — 1997

  Senior studies and research in artificial intelligence and autonomous robotic agents. Also employed by the College as a desktop and network support specialist in the Computing Services group and as the College's first Webmaster.

  Activities and Societies:

  Computer Science Culture Series (co-founder), College News (photography editor).

Additional Information

Kimberly Blessing’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Kimberly Blessing’s Interests:

web standards, accessibility, usability, women in science and technology, music, reading, cars, hockey, photography

Kimberly Blessing’s Groups:

ACM, IEEE and IEEE Computer Society, Women in Technology Intl., Bryn Mawr College Alumnae Association, Web Standards Project (http://www.webstandards.org/)., Personal MBA, ABI TechLeaders, Grace Hopper Celebration, SXSW Interactive

•    AOLAlumni
•    Women 2.0
•    WITI - Women in Technology International
•    Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
•    IEEE Computer Society Members
•    An Event Apart
•    Bryn Mawr College Alumnae
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    Rebooting Computing
•    WebVisions
•    Environments for Humans
•    Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

Kimberly Blessing’s Honors:

- Moderator or panelist at the SXSW Interactive Festival in 2004-2008
- Presented "Standards in the Enterprise" at WebVisions 2007 and An Event Apart San Francisco 2007.
- Presented "Why Web Standards?" at the Web Managers Roundtable, Washington, DC, 2004.

- Co-author of "Adapting to Web Standards: CSS and Ajax for Big Sites" (Voices that Matter/Peachpit, December 2007)
- Technical editor for "DHTML, CSS, and AJAX" (Peachpit Press, October 2006) by Jason Cranford Teague.
- Technical editor for "Spring into HTML and CSS" (Addison Wesley, April 2005) by Molly E. Holzschlag.
- Code author for portions of "DHTML and CSS Advanced" (Peachpit Press, December 2004) by Jason Cranford Teague.

Kimberly Blessing’s Contact Settings

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