
Owner/Founder, Cre8pc.com, Cre8asiteForums, UsabilityEffect.com
Greater Philadelphia Area

Owner/Founder, Cre8pc.com, Cre8asiteForums, UsabilityEffect.com
Greater Philadelphia Area
I provide web site usability services that focus on persuasive design techniques to improve conversions, plus application (forms), newsletter and shopping cart user interface, accessibility, data analysis and functional testing.
My business partners come from the web design and search engine marketing industries. Most of my work is sub-contracted to website design and marketing firms. From 1996 to 2002 I specialized in organic search engine optimization, before moving on to usability testing and user centered design support. Therefore, my reports don't conflict with search engine marketing projects or their recommendations.
As an industry reporter and columnist for a wide selection of blogs, ezines and SEO news sites, I cover both search engine optimization and marketing and the usability industries. In addition to articles, I also write for my blog, as well as several others.
I write a column on Usability for the print publication, Search Marketing Standard and am a search marketing industry conference reporter for the Search Engine Roundtable. My articles are published by many web sites including Webpronews, SearchEngineGuide and CorporateWebsite.
Board member for Pennridge Little League Baseball, 2006 to Present
My previous years of work in the Search Engine Optimization field permit me the added advantage of understanding the needs of marketing a web site and balancing that with the needs of web site visitors and customers.
As a columnist, consultant and forums owner, I'm always tuned into what's happening with the search engine industry and connecting this information to the user centered design fields.
Resume (PDF) - http://www.cre8pc.com/resume/Kim_resume_2005.pdf
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
April 2004 — Present (4 years 2 months)
A split-off web site from Cre8pc.com; focuses on my usability testing services and Partners.
(Internet industry)
2002 — Present (6 years)
Launched in August 2002, its pre-cursor since 1998 was called the Cre8pc WebSite Promotion Club.
Cre8asiteForums is well established and known worldwide as a forum for web development, SEO/SEM, usability, Internet Law, Conversion Analysis, Marketing and more.
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 1996 — Present (12 years 5 months)
Portal to my web properties and Blog; owner/founder of Cre8asiteForums; owner UsabilityEffect.com, co-founder Cre8asite.net; usability and SEO/SEM reporter; columnist for several e-pubs; previously a search engine optimization specialist
(Internet industry)
2002 — July 2006 (4 years)
Consultant for in-house SEO; ongoing referral business partner
(Company was acquired in July 2006.)
(Public Company; Internet industry)
2000 — May 2002 (2 years)
Internet software application testing using Rational software; usability advocate for company web properties; liason between user interface department and QA; implemented test plans and test cases for front and back-end, with the emphasis on user centered design elements inclusion and implementation
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Joined their Intranet development team as a contractor; highlight was helping to development and maintain their worldwide Unisys Univeristy site
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
August 1996 — January 1998 (1 year 6 months)
Built and maintained web site versions of high-tech magazines; flagship web site was Internetwork.com
Usability Professionals Association, Pennridge Chamber of Commerce; SEOConsultants.com, SEO industry