Perla Kacew

Current

Web Developer at RemCare

Past

Front End Developer at Macquarium Intelligent Communications
Web Applications Developer at Georgia Institute of Technology
Web Developer/Programmer at Freelance (Self-employed)

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Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
Brandeis University

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

www.perlakacew.com

Perla Kacew’s Summary

Web Developer with knowledge of both front and back end aspects of website development. Web back end knowledge includes scripting languages (PHP/Perl) and relational databases. (MySQL)
Front end development experience with various Javascript frameworks and standards-compliant, structured XHTML/CSS for large websites.

Perla Kacew’s Specialties:

-Custom Content Management Systems
-Web standards compliant websites

Perla Kacew’s Experience

Web Developer

RemCare

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2009 — Present (1 month)
Front End Developer

Macquarium Intelligent Communications

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 10 months)
Web Applications Developer

Georgia Institute of Technology

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

May 2007 — August 2007 (4 months)

3-month contract at the Georgia Tech College of Management.
Built an application with VB .NET that deployed new Outlook profiles for an Exchange server migration to all the faculty and students of the College of Management.
Web Developer/Programmer
Freelance (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

January 2006 — May 2007 (1 year 5 months)

-Creation of content management systems for websites using PHP/MySQL. Relational databases created from scratch according to ER standards. Content management systems have included file management and uploads, event calendars, user registration, e-mail notification, catalogs and galleries. XHTML and CSS used for presentation and design, and Javascript for usability.
Adaptation of websites to pre-existing content management services using custom PHP scripts
-Installation and configuration of content management systems such as Joomla, installation of custom Joomla modules
-Programming of macros for Microsoft Word with VBA using the built-in VBA editor
-Modification and clean-up of existing websites using CSS and XHTML
-New website design using CSS, XHTML, Javascript
-Interacting with clients in order to develop specific solutions

Perla Kacew’s Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

M.S. , Bioinformatics , 2004 — 2006

-Created small biomolecule image database with implementation of MySQL and PHP. Database was searchable by multiple criteria (May 2006)
-Statistical analysis and comparison of epidemic models of feline leukemia in cats and transmissible gastroenteritis in pigs using Matlab. Led to paper: Relative Importance of Parameters on Different Compartment Epidemic Models (2004)
-Perl Implementation of search algorithms for gene and motif finding and pairwise/multiple sequence alignment in DNA/Protein sequences. (2005-2006)
Brandeis University

B.A , Biology , 2000 — 2004

Development of plain-text database with Perl for storage of short genetic sequences (DNA primers)