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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Celebrate Diversity

Barbara writes faster than a speeding deadline, is able to leap complex concepts in a single study,while remaining a fighter for the written word, accuracy, and a sense of humor.

Project Management

  • Carried Getty Images intranet pages from print to online reality through independent design, development and delivery. Project radically reduced printing costs.
  • Delivered original SAGEport portal site from sketch/outline to live site within 60 days .
  • Created, nurtured About.com political humor site from idea to dynamic, living product.

Workstations

Have run a Sun Workstation 3000 running Solaris and a number of Unix-based operating systems. Followed VAX market for Digital News and subsequent open systems debate within Unix market. Have wide-scale familiarity with Unix and other open-system shells.

Web Development

  • HTML
  • XML
  • JavaScript
  • Cascading Style Sheets

There are some who create Web pages and ask “Why can’t all browsers just get along?”and then there are those of us who try to figure out how. Even in Internet time, the promise of CSS and XML has barely brought us to the vision of early PC designers. The secret of Web development is flexibility. My passion is to keep my education one step ahead of the standards locomotive.

Desktop Publishing Software

  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe PageMaker
  • Quark Express for Windows

Highly Qualified in all aspects of desktop publishing. Have long experience in a variety of desktop publishing software. Began by using PageMaker for Windows to produce brochures, collateral print projects,and newsletters. Have random experience using Quark Express as well.

  • Ghostwriter of Comes the Revolution: Interleaf, [1986: Simon & Shuster; Jan Lewis] a how-to book on the Interleaf Desktop Publishing System.
  • Collaborator with Kevin Strehlo on Using Pagemaker 3 in 1989.

    Graphics Software

    • Adobe PhotoShop CS
    • Microsoft Visio

    Once upon a time, my artistry was limited to words. PhotoShop has changed allthat. Even those of us who can’t tell a van Gogh from a paint-by-number can learn to add value to an online graphic. In four years of experience with PhotoShop and two previous years of experience in PaintShop Pro, I have created basic graphics layer bylayer, color by color and effect upon effect. All the graphics on this site were created in PhotoShop . I am not now, or have I ever been an advanced online artist, yet I have enough talent to modify, edit and enhance the work of others.

    Desktop Systems

    Operating Systems

    • Windows 2.1 to Windows 7
    • Solaris
    • Variations of Unix

    Beta tester for Windows ’95 and Windows ’98. Experienced user of Windows 2Kand Windows XP. Have run a Sun Workstation 3000 running Solaris and a number of Unix-based systems. Reported frequently on operating systems development for a variety of publications.

    • Comprehensive understanding of diagnostic issues on PC, able to overcome most installation
      • and operation problems without help-desk assistance.
    • Began computer familiarity on a CP/M system with one-megabyte floppy disk, running Wordstar 1.0 and Supercalc in 1981. Upgraded computer systems over the years through installation of components.