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Computer Help Personalized & Kansas City Web Development
Two companies with one mission -- the success of your business.
Who Is Computer Help Personalized?
Computer Help Personalized is owned by Ken Krauss, who is also the lead technician. Ken has almost a decade of experience developing websites and their back-end SQL databases, including multi-million dollar e-commerce websites and extremely complex, custom website applications. In 2002, Ken started Computer Help Personalized because of the amount of requests he was receiving for computer support because of his knowledge and skill with websites.
Ken has been programming computers since the first Apple II's and IBM PC's came out when he was a young child. Forget about the internet, the graphical user interface was only a far-off dream then! Ken's first online experience was as a Prodigy and BBS user in 1991, using transmission rates more than 10,000 times slower than today's broadband connections. And you thought your webpages load slow! Ken began hand-coding HTML based websites in 1998, then began developing websites for clients in 1999. People have been asking him for help fixing their computer issues since he was young, but it took him until 2002 to open Computer Help Personalized.
Ken sometimes utilizes outside contractors depending on client needs, but you still frequently see Ken during on-site visits.
Ken Krauss, Brief Curriculum Vitae
- Many years experience with Microsoft Windows, Apple Macintosh, and Linux platforms of various flavors, as well as BSD Unix
- development and administration of SQL databases used in web applications since 1999 (including Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and Oracle) as well as XML data sources
- owner and lead developer for Kansas City Web Development, the sister company of Computer Help Personalized
- development and administration of e-commerce websites since 1999, including websites processing transactions of many millions of dollars per year
- hand-coding search engine optimized websites since 1998 (HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX)
- hand-coding web applications since 2000, primarily using PHP and Perl, but also experience with C++; Java; Microsoft ASP, ASP.Net, and C#; as well as Adobe / Macromedia Cold Fusion and Flash with Actionscript
- during 2006 & early 2007, Ken worked full-time for Trip Mate (http://www.tripmate.com), a leading travel insurance services company, working in a small group managing and developing multi-million dollar e-commerce websites, as well as most enterprise software used by the company (custom written by group), extensive data importing from disparate data sources (custom scripted ETL), data warehousing, and management of all IT-related hardware including the main office, off-site disaster recovery (fail-over) facilities, desktops, and servers (web, database, application, file, print).