Current Work:
Developer
Zone -- http://zone.ni.com (UI and architecture)
National
Instruments -- http://www.ni.com (Perl/CGI)
NIWeek
-- http://www.ni.com/niweek (UI, architecture, and functionality; live
February 23th, 2001)
e-mail: aletha_read@hotmail.com
WEB PROGRAMMING SKILLS
LANGUAGE SKILLS
SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE
- Fluent Japanese, Russian, Czech, Slovak, native English.
- Proficient French, conversational German.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- More than twelve years using Internet, (Unix) e-mail.
- Five years in Web Development, including e-commerce; Web site specifications, design, content production, marketing, maintenance, documentation, administration.
- Five years of international professional experience.
- Five years of international teaching experience (mainly in Europe and Japan).
Present
National Instruments, Austin, TX.1997 - 1999
Web DeveloperProgram in Perl, JavaScript, DHTML, and HTML for National Instruments, NIWeek (02/23/01), Developer Zone, Intranet, and multimedia CDs.
Board of Education, Kakamigahara, Japan.1997
English TeacherResponsible for international relations at city level; translated, interpreted as required. Coordinated English teaching curriculum between Board of Education and principals of 23 schools; communicated primarily in spoken and written Japanese. Taught English and other subjects, led teams of teachers in teaching English. Initiated City Hall Web pages, advised junior high schools in Web page creation.
Prosoft I-Net Solutions, Inc., Santa Ana, California.1996
Certified Internet Webmaster InstructorCurriculum included Internet/Intranet Publishing with Web technologies listed above. Trained in teaching MS Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook). Also trained in troubleshooting PCs, providing end-user support, beta testing.
Liberal Arts Career Center,
Network Resources, Inc., Austin, Texas.
WebmasterSole administrator of e-commerce and high traffic academic Web sites. Created dynamic, interactive Web pages. Single-handedly responsible for specifications, design, content production, marketing, maintenance, documentation, administration of sites.
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.1993 - 1994
Computer Science Teaching Assistant (summer)
Led creation of Web pages from start to finish; taught computer science and web page creation to international teenagers for summer program. Included teaching everything about Macs, Internet, networking concepts, history of Internet.
Law Office, Austin, TX
Slovak Translator/Interpreter
Interpreted S/E, E/S for witnesses in lawsuit. Translated legal, medical documents. Advised attorneys in East European mores.
U.S.-Kazakh Business Council, Almaty, Kazakhstan1990 - 1992
Business Journalist (Summer Intern)
Interviewed people in Russian to determine economic-political climate of Central Asia, wrote for business publication.
Federal Office of Economic Competition, Bratislava, SlovakiaEDUCATION
Vaclav Havel's Public Against Violence, Bratislava, Slovakia
Komensky University, Bratislava, Slovakia
English Teacher
Taught English to community, often in Slovak; planned curriculum. Interpreted. Translated, edited books.
1993 - 1996
University of Texas at Austin
B.A. in Economics with Russian minor (Russian at University of
Novosibirsk, Siberia).