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Computer Help Personalized & Kansas City Web Development
Two companies with one mission -- the success of your business.
Who Is Kansas City Web Development?
Kansas City Web Development is owned by Ken Krauss, who is also the lead developer. Ken has over a decade of experience developing websites and their back-end SQL databases, including multi-million dollar e-commerce websites, and extremely complex and custom website applications.
Ken has been programming computers since the first Apple II's and IBM PC's came out when he was a 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. However, with the dramatic changes to the internet, and technology, as well as programming, Ken has crafted his skill set over the years to accomodate the changes in web development.
Ken began hand-coding HTML based websites in 1998, then began developing websites for clients in 1999, but did not use the Kansas City Web Development name until a few years later. In 2002, due to the amount of requests for computer service by clients and friends, Ken started Computer Help Personalized to provide computer service to businesses and home users.
Ken Krauss, Brief Curriculum Vitae
- hand-coding search engine optimized websites since 1998 (HTML, CSS, Javascript)
- 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
- hand-coding web applications since 2000, primarily using PHP and Perl, but also experience with C++; Java and JSP; Microsoft ASP, ASP.Net, and C#; Adobe / Macromedia Cold Fusion and Flash with Actionscript
- owner and lead tech for Computer Help Personalized, the sister company of Kansas City Web Development
- development and administration of e-commerce websites since 1999, including websites processing transactions of many millions of dollars annually
- during 2006 & 2007, Ken worked 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).
- during 2007 & 2008, Ken was a vital part of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas City's effort to rewrite their main claims reports used throughout all levels of their organization. Ken also developed and deployed some essential reports in their new EDI system, which was developed jointly with Edifecs, and subsequently released as a part of the Transaction Management Health Care Suite, used by large health care organizations across the country.
- visit the Portfolio page and Computer Help Personalized's Clients page to see the types of projects Ken has created and managed
- visit the Testimonials page here and Computer Help Personalized's Testimonials page to see the comments about Ken's work