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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 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.
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, 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 sometimes utilizes a wide variety of outside contractors depending on the client needs, from photography, to technical writing, to marketing, to graphic design, to coding and development.
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 & 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).
- 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