Employee profile

Kris designs, develops, and maintains web sites and database applications for customers across the UW Tacoma campus. Her specialties include systems analysis, information architecture, and scripting. She endeavors to create web sites that are accessible regardless of disability, browser, or platform. A native Tacoman, her poetry has been published in Tahoma West, and her photography on the UWT web site.

Kris is a member of the UW Web Council Steering Committee and the UWT Web Working Group. She can hand code XTHML, CSS, ColdFusion, PHP, and SQL using Dreamweaver, HomeSite, MySQL, and SQL Server. She dabbles in SharePoint. Kris and her teammates are secretly conspiring to implement Drupal, an open-source web content management system. She is proficient in most business and graphics software including Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, Visio, and Quickbooks.

In the 1980's (before Al Gore invented the Internet), Kris designed homes using highly sharpened lead interfaces on a sepia platform. She was part of the first CAD department at Lindal Cedar Homes in Seattle, where she worked on a blazing IBM AT with an amber monitor. She later became a plans examiner for the Pierce County Building Division, earning certifications as an ICBO Building Inspector, ICBO Plans Examiner, IAPMO Mechanical Inspector, WSEC Energy Code Plans Examiner, and IFCI Uniform Fire Code Inspector. She denies working for InsynQ, an Internet startup named after a boy band. Kris attended UWS and UWT, studying pre-engineering and business administration. While at the Montlake branch, she also learned to row and tape ankles. Kris loves Husky Football and welcomes the Sark Era.

She is energized by nature's beauty and spends her free time cycling, hiking, skiing, and boating. While traveling, Kris enjoys taking pictures and collecting maps. She advises caution when driving scooters on marble streets and hopes to someday learn more about Greek traffic signs. Kris bikes to work daily and challenges herself on long-distance rides such as the STP, Tour de Blast, and RAPSody. She serves as webmaster for the Tacoma Wheelman's Bicycle Club.

A winner of the BRCA1 gene mutation lottery, Kris is fortunate to be a survivor of stage III breast cancer. She highly recommends self-exams and mammograms over mastectomy, chemo and radiation. LiveStrong!