National Association of Government Webmasters

We the People... Are They the Center of Your Web Design Process? (Opening Keynote)

Joe Rotella
Chief Technology Officer
Delphia Consulting

Joe Rotella, SPHR, is “relentless in cultivating a good experience for clients and prospects...” (Accounting Technology, Jan. 30, 2006). With over 20 years of web/application design and development experience, Joe is the CTO of Delphia Consulting and leads their Usability Practice. His team is responsible for the design of several city sites including Las Vegas, Nevada and Bellevue, Washington as well as many private sector sites. Joe is currently the Creative Director for Explore Chicago – a new million dollar tourism site scheduled for launch in 2008. He is in demand as a speaker, presenting on marketing and web design – most recently at Microsoft Convergence. His presentation at NAGW 2007 was “standing room only.” Joe is based in Columbus, Ohio and can be reached at 888.421.2004 x4326 or jrotella@delphiaconsulting.com

IE 8 (Ending Keynote)

Microsoft
Director, Windows Internet Explorer Product Management

Speaker Bio to follow shortly.

Dreamweaver
Advanced Photoshop

Consultant and Adobe Certified Expert

Jim Maivald is a designer, consultant and Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor with over 25 years of experience in the graphic design industry. He has design and production experience in all areas of print and Web design. Jim has been editor of several graphic design and electronic publishing magazines. He is also an author of hundreds of magazine articles on graphic design and electronic publishing, as well as several books, including Photoshop Complete and The Designer's Guide to Adobe InDesign and XML (Adobe Press, 2008).

Contact: Jim@creativeassociate.net

ADA and Section 508: Universal Design of Web Resources using Best Practices and Web Standards (Pre-conference)

Coordinator, Assistive Communication and Information Technology Accessibility
Division of Disability Resources and Education Services
University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign

Dr. Gunderson is the Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Accessibility for the Division of Disability Resources and Education Services at the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign. He has been involved with information technology and disability since 1979 starting as an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Wisconsin - Madison working on a communication device for people who cannot speak with their voice.

He is currently working on a number of tools and resources related to improving the accessibility of the web to persons with disabilities including the Illinois Functional Accessibility Evaluator and the Firefox Accessibility Extension. In addition to these tools he has given numerous presentations and taught courses on web accessibility and lead the formations of collaborations between universities and private companies to improve the accessibility of web resources and applications purchased by universities.

Dr. Gunderson received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Industrial and Systems Engineering with an emphasis in Human Factors. He also has BS and MS degrees from UW-Madison in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His current responsibilities at the University of Illinois include information technology accommodation issues for students, faculty, and staff at UIUC. Before his present position at UIUC, he was an adjunct assistant professor in an RSA-sponsored rehabilitation engineering training program at the University of Illinois. During his graduate studies, he worked at the Trace Research and Development Center and was a consultant to the State of Wisconsin on information technology access issues and training. His continued professional and research interests focus on how to improve the design of information technologies for people with disabilities to achieve maximum performance and greater independence. He is the past chair of the W3C WAI User Agent Accessibility Working Group and is a current participant in the W3C WAI Protocols and Formats working group.

Adding Accessibility to your Sites with Dreamweaver (Pre-conference)
Designing CSS Layouts for the Flexible Web

Design Services Manager
UNC Highway Safety Research Center

Zoe is an experienced web designer and technical author, active in the web standards community, who specializes in visual design, CSS, and accessibility. In her position as design services manager of the University of North Carolina Highway Safety Research Center, Zoe leads the design and development efforts of dozens of information-rich web sites and applications, in addition to print design projects. She is the author of the video training title Web Accessibility Principles for lynda.com as well as the upcoming book Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS. She has also written nearly 100 articles and tutorials as a partner at the web development training site Community MX (http://www.communitymx.com) on a variety of web design topics. Zoe is currently a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Adobe Task Force and enjoys helping others learn web standards through her work as a moderator of the popular css-discuss mailing list, editor of Adobe's CSS Advisor web site documenting browser bugs and fixes, technical book editor, conference speaker, and consultant.

Advanced CSS (Pre-conference)
Convert a City Web site into a CSS-driven Format

The Holy Grail of Web Design

Over the course of 33 years, Bill Brown has lived and worked in Africa as a Field Station Coordinator on Bioko Island in Equatorial Guinea, represented the Memorex line of consumer electronics on QVC, owned a squirrel, taught improvisation and stage combat and launched two successful improv comedy troupes. Oh, and along the way, he developed web sites and web applications.

Self-taught with a penchant for entertaining others, Brown was one of the first to crack "The Holy Grail of Web Design," a multi column layout using CSS. He has further developed this framework into The Holier Grail (http://www.theholiergrail.com), a single source, multi column, flexible web site layout framework. While not the only solution available on the web, The Holier Grail has proven to be incredibly robust. Sites running on this framework include The National Maritime Law Enforcement Academy (http://www.nmlea.org - written entirely in the rain forests of Bioko), Virtual Giving (http://www.virtualgiving.com) and Workforce Strategy Center (http://www.workforcestrategy.info and http://www.pathwaystocompetitiveness.org).

An active member of the CSS Discussion List (http://www.css-discuss.org/), when not online, Bill can be found spending time with his girlfriend, Jessica (http://www.jessicaweinberg.com) and their dog, Leica (she doesn't have a web site).

Building ASP.NET Applications with Visual Web Developer 2008 (Pre-conference)

Development DBA
Tyler Technologies, Lubbock, Texas

Christopher Reed is currently the Development DBA with Tyler Technologies, INCODE Division.  Prior to this position, Christopher served as the Web Applications Supervisor for the City of Lubbock, Texas.  He has been in development for several years, having worked in programming positions in Waco, TX, Research Triangle Park, NC, and Houston, TX.  He has also worked a statistician in Rockdale, TX.

Christopher holds undergraduate degrees in Geography (Earth and Environmental Sciences) and Mathematical Sciences (Statistics) from Memphis State University (I DID NOT graduate from the University of Memphis) and a masters degree in Statistics from Texas Tech University.  Christopher is an avid fan of programming, preferring C#, ASP.NET, FORTRAN, and FoxPro.  He currently coordinates the Lubbock .NET Users Group (LDNUG) and has been a Birds of a Feather moderator at several Microsoft TechEd conferences.

Chris was the Gulf NAGW Board Director from 2007 - June 2008

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Joomla! - Hands On! (Pre-conference)

Systems Analyst
City of Northglenn, Colorado

Christine Martinez is the Systems Analyst for the city of Northglenn. Christine is responsible for developing web applications, creating and designing all city web sites,establishing web standards for the city, as well as customizing, supporting, and monitoring the city's content management systems. Her work also involves the utilization of many different open source solutions. Christine has worked with a multitude of open source software such as Joomla!, PostNuke, Drupal, Red5, PHP Surveyor, PHP List, and many others. As part of her job, she is also responsible for and administers all of the city's databases which are all on open source platforms and include both open source (MySQL) and commercial (Oracle) database management systems. Christine graduated from the University of Colorado with a BS in Computer Science and Engineering. She also enjoys shopping ...immensely! (Just kidding..not really.)

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Joomla! - Hands On! (Pre-conference)

Webmaster
City of Boulder, Colorado

Leslie Labrecque has been the Webmaster for the city of Boulder for the past six years. In this position she oversees the architecture, standards, and design of the city's Internet and intranet web sites. She is responsible for supporting the web content management systems as well as a user base of over 150 city-wide content contributors. Leslie has nine years experience working on the web and had held positions at the city of Boulder, Sun Microsystems, and Valleylab, Inc. Leslie has a Bachelor of Science in Business Management/Administration and a Masters of Computer Information Systems Technology in Database Application Development/eCommerce Engineering.

Web Design Prototyping Techniques (Pre-conference)

Web Technologies Coordinator
City of Minnetonka, Minnesota

Marc Drummond has been the web technologies coordinator for the city of Minnetonka since September 2004, tackling the web and graphic design needs for the city. Some of this biggest projects have been redesigning the city's web site, http://eminnetonka.com, from the ground up, as well as completely overhauling the city's intranet, City Biz, twice. At last year's NAGW conference, Marc presented a pre-conference workshop on XML based on some of the work he had done on eminnetonka.com's redesign. This year Marc is excited to share web design prototyping techniques he used in a recent redesign of the city's Intranet. Marc grew up in Minnesota, graduated with a BA in English from Albion College in Michigan, and he later earned a Certificate in Web Design and a Certificate in Electronic Publishing (essentially graphic design) from Minneapolis Community and Technical College. He lives in Woodbury with his wife, puppy, and kitty, and when not reading up on web design techniques, enjoys a good book, a movie, traveling, or a nice walk.

SharePoint ~ What is all the buzz about? (Pre-conference)
What is Sharepoint? How is it being used in Government?

Application Developer
Johnson County, Kansas

Brett Williamson is an Application Developer for Johnson County, Kansas, and the President of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area Government Webmasters Group (KCMagWeb). A native of Portland, Oregon, Brett came to Kansas City sixteen years ago in search of the World's Largest Ball of Twine. Instead, he found a new wife, three kids (boys), and a hefty amount of barbeque to persuade him to make Kansas his new home. By day, Brett develops web applications using Visual Studio 2005, VB, SQL, and ASP.NET; SharePoint sites using Microsoft Office SharePoint Services (MOSS) and Designer; and manages upwards of 35 Internet/intranet web sites using Adobe Creative Suite products. By night, Brett enjoys coaching youth soccer, landscaping, movies, and trail running. Currently, Brett is working on an employee intranet portal called "JoCoConnect". Using all of the functionality that MOSS has to offer, JoCoConnect will replace existing static intranet web sites countywide. In addition, a new extranet portal, team collaboration portal, and training portal are in development.

What is Sharepoint? How is it being used in Government?

Web Coordinator
Boulder County, Colorado

Susan Christophersen is the Web Coordinator for Boulder County, Colorado. She is responsible for the County intranet and Internet sites. Susan remains the 2008 NAGW Secretary (past 2007 Secretary). In 2001, Susan founded the Colorado Government Webmasters group. She was the co-chair of the planning committee for the 2005 NAGW Conference in Denver. She once wrote web site reviews for an eWorld project that was purchased by Excite but shelved permanently. She is currently working on moving the County's Internet site to SharePoint.

Susan is the Mountain NAGW Board Director. She has been involved with NAGW since the beginning.

Using the Contribute and Dreamweaver Web Publishing System for Content Management

Web Site Coordinator
City of Sugar Land, Texas

Chad Ostroff serves as the Web Site Coordinator for the City of Sugar Land, Texas. He is responsible for coordinating all of the city's web sites, five external and one internal. He also trains,manages, and provides support to the city's 35+ user-base of content contributors and editors, including a recent in services for the city's departmental web administrators regarding content development and enhancement. Chad has five years of web/design experience, an Associated degree in Interactive Media and Web Design and has held positions with Waste Management Inc. and WebSource Media. When Chad is not behind the screen at work, he is usually behind the screen at home, reading various web-related books. magazines/blogs and catching up on emerging technologies. In the rare moments that he is not behind the screen he plays racquet ball, hangs with friends, and loves to travel.

Chad is the current Gulf NAGW Board Director (June 2008 - Current)

Are PDF's Readable by your Constituents? Posting Access Content on your Web

Project Coordinator of Accessible Technology
Great Lakes ADA Center

Janet Peters is currently the Project Coordinator on Accessible Information Technology with the Great Lakes ADA Center. She has extensive background and knowledge in the area of assistive technology and accessibility issues with information technology and worked in the field for over 14 years. She has her certification in assistive technology from California State University – Northridge and an academic background in computer science and organizational communication.

Implementing the Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act

MSF&W Information Technology Solutions
Illinois Department of Human Services

Mike Scott is an assistive technology and accessibility specialist who has assisted a wide range of public- and private-sector organizations to ensure that their information systems are accessible to people with disabilities. Mike spearheaded many accessibility initiatives for the State of Illinois, including development of the Illinois Web Accessibility Standards in 2002 and implementation of the Illinois Information Technology Accessibility Act in 2007 and 2008. Prior to focusing on information system accessibility, Mike served as chief rehabilitation engineer for the Illinois Department of Rehabilitation Services, where he specialized in using assistive technologies to enable individuals with disabilities to do their jobs. Mike has 15 years of experience in accessibility and assistive technology, with a Masters degree in Rehabilitation Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign and RSNA certification as an Assistive Technology Practitioner (ATP).

Adobe's Flex Software for Creating Rich Internet Applications

Web Administrator
Larimer County, Colorado

Steve has been the Web Administrator for Larimer County Colorado since 1996. He has over 30 years in the IT industry, starting as a COBOL programmer using punched cards. He has been developing ColdFusion applications for the Larimer County internet/intranet sites since 1997.

Steve is the provider of the Friday Web Goodies mailings to the NAGW listserv mailings.

Creating Forms in Adobe Acrobat

Webmaster
Chester County, Pennsylvania

David has worked in various areas of IT since 1990. Prior to becoming Chester County's first webmaster in 1998, he worked as a main frame programmer/consultant with the DuPont Corporation, and spent 6 years with a small software company supporting and training users of that company's flex benefit management software. He has been the webmaster for the County of Chester for 10 years.

Metadata, Taxonomy, Controlled Vocabularies and Usability Testing

Manager, Internet Services
Information Technology Services Agency
City of St. Louis, Missouri

Sonya Pelli's work over the past ten years has utilized a unique set of technical, managerial, and community development skills in the development of digital communities. She has drawn from existing and emerging Internet technology to bridge community and government interaction. Services provided over the years included web-hosting, dial-up, and Internet skill training to city neighborhoods, not-for-profits, and city departments. Sonya in her most recent capacity as manager of Internet Services for the City of St. Louis is responsible for planning and managing web-based Information Services (IS) projects of varying size, scope, and complexity for city departments and elected officials. During Sonya's tenure, her Community Information Network initiative has received recognition from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, the Missouri Chapter of the American Planning Association, and the East-West Gateway Council of Governments to name a few. Sonya has shared her practice-based approach with colleagues at national, regional, and local conferences including the International Conference on the Social Impact of Information Technologies, the Urban and Regional information Systems Association (URISA), Information Management Forum, and the St. Louis Association of Community Organization Neighborhood Conference. Sonya holds a master degree from the George Warren School of Social Work at Washington University and a Bachelor degree from the University of Missouri - St. Louis.

Emergency Management on the Web

Web Administrator
Town of Blacksburg, Virginia

John is the Web administrator for the Town of Blacksburg Virginia. He started with the Town in 2002 as a part time webmaster and went to a full time position about a year later. He attended the first NAGW conference in Kansas City and has only missed one since. He currently maintains 5 web sites for the Town and does work on affiliate sites. John's first computing experience was writing code on his TRS-80 in high school. He received a B.S. in Geology from Virginia Tech in '95. After working in the field for a while he went back to school for an A.S.S. in Information Systems Technology.

When John Started off in Blacksburg he inherited an old site that was quite messy but had a lot of potential. The site was hosted on a Red Hat server and programmed in PHP MySQL. "I had just come from teaching Visual Basic and running a Mac Lab so PHP and Linux at first was a challenge." After working with open source he began to see the vast potential and embraced the community. One of John's first challenges was to clean up the old site and make it more user friendly for both internal use and for citizens. "My coworkers called me a CSS guru which is funny to me because all I did was convert the table design to pure CSS." John also wrote a simple PHP content management system for Town employees to maintain some web pages and post agendas and minutes.

"Today my role has changed from web programmer to web manager." John now is in charge of a CMS with approximately 40 users. "I've come full circle from old school VB to open source and now .NET." His role has also taken in the common IT challenges that come with online video, credit card payments, database administration, and he's been known to fix a printer or two.

In his spare time John builds guitars, plays in a rock band, explores caves and races bicycles. "I also like to play the occasional computer game."

Emergency Management on the Web

Risk Communication Program
Argonne National Laboratory's Decision & Information Sciences Division

Christopher Kramer has worked in the communication field for 27 years.  He is currently with the Risk Communication Program for Argonne National Laboratory’s Decision and Information Sciences Division and is responsible for assisting multiple government agencies and jurisdictions with plans, training, exercises, and support materials relating to media relations, crisis communication, and Joint Information Systems/Centers.  

Christopher served for ten years as Public Information Officer for the Utah Department of Public Safety (where he would regularly respond to thousands media inquiries annually.  He has also served as lead Public Information Officer for the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command effectively supporting 20 federal, state and local agencies in preparation of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games.  Christopher has been a communication consultant/instructor for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Emergency Management Agency, United States Secret Service, United States Department of the Interior, United States Department of Energy, Utah League of Credit Unions, U.S. Army, and the States of Kansas, Montana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan and Hawaii.  He is an adjunct instructor at the National Emergency Training Center in Emmitsburg, Maryland where he teaches Advanced Public Information Officer and Integrated Emergency Management courses for the Department of Homeland Security.

He has created and delivered new public information and crisis communication curriculum to public officials and first responders including training material for the Community Emergency Response Team program that was adopted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency for use nationally.  Christopher was also primary author of public safety public information plans for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games and is a past president of the Utah Public Information Officers Association.  He is a co-author of the Basic Public Information Officers Course (G290) and Advanced Public Information Officer Course: Health and Hospital Emergencies (B966) used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Christopher started with a career in broadcast news and performance that spanned ten years and five states.  During this time, he was News Director / Air Talent of several top rated broadcast stations and won numerous awards from the Associated Press and other news organizations.

He has a B.S. in Communication with an Internet Communication Certification from the University of Utah.  In his spare time Christopher enjoys backpacking, fossil hunting, arm-chair archaeology, reading bad science fiction novels, watching Godzilla movies, and has been known to make 20 minute brownies in less than 18 minutes.

Government Web site on a Zero-Dollar Budget

Webmaster
City of Killeen, Texas

Liz Rainey is the webmaster for the City of Killeen, Texas at http://www.ci.killeen.tx.us, which she has developed and redesigned on a zero-dollar web budget for nearly three years. She is working on her AAS in Information Technology from Central Texas College. Depending on which hat she wears, Liz spends much of her free time helping local animal rescue operations by maintaining their web sites and helping with online fundraisers; she is a Citizen's Police Academy Alumni, and also the Animal Emergency Evacuation Advisor for the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) and the Animal Advisory Committee.

Site Architecture Best Practices for Search Findability

Founder
AudetteMedia

Adam is a second generation internet marketer who got his start in 1996 working for his family's marketing company, MMG, with clients such as Intel, IBM, Art.com, and Microsoft. Since then he’s worked with many companies developing marketing and community strategies, including MSN, Zappos and Jeld-Wen. Adam co-founded, successfully built and sold Adventive, a B2B email publisher, in 2001. Adam's moderated the LED Digest, a discussion list for internet marketing and SEO, since 1997. He also moderates the SEM 2.0 group and is active on many industry sites.
He blogs at http://www.audettemedia.com/blog.

"CuttingEdge.gov" - Innovative Use of Web Technologies in Government Sites

Vision Internet

Tom Johnson is a highly experienced project manager and information architect with more than ten years programming and web development experience. Before joining Vision Internet, he worked on large-scale, international projects for such companies as Navigant and Sony Europe. Experience includes designing and developing user interfaces for complex B2B e-commerce projects. Since joining the company in 2002, he has led several highly successful projects, including sites for the City of Charlottesville, Collier County, SunLine Transit, the Hillsborough City School District, the US Air National Guard, the New York State Housing Authority, and the Minnesota Secretary of State. Other relevant projects include those for the Greenbrier County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Texas Hertiage Trails, and the Town of Telluride. Mr. Johnson holds a Bachelor's degree from Northwestern University and has extensive secondary education in web management, design, and development.

Micro Formats

Washoe County Health Department
Reno, Nevada

While Steve was briefly introduced to HTML and making web pages while pursuing a Computer Science degree at the University of Nevada, Reno, it wasn't until he started working at the Washoe County District Health Department in 2004 that he started working in depth with a web site and found out how deep the rabbit hole goes in the world of a webmaster. When he's not at work maintaining the Health Department's web site, troubleshooting computer problems, or herding cats, he's taking photographs, meditating, blogging, or listening to some good Celtic rock music.

Web 2.0 Environments ~ How companies are scaling their applications

MySQL Systems Engineer
Sun Microsystems Database Group
Dallas, TX

Benjamin Wood is a systems engineer with the MySQL group of Sun Microsystems.  His 14 years of database experience started with production DBA support of ERP applications and now continues with sales engineering expertise for database technologies.

Benjamin is holds a BS in Business Administration from University of Vermont, is a longtime supporter of Open Source Software, and a great fan of all things Texas.

Web 3.0 - Semantic Markup

Information Technology Manager
Missouri River Regional Library
Jefferson City, Missouri

Robin is currently the Information Technology manager for the Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City, MO.  Before taking on this job, she managed the library's web site for 8 years. She still manages the web site, but also manages the network in the library and the IT staff as well.  She has been creating web sites for 12 years now and has an interest in both standards-bases, semantic XHTML, and in combining that XHTML with web services offered by Web 2.0 and social networking web sites Robin blogs at http://www.rhastings.net about web- and library-related issues and has a schedule of her speaking engagements (with topics included) at that site as well, including past presentations that she has done.

Finding the Map to the Future of Government Web sites

Citywide Web Manager
Seattle, Washington

Bruce Blood has been building web sites for the City of Seattle since 1994 (really!), though since becoming Citywide Web Manager of Seattle.gov in 2000, he’s watched wistfully as his opportunities for hands-on development have continued to diminish.  These days he spends his time attempting to keep up with one of the best web teams anywhere, and trying to figure out if there’s any true value in blogging by government officials.  In his other life he plays guitar, sings, writes and records songs and is currently finding any excuse to spend quality time with his brand-new (first) granddaughter.

Finding the Map to the Future of Government Web sites

Web Designer
Morris County, NJ - Department of Planning, Development & Technology

Jamie Klenetsky has been designing web sites since she was introduced to the web about 11 years ago. Entirely self-taught, she is skilled in HTML, CSS, and design, and has a strong interest in graphic design. She currently works for Morris County, NJ, as an all-around web person - designing new sites, maintaining old ones, implementing new technologies, and whatever else is thrown at her.

Jamie graduated from Rutgers University in 2006 as a music major, and in her "other" life composes and records music. She is also an active blogger, having consistently maintained a blog for the past 8 years.

Finding the Map to the Future of Government Web sites

Web & New Media Manager
Knox College, Galesburg, IL

Ron Bronson is an entrepreneur, writer and web strategist. He is currently the Web & New Media Manager at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois. He also runs Synonym, a web strategy company with expertise in higher education web strategy, social media, branding and work with Generation Y/millennials.

He began his web career at a internet startup in the late 1990s that was acquired by EarthLink. Later, he melded his political interests and entrepreneurial skills into the development of successful online community called the National Government Simulation, one of the first online government simulations on the web.

Ron started playing tennis at nine and later became a coach. He invented the sport of Tennis Polo (Toccer) in 2004. He developed a college football computer ranking called Omnivore rankR.

PHP/MySQL (Intermediate/Advanced)

Web Programmer
Providence, Rhode Island

Richard Weinberg's career has changed over the past 32 years starting with a degree in Architecture from RISD. It was at Bryant College in 1981 going for a Masters in Business Administration that Richard was first introduced to programming. Richard quickly found himself writing programs to accomplish tasks required to automate construction project tracking in the private sector. In 1992 Richard started with the City of Providence as Director of Construction Services. To keep programs and clients organized, he introduced a local area network and created several databases to track projects and clients. In 1996, the city's Policy Officer was interested in starting a web site. As the only programmer in the City, he was volunteered to create ProvidenceRI.com using "Notepad". What was to be initially a 3-week experience as an employee on loan, is now his full-time job 12 years later with web programming skills in HTML, PHP, MySQL, CSS and JavaScript. Richard's current focus as the web site expands is to develop interactive web-based applications for multiple city departments.

Social Software ~ Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn

Independent Trainer

Keith Krieger is an independent trainer and explainer of computer software applications and web development. He currently instructs most of the web design and development curriculum at the Center for Business and Technology at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas. These courses include HTML, CSS, XML, Effective Web Design, the Adobe suite, the Microsoft Office suite, Acrobat, Visio and Microsoft Project as well as Flash Actionscript, SharePoint, CMS tools of various types, and whatever Web X.0 brings next.

He also delivers training for the Government Training Institute at the Mid-America Regional Council and private customers in the Kansas City metropolitan area. He also speaks on a variety of technology topics to groups and organizations.

He also provides technology consulting to businesses in the Kansas City metropolitan area. He develops and builds web sites for profit and non-profit organizations in the Kansas City area, such as the Native Sons and Daughters of Greater Kansas City He has written for a monthly column for the Kansas City edition of ComputerUser and occasionally for the Kansas City Small Business Journal.

In June, 2008, he hopes to have finished work on his master's degree in IT from Capella University.

Mr. Krieger has trained thousands of people in computer applications across the country since 1993. These engagements include time as a training manager with Productivity Point International in Kansas City, as a speaker and presenter on Microsoft Office and Adobe products with Rockhurst College Continuing Education/National Seminars, and as an independent trainer.

Keith's Facebook profile.

Keith's LinkedIn profile.