| Jerri
Andreasen's interest in computers and the Internet can
be traced back to the computer science classes she took while an
undergraduate at U.C. Berkeley. These classes came too late, however,
and she had to be content with a degree in Sociology. Soon after
graduation she attended the Computer Learning Center in San Francisco
where she earned a Certificate in Programming. It made a most
excellent paper airplane. Jerri then gained employment as a Database
Programmer, and worked in that occupation for a year and a half. At that point she
became restless, and decided to move to Seattle, the heart of the great
Pacific Northwest.
Arriving in Seattle with her partner and a U-Haul full of belongings, the two quickly located a house. Finding a suitable job, however, was a more difficult matter. Eventually, she was hired as a Support Technician at the (now defunct) Aldus Corporation. For the first few years at Aldus, Jerri supported PageMaker, PhotoStyler and FreeHand; then she was promoted to Technical Support Supervisor, a job she held for two more years. After leaving Aldus, Jerri worked in the technical support departments of a few other local software companies, but found that after nearly seven years of technical support, she was ready for a new challenge. She quit her job and began a self-directed course of study on web site building, including HTML, Perl, and design techniques. She contributed Perl CGI programming to Homeopathy Online for the Feedback, Letters, Exchange, and Interactive Case Analysis pages, for navigability between the index and article pages and for the random quote routine on the interleaving pages. She consults on WWW site design and implementation projects as The Web Design Studio. Jerri is an Information Publishing Lead at Microsoft, where she works on ITGWeb, the Information Technology Group's Intranet site. Jerri can be contacted at jerria@webds.com. Jerri says her cat hates her, and only puts up with her because of her opposable thumb, which is useful for operating the can opener. |
