VICKI WATSON

EDUCATION

B.A. Humanities/German, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
B.S. Computer Science, Franklin University, Columbus, Ohio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Columbus State Community College, part-time adjunct faculty (1980's)

Technology Education Center, Columbus, OH, part-time faculty (1980's)

• Microcomputer Fundamentals
• dBase Programming
• Basic and Pascal Programming

Lifeline Computing, Hilliard, Ohio, database programmer (1980's)

• CiBon Furniture - inventory, sales system
• Ohio Youth Advocate Program - HomeBase foster care system
• Ohio State University Endowment Income Distribution System
• Taylor Tracking System - coupons/marketing for pizza shops
• MASI Environmental Laboratories - environmental tests, scheduling, routing
• Assurex Marketing Group - insurance consultants

Shareware Educational Software, KidStuff Software, graphical programs for DOS using C programming language

• Preschool Pack – letter recognition, counting, matching, animal classification
• Kinder-Carton – kindergarten level activities including phonics, basic math, etc.
• Talking Time Tutor – telling time via digital and analog clocks
• Talking Number Machine – recognize and name numbers into the millions
• Ms. Piggy Bank – money activities including counting money, making change, etc.
• If You Want to Learn U.S. Geography – states and capitals, including U.S. puzzle

Mosher Tours - travel/tourism database system in Visual Foxpro (2004)

Website Development (2004-Present)

• Please see Portfolio section of this site

Edgestone Group – online technical support for member websites via email and online message center

Project Payday - screencast tutorials for member website

Curriculum Reviewer – Homeschooling Parent Magazine, Freelance curriculum reviews for nationwide homeschool magazine

COMPUTER EXPERIENCE

Microsoft Windows, Word, Access, Excel, Internet browsers, Email clients
Digital photography - Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator software
Digital video editing – Adobe Premiere Elements, Camtasia
Website construction – Dreamweaver, HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Flash
PC Security – antivirus, antispyware, internet filtering

HOBBIES AND INTERESTS

Interests include church activities, homeschooling, computers, reading, acoustic guitar, horseback riding (we own five horses), hiking, biking, and running.