Yerin Kay
5304 Beeler Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
412.687.3839
email: yerin@speakeasy.org

Experience

January 1997-Present
Carnegie Mellon University
Computing Services
User Services
Computer Consultant

Served as an expert consultant in end-user applications, Macintosh software and hardware issues, and web design and coding issues.

Production editor for the University's Computing Services newsletter. Redesigned newletter format. Worked on pre-press layout for each issue, 5/year.

Programmed CGI scripts for availability on the main Carnegie Mellon web server in addition to general webmaster duties.

Taught various Computer Education clases to faculty and staff including HTML Essentials, Advanced HTML, Pagemaker Essentials, Photoshop Essentials, Advanced Photoshop, Introduction to Scanning, and Introduction to the Web.

Created teaching materials for an Advanced HTML Computer Education class and Macintosh Introduction class for the Instructional Technology group.

 

August 1996-December 1996
Carnegie Mellon University
Computing Services
Help Center
Computer Consultant

Assisted members of the campus community with computing problems and issues, hardware and software, for Macintosh, PC, and UNIX systems and related applications.

Provided hands on troubleshooting of Macintosh software and hardware problems.

Edited and rewrote internal documentation for Help Center Consultants.

 

May 1996-August 1996
Carnegie Mellon University
Computing Services
Cluster Services
Extern

Designed public computer lab policy signs and public relations media.

Assisted in Cluster Services web page design and development.

Created an internal instructional document for Cluster Managers.

 

August 1993-May 1996
Carnegie Mellon University
Computing Services
Cluster Services
Cluster Manager

Supervised and oversaw public Macintosh lab operations including hardware and software maintenance and consultant performance reviews.

Assisted in consultant training and orientation.

 

June 1993-May 1996
Carnegie Mellon University
Computing Services
Cluster Services
Computer Consultant

Staffed public computer labs on campus, and assisted Students, Faculty, and Staff primarily with Macintosh and UNIX computing problems.

Enforced policies and provided security for the machines.

 

September 1992-November 1993
Carnegie Mellon University
Tartan Newspaper
Copy Staff

Proofread for grammatical and stylistic errors for weekly newspaper.

 

June 1992-August 1992
Carnegie Museum Library of Pittsburgh
Data Entry

Assisted in creating a computer database of all books in the Museum's Curator Library.

Entered an 8 year accumulation of hand written records in 8 weeks.

Education

B.S., Chemistry
1992-1996
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA

Computer Related Skills

Operating Systems
MacOS v7.1-9.0, Windows 95/98, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, UNIX.

Applications
Microsoft Word; Microsoft Excel; Adobe PhotoShop v5.5; PageMaker v6.5; Framemaker 5; Microsoft PowerPoint; Filemaker Pro; Adobe Illustrator; Microsoft Publisher; Dreamweaver; Netscape Enterprise Server; Apache Web Server

Web Design and Development
HTML; Perl CGI programming

Programming Languages
Perl, LISP, C, SML.

 
References furnished upon request.
Design samples furnished upon request.