Kristen Pol Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

QuantCDN lets you generate, host, and maintain a static version of your existing website with ease. Quant integrates with Drupal, WordPress, and popular static site generators like Gatsby, Jekyll, Hugo, Hexo, Pelican, and Docusaurus. Trusted by major government agencies, leading ecommerce platforms, and internet veterans, Quant makes your existing site faster, safer, leaner, and cheaper.At Quant, I work on improving our existing products and creating new products though technology evaluation, partnerships, and customer feedback. I focus on marketing our products through social media, events, and other channels. I work with the sales team to understand the needs of potential customers and possible features enhancements or improvements. I collaborate with the design and engineering teams on creating websites and prototypes. I analyze competitors and the overall industry to understand gaps, advantages, and trends.

My work on this project is sponsored by Salsa Digital.The Starshot Demo Design System is being built on top of CivicTheme to allow Experience Builder to demo their progress at DrupalCon Barcelona.

My work on the council is sponsored by Salsa Digital. "The Drupal Starshot initiative represents an ambitious effort to expand Drupal's reach and impact. The Starshot Advisory Council provides strategic input and feedback to help ensure Drupal Starshot meets the needs of key stakeholders and end-users. In addition to guiding the strategic direction of Drupal Starshot, the Advisory Council will play a vital role in communication and alignment between the Drupal Starshot team, the Drupal Association, Drupal Core, and the broader Drupal community."https://www.drupal.org/about/starshot/blog/announcing-the-drupal-starshot-advisory-council

Long-time open source contributor as speaker, organizer, writer, programmer, mentor, and more. https://www.drupal.org/u/kristen-pol

Experienced public speaker including invited keynotes for multiple open source technology events spanning more than a decade. Some events include DrupalCon North America, DrupalCon Europe, Bay Area Drupal Camp, Stanford Design4Drupal, Stanford Web Camp, and many local user groups. See projects section for more information.

Advisory board member for the Event Organizers Working Group (EOWG).Mission: The Event Organizers Working Group supports community-led teams to grow Drupal through local events.Focus: My focus is contribution events and helping provide support, documentation and governance to increase the number of local, remote, and hybrid Drupal contribution events worldwide.

Chair for the new CivicTheme Steering Committee. CivicTheme is an open source, inclusive and component-based design system created so organizations can rapidly assemble modern, consistent and compliant digital experiences. The steering committee plays a crucial role in shaping a CivicTheme project's direction, ensuring its sustainability, and overseeing its governance structure. The chair provides leadership and direction within the committee and facilitates alliances with strategic partners and organizations. My work as chair is sponsored by Salsa Digital.

Melbourne, Victoria, Au

Consulting in various roles including Project Manager, Business Analyst, Technical Lead, Architect, Developer, and Open Source Contributor. Recent projects include launching Geoscience Australia on a decoupled architecture (GovCMS, Drupal 9, NuxtJS, Vue.js, Algolia, and QuantCDN), providing guidance on open source governance, and porting various Drupal modules to Drupal 9.

Key business advisor on the advisory board for a US small business. Regular meetings to provide strategic guidance and insights on business operations, client engagement, finances, hiring, process improvement, and other important aspects of the business.

Santa Cruz, California, Us

Software product design, development, and consulting; currently working on a project for Geoscience Australia for the Digital Earth Australia, Community Safety, and Exploring for the Future websites; duties include project management, business analysis, technical architecture, team leadership, code review, site building, programming, testing, and release coordination.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Co-founder of Hook 42 which specializes in web design and development including building and maintaining beautiful and feature-rich Drupal and WordPress websites. Focus on content strategy, architecture, software quality, project management, accessibility, multilingual, migration, and search engine optimization. Sites built are in many verticals including travel, law, green energy, financial, medical, education, and non-profit sectors. Clients include Gap, Stanford, Autodesk, UCSF, Zicasso, SunPower, Fujifilm, Business Wire, USC, Go Overseas, Raytheon, Amphenol, and more.

Mountain View, California, Us

This role was via Hook 42.Zicasso.com is an award-winning travel website that connects discerning travelers with top travel specialists. A traveler describes the desired custom luxury trip and, after a screening process, gets matched to 2 - 3 competing top travel specialists. Zicasso's travel specialist partners are considered amongst the best in the industry -- each one has been personally vetted via a detailed screening process.Zicasso was selected as one of "Best Travel Websites" by TRAVEL + LEISURE magazine and "The Ultimate Online Tools for Trip-Planning" by AOL Travel. We've been featured in New York Times, Wall St. Journal, MSNBC, CNN, Fodor's, Frommer's, PC Magazine, etc.Zicasso is ranked on Page 1 of Google organic search for many important and relevant travel keywords.

Enterprise software architecture and development consulting services for startups, nonprofits, and corporations. Specialized in Java applications, Drupal websites, and search engine optimization (SEO). US-based clients include Tapestry, Expedia, NatureBridge, Boom Boom Cards, and The Boomerang Project. International clients include Alsa Manufacturing (Australia) and The Sound Post (Canada).

Drupal Web programming and SEO consulting for http://developers.net and http://democrasay.com. This role was contracted via CruzTech.

Responsible for overall architecture and design on 6 web projects for 4 clients (Adaptec, CancerTrust, Qusic, Petroglyph). Responsible for design and development for core subsystems of 9 web projects for Lutris and 3 clients (Adaptec, Qusic, Kinko’s). Sole ownership of 4 projects for Lutris and Kinko’s. Responsibilities included creating project plan, requirements definition, functional specification, use cases, prototype plan, vendor recommendations, schedule, application and system architecture, subsystem design, integration strategy, QA plan and deployment process. Application Architect (technical lead) for one of Lutris’ largest projects (Adaptec/ roxio.com) with a team of 20 Lutris consultants and 10+ Adaptec staff, and a budget of over $1.5 million.

Houston, Texas, Us

Designed and implemented software and hardware for characterization and testing of isolation and infrared components. Developed data analysis and web-based software tools.

Stanford, Ca, Us

Full scholarship for MSEE program. Completed Master's in three quarters.

Santa Cruz, Ca, Us

Assisted in Physics laboratories and prepared experiments.

New York , Us

Assisted customers as a cashier and on the sales floor.

Greenwich, Ct, Us

Worked in restaurant and retail jobs while supporting myself through college including Me N Ed's, Claire's, Village Shoes, and Roger Rocka's Music Hall.

Ms, Electrical Engineering, Full Academic Scholarship

Ba, Physics And Mathematics, Double Major, Highest Honors

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