- My name is Krista and I have been working and playing in the tech industry since 1996.
- I was born and raised in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador. I attended University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and lived & worked in both Ottawa and Waterloo, Ontario.
- My highschool job was ski instructing. I have my level I Instructor Canadian Ski Instructors’ Alliance certification. I secretly wanted to be a ski-bum when I grew up.
- I use to skate competitively but quit when I realized that I didn’t like being competitive.
- I graduated from Dalhousie University with a bachelor degree in Computing Science and with degree in hand, I headed to Ottawa, a.k.a Silicon Valley North, to find a job in high tech.
- I got my first break working for Corel Corporation (remember WordPerfect and Corel Draw?) creating Web based apps to assist various departments in their day to day business needs. I immediately fell in love with technology and the geek in the next cube. Really. I met my husband at Corel.
- I lived in Waterloo for a few years working at a start-up company called Pattern Discovery Software. I spent a lot of time researching and developing Web apps that would use pattern analysis to offer up user specific content based on their surfing habits.
- The hubs and I starred in a commercial promoting tech news on local Rogers channels. Check out our 15 seconds of fame on my YouTube channel!
- We missed Ottawa so much that we moved back in 2000.
- I worked for 10 years as a Senior Application Engineer at iStudio (which has since merged with High Road Communications).
- My job at iStudio was much more than designing, developing and building Web based technologies! I also spend time writing proposals and manuals for our clients. It was a great job because I got to perform all the geeky tasks, such as coding, but I actually got the chance meet and interact with our clients.
- In 2007 I went on maternity leave and never returned to the office.
- My husband and I LOVE DisneyWorld. We went on our honeymoon and we bring the kids every year for a winter getaway.
- When my oldest son turned one, we decided to have one more baby… and ended up having twin boys! We now have three beautiful boys.
- I co-own a mobile app company called Smarter Apps.
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