Acorn Hill was established in 2001 after I spent 10 years at IKEA North America. I was employed there as a VMS systems manager for all of the retail side vaxes and alphas. In the early days of the IKEA intranet, my side job was developing web pages for various departments.

After I completed my webmaster certificate from Penn State University, I decided to leave IKEA. I wanted to continue developing websites but this function was being relegated to a different business group.

My resume in a nutshell:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Villanova University
Webmaster Certificate from Pennsylvania State University
Various Oracle database courses from Oracle Corporation
IKEA North America - 10 years as a systems manager
Johnson and Johnson - 2 years as a systems manager
Drexel Associates - 1 year as a contract programmer
Datacomp - 3 months as a programmer

Christine Walsh Barrett