Kristine currently resides in Las Vegas, NV and owns SitesWithoutWalls.com a full-service Internet-based consulting firm that focuses on bringing the best in the business together, on a project-by-project basis, to help make sites better "By Making Them Work."

Kristine has worked for over twelve years in the creation, development, implementation and maintenance of websites in all sectors including government, academia, entertainment and e-commerce with a focus on usability, architecture, human factors, W3C, Section 508 and WCAG accessibility compliance as well additional specializations in SEO, ORM and social media.

She has consulted on or implemented web sites for entities such as AOL, The Department of Homeland Security, Reba McEntire and Ulla Popken as well as traveled to China with IBM and the UN to instruct Chinese province officials on W3C and WCAG standards. Currently, she works with USA.gov on their accessibility and HTML5 implementations.

Academically, she is currently working toward her PhD in Sociology, focusing her research on her personal experience with social media, Twitter and the Iranian Election Crisis of 2009.*

On a personal note: yes, she really does live in Las Vegas and really does like it!