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About Jackie

Jackie Reid owns and operates Kindred Technologies Inc. and has over twelve years of experience in the software industry with significant achievements in all areas of company operations including client services, customer support, data center operations, sales, technical operations management (BPR, QA, CM, Technical Writing, Support), program management, project management, software training, implementation management and process improvement. Jackie has her MBA and is a CSM (ScrumMaster) and has taken multiple leadership and facilitation courses with Context Associated and Extraordinary Learning. Jackie is known for her positive outlook, energy, management capabilities and keen focus on bottom-line results. With the majority of her career in customer facing roles, Jackie has deep experience in complex B2B software solution sales. Her key leadership competencies are attested to by extremely dedicated staff. She has successfully managed the delivery of hundreds of software development and implementation projects. Specialties: Change Management Facilitation Client Management Client Services Program Management SAAS Operations Management Product Management Education Sector Content Management Marketing Automation When she's not enjoying her work Jackie can be found playing in her backyard or a neighborhood playground with her husband Bryce and their two young boys, Spencer and Devan. Jackie is also a current board member for the Vancouver Phoenix Gymnastics Club and is working on completing her PMP certification this spring.

Standardized Testing

I’ve spent thousands of hours in schools throughout the United States and some in Canada working with teachers and administrators installing various software packages that help them run their schools. Working in areas from scheduling, grading, testing and reporting so I think … Continue reading

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SEO Basics #3 – Heading Tags

What is a heading tag? If you are using a CMS, you may not realize there are heading tags and that it’s an important structural component for your site. Heading Tags are like numbers for the outline of an essay. … Continue reading

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SEO basics #2 – Description Meta Tag

So, what is a Description Meta Tag, and what is it used for? A Description Meta Tag is a short summary (no more than a paragraph) of the contents of a webpage. Google and other search engines use (and they don’t … Continue reading

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Quoting Services Projects – an age old conundrum

I was recently working with a client, putting together a quote for some web development work. This work had two major components: Website Design Website Development / Deployment on a CMS The customer required, as so many customers do, a quote for … Continue reading

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SEO Basics #1 – Page Title Tags

First and foremost – what is a page title? A page title is the title the browser displays on a website. For example on this page: http://www.kindredtechnologies.com/ProjectManagement.aspx The page title is Kindred Technologies – Project Management You can also see … Continue reading

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SEO basics – Introduction

I recently re-launched my website at www.kindredtechnologies.com. I am now in the process of working on the basic SEO for the site and as I went through the basic steps that are important, I thought I’d share what I’m doing … Continue reading

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