Ed Dodds Strategist Web Developer collaboration communication convergence dodds@conmergence.com ed_dodds_sip::sip ed_dodds_skype::skype 615.557.3975::cell 49457096::icq ed1dodds::aim ed.dodds@gmail.com::gtalk PO Box 210735 Nashville, TN 37221-0735 USA
EXPERIENCE Strategist, Web Developer Conmergence Nashville, TN 1/1992 - Present Performed blogging, fundraising, market research, publication, portal and web development for a variety of nonprofit organizations and small businesses as well as consulted on infrastructure development (Microsoft and open source technologies). Clients include the Association for the Development of Religious Information Systems, Medical Banking Project, United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee, World Convention of Churches of Christ. Programmer, Systems Architect Compuware Corporation Nashville, TN 12/1999 - Present Analytics, content management systems, corporate intranet and portal development, server administration using Apache, IIS, Microsoft Office, MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, Teradata,
Tomcat, WebTrends, WordPress and related technologies for Deloitte Consulting, Deloitte Services, EDS, General Motors, HCA, Healthways, LifePoint Hospitals, Marubeni Steel, Peregrine (for such clients as Andersen, Bank of America, Citigroup, Delphi, Johnson & Johnson, MorganStanley, Pearson, and PriceWaterhouseCoopers), Saturn Corporation, St. Mary's Bookstore. Information Systems Data Management & Research, Inc. [now HealthStream Research] Nashville,TN 8/1998 - 12/1999 Corporate intranet site development using Microsoft technologies. Cardiff Teleform Elite/Basic Script scannable survey form creation and scripting. Remote data collection, conversion and report production for physicians-owned clinics. Hardware and software support and training for Windows 95/98/NT LAN. Director of Technical and Office Operations Disciples of Christ Historical Society Nashville, TN 3/1994 - 8/1998 Conceptualization of the Society's library web-based electronic catalog and digitization project. Financial data basing using Access, Paradox, and QuickBooks. Served as Managing Editor of the Society's scholarly journal and organizational occasional newsletter using PageMaker and PhotoShop. EDUCATION M.A., Abilene Christian University Abilene, TX, USA B.A., Freed-Hardeman University Henderson, TN, USA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Dodds anticipates a medical banking grid (connecting Healthcare Savings Accounts, smartphone-based Electronic Medical Records, real-time adjudication, integrated charity care eligibility) where medical data is expressed via cell phones, web tablets, and
IPTV set top boxes facilitating remote disease management (interactive home healthcare servers to be extended with sensors and other devices) as well as ATMs, kiosks, and web portals ("medical banking communications"). As a standards advisor he is liaising on behalf of the Medical Banking Project cooperative open-source medical banking and technology healthcare reference model initiative (C.O.M.B.A.T.) with the Healthcare Ontology Community of Practice (the National Center for Biomedical Ontology, the Open Group Universal Data Element Framework, US GSA Office of Citizens Service & Communications Office of Intergovernmental Solutions), the HIMSS Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise (IHE) initiative, the Object Management Group (OMG) Healthcare Domain and Health Level 7 Healthcare Services Specification Project (HSSP) workgroup (including the SOA for HL7 initiative), the Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework, the OASIS and HL7 e-Health focus area, Open Health Tools and the Open Source EHR Community of Practice (including OpenEHR, OpenVistA and WorldVistA). He was a proposer of the International Health Continuum Technical Committee OASIS and an observer to the ebXML Business Process Technical Committee focusing on ebBP's possible applications in the healthcare and nonprofit sectors. His undergraduate and graduate work focused on religious communication. Dodds has edited or contributed to the ADRIS.org, Blogposium, and the ebxmlforum.net eHealthcare industry area, healthcare.xml.org, and MBlog, the Medical Banking Project blog. He has been involved with the International Free and Open Source Software Foundation, the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative and Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network, and the Technology Affinity Group of the Council on Foundations.