Ed Dodds


Communication Strategist
Web Developer
collaboration
communication
convergence
dodds@conmergence.com
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PO Box 210735
Nashville, TN
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Complete resume

EXPERIENCE

Strategist, Web Developer, Writer
Conmergence
Nashville, TN
1/1992 - Present

Perform blogging, content management, editing, fundraising, market research, publication, portal and web development, writing, and infrastructure development (Microsoft and open source technologies) and social media strategy for a variety of nonprofit organizations and small businesses.

Consultations have included the Association for the Development of Religious Information Systems, Belmont University, Bransford Youth Center, Bright House, Comcast, Connected Tennessee, CultureRX, Curriki, Deloitte Digital, Eclipse.org, Engel Management, Epsilon Securities, Fundane, General Services Administration, Gingrinch Group, Global Systems Analysis and Simulation Association in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS|USA), Health Talents International, Humphreys County Museum, IBM, Indiana Dental Association, Infravio, the Innovation Network, the Intersection, KenRadio, League of Women Voters (Nashville), the Life Sciences Information Technology Global Institute, Lockheed Martin, MasseyBurch, the Medical Banking Project, Mission Alive, Mission Resource Network, Nashville Humane Association, National Alliance for Health Information Technology, National Governors Association, Nashville Technology Council, National Urban League, Navigant Consulting, Nonprofit Technology Network, the Open Group, Open Health Tools, Oxlo, Public Policy Management Group, Pulver, Raining Data, Sentry Management, SUN Microsystems, Tennessee Family Support Alliance, Technology Affinity Group, Transformation and Innovation, United Cerebral Palsy of Middle Tennessee, Venture Capital and Private Equity for Africa, Vonage, Whittemore School of Business & Economics, University of New Hampshire, Woodmont Hills Family of God Mission Committee, the World Convention of Churches of Christ, and Xaffire.

Programmer, Systems Architect
Compuware Corporation
Nashville, TN
12/1999 - 2/2009

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 ADRIS.org, Blogposium, and the ebxmlforum.net eHealthcare industry area, healthcare.xml.org, the International Journal of Medical Banking, 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. He administers ten LinkedIn groups mainly focused on open source and open standards with combined memberships of approximately 8,000 members.