Ashley Pond V Email & Phone Number

Various short-term contracts and one-off jobs with the Internet, information services, and graphic design.

Big Pine Key, FL

[NB: This is the same role and team I had at McKesson for eight years. Our group was spun off and merged with Change Healthcare.]

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Developed web-based medical applications deployed at 400 hospitals and universities in 7 countries.
• Built REST API for Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève to create cases from their OsiriX application.
• Wrote search engine for millions of medical reports with result highlighting, metaphone, multi-lingual transliteration, suggested terms, custom word stemming, and subsecond search times.
• Designed and built a medical report analyzer with event-triggered stored searches created via a UI driven, compound and nested query search logic builder including negative expressions.
• Took product from a few naïve blackbox tests to more than 1,000 system, unit, and Selenium tests including SQLite deployment of production MySQL DB for safe destructive testing.
• Overhauled entire code base, on my own initiative, to support UTF-8; a year later this allowed expansion into Canada and France.

Senior Software Consultant for Prosper Learning, Inc. Maintained legacy CMS, employee and customer-facing. Upgraded website security, prototyped next-generation version of web applications in Catalyst, and built new functionality including scheduled email from the Perl layer through a PHP Pear package.

Developed software for automated testing, XML parsing, individual customer installations, and trouble ticket fixes in Perl, JavaScript, and CSS.

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Saved $250,000 previously budgeted to buy comparable software by creating an international in-house QA system as CUSTOMER SERVICE QUALITY ASSURANCE BUSINESS ANALYST. Personally installed system in 4 countries—US, UK.
• PROJECT MANAGER – Built Human Resources email and calendaring system for private and public event publishing. Wrote various internal web forms: time off request, vacation reporting, international manager and peer.
• Oversaw the total redraft of the Amazon.com public and internal job sites, résumé gathering and parsing, and LDAP-based routing. Managed a catalog department employee who was retraining for Perl development.
• DESIGNER — Helped double advertising revenue from $3M to $6M in one year at IMDb.com with increased design output and workflow tools for managers and sales team.
• SERVICE APPS – Authored 50 tools—command line and CGI—including maintenance tools for 20,000 intranet pages, CMS database searches, and fraud audits. Wrote and maintained internal documentation of 200 existing tools.
• Retained hundreds of endangered accounts including one worth over $100,000. Trained, assisted, and directed workflow for several hundred CS reps.

Soliciting content. Editing. Layout. Typesetting, including original typefaces. Printing. Distribution. Writing. Organizing readings. Handling all financial issues. The lot.:P

Ba, English, Art History

Received Lena M Todd Award for Excellence in Fiction for thesis “Karma Come lately.”

Education record