Christopher Ash Email & Phone Number

Carmel, Indiana, Us

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

Geico is a world class company providing Insurance for Auto for millions of Americans. I assisted withsoftware development, database design, and various projects across the company, inlcuding opening abrand new line of business.• Implemented a brand new line of business for Commercial Auto vehicles with a small team.• Designed an automated process to move payment information from a legacy mainframe to themodern sql server, moving 20 million records, allowing the mainframe to be decommissionedand saving millions of dollars in equipment fees.• Created the credit card show token generation system and saving of the tokens, andimplemented the retry logic for failed payment authorizations.• Updated legacy lines of business to utilize modern systems; improving code quality, and systemperformance.• Contributed to accelerating the telematics Day 1 launch by integrating with their teamtemporarily, bringing the project to production weeks ahead of schedule.• Led the expansion of the Commercial Auto product to several additional states.• Mentored new hires and master engineers on processes and systems, accelerating their on-boarding and performance.• Led the effort to design and implement a program for the finance team to parse files withthousands of records into a database, ensuring data integrity and outputting formatted Excelspreadsheets. Updated the data access and processing to shorten the processing time from 7hours to 30 minutes, a 93% reduction.• Led software triage efforts, prioritizing items based on customer and business impact, andensuring swift resolution of critical issues.• Developed various software solutions including a microservice-backed React application,integrating SQL databases and third-party systems using JSON and XML.• Assisted other teams by implementing new application secret encryption methods, significantlyaccelerating their project timelines and enhancing application security.

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

Chevy Chase, Md, Us

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Designed and implemented a VB.NET application to replace a manual process of taking information from mainframe screens and populating a MySQL database.Time savings amounted to approx. 10 minutes per record at ~500 records per day, saving upwards of 83 man-hours per dayIncreased record processing has increased the amount of loan recoveries, which pulls in 17% of each loan as profit.Increased security of three C# applications by updating them to utilize TLS 1.2Created an application using Pega software to pull information from Secretary of State websites and store the results in a MySQL database, saving upwards of 2 days of man-hours.

Herndon, Virginia, Us

Implemented new infrastructure using Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server (TFS) for version control, providing code security, and easing future program maintenanceWrote automations for shutdown and startup of servers and services in PowerShell and Bash to automate previously manual processes