Amy Weeks, VP Research & Development
Amy Weeks has been with SearchDex™ (formerly Averon) since December 1998. Since moving into R&D, Amy has worked on revenue metrics data analysis and presentation and is currently focusing on mobile initiatives including app development, mobile data trends and optimization opportunities. Amy continues to be involved in most of the platform system analysis and design. Key client-specific projects include Natural Anticipated Query development that doubled site content and identified long-tail query optimization opportunities; Token Balancing which resulted in incrementally higher rankings for targeted page terms; and a full-featured PPC dashboard to closely tie final, detailed revenue data to initial queries/ads resulting in a 50% decrease in cost per conversion for a historically difficult campaign.
Other projects that Amy is working on include SongVote and SongProng. SongVote’s purpose is to provide a place online where users can take their varying musical tastes and collaborate with others to create a unified playlist – coined “collaborative playlisting”. Amy has worked on the back end and user interface, management dashboard and analytics. SongProng is a classic name game, chaining song names where the next song name in the ‘prong’ must include a word from the name of last song in the ‘prong’. Truly addicting! SongProng was introduced at SXSW 2011. Amy worked on back end and user interface.
Prior to moving to Texas and joining SearchDex Amy worked at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. For five years she served as the Radiology Support Services Supervisor where she managed up to 30 people and implemented several new systems to improve efficiency for customers and staff. In response to medical staff concerns, Amy transitioned the Radiology Service Scheduling to an automated call distribution center to more efficiently handle call volume and disposition. This resulted in decreased hold time for callers scheduling Radiology testing. Amy also enhanced and increased the number of methods for scheduling radiology tests. Most notable was an intranet-based order entry system queuing requested procedures for scheduling. This resulted in more accurate medical information available to technicians and a streamlined approach to scheduling. Amy was also instrumental in improving public relations of the radiology support services by increasing visibility and response to concerns.
Amy graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a B.S. in Health Information Management. She is currently enrolled in the M.S. of Computer Science program at the University of Illinois.
