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- Manager of digital archiving team consisting of digital archivists, senior digital archivist and digital AV preservation specialist.- Provide guidance to Government departments and Independent Inquiries on the preparation and transfer of digital records to The National Archives, U.K- Deliver digital preservation overviews to international organisations and internal stakeholders- Manage the ingest of all born digital and digitised records transferred to The National Archives, U.K into the digital preservation system- Manage the transfer of all ingested records to Discovery, our public catalogue ensuring cataloguing standards are met- Provide advice and guidance to multi-year multi-terabyte digitisation projects- Subject matter expert on digital preservation and digital transfer to The National Archives, U.K- Carry out business analysis of current processes and implement improvements where needed- Wrote and delivered Archives School training to archivists at UK based archives, covering the fundamentals of digital preservation Extensive use of: Notepad ++, Microsoft Office, Preservica, DROID, CSV Schema language, CSV Validator, IrfanView, GitLab, GitHub, Linux, Talend.

- Manager of digital archiving team consisting of digital archivists, senior digital archivist and digital AV preservation specialist.- Designs and delivers training on digital preservation tools, processes and systems to internal and external audiences.- Digital Archiving lead on multiple large scale digitisation projects, across government and with external institutions, including the Prize Papers project with Oldenburg University.- Management of ingest of born digital and digitised records into the Digital Records Infrastructure (DRI). - Validation of metadata using bespoke csv schemas.- Working with Licensing and Digitisation Services to ensure digital preservation requirements are accurately embedded in digitisation contracts, and that the data and metadata produced by subsequent digitisation projects meets the required standards for successful ingest and preservation. - Present on digital archiving projects to internal and external audiences.- File format research and identification signature development for preservation planning for born digital records.- Extensive use of: Notepad ++, Microsoft Office, HexEditor, Preservica 5.6, DROID, CSV Schema language, CSV Validator, IrfanView, SourceTree, GitLab, GitHub, Python 3.4, Linux, Talend.

Working in the Digital Preservation department on audiovisual material from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic opening & closing ceremonies. Work carried out one day per week whilst studying for MA in Archives & Records Management at UCL and continued whilst working four days per week at the British Library.Tools used: Video Comparer, Playtime, MediaInfo, Open Office

St Pancras

•Managing a team of six - 1 Preservation Assistant and 6 Sound Engineers.•Managing and overseeing the safe and efficient movement of large quantities of audio files and metadata into the Digital Library for long-term preservation, ensuring overall business priorities and targets are met. •Planning and forecasting resources required for audiovisual digitisation projects.•Monitoring the preservation status of audiovisual collections and advising on priorities.•Supervising the work of contracted engineers and managing related workflows.•Point of contact for all curators in the Sound and Vision department.•Extensive use of Google Spreadsheets, Excel, Sound and Moving Image Catalogue, Notepad++, EditPadLite, Blackbush and MediaInfo.

Kew

•Carried out an inventory of both the paper and digital material sent to the TNA by LOCOG, with digital material in a variety of formats and media types.•Appraised and weeded paper records.•Boxed up all of the paper material in archival folders and boxes.•Worked directly with the Digital Preservation team to convert 158 DVDs and CDs, from physical media to digital files, together with the creation of metadata needed to manage, view and catalogue material.•Created over 400 item level catalogue descriptions to ISAD (G) standard, which were uploaded into PROCAT for release onto Discovery.•Developed relationships with both the Transfer Advice team and the Accessions team to ensure both cataloguing and boxing up of all materials conformed to TNA guidelines and standards.•Worked with Digital Preservation to establish the standards required for external vendors converting the tapes to digital files, for eventual ingest into the Digital Records Infrastructure (DRI). •Worked directly with a third party company to digitise all tapes. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/london2012archivepressnotice.pdf

Creative Lab consists of designers, creative technologists, film producers and marketing managers within Google who work on large-scale campaigns and branding initiatives across EMEA.Management of all the operational functions for the Creative Lab EMEA - budget management, vendor management, work allocation, point of contact for marketing queries. Responsible for partner management for the Lab across Europe, the Middle East & Africa, and Asia Pacific. Working with external agencies, cultural organisations and internal marketing teams to ensure the smooth running of a variety of global creative projects.- Management of budget for all of EMEA Creative Labs.- Management of all external relationships encompassing in excess of 60 vendors.- Management of 28 vendors on site.- Partner manager for all external creative agency and cultural organisations.- Recruitment of all Temps,Vendors and Contractors for Creative Lab EMEA.- Running of EMEA wide creative review meeting three times per week. - Creation of internal websites for management of creative reviews2008 - 2011Learning SpecialistGoogleEDU is the team responsible for the training and development of all Google staff, offering courses ranging from people management to leadership development.- Ensured the smooth running of two leadership development programmes, each lasting 6 months per iteration - with a maximum of 6 and minimum of 3 programmes running simultaneously. Point of contact for over 100 participants across programmes at any one time.- Created and maintained sites for all intakes within the learning@google portal. - Digital archiving of programme content – archiving site pages and uploading & archiving of previous presentations – both written & recorded.- Managed a Googler to Googler training programme globally - providing support for gTrainers, recording & uploading online resources, delivering recognition to all gTrainers, as well as creating & issuing feedback surveys.

Master'S Degree, Archives & Records Management, Merit

Distinction awarded for dissertation

Ba Hons, English Literature, 2:1