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San Diego, Ca, Us

Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States

Conduct regular audits of digital assets to identify and address outdated or redundant materials. Develop high-quality keyword strategies that facilitate the discovery of agency assets. Support access to all assets, no matter the format. Produce straightforward end-user documentation. Provide concise privacy and security compliance guidance for customers.

Oakland, California, United States

Direct brand voice for Absinthia's Bottled Spirits and provide advice on internal and external communication. Create content for various marketing channels including website content, organic search, YouTube, email and social media. Includes SEO application and project management of assets.

Boulder, Colorado

Acted as lead project manager and archivist for digitization project of the Glacier Photograph Collection. Photographic prints were set to be published in two separate database platforms that required following two sets of metadata standards to facilitate future scientific research. Catalogued, researched, digitized, and preserved 10,000+ photographic prints of different formats while curating object information for two different institutions. Established metadata guidelines for the project that included setting standards for obtaining spatial coordinates. Encouraged changes in current metadata language that reflected more honesty of the original object materials by adding object type terms and photographic negative/print information. Acted as a liaison between National Snow & Ice Data Center and CU Boulder Libraries. Developed metadata guidelines for the two organizations and balanced their different needs by working collaboratively with both.

Portfolio includes portraits, wedding images, event and location shootsTechnical expertise includes: development and printing of black and white as well as color film (E-6 and C-41); camera formats from 8x10 to 35mm; studio and location lighting setups; and fluency in Adobe Photoshop/Bridge, InDesign, and Lightroom.+90% of photographic commitments delivered on time and within budget

• Initiated archive project of born-digital materials, including social media posts, for a musician’s past and present tour(s). Designed the data visualizations to showcase his tour using an interactive map and sunburst data graph using JavaScript language• Managed data population, UI design, data modeling, data mining of social media posts, and mapping geographic data with GoogleMaps API to assemble a comprehensive website showcasing the data in a new way • Applied taxonomy and Linked Data principles to the dataset for structured publication of data on the web• Developed policies and procedures for the curation of born-digital collection materials according to archival standards and methods • Prepared and maintained a variety of project documentation, workflows, and procedures

Seattle, Wa

Catalog artist files according to best practices.

Seattle, Wa

•Organize, process and cataloging city’s public art collection for posting on Public Art Archive•Perform digital curation and preservation tasks such as digital media inventorying, and manage full complement of data elements/values across asset types•Implement policies, standards, and procedures for stewardship of digital material in an archival collections setting. •Design and document solutions for storing metadata in preservation object in ways that are consistent with best practices locally and in the broader community.

Seattle, Wa

•Arrange, capture and describe art objects from the collection of artist Richard Correll, following archival standards. •Aide in the implementation of preservation and collection management of art objects in the collection, such as catalogue, research, and complete condition report and finding aids.

University Of Washington

Collaborator for a descriptive cataloging project of 8,000 moving images, which entails the reception, research, categorization, restoration, and preservation of donated materials for virtual presentation.

United States

Catalogues, researches, completes condition reports and finding aids for new acquisitions.Photographed and documented in detail 150 art objects for digital collections access Assisted with the compilation of over 20 rare Japanese photographs (1880 – 1930) for the current Fall 2013 exhibition.

Greater Seattle Area

Assist librarian with collection and digital archives.

San Francisco Bay Area

Launched custom tailored social media campaigns for small businesses. Organized & facilitated workshops about social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Tumblr, etc.) & accountabilityCreated content about business & workshops for posts on social media sitesOne on one sessions with customers teaching the ins/outs of social media sites

Boulder, Colorado

Darkroom Manager:Maintained & monitored all aspects of the darkroom & department's equipmentLiaised with students & faculty to ensure darkroom ran efficiently & safelyMixed B&W chemicals for film & printAssisted students with developing B&W film & printing

Boulder, Co

Under supervision of the Marketing & Communications department at the University, I helped organize Naropa’s photographs from beginning of universities institution. Included printing from negatives, scanning negatives & prints.I also created & organized a library of the images for faculty, staff & students to access, and catalogued all images in a FileMaker Pro database

Summer Art Camp assistant.

Master Of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.), Archives/Archival Administration

Activities and Societies: Association for Information Science & Technology Art Libraries Society of North America Society of American.

Bachelor, Visual Arts & Writing & Poetics

Associates, Commercial Photography