Derek Murphy Email & Phone Number

Greater Boston Area

•Manages and maintains the Athenæum's library and collections software, including Voyager ILS, CONTENTdm, Aeon, EZproxy, CollectionSpace, and OCLC Connexion.•Maintains and updates the Athenæum's Drupal website.•IT duties: technical support, documentation, training, onboarding, troubleshooting, equipment installation, general systems administration.•Writes and updates system scripts in Python and Bash.•Advises staff on digital collections management, digital preservation, and UX… Show more •Manages and maintains the Athenæum's library and collections software, including Voyager ILS, CONTENTdm, Aeon, EZproxy, CollectionSpace, and OCLC Connexion.•Maintains and updates the Athenæum's Drupal website.•IT duties: technical support, documentation, training, onboarding, troubleshooting, equipment installation, general systems administration.•Writes and updates system scripts in Python and Bash.•Advises staff on digital collections management, digital preservation, and UX best practices.•Assists with major software and data migrations, e.g. TMS Collections to CollectionSpace, Raiser's Edge to Salesforce, full website redesign. Show less

Cambridge, Massachusetts

•Planned, executed, and analyzed user experience research on The Dataverse Project, an open source scientific data repository application developed under an Agile framework.•Conducted user interviews, heuristic evaluations, formal usability testing (in person and remote), and other forms of UX research.•Wrote and edited in-app help messaging and user guides for a scientific data repository.•Gathered and analyzed usage metrics through SQL queries and analytics software.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

•Planned, executed, and analyzed usability research on The Dataverse Project.•Conducted user interviews, heuristic evaluations, formal remote usability testing, and other forms of UX research.

Greater Boston Area

• Carried out a large-scale usability study of an online repository hosting video and audio from the public television and radio station WGBH as an independent study project with Dr. Rong Tang of Simmons University. • Used remote usability testing to evaluate Open Vault based on the needs of various personas.

Greater Boston Area

•Recorded, hosted, and edited the podcast Beyond the Stacks: Innovative Careers in Library & Information Science•Wrote, edited, and webmastered a blog about cutting edge developments in library and information science.•Realized various initiatives in support of a large-scale IMLS grant funded project focused on developing new strategies for educating Library and Information Science graduate students..

• Appraised and inventoried a collection of papers and photographs relating to jazz documentary filmmaker Bruce Ricker.• Assisted in the creation of a finding aid for the Bruce Ricker Collection.• Received training in film handling, inspection, processing, and cataloging.

Rochester, New York Area

•Worked with a team of web developers to update clients’ websites with new, original content and optimize them for search engines.•Acted as the team’s quality assurance manager, ensuring that our web content was free of errors and functioned properly.•Made use of HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Drupal, and other web programming languages and content management systems.

Port Charlotte, Florida

•Carried out various duties in the youth services department of Charlotte County’s largest and highest circulation public library.•Manned main circulation desk, youth services desk, and reference desk.•Planned, promoted, and executed youth & teen library programs and created promotional videos for programs.•Assisted patrons and other staff members with various technological issues involving computers and A/V technology.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

•Completed 1700 hours of full time service with a national corps of volunteers dedicated to improving students’ course performance, attendance, and behavior at struggling public schools.•Served as Literacy Coordinator on the City Year team serving at Leckie Elementary School. Tutored 5th grade students in language arts and social studies and assisted in set-up and continued functioning of the school library.•Planned and coordinated a successful large-scale afterschool literacy event… Show more •Completed 1700 hours of full time service with a national corps of volunteers dedicated to improving students’ course performance, attendance, and behavior at struggling public schools.•Served as Literacy Coordinator on the City Year team serving at Leckie Elementary School. Tutored 5th grade students in language arts and social studies and assisted in set-up and continued functioning of the school library.•Planned and coordinated a successful large-scale afterschool literacy event with over 50 students and parents in attendance. •Provided in-class support for a 5th grade reading teacher, ran a daily 5th grade morning breakfast, and ran an aftercare film club. Show less

Rochester, New York Area

•Led a team of research assistants working on a psycholinguistics research project.•Coordinated research assistant meetings and delegated responsibilities to team members.•Authored a workflow, folder architecture, instruction manual, and style manual for recording and editing videos of the study.

Rochester, New York Area

•Ran participants through computerized tasks & acted as a confederate during trials.•Recorded and edited auditory stimuli for a computerized task.•Assisted with metadata entry and correction for a large digital database of psycholinguistics research papers.

Rochester, New York Area

•Checked out DVDs, VHS tapes, CDs, reference books, and language learning materials to patrons.•Shelved materials and regularly read and corrected shelves.•Scheduled and carried out date/time reservations for use of reserve materials.•Set up weekly digital film screenings for university classes using Crestron Control Systems.•Assisted patrons in managing their library accounts, troubleshooting A/V equipment and computers, and navigating the collection.

Greater New York City Area

•Worked on production and post-production of corporate videos, short documentaries, and a feature length Herbie Hancock documentary.

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis), Library And Information Science

Activities and Societies: Founding member and webmaster for the Simmons College AMIA Student Chapter. Specialized in Cultural Heritage &.

Ba, Brain And Cognitive Sciences, Film And Media Studies (Concentration In Production)

Activities and Societies: DJ of the WRUR 88.5 show "Buried in Green", President of campus TV station URTV, Events Manager of Undergraduate.