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Leadership & Strategy: Leading day-to-day operations of the Content Marketing team during interim leadership period, providing strategic direction and creative oversight for Video, Social, Brand, and Editorial. System Management: Administers and upgraded the DAM system, enhancing user experience and asset retrieval efficiency.Content Curation: Directs the selection and curation of visual content, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and driving engagement across digital and print channels.Training & Development: Conducts DAM trainings and develops instructional materials, improving team proficiency and asset usage.

Digital Transformation: Implemented processes and policies for digitization and access to digital collections, leading to significant growth in the digital repository.Team Leadership: Expanded and managed a multidisciplinary team, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.Digital Exhibitions: Led digital exhibition projects, curating and showcasing rare collections using platforms like WordPress and Google Arts & Culture.Open Access & Preservation: Oversaw the institutional repository, enhancing public access to scholarly and archival materials.

Managed digital image collections and faculty portfolios, developing metadata schemas and implementing best practices for digital preservation.

Leadership and Management: Directed the Visual Resources Center, including managing space planning, a lighting studio, and a Makerspace, while supervising part-time staff and student employees.Digital Asset Management: Managed collections in the Madison Digital Image Database (MDID), an open-source DAM system for educational institutions, and contributed to the development team, enhancing software and liaising with users. Project Implementation: Planned and implemented digitization projects, fulfilling image acquisition and collection needs for the School of Art, Design, & Art History.Training and Consultation: Consulted on copyright issues and trained faculty and students on using image databases and instructional technology.

Courses taught:Art Criticism (Fall 2013)Introduction to Digital Curation (Spring 2015)

Assisted in managing visual resources, conducting digitization, and training student assistants.