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Erie, Pa, Us

Erie, Pa, Us

Consulting and project management for various digital library data and archival projects. Clients have included Princeton University, Penn State University, and Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) and involved linked data creation, digital project management, repository development, and data aggregation.

Developed workflow and guidelines for a unique hybrid-digital collection. Consulted with staff across library operations (including archives, IT, digital preservation, metadata, copyright and access services) to create best practices and policies for processing and providing access to digitized and born-digital materials.

Managed member relationships for the Digital Public Library of America’s 29-member Hub Network, including communication and planning with two governing councils. Planned and implemented data aggregation activities with more than 40 external partners, sharing more than 30 million records, while managing overall data structure and quality strategy.

Provided project support for Information Technology projects for a Fortune 500 insurance company. Duties included project scheduling, cost plan and budget management, work planning, and project documentation. Experience with both waterfall and agile project methodologies and project planning and financial analysis in a business setting. Managed as many as ten projects simultaneously ranging in budget from $100,000 to $3.6 million.

Apply and integrate archival practices to an ever-growing corpus of born digital content within the holding of the Small Special Collections Library. Work with multiple staff groups including librarians, archivists, technologists, and student to create new workflows and tools.

Planned, coordinated and established priorities, managed production, and promoted digital library initiatives at East Carolina University. Managed multiple projects simultaneously while supervising staff, students, interns and volunteers.

Provided primary support and coordination for digital projects including devising digitization workflows, developing metadata schema, and leading projects to design user interaction on multiple web interfaces.

Provided project management for The Thomas MacGreevy Archive (http://www.macgreevy.org), a TEI XML-based repository of texts. Duties included encoding and proofing TEI documents, creating HTML and CSS for project web sites, and working on new interface developments.

Provided reference services for writing and research staff in fast-paced environment both through an internship position and continuing on a part-time basis.

Member of the publication team for a small engineering company that created publications for both print and web, using both in-house and off-set printing. Responsibilities for editing and layout were shared within the department for client projects, official company publications, advertising and marketing materials, the company web site, and a small database of photos for company promotional use.

Master Of Library & Information Science (Mlis)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English

Activities and Societies: Phi Sigma Pi National Honor Fraternity Phi Beta Kappa