Jared Bajkowski Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pa, Us

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-Spearhead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Tahzoo’s DAM, web, and AI initiatives, ensuring alignment with client needs and industry standards.-Collaborate with high-profile clients, including WellTower, Brown-Forman, and Acer, to design and execute digital content management strategies.-Develop and manage DAM roadmaps for asset migration, platform implementation, and creation of taxonomy, metadata, and security models.-Create and implement ontologies for clients like Dell Inc., and conduct comprehensive user training.-Customize and train users on DAM systems such as Adobe Experience Manager, Aprimo, and Tenovos.-Facilitate user acceptance testing, compile feedback, and report findings to optimize system performance.-Plan and execute asset migration from legacy systems, ensuring smooth integration into new content management systems.-Lead workshops to clarify project requirements, develop content hierarchies, and address critical user issues.

Largo, Md

-Structured metadata and taxonomy for content in the digital repository, enhancing content indexing and cataloging efforts.-Managed digital materials using Adobe Experience Manager, designing schema to meet professional standards.-Developed rich metadata to improve content discoverability and usability.-Advised staff on best practices for managing digital learning content and established project priorities, workflows, and processes.-Supported emerging trends in digital collection creation and collaborated with various teams to maintain scholarly and academic content.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-Worked one-on-one with program and operations staff to build and maintain content on HHMI.org that represent the institute’s mission, people, scientific programs, and other features-Administered and maintained the HHMI.org library of digital assets, including photos, videos, documents, sketches, logos, and brand materials-Organized and maintained the Drupal's users, sitemaps, redirects, files, and taxonomies-Managed the website's modules, ensuring optimal configuration-Populated web pages with new content, including text, documents, images, video, and other material-Created and maintained an editorial calendar for updating content on HHMI.org -Collaborated with the web content strategist to continually evaluate and improve features and functionalities on HHMI.org-Evaluated content to ensure accuracy, functionality, consistency, and general adherence to HHMI’s editorial style guide and brand identity guidelines-Spearheaded photography assignments and fees, photo shoot logistics, image permissions, and re-use negotiations-Represented HHMI in the planning and creation of the Open Science Prize in partnership with the Wellcome Trust and the National institutes of Health

Washington Dc

-Cataloged and curated associated metadata and schema using established control mechanisms and standards in Cumulus 8.6-Supervised all other Cumulus administrators and users, and served as the single point of contact for internal and external requests for digital asset usage-Tracked image rights from creation to cataloging, including photography agreements and release forms as well as fee and contract negotiation-Maintained HHMI’s visual aesthetic and brand standards; served as the project manager for HHMI’s 2014 institute-wide rebranding; created internal logos and lockups for various internal departments -Led image-selection process for the development and relaunch of HHMI.org and Janelia.org-Maintained taxonomy terms on HHMI’s external websites

Washington Dc

• Optimize image cataloging, reuse, and expense reduction according to changing needs of the Institute• Manage Cumulus, HHMI’s digital media database, and facilitate the cataloging of assets as well as maintaining and upgrading the system• Recommends priorities, policies, and procedures for the identification, creation, conversion and preservation of digital content• Participates in original cataloging of all formats and metadata creation using established and emerging bibliographic control mechanisms and standards• Manage and maintain Vocus, HHMI’s online news database containing the Institutes news coverage in traditional and non-traditional media and media contact lists

Washington Dc

•Maintaining HHMI’s online news database, hosted by Vocus•Logging the full text of all news clips that refer to HHMI, HHMI leadership, HHMI investigators or Janelia Farm scientists (gathered from Google News, Vocus News on Demand, and other sources) into the database•Serves as a member of the News and Media team in the Office of Communications & Public Affairs•Circulating materials and providing reference assistance to library patrons•Cataloging and physical processing of new materials as they are being added to the library collection•Shelving and removing of materials, physical shifting of library collections, filing of legal reporting services update sheets, and other general library maintenance duties

Pittsburgh, Pa

• Checking in journals and newspapers (including microforms) on an automated serials control system• Coordinating mailroom activities, such as receiving, sorting and distributing all classes of mail, including first class letters, packages, UPS, Federal Express, and campus mail for University Libraries• Receiving theses and dissertations from the academic departments and processing them for the bindery or ProQuest Information and Learning• Preparing timecards and preparing hiring and termination paperwork for approximately ten student assistants and part-time staff working in Technical Services• Scheduling, training, supervising and evaluating mailroom student assistants

Mlis, Library/Information Science

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Literature And Poetry