- Oversees the management of Centro’s collection management system, CollectiveAccess, archival management system, ArchivesSpace, born-digital processing using BitCurator environment, and long term digital preservation storage repositories.-- Managed the implementation of each system in coordination with IT and vendors.-- Coordinated the bulk ingest of digital objects into CollectiveAccess and metadata into ArchivesSpace.- Conducts hands on training for staff and developed all training documentation.- Coordinates both in house and vendor digitization projects of archival collections and trains staff on materials handling, digital imaging, quality control and metadata creation.- Develops workflows to process and preserve 45,000+ digital assets, including audio and video oral histories and selections from archival collections, both digitized and born-digital.- Manages the Digital Projects and Oral History Project teams- Conducts reference and processes all patron requests for digitization, licensing and permissions.- Arranges and describes born-digital and analog collections, and produces finding aids.

- Adjunct professor in Archives and Public History Program, History Department.- Teaches graduate level course in Digital Archives (HIST-GA-1011).- Engages students in both theory and practice of digital preservation and creating digital archives.

• Co-managing several in-house mass digitization projects including the Nuremberg Trials (100,000+ page archival collection) and all jurisdictions of United States case law (44 million pages)• Developing end to end workflows in collaboration with Special Collections and Conservation• Hiring, training and supervising project staffs consisting of trained archivists and librarians• Collaborating with the Web Developer in the Digital Lab to ensure that all data needed to fulfill project requirements for online searching and browsing were appropriately produced and harvested to local and external systems• Coordinating over 20 digitization projects each year, ranging from individual volumes to manuscript collections• Conducting initial review of all candidate material to identify preservation and imaging issues• Preparing, coordinating and tracking the transfer of archival material to preservation and imaging services• Enhancing digital surrogates of archival material by adding metadata and complex structuring in collaboration with rare book specialists and scholars • Conducting quality control over digital images and metadata creation for all digital projects in the library• Leading informational sessions on our in-house mass-digitization workflow for librarians and faculty

• Review and supplement the metadata that accompanies source materials for use in downstream processes to describe digital objects and to structure their component parts • Collaborate with the Web Developer in the Digital Lab to ensure that all data needed to fulfill project requirements for online searching and browsing are appropriately produced and harvested to local and external systems• Member of the project teams that plan and implement digitization and digital acquisition project plans, specifications, and workflows• Maintain item-level tracking inventory of all source materials throughout the digitization process• Prepare materials for digitization by using appropriate techniques to make each item “camera ready” • Produce accurate transfer forms and instruction sheets to facilitate check in of materials by service providers and to communicate digitization/digital processing requirements• Undertake quality assurance on representative sample of digital objects; request or apply remedies for errors• Coordinate logistics, with appropriate materials and techniques, to the preparation, conservation, digitization, and quality control phases of each project workflow; ensure that materials are safely returned

• Added over one million metadata "tags" to 100,000 digitized objects and conducted quality control • Prepared the papers and associated material of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. comprised of 5 collections for digitization with particular attention to preservation issues and digitization workflow logistics• Utilized the Harvard Page Delivery Service Management (PDSM) program to encode structure into digitized objects

• Co-developed, researched and wrote an educational blog that examines Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first hundred days in office from March 6—June 16, 1933 through six composite characters’ posts and primary sources• Created lesson plans and activities that utilize the material found on the site aligned with education standards• Secured $1000 in grants to develop the site and present it at the 2010 NCPH Conference

• Implemented new training and outreach strategies for preparedness education and training volunteer instructors• Successfully increased local level government and community partnerships by serving on local planning committees and non-profit alliances in 80 communities and signing local MOUs with national partners• Coordinated and marketed free Red Cross preparedness and disaster trainings throughout the chapter• Built stronger volunteer instructor base through training and restructuring community liaison program• Instructed hour long preparedness courses for groups of 5-100 people to audiences of multiple demographics• Lead disaster response teams of 2-10 individuals, providing emergency lodging and financial assistance to disaster victims on scene

• Instructed school and camp groups of grades pre-K to 12 on Dutch and British Colonial history in New York• Incorporated hands on activities and projects to provide firsthand experience of life on a colonial farm

• Cataloged and scanned slides from the FLS Archive to prepare for transfer to ARTstor (digital images database)• Recorded accompanying metadata in compliance with defined metadata standards (DACS)• Conducted historical research on parks, gardens, structures and architects

• Re-housed and organized the EOD collection of videotapes as well as photographs, programs and transcripts • Cataloged the videotapes of various formats and verifying the tape content• Preserved through exercising them and identifying preservation through physical inspection and brief playback

• Taught students and families about New York maritime history and how to sail aboard the historic schooner Pioneer• Sailed and maintained the schooner as a member of the volunteer crew

• Rehoused and organized archival material into collections and incorporated new accessions into major collections • Wrote accompanying finding aids for use within the Archives and online • Utilized the Archivist’s Toolkit (an open source archival data management system) to create records for collections• Initiated a digitization project for heavily used images in the photo collection• Assisted students, scholars, and independent researchers with research requests• Conducted surveys to identify preservation issues across collections

• Developed and implemented hands-on family activities and an interactive tour on 20th Century Naval History• Reevaluated and reorganized the guidelines for social studies and science curricula with Curriculum Coordinator• Trained museum educators in an interactive tour connecting Snoopy and comics to the history of the Intrepid

• Instructed students in grades K-12 about the history of Brooklyn, focusing on immigrants, WWII and the Vietnam War, by examining and interacting with archival material and artifacts in the exhibitions and society library• Developed and implemented programming for high school students for the Vietnam Veterans’ Oral History Exhibit

• Utilized Omeka (an open source digital archives and web publishing site) to catalog exhibition artifacts • Defined the Dublin Core metadata standards for the project and wrote a handbook for utilizing Omeka on the project• Researched and conceptualized a section of the exhibition on Pan American World Airways• Collected artifacts for the exhibition from museums, libraries and universities throughout the world

• Conducted historical research on the contents of Sanger’s papers specifically pertaining to the birth control movement in Germany, Great Britain and Scandinavia during the early 20th Century.• Assisted undergraduate research aids and graduate students with research on and about the Sanger Papers collection

• Coordinated all chapter preparedness courses with host organizations and volunteer preparedness instructors• Cultivated partnerships and developed training programs for organizations serving low-income communities• Instructed hour long preparedness courses for groups of 5-500 people to audiences of multiple demographics• Supervised instructors and provided course support for volunteer instructors

• Educated children in maritime history through interactive lessons and hands on activities• Researched and developed an exhibit on Underwater Archaeology, including writing labels and organizing artifacts• Conducted oral history interviews with female Navy divers for the Navy Diving exhibit• Gained experience in archival and curatorial work, handling, cataloguing, and cleaning delicate artifacts• Processed loans from various Navy museums