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+ Serve as principal investigator to formulating research objectives. Plan, organize and schedule activities to meet objectives. Develop and implement operating policies, procedures and systems to support planned operations. Ensure these are well-documented and communicated to project personnel.+ Develop and manage project budgets. Authorize expenditures and monitor account reconciliation and status to ensure compliance with fiscal guidelines and regulations. Prepare and direct the preparation of financial reports. Direct ongoing purchasing activities including authorization of major purchases.+ Indirectly manage staff assigned to projects. Plan and staff project operations based on proposed research activities and timelines. Negotiation and oversight of subcontracted services. Provide training and technical supervision to staff. Motivate and monitor the progress of work performed by project staff including senior technical personnel. Direct activities of staff and student workers engaged in arranging, cataloging, and digitization of materials. Plan and facilitate training sessions on archival procedures and processes.+ Coordinate and/or link project operations with other administrative and research functions on and off campus. Serve as a key resource for project information and resolve problems or questions referred by internal and external sources.+ Determine and implement records storage and indexing solutions. Ensure that the electronic catalog is current and accurate. Ensure inventory, reconciliation, and organization of data and reports for collection is completed on a regular basis concerning the location and condition of the collection.+ Establish and maintain an active network of professional contacts. Remain informed of the current status of completed and ongoing research in digital libraries. Actively participate in professionally sponsored meetings, seminars and symposia as a representative of the project and the University.

+Creating workflows to manage digital files from creation to delivery into both our digital repository as well as our content hub. +Implementing new tracking system to track and manage multiple collections coming into and out of the lab and digital library. Scheduling deliveries and retrievals of physical collections through proper databases and libraries. Maintaining accurate physical and digital inventory of each archival object, through production, quality check, metadata and delivery.+Lead and grow a team of digital imaging specialists, student workers and supervisors to digitize hundreds of thousands of unique objects to the highest archival standards.+Liaise with metadata and grant principal investigators as they audit completion and delivery of digital files, regularly create and maintain reports in Google Drive to keep stakeholders looped in with.+Delivering digital files into university repository and uncompressed files into content hub. All files must be kept in triplicate: repository, hub and local. Maintaining accurate inventory of local storage, complete with FADGI and NDSA Fixity guidelines and best practices. Monitoring capacity of local storage to ensure swift and safe archiving.+Creating purchase orders, managing budget for the Digital Imaging Lab as well as student workers. Keeping track of billable hours by grant-funded specialists to ensure grant budgets are maintained. +Creating long term solutions to have a completely self-sustaining digital library.

+Digitization and archiving of materials and project activities. Determined alternate scanning and ingestion techniques based on condition of material and/or technological limitations. Quality check imaging projects and student work, as well as assist with project evaluations and proposals for new projects.+Coordinated workflow processes for digitisation projects involving original materials such as photographs, photo negatives, rare books and ephemera, manuscripts, 16mm and 35mm moving film, various audio and video formats, and other kinds of original material from initial capture to post processing, quality checking, and staging.+Supervised student employees: recruit, interview, on-board and train staff. Trained student workers how to properly handle materials, proper imaging and post-production techniques and utilization of digital imaging tools. Worked hands-on with student workers to teach best practices and evaluate their work. Created weekly schedules for student workers as well as daily project schedules to keep students on track.+Scheduled, assigned and prioritized work based on resources and requests from faculty, staff, and patrons coming through any of the twenty USC libraries.+Monitored the functionality of computers and imaging equipment, resolved technical problems when possible, or contacted Technical Services. Stayed abreast of new software and technology to ensure that the Digital Imaging Lab produced the highest quality of work. Created new software and hardware purchasing proposals and worked with outside vendors for quotes. +Digitized images, books, catalogs, and ephemera for ingestion into the USC Digital Library using a wide range of imaging equipment as well as the related software and computer hardware to manage and process.

+Digitize British manuscripts dating from 1601-1800.+Edit and import metadata for digitized manuscripts and their facsimiles--page level metadata as well as object level metadata. Use OpenRefine to take MARC records and import them into Google Sheets, create crosswalk from MARC to Nuxeo for Calisphere (UC system content hub).+Implement workflow for digitization of 328 manuscripts, from cataloguing physical items to staging of highest-resolution digital files.*Work off-site with third-party digitization vendor to quality control both handling of manuscripts and digital images.+Create page-level spreadsheets for the collation of image files and respective book foliation.+Edit, update, and enhance library catalogue records for digitized items.+Manage project workflow and prepare manuscripts for third-party vendor-- retrieval and safe packing/unpacking of both bound and loose manuscripts.+Prepare conservation assessments and reports.

NantWorks combines several technology businesses into a single entity for the purpose of bringing the digital revolution to the service of healthcare, education, science and consumers.- Project Management of UI/UX design, branding, & marketing for two apps inc. gathering NDAs, managing SOWs, & ongoing RACI spreadsheets to identify roadblocks.- Manage and collaborate with outside graphic designers for website design & logo design.- Create, prepare, and implement new media coverage for CEO (including Vimeo, YouTube, Facebook, and- Plan and prepare media coordination in collaboration with public relations staff and outside publicity consultants.- Coordinate media activities with senior staff.- Brainstorm with team to create social networking site integrating company technology.

- General office duties, such as creating legal binders, help set up meeting rooms, and answering the phone for CEO and VP.- Responsible for the calendar and scheduling of all meetings for the Executive VP of Corporate Strategy.- International and domestic travel arrangements for CEO and Executive VP.- Prepared and maintained legal files.