Nicole Horstman Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Harpers Ferry, Wv

Lead media asset manager and archivist for the NPS Harpers Ferry Center's media production team, managing all media production files and media assets both born-digital and legacy analog, and overseeing HFC's records management activities in accordance with National Archives and Records Administration guidelines and policies.

Laurel, Maryland, United States

-Led strategy, implementation, and operational workflow for managing APL’s digital assets-Led the discovery project for a new digital and media asset management system to replace existing applications for the management of over 2 million photo, video, podcast, and graphics assets to accommodate APL taxonomies and metadata schemas.-Served as primary point of contact for all photo, live streaming and on-demand audio and video on APL digital platforms-Managed a team responsible for the archiving and maintenance of all digital assets produced by the Lab's Communications Department-Led digitization efforts for the Lab's legacy photo and video archives-Acted as product owner and primary liaison between APL and asset distribution, encoding, and streaming vendors.

Laurel, Md

– Manage digital data preservation activities necessary to ensure continued access and usability of the digital materials for as long as necessary.– Selection, preservation, maintenance, collecting, and archiving of digital assets to add value to the repositories of digital data for present and future use.- Plan and implement projects to create, select, maintain, preserve, provide access to, and add value to digital resources in a variety of disciplines and formats.- Support in collecting of Metadata for photography services, focusing upon the need to gather metadata at time of capture to add to systems within BCC workflow to make available to APL enterprise in a timely manner.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

As Project Manager:-Managed over 200 Photo, Video, Print, and Digital Projects across teams.-Liaised with and project manage a four-person Photo team and six-person Feature Video team, including coordinating with freelance hires, to ensure on-time delivery of creative media.-Ensured projects are well managed and consistent with the client’s vision, budget, and timelinewhile upholding brand consistency.-Conducted kickoff meetings for campaigns and new initiatives, and develop training to improve project managers' meeting management.-Used Workgroups DaVinci project workflow software for project management.-Troubleshot and resolve client concerns.As Digital Archivist:-Researched, planned, proposed, and implemented systems for the management of the International Monetary Fund's digital media assets-Supported the Media Officer with hands-on training and support for new and general MediaHub users-Contributed in the development of archival protocols set by working group that consists of Archives, Information Technology and MultiMedia Services key project members-Developed workflows for the ingestion and dissemination of digital assets, and generate reports regarding asset ingestion and usage statistics for MultiMedia Services Team-Created retention policies with regards to existing and newly created digital assets-Arranged and described over 700K+ born-digital legacy assets-Organized, cataloged, and classified legacy media assets across Photography, Video, Audio and Design teams

Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library, Special Collections In Performing Arts

-Assisted in public service aspects of the unit including assisting patrons with reference and research, both in person and via phone, mail, e-mail, and staffing service desk in the Lowens Reading Room for Special Collections-Wrote and/or revised finding aids, marked up EAD and loaded into ArchivesUM database, including finding aids for the International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM)-Contributed to technical service operations of the unit, including archives preservation processing, re-foldering, preservation copying, arranging and describing archival collections, and personal papers, participating in archival appraisal projects.-Participated in curatorial outreach projects, including preparing exhibitions of materials, creating web pages describing collections, participating in planning and executing events relating to SCPA collections

Washington D.C. Metro Area

-Enriched and standardized digital collections by adding appropriate metadata to facilitate discovery of digital content on the website of the Library of Congress-Created and modified metadata values for a designated set of digital content using controlled Library of Congress vocabulary and content of digital items as sources for metadata-Improved the usability of the Library of Congress website for current and future users-Attended regular staff meetings with members of the Office of Strategic Initiatives in order to develop recommendations for the use of automated tools for review and modification of metadata values

Center For Folklife And Cultural Heritage

-Created digital surrogates with embedded metadata for the Moses and Frances Asch Collection-Became familiar with the Smithsonian’s Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) and upload newly created digital assets with metadata to enhance the use of the Asch Collection-Assisted in archival processing on the Asch Collection, utilizing Archivists’ Toolkit to create accurate descriptions-Attended meetings with the Smithsonian Institution Archives and Special Collections group and the SIRIS Catalogers group-Understood strategies employed and challenges faced by a small archives engaged in a large-scale digitization project, and articulate steps to be taken to help the digitization evolve into an efficient program, applicable to multiple collections

-Processed textual collections and entered them into a publicly accessible database.-Entered bibliographic data into the Guide to Government Records database in accordance with existing departmental guidelines.-Organized, processed and re-foldered existing archival material in accordance with departmental guidelines, and maintain knowledge of the basic principles of archival management, description, preservation and re-housing techniques.-Performed editorial quality assurance.-Retrieved and re-filed records in the Archives secured stacks. -Prepared indexes and structured finding aids.

-Assisted customers with the placing of retail and wholesale orders.-Handled customer service calls, returns and replacements with efficiency. -Demonstrated computer efficiency and accurate data entry skills.

-Administered behavioral intervention programs for children with developmental disabilities.-Recorded accurate notes and data tracking client's performance and progress within their tailored instructional and behavioral programs.-In a clinical setting, attended one weekly clinical session per case, and implement behavioral program changes during following therapy sessions.-Trained and aided new technicians in a therapy setting.

Masters, Library Science

Activities and Societies: Student Archivists of Maryland

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), English Language And Communications, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Phi Mu Fraternity for Women, Panhellenic Association, Golden Key National Honor Society-Graduated Cum Laude.