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Brussels, Be

Braine-L’Alleud, Walloon Region, Belgium

Brussels Metropolitan Area

• Developed and launched a strategic records and information management project, targeting improvements in lifecycle management, findability, SharePoint storage, and change management.• Leading planning, development, and project execution, creating and maintaining documentation, and coordinating with cross-functional teams.• Implemented change management strategies, including staff training and stakeholder engagement, to ensure seamless adoption of enhanced practices.• Initiated cleanup, inventory, and reorganization of in-space archives.

Brussels Metropolitan Area

• Developed and implemented comprehensive retention policies, optimizing records management.• Collaborated with HR and senior management to establish efficient onboarding/offboarding procedures.• Presented analysis findings to senior management and staff, proposing improvements and authored a white paper on actionable strategies for enhanced information management.

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

• Investigated, recommended, and implemented methodologies and practices for sustainable and secure digital archiving, for both born-digital objects and objects that became digital over time• Performed technology monitoring for digital archives-related tools, and systems, especially related to website archiving and the Archivematica digital preservation system• Actively worked together with the Court’s IT unit on testing newly implemented features, collecting feedback, and registering feature requests• Managed storage space in cooperation with the Court’s library unit• Helped to ensure the accessibility of digital audio-video resources by providing transcriptions

Florence, Italy Metropolitan Area

• Using digital archives management systems, appraised, arranged, and described more than 1000 archival files in paper, photographic, and digital formats, in line with the applicable legislation on record management for EU institutions and bodies• Revised the archive’s document management in the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management software, enhancing the metadata description of all the contracts and legal documents that the archives produced• In cooperation with the archive’s record manager, worked towards the successful obtaining of the archive’s ISO 9001 quality management, using MS PowerApps• With the intensive use of the MS Office package, drafted a 30-page, survey-based report focused on the accumulation of archival best practices of the 6 archives of the CIVICA university alliance, involving intensive collaboration with a dozen partners and co-workers• Liaised and negotiated with former MEPs and EU high officials to enrich the archival collection with their personal papers• Made presentations and conducted guided tours for over 900 people, ranging from schoolchildren and everyday people to academics, diplomats, and other high officials

Budapest, Hungary

• While relying on heavy use of MS Excel, developed a comprehensive historical chronology of the Hungarian minority in Czechoslovakia (1944–92)• Through extensive research on catalogue records, designed a bibliographical database of digitized periodicals of Hungarian minorities and Hungarian diaspora to facilitate research by making these sources more accessible• Created the bibliography of Ernő Fábián (1934–2001), a Hungarian philosopher from Romania, to make his overlooked work better known

Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

• Reported on European Parliament elections and Romanian politics, involving strict deadlines, fast translation, and fast-checking of the information• Contributed to a series of articles on the history of the Hungarian minority in Romania, including multiple interviews with researchers, politicians, and media personalities• Coordinated photographers and created video content and coordinated photographers during the 2019 papal visit to Romania and several summer festivals• Periodically oversaw the editing process of 2-3 colleagues’ work, preceding the editor-in-chief’s final edit• Successfully operated the news site’s content management system and Facebook page

Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

• Created an online database of 586 items from the materials of a clandestine news agency dealing with the Hungarian minority in Romania in the 1980s, thus making the news reports more accessible

Budapest, Hungary

Erasmus+ traineeship

Master Of Arts - Ma, Comparative History, Specialization In Archives And Evidentiary Practices

• EU- and US-accredited programme in the top 100 worldwide ( 2021 QS World University Rankings) • Specialization in Archives.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History

Certificate Of Psycho-Pedagogical Training Program Level I, Secondary Education And Teaching

Erasmus+ Mobility For Studies, History

Courses on Modern History of Hungary