Pamela Wright Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Reports to the Archivist of the United States. Member of Executive Leadership team.Directs Office of Innovation programs: Open Government, UX design, crowdsourcing, digitization, web, description, catalog, project management, authorities and next generation digital reference, and research and development on emerging technologies.Manages nine direct reports, four division directors, 60 staff, and contractors. Oversees $7.5 million annual operating budget as well as digitization grants totaling over $1.7M.Competed for and received two White House Presidential Innovation Fellows to work on innovation projects aimed at transforming agency work processes. Established cross-agency Digitization Governance Board to ensure staff engagement in developing digitization strategy for the agency. Published strategy in December 2014. Increased digital copies available in the catalog from 300,000 in 2012 to over 92 million today. Spearheaded the development of the agency's first social catalog that supports public participation through tagging, transcription, comments. Advocated for user-centric agency strategic plan, successfully developed numerous initiatives under each goal and became agency owner for "Make Access Happen" goal.Launched the Innovation Hub, a place for staff and the public to work together on projects that enhance online engagement. Over 500,000 digital copies scanned by the public in our catalog from this effort.Launched the Internal Collaboration Network (ICN), a social business platform that allows geographically and organizationally disparate staff to connect easily with each other. Today it is a thriving platform for collaboration and communities across the National Archives.Host for inter-agency Open Government working group and GLAM- Wikipedia advisory committee meetings.Advisory board member to Library and Archives of Canada. Frequent speaker at national and international archival conferences.

Washington, Dc, Us

Managed a staff of 34 employees as well as contractors. Responsible for an annual budget of two million dollars.Served as the National Archive's representative to the White House Open Government Inter-agency Working Group. Established and chaired the National Archives Open Government Working Group that includes staff from all offices across the agency. Developed the Agency's Open Government Strategies and ensured implementation of the tasks described in those strategies.Developed and oversaw the National Archive's relationship with Wikipedia. Hired the Agency's first Wikipedian in Residence. Led an effort to include our records in Wikipedian Articles that garner over one billion views annually.Oversaw the description training for an additional 639 agency staff.Successfully redesigned the National Archives website using groundbreaking crowdsourcing techniques.Hosted a two-day workshop for catalogers across the agency to discuss common issues and plans for describing all of our records. Piloted the Agency's first social media project in 2009. Successfully grew this effort into a program, with three staffers who work with over 300 staff from across the agency, currently providing 165 projects on 15 different platforms.

Washington, Dc, Us

Supervised staff of 12. Responsible for $1.5 million dollar budget.Envisioned the next generation catalog, which put the digital copies of our records in a customer-friendly format. This was both a technical and cultural transformation for the agency.Oversaw the training, review and development of the current catalog and ensured that description targets where met each year.Led a team of staff and contractors to assess and develop a Digital Harvest Report. This was the first time that the Agency inventoried internal digitization projects across all offices. I led the effort to collaborate with all staff to gather digital copies into the centralized catalog.Spearheaded the effort to develop and publish the agency's first Workload Analysis Study, which defined our processing backlog for the agency as a whole. Led staff and contractors through delicate discussions in order to garner data necessary for the report. Resulted in a successful agency-wide project to reduce the backlog of records to be processed.Responsible as product owner for the Archival Research Catalog.

Washington, Dc, Us

Lead the Archival Research Catalog (ARC) Review Team, responsible for planning, coordinating, implementing, and tracking review processes for all agency description and authority records.Served as the ARC Training Team lead, responsible for developing and implementing monthly, quarterly and online training sessions for agency staff. Developed innovative, user-centric “ARC Survival Guide” manual for staff use. Conducted meetings with points of contact and liaisons across the agency.Analyzed data standards issues and prepared issue papers for management and executive review.

Missoula, Mt, Us

Supervised and conducted extensive research in records at various federal, state and local repositories, including the National Archives, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Archives, various state historical societies, and the District of Columbia Historic Preservation Office. Researched at various federal agency libraries, including libraries at the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Bureau of Land Management and the National Archives.Provided numerous presentations on historical research to Department of Justice and Department of the Interior.Developed and maintained database for tracking research. Produced reports from database queries.Managed and oversaw the Washington, D.C., branch of the office.

Project Management Master'S Certificate, Project Management

Bachelor'S Degrees, English, History