Associate Director, Digital Resources (Senior Technical Project Lead)
Greater Los Angeles Area
• Produced the Institutes first 224 page publication on the history and use of the VHA for professors, researchers, and practitioners• Project Manager for the IWitness prototype development for usability testing and market research containing 1000 Holocaust Survivor testimonies from a collection of 52,000 launched in the Fall 2011 as an educational resource tool for secondary education over the Internet with Web 2.0 technology • Assisted in grant proposals to foundations and received… Show more • Produced the Institutes first 224 page publication on the history and use of the VHA for professors, researchers, and practitioners• Project Manager for the IWitness prototype development for usability testing and market research containing 1000 Holocaust Survivor testimonies from a collection of 52,000 launched in the Fall 2011 as an educational resource tool for secondary education over the Internet with Web 2.0 technology • Assisted in grant proposals to foundations and received funding of $500,000 for the IWitness prototype development, prototype usability and market research, and $250,000 to host the first International Digital Access, Outreach, and Research Conference at the University of Southern California in March 2010• Project Manager for the International Digital Access, Outreach, and Research Conference which brought a cohort of 65 professors, librarians, and scholars – responsible for all logistics of the conference which included travel, lodging, catering, conference programming, speaker selection, honoraria disbursements, and production of best practices manual as an output from the conference• Presented lectures at universities subscribing to the Visual History Archive (VHA) including Berlin, Budapest, and Prague on the multi-disciplinary use of the archive• Responsible for the overall supervision of the VHA of 52,000 Holocaust Survivor testimonies currently available at 35 universities and institutions internationally and the U.S. • Provided qualitative analysis of user statistics of the VHA generated through user experience at the 35 universities and institutions • Managed budgets for the projects in the Research and Documentation division through the University’s AIS Webba and Kuali financial systems• Provided supervision, oversight, conceptualization, and redesign for a more user friendly interface of the VHA Show less