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I currently work for ByWater Solutions (again), now in the position of Head of Special Projects. In addition to migrating libraries to FOLIO (which had been my role until 2024), I am also responsible for implementation and support of Metabase and Libki. I'm also constantly on the lookout for other open source tools that can help meet library needs.Previously, I worked at UMass Amherst Libraries, where I gained valuable experience in a higher ed library and with institutional IT services. My primary technical skill acquired there was SilverStripe, the open source PHP framework (that's not Drupal).Before that, ByWater (the first time), where I supposed our Koha libraries for more than 2 years, also serving as the Quality Assurance Manager for the community for a few terms.My introduction to Koha came at New York University Health Sciences Libraries. My primary project was to migrate the library's ILS from Innovative Interface's Millennium to Koha, which I completed in the span of 3-4 months on Sept. 1, 2009. I earned my MLIS and MS in Computer Science from the University of Rhode Island in 2008. While there, I worked for URI's Web Development Group, implementing blog software, project management software and anti-spam security measures (among other things). My CS thesis is entitled "Realizing the Next Generation Music Metadata Schema" and not only develops a robust, song-based data structure for music information, but also provides scripts to populate such a relational database implementation of the schema with data from the Musicbrainz database.Specialties: communication between librarians and techies, software engineering, project management, numerous Web 2.0 tools, creative problem-solving,

Listed skills include Koha, Git, Mysql, Perl, and 13 others.