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Walnut Creek, California, Us

• Co-founded media company that digitizes, captures, and shares the world’s photographs, footage and visual content• Created and sourced photographs, footage and visual content for 500+ customers, including CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, INC, BBC, and more• Profiled in the New York Times for our work with photography and AI• Championed and advanced diverse content through a decade-long partnership with the Afro-American Newspapers & the Clarence Gatson Collection• Developed distribution partnerships with major companies including Getty Images, Alamy, and SIPA USA• Led a team to develop innovative AI and deep learning systems for managing photographs, film and visual content• Built long-term partnerships with institutions including Duke University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of New Hampshire, representing historical photography from their libraries and archives

• Founded and grew a B2C brand focused on consumer electronics and consumer product reviews• Built a YouTube channel with 1,100+ pieces of content, achieving 2.2 million views per year from 6,000+ subscribers• Developed DIYLifeTech.com website, created 100+ pieces of written content, and grew viewership to 200k+ uniques per year• Won and executed collaborations with major brands including Panasonic, Vitamix, and Happiest Baby

San Francisco, California, Us

• Content creator and top writer on Medium.com• Wrote 500+ pieces of content, generating 13 million+ views from 32,000+ followers• My work was featured in the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Protocol, Vox, Coindesk, TWiT and more• Worked as a technology journalist with bylines in publications including OneZero, the Bold Italic, Elemental and Better Marketing• Launched Blockchain Life Tech, a publication focused on the cryptocurrency and NFT industries

New York, Ny, Us

• Director of the Education & Content committee (2020-2023) for North America’s leading nonprofit digital media licensing trade group• Created and executed the organization’s content strategy• Led a team to plan and produce two virtual conferences (2020 & 201), attracting 200+ C-Suite level attendees each year• Developed and managed yearly webinar series• Won Volunteer of the Year award in 2021

Baltimore, Md, Us

• Led a 3+ year content management project developing processes and workflows to integrate historical audio recordings with sheet music from the Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, resulting in the world's largest collection of audio-linked historical sheet music• Developed strategic partnerships with the Library of Congress, Internet Archive and Apple to facilitate access to historical audio content• Led 2+ year complete redesign of Levy Sheet Music website intended to better surface 20,000+ pieces of legacy content, resulting in 20%+ improvement on multiple KPIs• Created Bayesian computer model to automatically suggest song and recording linkages

• Provided technology consulting services to a government agency responsible for distributing $13 million in grant funding to Maryland arts community• Conducted interviews with staff/leadership and delivered a complete map of MSAC's grantmaking processes• Led project to develop and implement computer model to improve MSAC’s process for allocating $11 million+ in funding to arts organizations statewide• Served as technical lead on a three-year restructuring of MSAC's grants management system• Served as technical lead and technical project manager on a two-year redesign of MSAC's web systems, including full redesign of processes for administration of Maryland Artist Registry

Baltimore, Md, Us

I developed a novel, open source Python and PHP based system to share recordings and transcripts from the East Baltimore Oral History Project.

I created and maintained backend systems for the online arts journal Radar Redux.