Responsible for developing, integrating, and overseeing all technical aspects of the organization including vision, strategy, delivery, operations, and sustainability; work with executive management and CLIR stakeholders to help grow the organization through the use of technology resources; plan, direct, and monitor operations to improve program execution and outreach; promote increased efficiencies through automation; assure appropriate utilization of resources; serve as a technical advisor for grant proposals and funded grants; ensure technologies are used efficiently and securely; evaluate and implement new infrastructures; conduct research and case studies on leading-edge technologies.

Provided vision and direction for the investigation, development, and expansion for the department’s research and development initiatives; identified resources and services to support and enhance the field of digital humanities at the University of Virginia; coordinated closely with library computing staff, University information technology, and university faculty to ensure Digital Humanities projects are deployed in a sensible, and sustainable manner; developed proof-of-concept software to demonstrate the feasibility of the technology and approaches; lead and executed software design, development, prototyping, and testing activities; lead problem resolution related to system design and implementation; mentored, trained, and advised department, graduate students, and faculty members.

Developed essential strategic, sustainability, and project plans including collection strategy, information architecture, service, and functional requirements, rights management, and standards frameworks; managed the library's server infrastructure including website, search, database, proxy, print, file, storage, and backup servers.

TEI XML encoding, database development, web development for pastportal.com, DSSSL transformations

Developed and maintained database back end for Pastportal.com project that worked to digitize the manuscript, research reports, and rare book collections of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Managed the production of the foundation’s nascent digital imaging department and its associated metadata for digital preservation of primary documents. Worked with vendors to transcribe original content into machine-readable text.