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Skills

  • Archival record prep
  • Organization
  • System Analysis
  • Project organization
  • Collection indexing for digital expansions
  • Manuscript long-term storage planning
  • Accuracy in cataloging rare books and artifacts
  • Documenting acquisition histories
  • Team building
  • Condition report generation for rare collections

Work Experiences

  • Acquired Asana.
  • Checked 2 records for accuracy, value, and preservation status.
  • Advised on security enhancement for rare materials.
  • Assisted in grant writing and secured $2 in funding for special collection acquisitions and archival preservation projects.
  • Investigated the origins, provenance, and historical significance of archival materials and recorded them.
  • Oversaw a team of 18 volunteers and employees who were cataloging, designing exhibits, and documenting artifacts.
  • Achieved improvement over three years.
  • Developed a preservation plan for fragile manuscripts.
  • Collaborated with researchers and historians.
  • Achieved improvements within 2016 months.

Summaries

  • Proven leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development skills, as well as a thorough understanding of the initiative business.
  • Contributed to overall system reliability.
  • Accomplished Special Collection Technician adept at optimizing collection organization to reduce retrieval errors by 40% through system enhancements.
  • Consistently improved team efficiency by 37%.
  • Adept at artifact retrieval.
  • With 2 years of experience acquiring, managing, and maintaining papers, records, and collections, I'm a well-organized archivist.
  • A results-driven professional with a record of leading archival teams to streamline processing workflows and improve material accessibility by 22%.
  • Collaborative and proactive, known for devising preservation protocols for rare audiovisual materials, reducing the risk of degradation by 52%.
  • Special Collection Technician with 13 years of successful quality assurance and budget management experience.
  • Adept at optimizing collection organization.

Accomplishments

  • Developed preservation protocols for the digital preservation of at-risk media types, ensuring collection longevity for future researchers.
  • Developed a training program that upskilled 14 junior staff members in data management and archival techniques.
  • Documented acquisition histories for 6 newly acquired pieces, bolstering the institution’s historical records database.
  • Presented findings from the evaluation of preservation techniques at initiative, contributing to a 22% improvement in team processes.
  • Created an innovative storage solution that extended shelf life of perishable archival documents by 70%
  • Created detailed archival descriptions for 18 major new acquisitions, improving accessibility for researchers worldwide.
  • Spearheaded project to digitize 10 fragile rare books, extending their accessibility to a global audience.
  • Integrated Microsoft Excel to automate repetitive archival tasks, streamlining processes and cutting manual workload by 84%.
  • Collaborated with engineering to organize public outreach programs, improving community engagement with historical collections by 25%.
  • Trained 14 new hires in archival preservation best practices and cataloging systems, improving team productivity by 34%.

Affiliations

  • Midwest Archives Conference (MAC)
  • Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T)
  • Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)
  • Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)
  • Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP)
  • Association of Information Technology Professionals
  • Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC)
  • International Council on Archives (ICA)
  • Association for Supply Chain Management (APICS)
  • American Marketing Association

Certifications

  • Certified Institutional Archives Technician (NEDCC)
  • Online Exhibits Design Certification category
  • Certified Digital Preservation Professional (Digital Preservation Coalition)
  • Digital Archives Specialist (DAS) Certificate (Society of American Archivists - SAA)
  • Apple Certified Associate (ACA)
  • Digitization Specialist Certification (Digitization Training from Beacon Labs)
  • First Aid/CPR Certified
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
  • Audiovisual Archiving Certificate (Association of Moving Image Archivists - AMIA)
  • Certified Library Media Specialist (State Specific Certification) Seattle

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