work experience


Kimbell Art Museum | Fort Worth, TX | Digital Asset Management Specialist | May 2024 - Present

Oversees digital asset management via Gallery Systems' Media Studio application.
Provides guidance to staff on good digital hygiene and best practices for metadata description.

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza | Audiovisual Collections Specialist | Dallas, TX | Oct 2022 - May 2024

Managed access and preservation of audiovisual collections, including for internal stakeholders and patrons.
Developed workflows and integration of Preservica for digital preservation.
Cataloguing via The Museum System for both physical and digital-born media.
Created content for museum programming and social media.

Rochester Institute of Technology | Rochester, NY | Archivist | Jun 2016 - Oct 2019

Processed archival collections of mid-century Swiss Style design, including finished and process work in the Cary Graphic Design Archive.
Rehoused and described the Ed Benguiat collection.

Chicago Film Archives | Chicago, IL | Processing Archivist | Jan 2012 - Aug 2013

Processing Archivist for the Chicago Academy of Sciences collection, composed of 1300+ 16mm and 35mm research & educational films.
Duties included processing of films, rehousing, creation of finding aids, and preservation recommendations

education

University of North Texas | Denton, TX | MS in Library Science, 4.0 GPA | Jan 2022 - Present

Information organization and database creation, writing preservation plans, archival appraisal
Ongoing research regarding the preservation of time-based media and variable media
Unofficial transcript upon request

The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation | George Eastman Museum | Rochester, NY |Sept 2013 – Jun 2014

Photochemical preservation, nitrate and safety film inspection, cataloging, curatorial administration, collections management, digital restoration on Davinci Resolve
Thesis on the Josef Joye Collection of Swiss German catalogs, created a metadata schema for catalog records, to complement the Davide Turconi collection of nitrate film clippings

Columbia College Chicago | Chicago, IL | BA in Film & Video, magna cum laude | Sept 2008 – Dec 2011

Photo theory & lab processes, history of film technology; Kodak sensitometry, analogue cinematography, Avid & Final Cut Pro, lighting, 16mm camera operation
Optical printing & experimental film production

honors & activities

Association of Moving Image Archivists intern | Image Permanence Institute | 3/15 - 6/15

Conducted an experiment under Jean-Louis Bigourdan on the effect of magnetic soundtrack oxidation on acetate filmstock. Performed accelerating aging tests and acidity testing by titration

Member of the Collegium, La Giornate del Cinema Muto | Pordenone, Italy | 2014, 2015

Two-year member of a scholarly consortium on silent film history. Submitted essay titled The Boundaries of a Universal Language: The Benshi and Japanese Silent Cinema, a discourse on the cultural ubiquity of Japanese voiced silent cinema.

Recipient, The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation/ Haghefilm Digitaal Fellowship | 2014

Digitally restored the 35mm stencil-color nitrate film, La Rose bleue (Perret, 1911) at Haghefilm Digitaal Laboratory in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Presented the newly restored film print at the 2014 Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Silent Film Festival in Pordenone, Italy.

lectures & presentations

New York Archives Conference | 6/2019

Assessing Heterogeneous Collections for Preservation
An introductory look at how to break down complex collections and assess preservation needs on a material level. Adaptation of a lecture given to Museum Studies’ Intro to Archival Studies class.
Captioning for Access & Preservation
An overview on the differences between captions from videotape and digital video, and how these differences presented challenges and opportunities for a digitization workflow and providing FCC-approved accessibility to online audiovisual media.

Rochester Institute of Technology

A Crash Course in Color History | 2017-2019
Yearly guest lecture for Color Seminar class, giving an overview of the history of color photography, from early applied color, to brief experiments of natural color, to today’s digital translation of color imaging.

RIT Brown Bag Lecture series: Jeannette Klute | 2007
Lecture on the history of dye transfer printing process and Klute’s technical application of the process in her work.

Association of Moving Image Archivists | 2016

Expanded Access: A/V Materials at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf
Lecture proposing workflows for efficient crowd-sourced captioning and transfer of videotapes in the National Institute of the Deaf collection at Rochester Institute of Technology.





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