here's a high-level overview of my Data Projects

My work broadly involves:

Digital Asset Management
Graphic Design
Digital Museum Exhibitions
Public Speaking/Teaching
Prototypes

I am a data chameleon with expertise in DAM, full-stack development, data analytics, business intelligence, digital preservation, digital archiving, technical writing, digital projects, and more.

Dev Work

Data Writing

Digital Asset Management

Managed data/assets at the petabyte scale and led 10+ multi-system data migrations for DAM, CMS, website, catalog raisonné, and animation data

Asset Types

Web copy
Material culture
Animation Files
Working Files/Design Files
Voice Acting files
Scripts
Marketing material
Fonts/licenses
A/V
Code
Video game assets

Scope of Work

Strategy and Consulting: attended vendor demos, developed optimization roadmaps, set up system configurations, wrote assessment reports, restructured taxonomies, enhanced workflows, and proposed new systems.

Assessment: audited digital assets, system architecture, workflows. Co-authored reports, white papers, technical reports, and metadata crosswalks.

Data analytics: collected data, visualized it in dashboards (Tableau, SmartSheets, Power BI, Airtable), reported on Google Analytics data. I have used MySQL Workbench to export and analyze data.

Implementation: installed and set up DAMS, CMS, ILS and digital repository tools like Archive-It, Omeka, WordPress, AEM, ArchivEra, and TMS.

Low-level Digital Asset Management Work: uploaded, renamed, cataloged/tagged, and performed quality control against brand guidelines.

Digital Graphic Design

Designed websites, data infographics, slide decks/pitch decks, digital exhibition signage, publication layouts, 2D icons, typography centered around web accessibility standards (WCAG, Section 508), user experience design and user interface design.

Tools: Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, Art & Animation (Krita, Live2d, OpenToonz)

Infographic showing UX design/UI design issues with a database/CMS/DAMS. I often include annotated screenshots of systems in data assessments as a way to illustrate data issues and convey the real-world impact to data issues like missing metadata or out-of-the-box system configurations.

I specialize in data visualizations for user interfaces, data assessments, system data flows & architecture.

Infographic about a lot of complex, specific technical data issues with a database/CMS/DAM. I like to share data findings in visuals. I put the headings in different colored bubbles to highlight themes and let readers decide to read more context underneath each bubble. The focus is on the data ecosystem as a whole: How does this system fit into cross-departmental workflows? Whose data needs are not being met? From a developer perspective, is this system realistically sustainable?

Digital Museum Exhibits

I've curated, designed, put up, maintained, and everything in between.

Reclaiming Ohi:yo'

Curated, described, and installed Reclaiming Ohi:Yo’ - Restoring the Altered Landscape of the Beautiful River, which tells the story of the Seneca Nation of Indians Allegheny Territory's river, climate change, and Seneca resilience.

Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Seneca Nation of Indians, 2018

Japanese Artists in NYC Before WWII

I was brought on as a project director consultant to help proofread English/Japanese translations, design wire-frames and the overall user interface, upload content, and create metadata.

Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York, 2024

Spotlight: Relational Possibilities

Solo curator for the Post-Colonial Dreams exhibit, a reimagined Afro-Indigenous Philadelphia, PA based on its Black public art. Made for my LEADING data science fellowship with Drexel University where I worked used artificial intelligence, machine learning, and video game design to explore a pre-existing dataset of public street art.

The Creative CoLab (data science hivemind collaborative of Dana Reijerkerk and kYmberly Keeton), 2023

Public Speaking & Teaching

I regularly give lectures, talks, and presentations on topics like DAM, digital preservation, Archives, open access, & AI at Queen's University Belfast's Centre for Public History, Pratt Institute School of Information, American Library Association, The UK National Archives, and elsewhere.

Prototypes & Such

I am involved in a lot more than I can neatly categorize like grant writing, editing and formatting (dissertations, journals, blogs), devising budgets, digital marketing and social media management, giving lectures, submitting grants and award nominations, and sandboxing software features

Social media promo for talk I gave about AI (artificial intelligence), UX design personas, and archivist labor.

My Indie Game was Exhibited in the 2024 SuperFEST Game Festival in Toronto, Canada.

“(Re)moving Indigenous Knowledge Boundaries: A Review of Library and Archives Collection Literature Since the Enactment of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA),” Collection Management

Prototype for point-and-click, sprite movement, and dialog in the game engine Ren'Py.

Invitation letter to present my data science/artificial intelligence/machine learning project at Toronto Metropolitan University's Interactive Film and Media Conference.

Sub-heading as an illustration for an indie game's webpage explaining how to play the game for Gretchen the Wretched.

Early prototype for Late Night Surfing (itch.io, 2024) testing the timing and order of custom coded layers behind the top layer "TV screen."

Press release published on ART | library deco for my indie game All Are Welcome (itch.io, 2023).

New book chapter press release. I wrote about personas, emotional labor, and archivists. My co-authored chapter is one of the few in this volume written by someone who works in Archives.

Designing Realistic Data Systems for Multi-Departmental Workflows Infographic (Above): I made this infographic during a client prospect call to show how data conceptual models are important to thinking through the logic of managing your data.

Table 1. SBUL rapid benchmark assessment using the TRAC minimum required documents and the DPC RAM model. Source: "Digital Repository Legacies", Journal of Library Administration

Prototyping footage for a mini-game where Rat Boy rummages through a trash can for Zewers (Steam game).

Point-and-Click scenes let players re-click for new unique dialogue.

A before and final game look of an animated hand transformation in "Hear Me, Hear You."

The penultimate scenes of the game ended with the monster overtaking the player's vision by literally becoming an overlay that blurred text and choices.

Hand-drawn typography.

Controller Map to personalize the game & give users better accessibility on controls. Designing art-specific maps like this are a good way to customize/personalize indie games.