My work broadly involves:
Digital Asset Management
Graphic Design
Digital Museum Exhibitions
Public Speaking/Teaching
Prototypes
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.
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)
I've curated, designed, put up, maintained, and everything in between.
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
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
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
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.
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