Résumé

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  • University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas - Master of Science in Information Studies (May 2021)

    University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas - Master of Arts in English (May 2021)

    Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas - Bachelor of Arts in English (December 2015)

    • Certificate in Digital Humanities

  • July 2023-present

    Ferguson Enterprises

    Senior Enterprise Data Specialist

    • Works on enterprise data team to govern product metadata and taxonomy. Completes projects to improve data. Collaborates on governance platform rollout.

    • Oversees and collaborates with team on Alation data catalog rollout and monitors operations

    • Onboards teams to data catalog platform

    • Completes large scale data cleansing and publishes rules/standards

    April 2022-July 2023

    GroupBy Inc.

    E-commerce Data Curation Coordinator

    • Manages curation of data for B2B and B2C e-commerce clients.

    • Creates guidelines to ensure accurate curation and standardization of data

    • Manages team of curation leads and overseas vendors

    • Curation and data management focusing on industrial supply, home furnishings, large dept. stores

    • Ensures quality of data by working with stakeholders

    May 2021-April 2022

    FromThePage, Remote/Austin,Texas - Information Consultant

    • Lead the SaaS team in community building and resource marketing via newsletter campaigns and social media updates + managed content and strategy for company blog in collaboration with founders

    • Cultural heritage crowdsourcing community building and resource marketing via newsletter campaigns and social media updates

    • Content management of blog site on Wordpress

    • Serve as LIS/archival expert

    August 2019-August 2021

    The Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin - Graduate Research Assistant

    • Completed offsite patron research requests for archival materials

    • Worked shifts at reception desk and at reading room reference desk

    • Educated patrons in archival practices

    • Assisted staff with archival classes

    • Co-curator and co-presenter of book club event for The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (February 2020; 4 events)

    • Creation of metadata for archival sound recordings as part of an NEH-funding preservation grant (Jan. 2020-Sep. 2020)

    • Member of privacy policy committee

    • Curation of exhibition focused on sound collections for Black History Month: Discovery and Possibility (Feb. 2020)

    August 2019-July 2021

    AudiAnnotate Project, University of Texas at Austin - Graduate Research Assistant

    • Tested and worked extensively with audio-editing applications, including Audacity and Sonic Visualiser, using archival audio

    • Responsible for documentation, site updates, and video walkthroughs of application

    • Created and co-lead informational, interactive workshops and user-testing workshops

    • Created written reports of evaluation for workshops and applications

    • Worked on use cases for grant with focus on educational use cases

    September 2020-May 2021

    Critical Data Studies Lab, University of Texas at Austin - Graduate Researcher

    • Researched data set of Palantir patents on “dynamic ontologies” with work on topic modeling to understand corpus

    • In another project, created data management plan for an oral history collection

    May 2019-August 2019

    Neill-Cochran House Museum, Austin, Texas - Visitor Services Coordinator

    • Managed tour operations team and led guided tours for visiting school groups

    • Opened and closed museum

    • Created promotional marketing material and press releases for events

    • Assisted with grant proposal that was received fall 2019

    January 2019-September 2019

    University of Texas at Austin Department or Rhetoric and Writing, Austin, Texas- Student Researcher — DRW Digital Archive Project – Dr. Mark Longaker

    • Worked on team to create metadata standards for archiving project

    • Made standards decisions on sets of documents

    • Verified accuracy of metadata and descriptive copy on Omeka site

    August 2014-June 2018

    DEx: A Database of Dramatic Extracts, Texas A&M English Department - Program Aide

    • Used TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) XML language schema to encode and edit manuscripts using oXygen software

    • Edited and proofread documents for correct coding

    • Proofread user-facing site and documented display issues

    August 2016-June 2018

    Scholastic Classroom Magazines - Choices Magazine, New York, NY - Assistant Editor, Editorial Assistant, and Intern (reverse consecutive order)

    • Project managed site migration to AEM CMS website

    • Edited teacher’s version of teen-health magazine, contributor blog posts, and classroom skills sheets

    • Communicated on a weekly basis with teacher and teen advisory communities

    • Contributed editing and writing to student version of print magazine

  • August 2018-May 2019

    University of Texas at Austin English Department, Austin, Texas - Teaching Assistant

    • Taught weekly English literature classes of 25 students each (50 students per semester)

    • Planned weekly lessons, quizzes, and activities for students

    • Graded all student exams and essays

    • Served as liaison between students and professor, and managed student communication

  • 2020-2021

    AudiAnnotate Audiovisual Extensible Workflow project

    • 2020 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

    2020-2021

    “Humanist-in-the-Loop: Responsible Data Operations and Workforce Development in Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” a University of Texas at Austin Good Systems grant.

    • Worked as part of a collaborative grant-writing team to seek external funding through additional NEH and IMLS grant applications.

    2019-2020

    Audiannotate

    • 2019 Digital Extension Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies

  • Can the Crowd Create Metadata? (January 2022)

    • blog post published on FromThePage

    Book review of Urgent Archives, Forthcoming in Information and Culture, 2022

    Archiving Our Own: The Digital Archive of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Texas at Austin, 1975-1995

    • Accepted for publication and forthcoming in College Composition and Communication (CCC)

    • Written by Mark Garrett Longaker, Nathan Kreuter, Stephen Kwame Dadugblor, Hannah Foltz, Tristin Brynn Hooker, Martha Sue Karnes, Bethany Caye Radcliff, KJ Schaeffner, and Kiara Walker

    “COVID-19 Oral History Project” Qualitative Data Management Plan - May 2021

    • by Amelia Acker, Ashley Bower, Emily Simpson, Bethany Radcliff, University of Texas at Austin, School of Information, developed for research by Whitney Chappell, University of Texas at San Antonio

  • AudiAnnotate for Increasing Access to Historical Audiovisual Collections Panel @ ACH 2021 - July 21, 2021

    • Presented with Kylie Warkentin on an AudiAnnotate lesson plan for presenting sensitive audio without replicating oppression, by practicing trauma-informed pedagogy

    • Other panelists: AudiAnnotate colleagues including Tanya Clement, Zoe Bursztajn-Illingsworth, Janet Reinschmidt, and Kylie Warkentin, and SpokenWeb colleagues Jason Camlot and Michelle Levy

    Into the Unknown: Rethinking Access, Pedagogy, Labor, & Agency in the Archive during COVID & Beyond @ Society of Southwest Archivists - May 18, 2021

    • Presented group presentation on labor and education at the Harry Ransom Center

    AudiAnnotate: Linked Data for Sound @ LD4 Conference - July 27, 2020

    • Presented on AudiAnnotate, linked data, and project documentation

    AudiAnnotate Workshop @ DH2020 Conference - July 22, 2020

    • Created workshop GitHub site as and presented walkthrough of application

    AudiAnnotate IIIF Virtual Workshop @ Texas Conference on Digital Libraries - May 28, 2020

    • Created workshop GitHub site as and presented walkthrough of application

    AudiAnnotate User Testing Workshop - November 22, 2019

    • Presented and created documentation for workshop to test workflow

    Historical Poetics Now Conference - November 7, 2019

    • Title: “Poetry and Digital Analytics, moderated by Tanya Clement and Laura Mandell”

    • Presented and ran a workshop on analyzing poetry using the software Gentle and Drift

    Tell-Tale Traces: Living Memory in the United States - April 5, 2019

    • Title: “A Hostage in Her Home? Reframing Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House”

    MIRS: Multi-disciplinary Information Research Symposium - April 22, 2019

    • Title: “Dying on Social Media: Remembering (and Forgetting) Death in the Digital Age”

    Society of American Archivists 2019 Annual Meeting Poster - August 3-5, 2020

    • Title: “The University of Texas at Austin SAA Chapter: Past. Present. Transformative.”

  • May 2019 - May 2020

    Student Organization of the School of Information - Faculty Liaison

    • Served as connection between student body and faculty, assist in event coordination and planning, and led monthly student body meetings

    • Organized Town Hall for the School of Information (April 21, 2020)

    January 2019 - December 2019

    Society of American Archivist - UT-Austin Student Chapter - Secretary

    • Took notes at each meeting, and communicated with members

    • Archived files on university Box

    • Responsible for yearly report and organizational memo

    • Presented poster at SAA

  • Software/Applications: GitHub, Open Refine, ContentDM, Omeka, Wordpress, Tableau, oXygen, Adobe Suite, Adobe Experience Manager, Drupal, Microsoft Suite, Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, Kitaboo epub software, Audacity, Sound Forge, basic Python

    Other skills: grant writing and reporting, communicating across departments and institutions, data management plans, outreach, reference interviews, teaching, hosting webinars, conference presentations, Dublin Core, MODS, archival research, site migration, basic HTML/XML + TEI

    Soft skills: Taking responsibility, listening, not afraid to ask questions, clear and thorough communicator, teamwork and collaboration, individual work and self-motivation, inspired