EXPERIENCE
METADATA OPERATIONS SPECIALIST
Cataloging & Metadata Services, Columbia University Libraries, New York, NY
2017 – Present
Metadata enhancement and remediation for a variety of archival digitization projects for Columbia University Libraries’ digital collections. Original and copy MARC cataloging of English, Turkish, and Persian-language materials including books and electronic resources. Creation of name authority records for Columbia’s NACO program.
LIBRARY ASSISTANT (TEMPORARY)
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2017
Supported the staff at the MoMA’s Offsite Library with a variety of tasks as needed, including paging, shelving, cataloging, and reference service.
RESEARCHER (TEMPORARY)
Sotheby’s, New York, NY
2017
Researched the exhibition history and provenance of artworks by major Modern and Contemporary artists and created object metadata for internal curatorial database.
ARCHIVES INTERN
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, NY
2017
Arranged, described, and rehoused the archival papers of artist Robert Rauschenberg. Created object records and finding aids for archival materials in ArchivesSpace, and assisted with digitization and metadata entry.
LINKED OPEN DATA FELLOW
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2016 – 2017
Researched and codified best practices for the creation and publication of a linked open data-set for the Whitney’s collection objects and artists, including conceptual modeling, selecting metadata schemas, data cleaning and normalization, and programming in Python and SQL.
ARCHIVES INTERN
Laurie Anderson Studio, New York, NY
2016 – 2017
Digitized and created metadata for the artist’s documentary photos, tour visuals, preparatory sketches and storyboards, and other archival materials. Created a MySQL database to organize Anderson’s archival tapes and to manage and document the process of their digitization.
COLLECTIONS INTERN
Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY
2016
Indexed, relabeled, and created an updated finding aid for the Rubin’s collection object files. Created metadata for the museum’s image assets, and updated object records in the Rubin’s collections management database.
IMAGE ARCHIVIST
McKee Gallery, New York, NY
2012 – 2015
Managed McKee Gallery’s digital image assets, digitized and created metadata for archival slides and transparencies, and edited and color-corrected images for print and web use. Maintained and updated the gallery’s existing website, conducted provenance research, and assisted with the creation of exhibition catalogs, artist monographs, and catalogue raisonnés.
WORKFLOW COORDINATOR
PosterPrint Factory, New York, NY
2012
Managed production workflow for large-scale printing company. Organized image files and client orders using the company’s back-end content management system and edited and reformatted images.
DIGITAL IMAGE EDITOR
Sunshine Photo, Brooklyn, NY
2010 – 2011
Operated commercial photo printing equipment and edited and color-corrected client images using proprietary software. Digitized, edited, and restored photographs and slides.
GALLERY INTERN
ZieherSmith, New York, NY
2011
Entered new artworks and contacts into the gallery’s Artsystems database. Digitized photos and press materials for archival use. Photographed and edited images of artwork and installations.
DIGITAL MEDIA SPECIALIST
Mehdi Dilmaghani & Co. Inc, Scarsdale, NY
2010
Edited and created metadata for photographs of all incoming merchandise for use online and in the company’s internal inventory database. Managed and uploaded new content to the company’s third-party retail sales site.
EDUCATION
MASTER OF SCIENCE, LIBRARY & INFORMATION SCIENCE
Pratt Institute, New York, NY
2016 – 2017
BACHELOR OF HUMANITIES AND ARTS, HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY & ART
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2005 – 2009
CERTIFICATES
CERTIFICATE IN XML and RDF-Based Systems
Library Juice Academy
2018
CERTIFICATE IN WEB DESIGN
The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX
2010
SKILLS
Languages: Spanish – Full professional proficiency, Turkish – Professional working proficiency, Persian – Limited working proficiency
Programming: Python, SQL, XML, JSON, HTML, CSS
Ontologies, Standards, and Vocabularies: CDWA, CIDOC/CRM, LIDO, RDF, OWL, SKOS, Dublin Core, VRA CORE, LC, EAC-CPF, EAD, MODS, METS, MARC21/MARCXML, DACS, CCO, RDA, AAT, ULAN, TGM, FAST
Database Systems: TMS, ArchivesSpace, PastPerfect, Omeka, ArtBase, Artsystems, FileMaker Pro, Millennium, Voyager, OCLC Connexion
Other Applications: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom, OpenRefine, Microsoft Excel, FinalCut Pro