Career Profile
As Head of Digital Media and Library Technologies, I provide leadership for the administration, planning, implementation, and assessment of the Library’s information technology and media services.
Experiences
• Direct a staff of seventeen professionals in two divisions of the Dartmouth College Library–a team of programmers, web developers and ILS specialists who comprise the Digital Library Technologies Group, and a team of librarians and technical staff who operate the Jones Media Center.
• Participate in policy, budget formulation, and operational decisions regarding the Library’s use of media systems and library technologies.
• Working to implement the Dartmouth Digital Library Plan, an initiative which will involve nearly every division of the library in a systematic process to digitize collections.
Collaborated with an invited global team of 50 peers to discern emerging technologies predicted to impact academic libraries over the next 2-5 years.
Collaborated with an invited global team of 78 peers to discern emerging technologies predicted to impact higher education over the next 2-5 years.
Collaborated with an invited global team of 50 peers to discern emerging technologies predicted to impact academic libraries over the next 2-5 years.
• Directed a staff of three professionals and six students providing broad-based academic technology support to 300+ faculty and staff in the Arts & Humanities division of the college.
• Managed the budget for the center.
• Maintained 15 servers providing filesharing, web hosting, communications, development, and media streaming services to faculty, students, and other collaborators.
• Conducted workshops for faculty on hardware, software, and copyright awareness.
• Served on committees for information security, library learning spaces, the CIO’s Council on Computing, web services review, and on the Executive Team of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning (DCAL).
• Worked directly with IT leadership on two Strategic Business Reduction Initiative committees to consolidate and restructure IT infrastructure and services for significant cost savings.
• Edited and contributed to the AHRC’s newsletter.
• Worked with Off Campus Programs office to provide technology support for faculty and centers abroad hosting Dartmouth’s Language Study Abroad and Foreign Study Programs.
• As one of the first Academic Technologists at Clark, established new partnerships between academic departments and Information Technology Services.
• Provided multi-platform instructional technology support for arts and humanities faculty.
• Worked with faculty to produce multimedia materials in support of classroom teaching, research initiatives, or professional presentations. These included PowerPoint presentations; teaching, training and presentations videos; web-sites; large-format posters; artwork for books; manuscript preparation; and materials for language study.
• Taught graduate courses on 'Teaching with Technology' for Certificate in College Teaching program through the Consortium of Worcester Colleges.
• Responsible for all technology infrastructure: servers, labs, desktops, networks, at former Japan branch campus of the MnSCU system.
• Taught "Introduction to microcomputer applications" course.
• Taught introductory and intermediate Japanese courses.
• Taught Japanese culture course and Women in Japan course.
• Managed foreign language lab.