Interim Managing Director, Archival Services - Heritage Werks - Atlanta, Georgia
(2026-05)
- Provide strategic oversight of archival operations, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and best practices.
- Manage archival directors, supporting team performance, professional development, and project execution.
- Monitor project health across multiple initiatives, tracking progress, identifying risks, and implementing solutions to maintain timelines and deliverables.
- Coordinate workflows across archival teams to improve efficiency, resource allocation, and operational consistency.
- Oversee archival vault space management, including capacity planning, storage optimization, and preservation considerations.
- Ensure compliance with archival standards, records management requirements, and preservation policies.
- Lead operational planning and prioritization efforts to balance ongoing archival activities with special projects.
- Support organizational decision-making through reporting, metrics tracking, and strategic recommendations.
Archival Servicing Director - Heritage Werks - Atlanta, Georgia
(2023-12)
- Provide archival services for a variety of clients, including, but not limited to:
- Creating collection development strategies for clients.
- Improving access to collections for clients through both physical and digital collections.
- Overseeing both small and large-scale shipments, ensuring the safety of archival assets during transit.
- Implemented an additional tracking system for shipments, both domestic and international.
- Providing guidance to our clients for collection maintenance.
- Working closely with the Content & Creative team to develop and execute exhibit installations.
- Preparing and delivering pitches and estimates for projects to clients alongside the Client Services team.
- Answering on-demand research questions for clients.
- Maintaining supply and hour budgets for clients.
- Overseeing a team of Senior Archivists, Archivists, Archive Technicians, and Interns.
- Creating, implementing, and enforcing standard operating procedures.
- Providing quality control checks and giving feedback to the servicing team members.
- Creating and maintaining relationships across all departments at Heritage Werks.
- Creating workflows and timeliness for small and large scale projects alongside the Managing Director of Archival Operations and Project Management.
- Act as a representative for Heritage Werks at professional conferences.
Senior Archivist - Heritage Werks - Atlanta, Georgia
(2023-01 - 2023-12)
- Provide archival services for a variety of clients, including, but not limited to:
- Processing, rehousing, providing item-level inventories.
- Accessioning new materials into the collection.
- Providing archival research for clients within their collection, both under short and long-term deadlines.
- Creating and maintaining governance documents for each collection.
- Packing and shipping materials to clients as needed.
- Overseeing interns, providing training and guidance.
- Overseeing a team of Archivists and Archives Technicians, implementing quality control checks of processed materials.
- Creating and following project workflows and timelines.
- Working closely with the digitization and platform teams to ensure correct metadata is applied to digitized materials.
Content Information Specialist II (previously Archive Librarian II) - CNN - Atlanta, Georgia
(2018-02 - 2023-01)
- Provide reference services for news teams around the world 24/7/365 at CNN, CNNI, CNNE, HLN, & CNN.com via e-mail, Slack chats, over the phone, and in-person.
- Create and add metadata to incoming records every week.
- Provide digital asset management within the CNN Library's permanent collection.
- Provide guidance and training for new hires on research, reference, and metadata.
- Work as team lead for CNN's Acquired Programming.
- Notable projects include: This is Life with Lisa Ling; United Shades of America (Emmy Winner); Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy (Emmy Winner); The Murdochs: Empire of Influence; CNN Films: 3 Identical Strangers; CNN Films: The Hunting Ground; On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries
- Conduct content research, rights, licensing, and video usage for CNN Original Series, CNN Films, and HBOMax Original Series & Films.
- Collaborate with outside production companies throughout each project.
- Manage my team of researchers and their workload.
- Provide training, guidance, and delegate projects to my team members.
- Provide constructive criticism, identify, and resolve workflow issues.
- Compile quarterly metrics to present to upper management.
- Review applications and resumes every semester. Conduct interviews for promising interns before selecting the final candidate.
- Work alongside other Intern Team members to train, assign projects, and provide quality control.
- Design projects based on the current intern's interests and skills.
- Collaborate with other members of the Video Library and Editorial Library staff to provide a well-rounded experience with the CNN Library.
Archive Librarian I - CNN - Atlanta, Georgia
(2014-07 - 2018-02)
- Provide reference services for news teams around the world 24/7/365 at CNN, CNNI, CNNE, HLN, & CNN.com via e-mail, Slack chats, over the phone, and in-person.
- Create and add metadata to incoming records every week.
- Added detailed logs on videos, including shot descriptions and speech transcripts.
- Provide digital asset management within the CNN Library's permanent collection.
- Participated in monthly indexing moderator meetings to work on the library's controlled vocabulary.
- Worked on the 2016 Election project
- Followed Ted Cruz's presidential campaign.
- Compiled research folders for clients' usage.
- Suggested items for archive as videos were brought into the editing system.
- Selected to be on the CNN Acquired Programming Team, later promoted to team lead.
- Notable projects include: Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown (Emmy Winner); Death Row Stories; The Hunt with John Walsh (Emmy Nominated); The Wonder List with Bill Weir; Race for the White House; The Eighties; The Reagan Years; High Profits (Emmy Nominated)
- Conduct content research, rights, licensing, and video usage for CNN Original Series and CNN Films.
- Collaborate with outside production companies throughout each project.
- Selected as one of twenty five candidates for Turner's R.I.S.E program
- Participated in the immersive leadership development program
- Participated in several workshops, completed Strengthsfinder 2.0
- Worked with a small team to develop a business plan for a new product for the company.
Archivist I - CNN - Atlanta, Georgia
(2012-05 - 2014-06)
- Provide reference services for news teams around the world 24/7/365 at CNN, CNNI, CNNE, HLN, & CNN.com via e-mail, Slack chats, over the phone, and in-person.
- Added metadata and cataloged video archived into the CNN Library's permanent collection.
Contract Archivist - Lakeview Capital - Birmingham, Michigan
(2011-10 - 2012-05)
- Contract archiving job processing the business and personal papers of a private individual.
- Conducted an inventory of processed collections using Vernon Systems database
- Provided digital preservation for the archived materials.
- Ran Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on digitized documents.
- Conducted training sessions on Vernon Systems database for new employees.
- Materials worked with included paper, realia, photographs, digital-born records, CDs, DVDs, film, and audio tapes.
Graduate Student Assistant - Wayne State University - Detroit, Michigan
(2010-01 - 2011-05)
- Provided reference services at Wayne State University Purdy/Kresge Graduate Library
- Provided reference in-person, and virtually via chat and e-mail.
- Trouble-shooted technology problems for in-house patrons.
- Worked with online resources, print resources, microfilm, and microfiche.
- Worked on a collection development project involving subscriptions to social science journals, findings were used to weed and add to the collection.
Corporation of Public Broadcasting Grant Archives Assistant - Interlochen Center for the Arts - Interlochen, Michigan
(2011-09 - 2011-09)
4-week grant-supported internship.
- Conducted an inventory of the archival collection for Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen Arts Camp, and Interlochen Arts Academy.
- Cataloged archival records using the digital asset database SirsiDynix Portfolio, applying DublinCore metadata standards to each record.
- Worked with a variety of materials including: reel to reel film, acetate discs, ¼ inch audio tape, LP vinyl, DAT tapes, CDs and DVDs.
Archives Intern - Freer|Sackler Gallery Archives - Washington, District of Columbia
(2011-07 - 2011-07)
2-week intensive internship
- Converted existing finding aids of the Myron Bement Smith Collection and the John Calvin Ferguson Family Papers into Electronic Archival Description (EAD) format.
- Finding aids were converted using NoteTab Pro and the Library of Congress' EAD tag listing.
Archives Intern - The Walters Art Museum Archives - Baltimore, Maryland
(2011-06 - 2011-07)
6-week internship
- Processed the personal papers of Dorothy Kent Hill
- Set up and used Archivists' Toolkit for the collection
- Created a finding aid upon completion of processing and arrangement
- Used the Greene and Meissner's "More Product Less Process" method
- Followed Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) for description
