Background

Education

Southern Methodist University, 2019

An intensive 24-week long program dedicated to designing and building web applications. Skills learned consisted of HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Postgresql, JavaScript, JQuery, and ReactJS.

University of Michigan, 2014-2016

Master of Science in Information

Bowling Green State University, 2010-2014

Bachelor of Arts, History

Work Experience

Battelle, 2023-Present

Software Engineer

Reynolds and Reynolds, 2020-2023

Full Stack Developer

University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2018-2020

Digital Archivist

• Develop a new automated workflow for transferring digital files from CDs/Floppy Disks/Hard drive into a long-term storage location. Write and update documentation to allow for the delegation of tasks.
• Create Python scripts to automate the creation of XML metadata files from Word document templates. Maintain the scripts so they can fit a variety of use cases.
• Write Python and Bash scripts to support the renaming of over 15,000 TIFF files, their related JPG files, and their metadata, in preparation for their import into a Drupal application

Bentley Historical Library (University of Michigan), 2016-2018

Project Archivist

• Assisted with a metadata reconciliation project to prepare over 2,500 XML files to be imported into a Rails application, using Python and Regular Expressions.
• Interviewed colleagues to create user stories to better customize our Rails application used for metadata.
• Worked with donors of archival collections on a daily basis. Served as the primary point of contact and determined whether or not material fit with our collections.