Lisa Grimm's Incredibly Interesting CV

Employment Freelance Work
2010-current
Director of Design & Development
JTE Multimedia
Berwyn, PA, USA

 2009-current
2007-2010
Assistant Archivist
Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

  • Providing historical research and reference services for local and offsite researchers
  • Moving reference tracking from paper to digital
  • Overseeing digitization projects and managing digital assets & electronic records
  • Accessioning and cataloging of archival materials using DACS & Archivists’ Toolkit
  • Streamlining and formalizing workflows
  • Creating & maintaining departmental blog
 2007-2009
2006-2007
Senior Web Specialist
University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA

  • Managing all aspects of the Penn Vet web site
  • Overseeing major technology projects and software integrations
  • Selecting & managing vendors
  • Developing a content & digital asset management solution for learning objects
  • Creating policies and standards for information architecture and metadata
 2006-2007
2005-2006
Project Librarian/Archivist
Brooklyn Museum Libraries & Archives
Brooklyn, NY, USA

  • Processing the Brooklyn Museum Art School collection and preparing finding aid
  • Updating Access database and creating original MARC records
  • Processing and cataloging the Allen Wardwell library collection
  • Answering reference questions
 2005-2006
2003-2005
Web Production Editor
Nature Publishing Group
New York, NY, USA

  
2002-2003
HAN Content Manager
NYC Department of Health
New York, NY, USA

  • Working with external vendors and internal teams to develop and launch the Health Alert Network web site
  • Managing content and developing information architecture standards
  • Managing users and documents with ActiveDirectory and SharePoint
 2002-2003
2001-2002
e-Team Logistics Manager
Hewlett-Packard Media Solutions
Cupertino, CA, USA

  • Working with clients to develop schedules and standards for live and pre-recorded online training events in the US, Europe and Asia within a $200,000 budget
  • Setting production schedules and targets for CD production
  • Managing and developing client relationships
  • Collaborating with internationally-distributed team to manage events
  
2001
Project Manager
Juniper Networks
Sunnyvale, CA, USA

  • Identifying and managing all aspects related to the global Juniper.net web site
  • Developing and enforcing information architecture standards
  • Collaborating with multiple international departments for initial content development and updates
  
1998-2001
Web Production Manager
Women.com Networks
San Mateo, CA, USA

  • Interviewing, hiring, training and managing a team of six web developers
  • Allocating projects and developing employee goals and standards
  • Maintaining and negotiating schedules among multiple departments
  • HTML and Javascript coding; building new web site templates
  • Developing and enforcing information architecture standards
  • Evaluating new software solutions and recommending packages for purchase
  • Managing bicoastal rollout of new navigation, channels and web sites
  • Sites: Women.com, WomensWire, Satellite Sisters, Prevention, B. Smith With Style, Crayola Family Play
1998-2001
1997
Web Programmer
Smartnet Ltd.
London, UK

  
1996-1997
Web Assistant
Time Out
London, UK

  • HTML coding, some layout of Time Out web site
  • Updated sites weekly & fielded user and advertiser queries
 1996-1997

  • Wrote occasional music reviews, Time Out
1993
Archaeologist
Ashkelon Excavations
Ashkelon, Israel

  • Digging, recording, finds management
  • Research
  
Education
MS in Library and Information Science, 2006
Palmer School of Library and Information Science
Long Island University
Brookville, NY, USA
Concentration in Rare Books & Special Collections; coursework in Knowledge Organization, Metadata, Archives, Cataloging
MA in Archaeology, 1997
University College London
London, UK
Dissertation on the trade of amber in the late bronze/early iron age in Northern Europe
BA in Archaeology, 1995
Boston University
Boston, MA, USA
Other courses included Latin, Geology, Chemistry, Folklore, English Literature
Other Courses:
Rare Book School: The Printed Book in the West since 1800
Individual classes: Human-computer interaction, software engineering, C, C++, database design, German for reading
Skills
Operating systems: Macintosh, Windows, UNIX, Linux
Software: HomeSite, Photoshop, Illustrator, MS Office, MS Project, MS Access, Open Office, Final Cut Pro, iMovie, HP Virtual Classroom, Blackboard, Moodle, SharePoint, Quark, InDesign, RLIN Terminal, Voyager, Archivists’ Toolkit
Web & Metadata: HTML, XHTML, XML, SGML, CSS, SQL, Javascript, Perl, ColdFusion, ASP, DACS, LCSH, AACR2, MARC, Dublin Core, EAD, DACS, SCORM, Blogger, WordPress, Moveable Type, Joomla, Drupal
Languages: Reading knowledge of Latin, French and Spanish; some German
etc.: Delivering presentations, academic teaching and employee training
Affiliations
SAA, MARAC, DVAG, BJCP, PMI