MLIS (May 2011)
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Certification in Digital Content Management (May 2011)
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

BS, Business Marketing and Visual Arts (May 2006)
Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas

Digital Collections Librarian (August 2017-present)
Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas

• Managing the Texas State University Digital Collections Repository
• Collaborating to establish and grow content in the Texas State University Dataverse
• Writing metadata records, developing standards, maintaining consistency and organization, and processing materials for the digital collections and data repository
• Active service and participation on university library, faculty, and professional association committees and working groups
• Promoting library services via conference presentations, workshops, professional events, and active participation in the library community

Marketing Coordinator (October 2015-August 2017)
Texas Digital Library, Austin, Texas

• Creating and managing WordPress websites for the TDL, Texas Data Repository, Vireo Users Group, and TxETD Association
• Writing content and promoting the TDL through social media, email lists, and bi-monthly newsletters
• Organizing and presenting content for monthly online TDL Forum
• Managing the TDL DSpace repository including writing metadata and file normalization
• Developing curriculum and delivering training to students, staff, and faculty on Open Journal Systems software
• Event planning for conferences, symposiums, meetings, workshops, and webinars
• Preparing budgets, reports, and cooperative grant documents
• Representing TDL and promoting services via conference presentations, workshops, training, professional events, and active participation in library communities

Repository Librarian for Scholarly Works (February 2012-October 2015)
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

• Writing metadata records, developing standards, maintaining consistency and organization, and processing materials for the institutional repository and data repository
• Securing copyright permissions and licensing for national and international materials
• Developing standards and controlled vocabularies including the UNT Names online database, shared globally
• Collaboration with faculty, staff, and student groups on outreach and event planning to promote digital library services
• Delivering training workshops to faculty, staff, and students
• Active service and participation on university library, faculty, and professional association committees and working groups
• Supervising two student employees
• Promoting library services via conference presentations, workshops, professional events, and active participation in the library community

Graduate Library Assistant (August 2010-February 2012)
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

• Creating and fostering the growth of an institutional repository for the university
• Collaboration with the technology and communications teams to develop system requirements and ensure a quality user experience
• Establishing policies and workflows for metadata in qualified Dublin Core, file normalization, controlled vocabularies, and legal records
• Securing copyright and licensing permissions of materials for the repository
• Developing and delivering training about the repository to faculty, staff, and students
• Responding to online and in-person inquiries and providing information to faculty, staff, students, and the community
• Promoting library services via conference presentations, workshops, professional events, and active participation in the library community

Student Assistant (March 2010-August 2010)
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

• Developing online tutorials on software and digitization workflows
• Responding and providing information and reference via online forms from community users
• Writing metadata records for digitized items in accordance with established standards in qualified Dublin Core
• Digitizing materials for The Portal to Texas History including archival documents, photographs, and glass plate negatives

English Teacher (July 2008-July 2009)
Avalon English Academy, Seoul, South Korea

• Preparing curriculum and interactive activities
• Teaching middle-school aged students daily and filling in to teach other classes as needed
• Collaborating with Korean teachers on curriculum and progress reports for parents
• Promotion to Team Leader for the campus to train new English teachers and check for consistency in curriculum
• Participation in community-wide events to promote education and the Avalon English Academy

Publications

Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (2015-present)
Pacific University Libraries

The Electronic Library (2013-present)
Emerald Publishing

• Editorial Board Member (2016-present)
• Reviewer of the Year Award (2015)

Handbook of Research on Developing Metadata Schemas and Application Profiles (forthcoming book)
IGI Global Publishing

• Reviewers Board Member (2015-present)

Conferences

Digital Frontiers Conference (2012-present)

Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (2014-2017)

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative International Conference (2014-2015)

International iConference (2013-2014)

Cross Timbers Library Consortium Conference (2012-2013)

American Library Association

• Association of College and Research Libraries
  • Digital Curation Interest Group
  • University Libraries Interest Group
• Library Research Round Table
  • Membership Subcommittee (2013-2015)

Beta Phi Mu, International Library and Information Science Honor Society

• Invited Member (2011-present)

Council of Research and Academic Libraries

• Open Access, Copyright, and Fair Use Interest Group

Cross Timbers Library Collaborative

• Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation Affinity Group
  • Co-creator; Planning Committee (2013-2015)

Digital Frontiers

• Conference Committee (2012-present)
  • Chair, Code of Conduct Subcommittee (2014-2015)

Society of American Archivists

• College and University Archives Section
• Metadata and Digital Object Roundtable
• Research Libraries Roundtable

Southwestern Association of Law Libraries

• Constitution and Bylaws Committee (2014-2016)

Texas Archivematica Users Group (A-Tex)

• Steering Committee (2016-present)

Texas Library Association

• College and University Libraries Division
• Digital Libraries Roundtable
  • Chair-Elect (2018-2019)
  • Legislative Committee (2013-2015)

Texas State University Promotions Team (2018-present)

• Makers Day Subcommittee (2018-2019)
• Escape Room Subcommittee (2018-2019)
• Subject-Librarian Trading Cards Subcommittee (2018-2019)

Texas State University Metadata Advisory Committee (2018-present)

Texas Data Repository Steering Committee (2017-present)

• Vice-Chair (2018-2019)
• TDR Assessment Working Group (2017-present)

Texas State University Digital Preservation Working Group (2017-present)

Texas State University Scholarly Communications Team (2017-present)

Texas State University Social Media Advisory Committee (2017-present)

Texas Digital Library DSpace Education Working Group (2016-present)

Texas Digital Library Awards Committee (2015-2017)

Texas Digital Library Dataverse Implementation Working Group (2015-2017)

Texas Conference on Digital Libraries Planning Committee (2014-2017)

• Chair (2015-2016)

University of North Texas Faculty Senate, elected representative (2013-2015)

• Co-chair, Committee on Committees (2014-2015)

University of North Texas Faculty Policy Writing Group: Faculty Misconduct Policy (Spring 2014)

University of North Texas Library Personnel Affairs Committee, elected representative (2013-2015)

• Grievance Committee PAC (2015-2016)
• Secretary, Division PAC (2014-2015)

University of North Texas Libraries Assessment Workgroup (2013-2015)

Open Access Symposium Planning Committee (2013-2015)

University of North Texas Open Access Week Planning Committee (2012-2015)

University of North Texas Library Assembly (2012-2013)

• Secretary (2012-2013)