About Me

What led me here

Libraries were my first refuge. Growing up, the Lake County Public Library offered a sense of belonging and possibility that shaped how I see the world. After a decade leading operations and teams, building reporting systems, KPI dashboards, and data-driven decision frameworks, I returned to academic research at Harvard Extension School and encountered a turning point: while studying the Montagu case in England, I discovered that the key court transcript had rarely been consulted because it was not digitized or easily accessible. That gap did not just complicate the history; it limited who could participate in telling it.

That experience pushed me toward library and information science, where I found the professional language for questions I had already been solving in practice: how information is structured, how access is governed, how evidence becomes findable, how categories shape what people see, and how systems can either clarify or obscure the truth.

The through-line

My work sits at the intersection of archives, metadata, teaching, and operational systems. The setting changes, but the professional problem is consistent: people need information they can find, understand, trust, and use.

Archives and teaching. My MLIS in Archives Management from Simmons gave me hands-on training in archival description, metadata, digital preservation, digital stewardship, information organization, database management, and technology for information professionals. My teaching interests center on access, description, archival silence, reparative practice, digital stewardship, and helping students turn standards into professional judgment.

Metadata, ontology, and taxonomy. I work with metadata schema design, controlled vocabularies, authority control, faceted classification, RDF / XSLT crosswalking, and the broader semantic layer. Standards and vocabularies include Dublin Core, CDWA-Lite, PREMIS, EAD3 / DACS, MODS, LCSH, LCNAF, AAT, ULAN, TGN, RDF, SKOS, and ISO 25964‑1. In April 2026 I attended Taxonomy Boot Camp London, with direct exposure to semantic interoperability, knowledge graphs, taxonomy management platforms, structured content architectures, LLM-enriched taxonomy workflows, and retrieval-augmented generation.

Data architecture, governance, and analytics. Before Simmons, I built reporting systems, governance practices, role-based access controls, dashboards, and data-driven decision frameworks in operating businesses. That background matters because information systems do not succeed on structure alone. They have to be adopted, documented, maintained, and trusted by real stakeholders.

What I bring from past roles

My background as a director of operations taught me to lead teams, manage complex portfolios, and build evidence-based processes. At Property Management One I governed a portfolio of 140 properties and 2,200 units, established compliance and reporting frameworks for HOA boards and owners, ran the company day to day (owning the budgets, the monthly owner and board reporting, company-wide payroll, and the staff, and winning new business), and led the enterprise selection and full implementation of Appfolio, defining the data architecture, asset classification schemas, role-based access controls, and real-time performance dashboards that unified reporting across the portfolio. At MindinMotion I drove $500,000 in annual revenue across wholesale and e-commerce channels by analyzing product performance by category, channel, and SKU; built the business case for a Shopify-to-QuickBooks platform migration including labor cost analysis; led the migration; and recovered 40 hours per week of operational labor. At Forever 21 I increased revenue 30 percent in six months through traffic, conversion, and Units-per-Transaction analysis, outperforming the comp set on every reported KPI.

What this means in practice: I have owned the P&L, the platform, and the stakeholders behind the dashboards. I have stood up enterprise systems in production and lived with them for years. I have designed classification systems that real businesses depend on, and I now bring graduate-level information-organization training to that work.

What I am prepared to teach

I am prepared to teach archives and information work as a set of practices and responsibilities: archival description, arrangement and access, metadata for cultural heritage, digital stewardship, web archiving, reparative description, database thinking, linked data, taxonomy, and the relationship between technical systems and ethical judgment.

My approach is structured, candid, inclusive, and practice-based. Students should know what they are being asked to do, why the work matters, how a professional standard helps, and where that standard becomes insufficient.

Availability and authorization

Open to teaching, archives, metadata, taxonomy, data governance, information architecture, knowledge management, data stewardship, business analytics, and reporting roles. Authorized to work anywhere in the United States. Bilingual English / Spanish.