I have a BFA in Graphic Design and I added a Graduate Certificate in Archival Administration. So I am uniquely familiar with the entire lifecycle of visual communications: from the initial creative spark to a final produced version – then preserving the item and making it accessible for future generations.

I have experience using Adobe Experience Manager Assets, Google Photos, PhotoShelter, and ResourceSpace DAM systems to organize and categorize assets created by brands and organizations so that they can be easily found when needed.

View my Archival Administration student portfolio here.

Wayne State University's Digital Asset Library

I am the primary editor of Wayne State University's Digital Asset Library, which uses a PhotoShelter for Brands platform. This collaborative tool contains over 20,000 photos, graphics, and other assets. The library makes the university’s visual assets more easily discoverable and accessible to communicators across the campus and to the public.


I was pivotal in launching the university-wide system by building its folder structure and presenting it to WSU’s communications and marketing staff. Now that it’s rolled-out, I ingest files, add metadata to assets, and assist users. My boss called the library “revolutionary” for the way it helps our office collaborate with the WSU community. It increases the efficiency of the university’s graphic designers, web designers, social media creators, PR, and others.

Some of my accomplishments while building-out the the Digital Asset Library include:
•Developing a web-based tutorial
•Training other library staff members on adding metadata tags and asset ingestion
•Creating a taxonomy of WSU controlled vocabulary keywords for searching

View the public portal of WSU’s Digital Asset Library.

Adobe Experience Manager Assets

During my Archives Administration practicum at the corporate archive, Allied Vaughn, I digitized vehicle product photos from the early 2000s and made them accessible to researchers in a DAM system. I batched the photo transparencies into sets and recorded metadata on a spreadsheet. Then, I scanned each photo and saved them as high-resolution image files. I uploaded the files in bulk to their DAM, which used Adobe Experience Manager Assets software, and added the metadata in bulk. Lastly, I added indexing terms to the image assets using an automotive-focused taxonomy so that they could be more easily discovered by researchers.