I have worked in information and technology since 1995.  My experience spans multiple sectors including retail, government, publishing, banking/insurance, healthcare, and education.

Product/Project Management,  Data Management , Data Governance, Metadata and Taxonomy, Digital Archiving and Digital Curation


Selected Work Accomplishments:

  • Consulted on the configuration, setup and onboarding development for several data catalogs and glossary tools – Ataccama, MS Purview, Alation, Informatica, Collibra, IBM Infosphere.
  • Managed a company-wide business glossary and data catalog to support data standardization and governance.
  • Managed the taxonomy and metadata for a product catalog with 1M+ products in over 4,000 categories for a major Fortune 500 company.
  • Revised taxonomy and developed a metadata schema library for a university archive.  Re-designed and worked with IT/UX developers to revamp the online digital repository.
  • Developed workflows to remediate existing metadata for large digital repositories in government and publishing.
  • Developed appropriate metadata scheme for a course image data bank for a major academic publisher.
  • Advised and recommended corrections to existing metadata in a large HR management system.  Recommended appropriate, sustainable solutions to fix problems in data access and retrieval.
  • Digitally curated and created metadata schema for content in a new digital education marketplace.
  • Maintained a web-based medical equipment product database (PIM) for a major healthcare organization. Advised a web startup company in developing an online medical equipment planning repository.

Digital Asset Management / Metadata Management / Taxonomy

I have also consulted for colleges, universities, libraries and museums to manage the metadata and taxonomies for catalog content in their digital repositories.  I have worked extensively with licensed, open education and in-house (and Cloud-based) digital assets. This scope also includes rights management as well.

My company/client list is extensive but some of the notable ones are:

  • McGraw-Hill Education
  • Pearson Education
  • John Wiley & Sons
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Chicago History Museum
  • Smithsonian Museum
  • Scholastic Corporation
  • LinkedIn
  • Colleges & Universities: Texas Southmost College (TSC), Arizona University (ASU), Western Governors University (WGU), University of Phoenix (UofP), Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU)

Work with Me

If you have a project that could benefit from my expertise, please use the contact form to send me a brief message describing your project. Serious inquiries only.  I look forward to working with you.