HIGHLIGHTS
Project manager for University of Southern California Greene & Greene online archives.
Eleven years as a research librarian and archivist for Lucasfilm Ltd.
Photography and art manager.
Database development and maintenance in a variety of library, archives, and business settings.
Digital Image Specialist.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Owner, Web Project Manager, 2003-present
    Klirrfaktor, San Francisco, CA
Owner of web hosting and web design service company, in operation since 1993.
Involved in all aspects of running the business, with an emphasis on:

• Project management
• Research and content development
• Information design and architecture
• Account management
• Quality control

Web Project Manager, 2002-2003
    University of Southern California, Greene & Greene Virtual Archives, School of Architecture
Finalized production of online digital archives project combining digital archives at UC Berkeley, University of Southern California, and Columbia University.
Coordinated team of twelve museum, archives, library professionals, and a design consultant firm.
Provided information architecture, design direction, content, and quality control of web site.
Lead team to complete project, set goals, and meet deadlines.

Digital Image Specialist, Librarian III, 2001-2002
    University of California at Berkeley, Environmental Design Archives, College of Architecture
Coordinated the handling and photographic processing of archival materials from the Charles Greene Collection.
Cataloged 900 pieces of artwork, created item records with Access database.
Provided quality control of digital derivatives for final web-accessible online archives project (Greene & Greene Virtual Archives).

Special Projects, May 2001-October 2001
    Supreme Court of California, California Judicial Center Law Library, San Francisco, California
Provided general support and administrative services for Library Director.
Designed displays, signage, brochures, manuals, maps, charts, graphs and diagrams.
Organized materials for Judicial archives.
Responded to patron?s requests by directing them to appropriate library personnel or resources.

Researcher, Website Quality Controller and Digital Image Editor, March 2000-December 2000
    Sayit.com, San Francisco, California
Evaluated, edited and catalogued user submitted digital content following company guidelines.
Consultant on Interface design and Information Architecture for web browser
Principal designer of database cataloging hierarchies for digital submissions.
Researched and developed reports of strategic business interest to the company.

Project and Data Manager, 1999-2000
    Airtreks.com, San Francisco, California
Liaison between management, designers and programmers, quality control of content and management of changes for all databases.
Research and development of airline flight path database.
Created database of travel photos and vendor documents, wrote procedure and training manuals for Operations Department.

Research Librarian, Film and Video Librarian, Art Manager, 1987-1998
    Lucasfilm, Ltd., Nicasio, California
Tenure for these major Lucasfilm Ltd. film and television productions: 
Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)
Willow (1988)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1992)
Radioland Murders (1994)
Star Wars-Episode I:  The Phantom Menace (1999)

Facilitated research requests from producers, directors, public relations, licensing, special effect artists (from Industrial Light and Magic), production artists and designers.
Management and development of film and video collection.
Manager of production art collection.
Cataloger of video footage.
Determined acquisitions and purchases, served as an educator about the collection.
Design and maintenance of film and video database.
Basic video editing.
Negotiated budget for materials and operations.


COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient in both PC and Macintosh platforms, Microsoft Office Suite.  Intermediate level skills in Photoshop and Dreamweaver, some HTML. Experience with database design and maintenance, content management systems.

EDUCATION
University of California at Berkeley, California, M.F.A., 1998-Fine Art
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, B.F.A., 1985-Fine Art

LANGUAGES
Native-speaker of English
Elementary Level I Modern Standard Arabic

REFERENCES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST