Experience

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  ABC News (Disney/ABC, Inc)

  • Director, Video Resources & Digital Archives

    • Feb 2000 - Aug 2010

    Led all film/video library operations: acquisition, maintenance and preservation, circulation, cataloguing, research, and computer systems development. Four managers and supervisors reporting. Focussed on planning and implementation of digital capture, archiving, and research as well as preservation initiatives. Transformed the library from a physical, analog collection to a growing and viable digital archive. Restructured workflow to accomplish necessary tasks with smaller staff.

  • Associate Director, Video Resources

    • Aug 1997 - Feb 2000

    Administered Film/Video Library and Archives plus News Rights & Clearances and Permissions Departments--responsibilities included planning, budgeting, hiring, evaluation. Led departmental planning, oversight, testing, and implementation of large scale, enterprise-based SQL archive asset management and research system which took the place of a twenty-three year old mainframe system.

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  ABC News (Capital Cities/ABC, Inc)

  • United States
  • Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Manager, News Film/Videotape Library & Archives

    • Dec 1992 - Aug 1997

    Administered Film/Video Library and Archives with responsibilities including planning, budgeting, hiring. Initiated project, developed, and implemented News Rights & Clearances and Permissions departments; hired professional specialists and attorneys in those areas. Successfully centralized those activities in order to exert control over use of outside intellectual property as well as over ABC News property. Effected a sea change in the attitude and responsibilities of News producers toward all intellectual property and copyright.Campaigned for, then worked on a small team which planned and built an in-house 18,000 sq foot Library storage facility in an ABC building close to the production center, resulting in lower costs and quicker access. Additionally, this modern climate-controlled facility furthered preservation as well as workflow development efforts.As part of this same initiative and small team, campaigned to bring News footage sales in house for the first time in 30 years--then researched, planned and opened ABC News VideoSource--one of the premiere News footage licensing agencies worldwide.

  • Manager, News Archives

    • Sep 1988 - Dec 1992

    Managed off-air recording collection and information specialists. Re-organized collection of off-air recordings and improved its information base.

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  ABC News

  • Assistant Manager, News Archives

    • Oct 1987 - Sep 1988

    Facilitated preservation of air histories existing on old media formats.

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  American Film & Video Association (AFVA)

  • Director of Information Services

    • Mar 1984 - Oct 1987

    Managed an extensive information databank and reference services of a national membership organization.

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  various New York City area colleges and univers...

  • Instructor of Film & TV history and criticism

    • Jan 1980 - Jun 1984

    incl. Adelphi University, Brooklyn College, New York University, St. John's University

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  Baseline, Inc

  • Managing Editor, Online Database

    • Jan 1982 - Mar 1984

    Database design, operations planning and supervision of editorial and data entry area for an early online information system for the entertainment industry. Edited and designed print reference publications.