Experience

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Moving Image Cataloger / Researcher

  • Sep 1998 - Present

  Catalog records of film holdings in the Academy Film Archive including feature films, short films, documentaries and amateur documentation (home movies) using the MAVIS database. Team with archival, preservation and curatorial staff to develop collection level cataloging strategies. Provide extensive support to the Special Collections curator in transferring amateur film footage (8mm and 16mm) into digital files, supplying in-depth historical and, when available, biographical data for the Home Movie Collections exhibited at Academy events. Special interests and knowledge focus on Hollywood film productions from the late 1920s through the 1950s. Show less



Tactic Company

• Freelance

• Writer, Researcher

  • Jan 2011 - Oct 2011

  Contributor to Film titles database, Television database and Entertainment Industry Biographical Profiles for various clients of the Tactic Company. Contributor to Film titles database, Television database and Entertainment Industry Biographical Profiles for various clients of the Tactic Company.



The American Film Institute

• United States
• Entertainment Providers
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Cataloger / Researcher / Writer / Co-Editor

  • Jun 1997 - Nov 2010

  Researcher, writer and co-editor on the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, the authoritative filmographic database reference guide on the web on the production history of films produced in the US from 1894 to 1973. Contributed to titles from 1940s, 1950s, 1970s and AFI Top Ten from 2000-2009 with additional contributions to titles from the 1920s, 1930s and the 1960s. Researcher, writer and co-editor on the AFI Catalog of Feature Films, the authoritative filmographic database reference guide on the web on the production history of films produced in the US from 1894 to 1973. Contributed to titles from 1940s, 1950s, 1970s and AFI Top Ten from 2000-2009 with additional contributions to titles from the 1920s, 1930s and the 1960s.



Freelance Writer

• Los Angeles

• Film Reviewer

  • Oct 1996 - May 2005

  Reviewed new feature film productions for film industry trade journal Boxoffice magazine and alternative press Baltimore City Paper. Reviewed new feature film productions for film industry trade journal Boxoffice magazine and alternative press Baltimore City Paper.