Tony Gill Brooklyn, New York, USA tg@tonygill.com SUMMARY CIO and media asset management professional with 17 years’ experience developing collaborative, standards-driven solutions for the creation, management and delivery of high quality digital multimedia content in cultural heritage, marketing communications and luxury goods contexts. Strengths include information strategy & policy development, consortial project management, team leadership, budget management, enterprise content and digital asset management, ontology, taxonomy & vocabulary development & deployment, (meta)data modeling, information architecture, system requirements analysis & procurement, search engine optimization, usability & interface design, teaching, grant writing and evaluation/ assessment. A creative problem-solver with excellent written and verbal communication skills. EMPLOYMENT Global Director of Library Science & Information Management Enfatico (USA). 2008 - Present * Defining and implementing standards, policies, procedures and workflows for digital asset and enterprise content management across a major global marketing organization servicing Dell Inc.; * Deploying global digital asset management infrastructure based upon a network of 8 Xinet WebNative/Portal servers; * Defining global metadata schema, taxonomies and controlled vocabularies; * Overseeing the cataloguing and classification of digital assets by a distributed team of digital asset librarians; Chief Information Officer J. Panther Luggage Co. (USA). 2010 - Present * Design, develop and maintain website and online e-commerce store for luxury luggage start-up; * Manage jpantherluggage.com domain, web hosting and email; * Define standards for file formats, image resolution and aspect ratio, metadata and filenaming; * Participate in strategic planning with senior management team; Adjunct Assistant Professor New York University (USA). 2007 - 2010 * Teaching 13-week Interactive Technologies in Museums class as part of Masters Program in Museum Studies at NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science (one evening per week); * Guiding students in their final projects to develop detailed and realistic proposals for museum interactive projects; Director, Gruss Lipper Digital Laboratory Center for Jewish History (USA). 2005 - 2008 * Founded and directed a state-of-the-art facility to build digital collections from the museum, library and archive collections of 5 partner institutions comprising the Center for Jewish History; * Established consensus-based standards and procedures for workflow, image and audio digitization, quality assurance, metadata and classification; * Implemented campus-wide Digital Repository and Digital Collections delivery system using Ex Libris' DigiTool digital asset management system: (digital.cjh.org); * Managed a grant-funded budget of $3/4 million over 3 years; * Led the re-architecting of the CJH corporate website to new infrastructure based on proprietary CMS platform; * Recruited, trained & supervised Lab team; * Chaired Digital Laboratory Advisory Committee; Freelance Consultant Self-Employed (USA). 2005 * "Digital Asset Management @ B&b" report for Bumble & Bumble Inc. Included an extensive data dictionary and category taxonomy tailored to B&b requirements, a review of existing DAM practices, general recommendations for improved workflow, staffing, file management, metatagging and digital archiving; * Updated "Metadata and the Web" for the Getty Research Institute (USA); Director of Metadata & Cataloguing ARTstor/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (USA). 2002 - 2004 * Directed development of descriptive metadata strategy and schema for ARTstor (www.artstor.org), a digital library of over 550,000 art images and related materials for educational use; * Led ARTstor Metadata Team, comprising Senior Metadadata Analyst, Senior Metadata Editor and five part-time Cataloguers; * Contributed to the strategic planning for ARTstor as part of senior management team; * Managed metadata evaluation and quality control activities; * Liaised with current and potential content contributors; * Participated in international information standards communities, particularly the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group, which developed an object-oriented domain reference ontology, now ISO 21127:2006. Program Officer Research Libraries Group (USA). 1999 - 2002 * Co-ordinated member programmatic activities with a specific focus on art, museum and cultural heritage initiatives; * Acted as RLG liaison/secretary for Art & Architecture Group Steering Committee and SCIPIO Advisory Task Force, and chaired RLG Cultural Materials Description Advisory Group; * Provided expert input into information access and interface requirements for RLG Cultural Materials; led the design of the underlying relational data model; * Wrote first edition of contributor resource description guidelines; * Liaised with RLG Cultural Materials Alliance participants and contributors; * Active in international information standards initiatives, particularly the CIDOC CRM Special Interest Group; * Served on RLG Focus Editorial Board. ADAM & VADS Programme Leader Surrey Institute of Art & Design (UK). 1996 - 1999 * Led team (distributed across consortial partners) developing ADAM, the Art, Design, Architecture & Media information gateway (adam.ac.uk), and VADS, the Visual Arts Data Service; * Wrote successful bid to host Visual Arts Data Service (vads.ahds.ac.uk); * Managed multiple grant-based project budgets; * Liaised with consortium partner steering committees and other projects in the JISC Electronic Libraries Programme and the Arts & Humanities Data Service; * Represented JISC in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Freelance consultant Self-employed (UK). 1997 - 1999 * "Metadata and the WWW" for the Getty Information Institute (USA); * "JIDI Metadata Schema" for University of Bristol (UK); * "National Collections Centre Strategy Report" for the Science Museum (UK); * "Using Web 3-D Technology for Cultural Heritage" for RLG (USA). Technical Outreach Manager Museum Documentation Association (UK). 1994 - 1995 * Advised UK museum and gallery community on the best use of information and communications technology; * Created a wide range of outreach resources, including multimedia presentations, fact sheets, web resources and "The MDA Guide to Computers in Museums." Graphic Designer/Typesetter Self-employed (UK). 1992 - 1993 * Produced promotional literature, reports, CVs and business stationery. EDUCATION 1994 MA Communication in Computing, Middlesex University, London, UK. Final project: "Information Technology in Museums: User Interface Design for Collection Management Software." 1990 BSc (Honours) Physics & Philosophy, King's College London, UK SKILLS & EXPERIENCE Vocabularies: AAT; DDC; LCSH; TGN; TGM I & II; ULAN. Metadata schema: CDWA; CDWA Lite; CIDOC CRM; Dublin Core; IFLA FRBR; MARC; MARCXML; METS; MIX; MODS; SPECTRUM; VRA Core; XMP. Software: MS Office including Access & Project; Ex Libris DigiTool; Xinet WebNative Suite; Oxygen XML Editor; Macromedia DreamWeaver; Adobe Creative Suite 3 and 4; Microsoft Visual Basic; SELECTED PUBLICATIONS * Tony Gill, "Metadata & the Web" Introduction to Metadata. 2nd print edition, v3.0 online edition (2008). The J. Paul Getty Trust; * Grace Agnew, Murtha Baca, Priscilla Caplan, Carl Fleischhauer, Tony Gill, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Jill Koelling, Christie Stephenson, Karen A. Wetzel, A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections, 3rd edition (2007). National Information Standards Organization (NISO); * Tony Gill, "Building semantic bridges between museums, libraries and archives: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model" First Monday Volume 9, Number 5 (May 2004); * Nick Crofts, Martin Doerr, Tony Gill, Stephen Stead, Matthew Stiff (editors), Definition of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Version 3.4.9, November 2003, ICS-FORTH (also published as ISO 21127:2006, A reference ontology for the interchange of cultural heritage information, International Organization for Standardization, 2006); * Tony Gill & Paul Miller, "Re-inventing the Wheel? Standards, Interoperability and Digital Cultural Content" D-Lib Magazine Volume 8, Number 1 (January 2002). Corporation for National Research Initiatives; * Tony Gill, "3-D Culture on the Web" RLG DigiNews Volume 5 Number 3 (June 2001), Research Libraries Group; See http://www.tonygill.com/publications for complete list of publications. TRAINING * XSLT Programming (ArchiTier Training); * Object-Oriented Design (3-day UC Berkeley Extension course); * Project management (2-day eLib Workshop); * Evaluation (1-day Tavistock Institute Workshop); * Interviewing Skills (1-day Surrey Institute course); * Successful Supervisory Management (3-day Industrial Society course); * Managing Effective Teams (2-day Institute of Management course). OTHER * Avid snowboarder, cyclist and runner; * Keen photographer; * Permanent U.S. Resident since 2005 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tony Gill :: tg@tonygill.com http://www.tonygill.com/tonygill.html Updated: 11 September 2011