Jan Diolola
Columbus
Summary
Metadata specialist with deep understanding of information organization and cataloging standards. Known for enhancing digital collections and streamlining metadata workflows. Valued team player with focus on collaboration and adaptability, ensuring effective and efficient project outcomes.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Product Analyst
OCLC
10.2023 - Current
- Managed Customer Service product escalations for Capira products (CapiraCurbside, CapiraMobile) entailing direct customer communication and triaging of reported mobile app issues
- Managed development cycle sprints and prioritization of work tickets for Capira development teams, using tools such as Atlassian JIRA and Confluence
- Facilitated communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of project requirements and expectations.
- Contributed to performing market analysis and the development of product briefs for upcoming WorldCat.org and WorldCat Discovery product features and enhancements
- Developed detailed product roadmaps, aligning team efforts towards achieving milestone goals and objectives
Color Reference Librarian (Contract)
Restoration Hardware
01.2021 - 10.2023
- Built the company's 'Color Reference Library', housing thousands of color finish references utilized by design teams to create products for the RH brand
- Developed Asset Management metadata in AEX and FileMaker Pro for more efficient color reference information retrieval among product designers
- Coordinated data and system search training sessions for staff to help educate on effective research processes
Web Archives Technician (Part-time)
The Frick Collection
10.2019 - 12.2020
- Established an efficient workflow of Web Archive captures for long-term storage, using Archive-It and Webrecorder/Conifer, for over ten thousand art reference web pages
- Developed metadata standards and practices for archival web materials in the library's collection for more than one hundred web archive records in the digital catalog, and received a 2020 Getty Marrow Scholarship Grant for this work
- Implemented a reporting dashboard with key metrics capturing effectiveness of data movement and success of data capture on a monthly basis to the C-suite stakeholders which resulted in over $15,000 in continuous grant funding
- Improved access points for digital content by optimizing search functionality within online databases
Metadata Manager (Contract)
Entertainment AI/SEEEN
12.2018 - 12.2020
- Built image and video metadata and ontology structures compatible with A-I algorithms for use in annotating a library of over three thousand unique media assets
- Established SEO standards and practices for more effective search and site traffic, seeing an average traffic increase of thirty percent every month in site user engagement
Taxonomy Consultant (Contract)
HEARST Magazines
03.2019 - 10.2019
- Developed legacy vocabulary and taxonomy structures for editorial teams and marketing endeavors currently used across all HEARST site verticals, amounting to annotation of almost five hundred global editorial pages per month
- Built a visualized dashboard of weekly DFP insights for ad clients, powered by Lotame audience data
Metadata & Video Publishing Manager
VICE Media
11.2015 - 12.2018
- Created all of the metadata for launch of VICE Media's very first video library CMS of up to three thousand unique video assets
- Updated a daily workflow for publishing and transcoding all Digital video content and metadata for VICE and VICELAND for VOD/TVE/EST/SVOD, including the VICE YouTube network that saw up to two million video views per month combined
- Created a workflow for short form/social video publishing, increasing the average watch time rate to about 40%
Metadata Manager
Tagasauris
08.2014 - 11.2015
- Built metadata, taxonomy, and ontology structures for high stakes projects with Disney/ABC, HBO, and Magnum Photos that annotated 1000+ unique assets every month through Machine Learning technology
Education
M.S. - Library & Information Science
Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, New YorkB.S. - Cultural Anthropology
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CaliforniaSkills
- Information Architecture
- Research
- Library Technical Services
- Metadata management
- Customer service engagement
- Machine learning
- Data modeling
- Product information management
- SPARQL proficiency
Languages
Tagalog
Native or Bilingual
Arabic
Professional Working
Timeline
Associate Product Analyst
OCLC
10.2023 - Current
Color Reference Librarian (Contract)
Restoration Hardware
01.2021 - 10.2023
Web Archives Technician (Part-time)
The Frick Collection
10.2019 - 12.2020
Taxonomy Consultant (Contract)
HEARST Magazines
03.2019 - 10.2019
Metadata Manager (Contract)
Entertainment AI/SEEEN
12.2018 - 12.2020
Metadata & Video Publishing Manager
VICE Media
11.2015 - 12.2018
Metadata Manager
Tagasauris
08.2014 - 11.2015
M.S. - Library & Information Science
Pratt Institute
B.S. - Cultural Anthropology
University of California, Riverside
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