Jason Ronallo's CV

Head, Digital Library Initiatives at North Carolina State University Libraries July 2014-Present

Managed a widely recognized digital library services and software development team.
Directed work in digital collections, digital preservation, the repository, research data management, digital research and scholarship services, digital media, and search and discovery.
Led the department through an periods of change including several portfolio and personnel transitions.
Led ongoing improvements in development and deployment practice through methods like DevOps in collaboration with DLI and IT department staff.
Led efforts in areas such as digital video delivery and search engine optimization.
Developed IIIF support for digital special collections including implementing the image, presentation, and content search APIs. Oversaw and advised on IIIF annotation work in the department.
Led a team promoting ORCID adoption and developing software and services in support of ORCID and campus integrations.

Associate Head, Digital Library Initiatives at North Carolina State University Libraries February 2012–July 2014

Implemented use of HTML5 video and audio including access derivative processing, server setup, captioning with WebVTT, video sitemaps, and video engagement analytics tracking.
Developed video oral history projects the Student Leadership Initiative and the Computer Simulation Archives.
Created engaging and interactive exhibits for the Hunt video walls using WebSockets.
Developed responsive design for digital collections.
Implemented bento box-style interface for searching across all special collections sites.
Further improved the discoverability of digital special collections, especially video, on the open Web.
Supported My #HuntLibrary development and did the initial work to extract the code for reuse into a Ruby gem.
Oversaw work of two librarians supporting digital scholarship and visualization spaces.
Supervised developer working on migration to ArchivesSpace and development of a next-generation collection guide application.
Oversaw maintenance and development of the repository and ETDs.
Configured application servers (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) and consulted within the department on server configuration and deployment.
Continued to support growing portfolio of digital special collections applications.
Consulted on grant funded large-scale digitization project.

Digital Collections Technology Librarian at North Carolina State University Libraries December 2008–February 2012

Collaboratively planned and developed software systems for access and discovery of digital special collections.
Developed award winning collection guides interface and tools around EAD XML.
Improved special collections metadata workflows including automated processes, stub records created from collection guide metadata, and batch updating.
Focused on improving the discoverability of resources on the open Web.
Early adopter and promoter in libraries of the use of Schema.org and embedded semantic markup.
Migrated legacy systems to new software with improved interfaces and functionality.
Oversaw the work of an NCSU Libraries Fellow working with born digital collections.

Electronic Resources Technician at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis March 2008–December 2008

Electronic resources knowledgebase management.

Library Clerk at Margaret Ridgely Memorial Library, Christ Church Cathedral October 2006–December 2008

Oversaw all aspects of this historic library. Maintenance and operation of Koha ILS. Copy cataloged 2000+ monographs using custom Ruby script.

Internship: Umlaut OpenURL link resolver with Johns Hopkins University May 2008–August 2008

Wrote service adaptors to find appropriate full-text versions through the Internet Archive and Google Book Search.

Senior Serials Specialist at Ruth Lilly Law Library, IU School of Law January 2006–March 2008

Check-in and claims of loose-leaf services, pocket parts, replacement volumes, and law reviews.

Serials and Electronic Resources Supervisor at Temple University Libraries July 2005–December 2005

Managed serials and bindery unit staff. Assisted Electronic Resource Librarian with all aspects of electronic resource management including invoicing and budget reconciliation.

Bibliographic Assistant, Biology Library at Temple University Libraries June 2000–July 2005

Managed all day-to-day operations of departmental library including reference, reserves, document delivery, and student worker management.

Education

Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science MLS, Library Science, 2008

New York University English, 1996–1998

University of Pittsburgh BA, English, 1996

Presentations

ORCID & Biosketch Requirements, invited presentation with Rachael Posey and Hilary Davis, NC State University Research Administration Retreat, October 9, 2019.

IIIF Awesome List Curation, invited presentation, IIIF Outreach community call, April 30, 2019.

ORCID at NC State University Libraries, invited panel presentation, CNI spring meeting, St. Louis, April 9, 2019.

Reuse of IIIF Resources, invited presentation, IIIF Archives community call, July 13, 2018.

Wrote and facilitated a Schema.org workshop, LibDevConX^4, Stanford University, March 24, 2013.

Organizer and lead teacher of the 1st “Code4Lib RailsBridge Workshop.” Code4Lib Conference 2013, Chicago, IL, February 11, 2013.

HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org, Code4Lib Conference 2012, Seattle, WA, February 7, 2012.

Presented “Microservices.” Lightning talk and panel with Jill Sexton, Paolo Mangiafico, Jenn Riley, Brian Dietz, Seth Shaw, Erin O'Meara and Markus Wust. Breakout Session: “Save Our Bits: Approaches to Digital Preservation at TRLN Libraries”. TRLN Annual Meeting 2011. Chapel Hill, NC. July 25, 2011.

Prepared with Tito Sierra. “Collection Achievements and Profiles System.” DPLA Plenary Meeting, Washington, DC, October 21, 2011.

Automating a Digital Special Collections Workflow Through Iterative Development, ACRL 2011, Philadelphia, PA, March 31, 2011.

Put it to Use: Repurposing Archival Description for Digitization with Brian Dietz, Librarians Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (LAUNC-CH) Annual Meeting 2011: Staying Vital in a Time of Change, Chapel Hill, NC, March 7, 2011.

Historical State: Discovering NC State History with Brian Dietz, Adam Berenbak, Todd Kosmerick, and Cate Putirskis, Creating a User-Centered Library, Librarians Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Annual Meeting, Chapel Hill, NC, March 8, 2010.

Writing

Steady, SAA 2011 Description Expo 2011. Coinciding with the SAA annual meeting in August 2011.

Selected Projects

NCSU Libraries Digital Collections: Rare and Unique Materials Discovery platform of digitized images, texts, video, audio, and archival folders. https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections

Citation Index Collection of works of NC State University affiliated people which collects ORCID iDs and syncs works to ORCID (developed with Luke Aeschleman). https://ci.lib.ncsu.edu

Service

NCSU Libraries’ Committees (current)

Awards

Association of Moving Image Archivists and Digital Library Federation Hack Day 2014, Jury Prize for Best Embodiment of Event’s Manifesto for Video Sprites! with Ashley Blewer, Jay Brown, and Nick Zoss

Society of American Archivists 2010 C. F. W. Coker Award for the NCSU Libraries’ collection guide application

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