Monica Fulvio

Experience

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  DuFour Law Library, Catholic University of America

  Aug 2003 - Aug 2005

  Cataloging Graduate Library Preprofessional

  • Chosen for competitive Graduate Library Preprofessional (GLP) program, for a full-time position with full library school scholarship and stipend• Original and copy cataloging in multiple languages and formats, including electronic resources, to national standards in MARC21 according to AACR2• Managed and trained student assistants• Managed authorities, discards, and catalog maintenance. Reclassified, remarked, and managed shift projects. • Assessed and repaired damaged books. Created themed book displays Show less

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  The World Bank

  Jan 2005 - Jun 2005

  Practicum Student

  • Created controlled vocabularies for Teragram topic categorization• Created document training sets for automatic indexing term extraction and for testing classification vocabularies

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  The World Bank

  Sept 2005 - Sept 2007

  Junior Professional Associate

  Designed, built and managed taxonomies, thesauri and NLP autotagging profiles to help support discoverability mandates.

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  Hanley Wood

  Jan 2008 - Apr 2013

  • Assists with strategy on company-wide metadata issues, including image tagging, organization, and content reuse• Specifies new online products and functionality, working with editorial, business, and development stakeholders • Ensures new products have a solid, data-driven foundation for an increasingly online, data-driven marketplace• Refines online advertisement targeting in collaboration with technical team • Improves webpage automation with web editors• Collaborates with product development on new features and products.• Analyzed e-newsletter workflow, and identified key inefficiencies; these project documents formed the basis for major workflow overhauls• Continues to fulfill responsibilities at Hanley Wood listed below Show less • Manages, reviews and trains automated categorizer • Creates and manages standard controlled vocabularies across 31 websites with a mixture of distinct and shared content, including editorial content and data-driven products, working with subject-area specialists and stakeholders• Maintains an understanding of the company’s total editorial corpus • Distills related metadata issues to all departments regardless of technical expertise• Manages metadata and content architecture across an increasing number of websites and projects• Serves as key liaison between the production/editorial staffs and the web product development team to ensure new functionality for CMS or magazine websites met the needs of all parties• Develops information architecture and navigational taxonomies for websites• Reviews and helps optimize editorial workflows in rapidly changing publishing environment Show less

  • Senior Librarian, Content Architecture

    Mar 2012 - Apr 2013

  • Librarian, Content Architecture

    Jan 2011 - Mar 2012

  • Data Quality Expert

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2011
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  The World Bank

  Feb 2010 - Jul 2010

  Short-Term Consultant (STC)

  Relationed and trimmed the World Bank Thesaurus.

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  National Geographic Partners

  Apr 2013 - Sept 2020

  Led and grew a team that managed publishing, photography, workflows and metadata systems.Facilitated a workshop across 20 teams to document and identify opportunities in workflows; used learnings to form a pair of capital programs.Developed and executed plan to leverage linked open data to rapidly but reliably expand the taxonomy into 12 languages, as well as technical product work to expand taxonomy service for multilingual logic. Helped architect an approach for global sites based around a common, multilingual taxonomy.Managed design of metadata-driven digital presence across platforms, so that the taxonomy and metadata drove ad targeting, analytics, and other core site functionality while supporting audience goals with lean staff support. Show less

  • Director, Taxonomy & Metadata

    Oct 2017 - Sept 2020

  • Senior Taxonomist

    Nov 2015 - Oct 2017

  • Senior Taxonomist

    Apr 2013 - Nov 2015
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  Walt Disney Direct-to-Consumer & International

  Sept 2020 - Sept 2021

  Senior Product Manager

  Navigated integration period of Fox-Disney acquisition, leading a team focused on National Geographic publishing, photography, and taxonomies through this period of change before transitioning to work focused on media supply chain taxonomy and metadata standardization.Chief product manager for Project Narwhal, aimed at centralizing and modernizing National Geographic’s 130-year-old photography collection. Led publication of metadata and cataloging standards, including PII and privacy standards. Show less

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  DMED Technology

  Sept 2021 - Aug 2024

  Sr Manager Product Management

  Established and led a new Data Governance team for DMED Content Platforms, working to standardize and document data across the media supply chain and ensure data security and reliability. Defined vision, mission, and overall strategy for Data Governance in Content Platforms. Led Schema Discovery effort, establishing first baseline and approach for data cataloging in Content Platforms, documenting 34 core systems. Selected and set up Alation instance, as well as model for data cataloging and stewardship. Designed and won approval for a major capital program to catalog the systems of Content Platforms, from running vendor RFPs to presenting for VP buy-in, in partnership with Analytics, Data Science, and Engineering teams. Worked closely with Data Intelligence, InfoSec, and Engineering to plan cataloging strategy, standards, and interaction with data mart. Partnered with an array of stakeholders for stewardship model. Began the execution phase when the project was cut short due to strategy and budget changes after a reorganization. Led and coordinated the evaluation and decision to migrate taxonomy and ontology management to Mondeca and informed the adoption of a taxonomy architecture based on my previous work. Show less

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  The Walt Disney Company

  Aug 2024 - now

  Sr Manager, Data Governance

  Redefining vision, mission, and strategy of the Content Platforms Data Governance team to support and align with changing high-level strategic direction and organizational changes.Leading redesign and expansion of the team in a new structure. Designed and led the adoption of the Data Governance job family. Designed and posted new roles; structured skill-based equitable hiring framework and structure. Expanded team and began coaching direct report on how to manage.Absorbed reference data responsibilities, along with new staff. Began filling in gaps in best practices and formulated a structure for formalizing taxonomy governance, including structure for identifying data ownership and approach to responsible syndication. Preparing to launch a pair of programs on pan-division approaches to governing Genre and Language. Show less