Aaron S.

Experience

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  St. Vrain Valley School District

  Jun 1994 - Sept 1994

  Janitor

  Cleaned elementary classrooms during summer.

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  Village Inn

  Feb 1995 - Jul 1995

  Dishwasher
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  Young Living Essential Oils

  Jun 1997 - Jan 1998

  Farm Crew

  All maintenance around the farm. Driving tractors, mechanics, landscaping, planting ect.

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  Sears, Roebuck and Co.

  May 2000 - Jan 2001

  Call Tech

  Took incoming calls regarding service on Sear's appliances.

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  Utah Army National Guard

  Jan 2001 - Feb 2009

  Logistics, SGT

   Directed dispatch of battalion vehicles and logistics of maintenance supply during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Worked with personnel as a squad leader during deployment and security missions to ensure safe and efficient accomplishment of objectives.

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  Provo City

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2003

  Parking Officer Police Department

  Initiated own work by patrolling entire city of Provo for parking violations, worked and communicated with citizens, negotiated with local towing companies and police department in enforcement.Worked with local hearing examiner and city judges and attorneys in appeals process.

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  IArchives

  Mar 2007 - Oct 2008

  Digitization Specialist

  Inventory and day team supervisor. Insured proper receiving, storage, stocking, and shipping of content received from partners and clients.Scanned microfilm to achieve department goals for image volumes each month, utilizing proprietary software to insure quality images were imported into our production process.

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  Fold3

  Oct 2008 - Nov 2013

  Production & Project Managment

   Worked with functional managers from various departments to insure proper resources were allocated and timelines were known and planned for. Communicated risk potential and worked together to either avoid or leverage it. Managed diverse BPO offshore vendors located in China, India, Philippines and Africa, insuring compliance with contractual agreements, initiating RFPs, selection, onboarding and training at onsite facilities. Created company training documents and videos for internal and external resources for QA and daily operations. Utilized tools such as Camtasia, Sony Editing Suite, and Photoshop. Assisted in content strategy by reviewing metadata needs and project scope providing needed feedback with production metrics and resource allocation. Show less

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  IArchives

  Nov 2013 - Jun 2016

  Project Manager (Operations)

   Coordinated imaging and indexing for various clients and institutions while tracking resource constraints of cost, schedule, and scope to insure monthly revenue goals were accomplished.  Coordinated with software and hardware engineers to accomplish tasks. Ingestion of metadata.  Creation of technical outputs for differing image formats and metadata to work with the client side hosting solutions.  Oversight of quality assurance to 99.95% standard of image and metadata transcription standards. Communicated with external and internal clients insuring expectations, timelines and deliverables were achieved. Traveled to numerous locations worldwide to train vendors on proprietary tools. Traveled to client locations to train and educate on unique deliverables, project scope, time, cost, and quality. Show less

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  Ancestry.com

  Jun 2015 - Mar 2017

  Business Development Manager

  Sales, account and, content acquisition management for Ancestry's branded website Newspapers.com.Worked with various state and local libraries, archives and, historical societies to digitize their holdings and host the images online.Worked with publishers of newspapers from around the United States to provide solutions for their consumer space digital e-edition or archives.Negotiated agreements with internal and external legal teams, with a perspective of the overall business strategy. Show less

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  Fold3

  Apr 2017 - now

  Content Manager

  Production lead for Ancestry's military website Fold3.com. Acquisition of historical records, images, and histories of U.S. and International military content for Ancestry.com. -Collaboration with Developers, Product, Content and Marketing managers to allow a steady stream of new and relevant content pertaining to historically significant military events.-Work with legal teams to insure proper rights and ability for publishing content online.-Coordinate with Production teams to insure content is properly and effectively prepared for indexing and publishing on the site. Show less