Matheus Almeida

Experience

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  Livraria Cultura

  Aug 2010 - Feb 2011

  Retail Cashier

  • Served customers with the standard required by the store;• Issued invoices;• Opened and closed the cash register.

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  UFSCar - Alumni

  Apr 2012 - Mar 2013

  Administrative Assistant

  • Received purchase requisitions from all departments, organised the metadata in spreadsheets to be sent to suppliers and also performed quotations, after which electronic auctions were made (a form of acquisition by public bodies in Brazil).

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  Universidade de São Paulo

  Mar 2013 - Mar 2015

  International Relations Officer

  • Advised the Board of Directors on matters related to agreements and contracts with academic and research institutions abroad, coordinating and developing relations between the School of Engineering and similar institutions in other countries, enabling the exchange of faculty and students;• Analysed the applications of more than a thousand students, following the rules determined by the course coordination;• Collected and checked the documents of the approved students and forwarded them to the sector responsible for opening the process;• Assisted a committee of professors from partner universities for the selection of students, mainly from French universities, who applied for the double-degree program (students completed their graduation with a graduation diploma from University of São Paulo and the French university);• Presented the exchange programs and other possibilities offered by the university to freshmen in the classroom. Show less

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  State University of Campinas

  Aug 2015 - Nov 2016

  Librarian

  • Was responsible for cataloguing, classifying and preserving the collection, including receiving, controlling, evaluating, indexing articles, organising the exhibitor and collection, and monitoring updating and disposal policies;• Was responsible for the interlibrary loan - users requested book chapters and articles that the library had, and copies were made to send to students around the world. ✦ Achievements ✦• I was able to recover many lost books in the library after developing a new way of taking inventory. Show less

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  Grupo Ciranda Cultural

  Nov 2016 - Feb 2017

  Librarian

  • Was responsible for cataloguing, classifying and indexing books in the new database.✦ Achievements ✦ • The company was migrating to their own database, so I standardised all the inconsistent metadata from the database of nearly 4,000 titles;• The standard followed was from the publishing industry, a site that brought together a conglomerate of publishers to trade this metadata with Amazon;• For this project, I performed exhaustive indexing, which is to assign the maximum number of keywords to each title - this would be fundamental in the medium-term plan, at the time, to feed Amazon's sales algorithm. Show less

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  Faculdade São Leopoldo Mandic

  Aug 2017 - Dec 2019

  Head Librarian

  • Was responsible for the information processing centre, with activities such as: cataloguing, classifying, indexing, collection controlling and maintaining/updating the managing system the library used (SophiA system);• Offered support to the students in scientific researches;• Gave presentation/training in classrooms for undergraduate students, including on sources of information in national and international databases;• Prepared a catalogue of undergraduate researches;• Registered students and professors in databases paid for by the college (for example: UpToDate, a database in the field of medicine for the study of clinical cases);• Evaluated, scheduled and monitored the Education Ministry committees on campus (as it was a new course, visits were annual);• Purchased all the bibliographic material, discussing with the course coordinators to determine which titles would be purchased and in which quantity, and if the purchases were in accordance to the Ministry of Education rules.✦ Achievements ✦ • I was able to add the texts of the professors' clinical classes to the library's database (with restricted access) to avoid physical archiving in the library, optimising space and allowing the student body to access them from their homes without having to carry out all the bureaucracy regarding the loan of books;• I was also able to reduce the number of books purchased physically due to the virtual alternatives available in virtual libraries, generating savings of around $20,000 Brazilian reais (around 4,000 euros) in the acquisition of bibliography. Show less

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  Various Companies

  Nov 2020 - Jul 2023

  Staff Member

  • Ever since arrival in Ireland, has been working on different companies (such as Lotts & Co. and The Gem) in order to integrate with local community;• Developing great interpersonal skills, as well as Customer Services abilities;• Improving communication skills;• Gaining the ability to work both as part of a team and also in a fast-paced environment.

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  Irish Film Institute

  Jul 2023 - now

  Digital collections officer

  One ensures that digital audio-visual material generated as part of the Screen Ireland project is accessioned, quality assured and preserved according to IFI policy and procedures and in a timely manner. In consultation with the both the Digital Deliveries Manager and the Digital Collections Manager and HOD and other Archive staff, proactively contributed to the development of cataloguing and compliance systems for the digital collections, metadata and technical policies and research for digital collections. Key responsibilities:• Technical preparation, assessment and quality assurance of digital film acquisitions• Cataloguing & database record creation• Implementing full digital archiving workflow• Working within IFI digital preservation and access protocols• Leading communication with key external stakeholders such as Screen Ireland• Regular formal progress reports and keeping documentation as required• Qualification in archiving and collections management• Experience in collections management and/or cataloguing• Familiarity with the components and properties of different AV digital file formats• Strong data management and organisational skills• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a busy environment• Ability to work to deadlines• Databases and familiarity with metadata standards• Documentation skills• Knowledge or experience working with AV playback software such as EasyDCP• FLOSS tools• Command line interfaces• Python and swiftUI• OAIS Reference Model, The PREMIS Data Dictionary, Spectrum guidelines for digital collections management• Quality control or quality assurance in any field. Show less