Karen Cordier
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Karen Cordier

Digitisation ManagerLondon, United Kingdom
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Karen Cordier
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Karen Cordier

Digitisation ManagerLondon, United Kingdom
Work history
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    Digitisation ManagerThe National Archives
     - Richmond, United KingdomFull Time
    Lead the teams involved in mass digitisation of heritage records, including the Estimating, Conservation, Imaging & QA, 3rd Party Digitisation and Transcription and Software Processes to deliver the expected income and contribution targets as well as develop them to grow in-line with the 5 year forecast – Ensure the smooth execution and delivery of all mass digitisation projects in line with customer and business expectations – Develop and improve services, tools and methods of access to support the above – Line manage 5 managers with responsibility for a team of 45 staff across 5 teams – Lead and develop a culture of commercial professionalism within the teams and also promote and advocate the requirement for income generation within the wider organisation – Ensure that communications across the team are frequent and clear, so that all staff understand what is expected of them, the outcomes they are seeking to deliver, and how best to co-operate to achieve them – Ensure that each member of staff has clear performance targets which identify both their own role, and how it relates to the wider goals of the organisation and that staff are given regular feedback on how they are performing – Define and deliver the expertise required to achieve the desired level of service – Identify the right way forward in situations of considerable complexity using resources shared across the National Archives to provide solutions for our customers – Lead multiple challenging priorities successfully – Understand comparable digitisation services offered elsewhere and ensure The National Archives learns from developments in other services in the UK and overseas
    The National Archives logo
    The National Archives logo
    Imaging Production ManagerThe National Archives
     - Richmond, United KingdomFull Time
    Supervising and coordinating a team of 20 digitisation operators – Allocating resources in order to maintain efficiency throughout all sections of the project – Preparing weekly progress reports for project monitoring – Producing project guidelines and process documentation for the purpose of training new members of staff – Contributing to the training and evaluation of all employees – Monitoring the performance of all staff thereby ensuring maximum productivity – Undertaking research regarding specific historical events for various marketing pursuits – Contributing to and testing the developing public website in order to improve the user experience and the ultimate value of this research portal – Liaising with key stakeholders to report issues and working collectively to implement solutions – Respresenting Brightsolid and The British Library by welcoming interested media partners to the Bindery, acting as a project ambassador
Skills
  • Fluent French
  • Management
  • Linguistics
  • Project Management
  • Photography
  • Metadata
  • English Literature
Education
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    BA LinguisticsThe University of Newcastle
     - Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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    BA LiteratureUniversité de Caen
     - Caen, France