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Staff Spotlight: Han Pham

Kaitlyn Jarnagin — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 14:21:11 +0000

We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Han Pham, our Member Journey Coordinator. This post is co-written by Kaitlyn Jarnagin, our Member Success Manager, and Han. Kaitlyn Jarnagin: I am excited to introduce our new Member Journey Coordinator, Han Pham. Over the past year, the Permanent team has been working on improving new member onboarding and user experience. We discovered that although new members are interested in Permanent.org and eager to sign up, they sometimes have a hard time getting started with building their archive. We created the Member Journey Coordinator role to provide additional support for our new members and those facing unique challenges in their projects on Permanent. We hope to ...

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Staff Spotlight: Emily Sienkiewicz

Amanda Meeks — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 14:55:05 +0000

We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Emily Sienkiewicz, our Communications Specialist.

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Writing Software That is Built to Last

Amanda Meeks — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 17:27:31 +0000

We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Liam Lloyd, our Senior Software Engineer.

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Making Permanent Pretty and Performant

Amanda Meeks — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 19:15:27 +0000

We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Natalie Martin, our Front-End Engineer. This post is co-written by Cecilia Krum, our Director of Engineering, and Natalie. Cecilia: Natalie Martin joined Permanent almost a year and a half ago with the intent to make the part of the app that you see in your web browser (permanent.org) better. In that time she has improved the security and reliability of Permanent, added new features, and open sourced the web application. When Natalie and I first talked about her joining Permanent, it was clear that she had strong front-end development skills and would be a phenomenal addition to the team. She had already been thinking about preservation in ...

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Guiding Our Members to Achieve Their Goals

Robert Friedman — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 19:36:30 +0000

We’re taking a moment to shine a spotlight on Kaitlyn Jarnagin, our Member Success Manager. This post is co-written by Robert Friedman, our Executive Director and Kaitlyn.

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Welcome Amanda Meeks, Our New Community and Partnerships Manager

Amanda Meeks — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 19:55:45 +0000

This is a co-authored piece by Robert Friedman, Executive Director, and Amanda Meeks, the new Community and Partnerships Manager at Permanent. Amanda’s goal is to foster lifelong relationships with our members and partners. Robert Friedman: We are very excited to welcome Amanda Meeks (she/they), Community and Partnerships Manager to the Permanent Legacy Foundation. Amanda’s professional experience and personal passions are a unique fit for this role. Amanda is a distinguished librarian, creative professional and community organizer and has led an inspirational journey through libraries, classrooms and public spaces. Let me tell you a little bit more about the role and why Amanda is the perfect person for the job. While we believe that creating the ...

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Welcome Cecilia Krum, Our New Director of Engineering

Robert Friedman & Cecilia Krum — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 17:30:10 +0000

This is a co-authored piece by Robert Friedman, Executive Director, and Cecilia Krum, the new Director of Engineering at Permanent. She will be responsible for the technical requirements that ensure reliable data preservation and access for current and future users. Robert Friedman: This Thanksgiving, the Permanent Legacy Foundation team is thankful to have identified our new Director of Engineering, Cecilia Krum. We couldn’t be more excited and honored to have her joining our team just in time for the holiday season. Cecilia’s past work on digital afterlife as an Aspen Tech Policy Hub fellow, and her past experience in government and social sector data makes her a perfect match to the Permanent mission. I’d like ...

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Introducing Our Partnership With Open Tech Strategies

Robert Friedman — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 15:04:39 +0000

We’re excited to share that we’re working with Open Tech Strategies (OTS) on a six month co-development partnership through the end of 2020. Permanent had been searching for development partners that could help us strengthen our codebase and eventually release it to the community. We were connected to OTS by our advisor and mutual friend, Jeff Ubois, at the MacArthur Foundation in 2019. OTS partners and staff demonstrated decades’ worth of exceptional technical open source experience and expertise in developing and deploying software for end users and could offer us invaluable technical, cultural, and legal guidance in working towards open sourcing our own codebase. It’s clear that their impressive clients all came to them for ...

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Welcome Bryson Williams, Our New Lead Creative

Bryson Williams and Robert Friedman — Fri, 19 Jun 2020 15:11:17 +0000

This is a co-authored piece by Robert Friedman, Executive Director, and Bryson Williams, the new Lead Creative at Permanent. The Lead Creative will drive Permanent’s creative strategy for user experience, editorial illustration, and social content. Robert Friedman: We’re so very excited and proud to announce the hire of Bryson Williams for the role of Lead Creative at Permanent. Bryson is such an important addition to the Permanent team and the Lead Creative role is such a foundational responsibility that I felt compelled to tell you more about why. As in all things, it begins with our mission, vision, and values. To preserve and provide perpetual access to the digital legacy of all people is a ...

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