Laurel Calsoni

Current

Digital Archivist at Landor

Past

Assistant Photo Archivist at Chevron
Art Buyer/Digital Archivist at Harrison Wilson

Education

San Francisco State University
University of Alabama

Recommended

2 people have recommended Laurel

Connections

119 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

420 Train Wreck Internet Radio

Laurel Calsoni’s Summary

Highly organized, attentive to detail, an efficient administrator, pro-active and creative. Well-versed in the principles of advertising and marketing, with working knowledge of art buying and documentation, information management, Digital Asset Management; DAM system software, archiving, metadata, cataloging and taxonomy.
Also interested in web store content and category management.

Laurel Calsoni’s Specialties:

Digital Asset Management, digital archiving, DAM system software, metadata, taxonomy, cataloging, information & database management, art buying, organization, photography, digital audio

Laurel Calsoni’s Experience

Digital Archivist

Landor

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

• Administer access and manage content for electronic design and production art files on servers
• Work closely with designers and production artists to capture comprehensive electronic project files for archive
• Maintain database of design and production file archive
• Supplement and catalog archives to a permanent disk repository
• Photo asset management via Cumulus for digital intranet image library
• Research and fulfill archive retrieval requests
Assistant Photo Archivist

Chevron

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CVX; Oil & Energy industry)

April 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 1 month)

• Intake, cataloged and tracked Chevron’s collections of digital and physical photography assets
• Handled client requests, photo research, and tracking of usage rights and documentation
• Handled stock photography research and acquisition
• Archived digital assets according to naming and server taxonomy
• Metadata preparation for the company-wide Digital Archive Management System
• Maintained physical and digital archive of assets; archival backup, storage and retrieval
• Scanned and organized historical library of photography collections
• Special projects as needed; spread sheets, document creation, archive tracking
Art Buyer/Digital Archivist

Harrison Wilson

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

• Facilitated all projects involving search and use of outside
artists; photographers, illustrators, stock photo agencies, talent, etc. for online and traditional media
• Negotiated contracts, usage rights and fees
• Created and maintained a database system of tracking artwork and usage rights
• Coordinated photography shoots
• Archived digital design assets on server
• Maintained traffic and production database

Laurel Calsoni’s Education

San Francisco State University

Certificate , Music and Recording (MRI Program)

MRI Program concentration on the business and marketing aspect of music and recording
University of Alabama

BA , Advertising/Public Relations

School of Communications

Additional Information

Laurel Calsoni’s Websites:

420 Train Wreck Internet Radio

Laurel Calsoni’s Interests:

digital archiving, Digital Asset Management systems, art buying, digital audio, digital audio content and programming, databases, organization

Laurel Calsoni’s Groups:

live365.com - Music Programming and Broadcaster
www.420trainwreck.com

Content Management Professionals
METADATA MANAGEMENT
Digital Asset Management
Music & Marketing
Society of American Archivists
South By Southwest (SXSW)
New Music Industry
Music Industry Network
DAM Pros
Clear Space Network
Masters of Digital Assets
Live365
Audio Archivists - Sound Engineers and collectors of live archival music recordings
Brand Asset Management
Brands & Music