Gustavo Braga - Resume
Contact: gbraga08@gmail.com
Education • Master of Professional Studies, Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University. New York, 1998 - 1995.
• Graduate Program in Education, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 1993.
• Bachelor in Visual Communications, Catholic University. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1985 - 1981.
Internships • 2009 – present: Digitization project at American Museum of Natural History;
photograph digitization intern at the Anthropology Division Archives.
• September 2002 – 2004: American Museum of Natural History;
photograph digitization intern at the Digital Library Project.
• October 2002 to February 2003: The Cloisters Museum and Gardens Library;
Work Experience
Digitization • 2008: Digitization and assembling in .PDF format of the Land Family History Book.
• 2007: Brooklyn Academy of Music Archives; Scanning of images and slides for archive and website display;
creation & implementation of metadata; file management.
• 2006 - 2008: Quality control of the Digitization Project of the American Museum of Natural History Special Collections Library. The project involved nearly one million catalogue cards, from all departments of the Museum.
• 2005 - 2008: American Museum of Natural History Digital Library Project; Digitization of video, images, text & catalogue cards for website display; assembling, converting and compressing of digitized text into .PDF format; creation and implementation of metadata; file management; quality control for digitized materials.
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Website Design and Implementation • 2009: Museum's Council Website; http://www.museumscouncil.org
• 2007 - 2008: The Congo Project Website for the American Museum of Natural History; http://research.amnh.org/ichthyology/congo/index.html
• 2000 - present: Leonard Marcus' Website; http://www.leonardmarcus.com
Translation I am currently pursuing a Translation Certificate for English to Portuguese at New York University.
• Fluent in Portuguese and English. Proficient in Spanish and French.
• 2010: Translator for Portuguese version of The Cloisters Museum and Gardens floor plan.
• October 2002: Translator for Portuguese version of The Metropolitan Museum of Art floor plan.
Professional Associations • ART: Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York
• ATA: American Translators Association
• METRO: Metropolitan New York Library Council
• NYU Alumni: New York University Alumni Association