Work
Senior Software Developer/Engineer
January 2022 to
present
- work to support and evolve our suite of real-time prescription benefit products
- lead recent initiative to remove opioids from prescription alternatives
- serve as technical support contact for product and account managers
- research and implement new engineering initiatives
- mentor associate and mid-level devs
- maintain highest possible level of security compliance as the team's 'security champion'
Penn State University
State College, PA
Systems Analyst
April 2014 to
January 2022
- redesigned Penn State's Scholarsphere repository application using S3, Kubernetes, and modern Rails components
- focused on microservice-oriented architectures that are API-centered with industry-standard technologies
- technical lead for CHO, a customized ContentDM replacement using Rails with Valkyrie & Fedora
- migrated repository content from Fedora, version 3, to version 4, and later to Postgres
The Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
Consultant
June 2015 to
October 2019
- built Lakeshore, a collections management system for the museum's artworks using Samvera and Fedora tech stacks
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Cleveland, OH
Systems and Digital Collections Librarian
January 2010 to
March 2014
- catalog.rockhall.com, a Blacklight-based catalog for discovery of MARC, EAD and digital content
- built a custom digital asset management system using Hydra and added the Museum as a partner to foster greater community development of the application's framework
- high-availability virtualization environment with redundant SAN and hierarchical storage systems for long-term digital preservation
- cataloging with Millennium and Archivist's Toolkit, integrating with information discovery applications such as OCLC and OhioLink
- consultant with donors such as Austin City Limits on digitizing resources for preservation
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Consultant
December 2009 to
January 2011
- custom script applications to archive and manage born-digital audio and video recordings with automated MARC cataloging, down-conversion of audio for ingestion into the Variations online listening system, and offsite archival storage using HPSS storage technologies
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Systems Administrator
September 2006 to
December 2009
- mission-critical services for the School's primary website and 20 additional servers using Xen with iSCSI-based SAN
- video streaming system for broadcasting the School's performances worldwide
- digital archiving of the Music School's 700+ concert recordings
- network support, DNS maintenance, troubleshooting, monitoring, and disaster recovery backups
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Computer Manager
September 2004 to
December 2009
- over 300 PC and Macintosh computers in labs, OPAC stations, and faculty and staff offices with customized deployment software using Open Directory services
- workflows for the library's digitization lab using Jira and automated MARC record creation from audio header data
- industry-standard digital audio, MIDI and music notation applications, and professional audio digitization support for the creation of digital materials for Indiana University's Variations project
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Systems Analyst and Programmer
October 2003 to
December 2004
- financial reports using SQL and SQR for Peoplesoft, and other financial applications written in PHP, and Perl with Sybase
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Office Manager and Acquisitions Assistant
October 2001 to
October 2003
- received orders of new materials to the library and provided copy-level cataloging (approximately 100 items per week)
- maintained student employment records and budget spreadsheets
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
Circulation Supervisor
November 2000 to
October 2001
- evening circulation supervisor with a staff of 5 student workers
- responsible for training and hiring, and all facets of the library's circulation operations after-hours
Selected Projects
Penn State's institutional repository supporting Open Access initiatives
- migrated from Fedora 4 to Postgres with S3 storage and Solr search via Blacklight
- deployed using Kubernetes, with Docker-based microservices performing file ingest, analysis, processing
- API ingest with Graphql endpoint
Library catalog for the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives
- blended MARC, EAD, and exported digital content from Hydra into a Blacklight application
- item-level search and retrieval of archival content, and authenticated access to digitized content
- currently not actively developed, but used for EAD searching and presentation only
New public library catalog for Penn State University Libraries
- moved search session storage to Redis for improved performance and easier maintenance
- developing forthcoming call number browse features
- acclimated new developers to Blacklight, Solr, and Rails practices
Selected Presentations and Teaching
Workshop, Samvera Connect, October 2019
A guided walkthrough building a new Rails app with a book and page model, using Valkyrie as a backend
Conference lightning talk, IIIF Conference, May 2018
How we are planning to use the IIIF universal viewer in our forthcoming ContentDM replacement application, CHO.
Intro to RSpec
Workshop, Samvera Connect, November 2017
Workshop covering using RSpec for testing of Samvera-based applications.
Presentation, Samvera Connect, November 2017
Assessing performance issues with Hyrax and Valkyrie
Advanced Hydra Camp
Workshop, Data Curation Experts, May 2017
Four-day workshop covering advanced uses of Hyrax applications.
Workshop, Museums and the Web, April 2017
Using Hydra applications for digital asset management in museums.
Conference presentation, OpenRepositories, June 2015
Panel presentation on institutions upgrading to the Fedora 4 repository architecture.
Presentation, HydraConnect,
What I Know So Far About Upgrading from Fedora 3 to 4
Presentation, Northern Ohio Technical Services Librarians, November 2014
Handling EAD data with systems built to work with MARC
HydraCamp
Seminar, Digital Curation Experts, September 2013
One-week seminar on using the Hydra framework to build digital repository applications. Included instruction on related technologies such as Ruby on Rails, Fedora and Solr.
Webinar, OhioNet, August 2013
Webinar on using Hydra at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Presentation, Code4Lib, February 2013
Overview of how we used both Blacklight and Hydra to catalog and manage archival collections with born digital and physical holdings
Database Design
Course, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, January 2008
Semester course with a comprehensive view of the processes involved in developing formal access to information from a user-centered point of view.
Publications
Wead, Adam (2014). Lute tuning and temperament in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. (Doctoral diss., Indiana University).
Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2022/18424
Wead, Adam; Knopke, Ian (2007). A computer-based implementation of basso continuo rules for figured bass realizations. (Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference).
Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.bbp2372.2007.150
Education
Indiana University
2001 to 2014
Doctorate of Musical Arts
Indiana University
2003 to 2005
Master of Information Science
Johns Hopkins University
1997 to 2000
Vanderbilt University
1992 to 1997
Bachelor of Music magna cum laude