Jared Nistler
Senior Systems Librarian | Full Stack Web Developer | Open Source Software Advocate
Experience
- Senior Systems Librarian / Systems Program Manager, U.S. Department of State, 2021–present
- Electronic Resources Librarian / Content Management Systems Librarian, Northern Virginia Community College, 2019–2021
- Reference and Instruction Librarian, Northern Virginia Community College, 2019
- Archives Intern, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University, 2019
- Research Liaison, United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, 2019
- Project Archivist, University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, 2018
- Preservation & Digital Access Technician, University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library, 2016–2017
- Operation Manager/Analyst, Signals Intelligence, United States Army, Signals Intelligence/Arabic Crypto-Linguistics, 2010–2016
Awards
- 2025 – Superior Honor Award, U.S. Department of State
- 2025 – 2024 Federal Librarian of the Year, Library of Congress via FEDLINK
- 2024 – Superior Honor Award, U.S. Department of State
- 2023 – Meritorious Honor Award, U.S. Department of State
Education
- Master of Library and Information Science (MLIS), University of Washington, 2018–2020
- Bachelor of International Studies, University of Utah, 2016–2018
- Associate of Arts in Arabic, Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, 2010–2012
- Certified Full Stack Web Developer, PDX Code Guild (Bootcamp), 2021
Skills
Library systems management and administration
- Integrated Library Systems (ILS): OCLC WorldShare Management System (WMS); Ex Libris Alma/Primo
- Customer Relationship Management (CRM): Salesforce – Library Support Application Administrator
- Content Management System (CMS): SpringShare Suite (LibGuides, LibWizard, LibCal, etc.); Confluence
- Digital Asset Management Systems (DAM): Omeka Classic; OCLC ContentDM
- System Migrations: Elimination of Technical Debt; ContentDM to Omeka; Wiki to OneNote; Local to Cloud
Library web administration and knowledge management
- Web Platforms: Microsoft SharePoint; SpringShare CMS; WordPress; Wikipedia/MediaWiki
- Front-End Development: HTML; CSS/SASS/SCSS; JavaScript; Bootstrap; jQuery; Tailwind CSS
- Back-End Development: Django Web Framework; Application Programming Interface (APIs), SQL
- Identity and Access Management: Okta; EZProxy; Authelia; Nginx; Secure Web Application Gateway (SWAG)
Leadership and program/project management
- Project Management: Waterfall Project Management; Agile Project Management
- Workflow/Process Automation: Python; Windows PowerShell; OpenRefine; PowerQuery; PowerAutomate; SUSHI
Communication and collaboration
- Team Collaboration: Oral and Written Technical Communication; Team Building; Zoom; Slack; Microsoft Teams
- Technical Communication: Technical Webinars; Process/Workflow Documentation; Change Management
- Remote Work: Collaboration via Work from Home; Building Virtual Staff Spaces/Intranets; Virtual Engagement
Projects
- 2019 – A Quantitative Approach to the Magnetic Media Crisis — Skills used: Git, HTML, Markdown, R Markdown, Quantitative/Qualitative Research Methods
- 2019 – Iraq in European Newspaper Editorials 1991–2013 — Skills used: Gale Digital Scholarship Lab, Voyant, Text Mining, Primary Research, Data Analysis
- 2018 – Audio Visual Survey Tool (AVST) — Skills used: Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, SQL
Publications
- 2020 – Nistler, Jared and Ketchley, Sarah. “Developing Literacies in the Digital Humanities Classroom: A Case Study.” Literacies in a Digital Humanities Context, special issue of dh+lib, 2020, pp. 24–31.
- 2018 – Nistler, Jared. “No One Needs to Know My War Stories.” Undergraduate Journal of Contemporary Issues and Media, vol. 3, 2021, pp. 38–42. (Written in 2018, published in 2021.)