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Adam Jansen is an information management consultant pursuing a Ph.D. at the School of Library, Archival, and Information Studies, University of British Columbia. His current project involves providing consulting services on the Hawaii State Archives open source Digital Archives project as a subject matter expert guiding the development team and staff archivist in the creation of functional requirements, preservation workflows, draft legislation, budget, and state standards of practice. Prior to Consulting, Adam spent seven years working for Washington State, first managing the enterprise wide imaging program – a program that won the Governor’s Award for Quality and Service Improvement-- and then as the Deputy State Archivist for the State of Washington. While at the Digital Archives he designed and managed an award winning, first of its kind digital archives to preserve permanent, electronic records of both State and Local Government. His program was recognized for Excellence in Using Technology for the Preservation of Information by eC3 in 2007.

Adam also very active supporting professional organizations, serving as: a member of the Board of Directors for the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators from 2006-2008, a voting member of INCITS/V1 committee -- the US ISO standards body responsible for document publishing and file format specifications, a committee member for the new skills colloquium hosted by SAA in 2007, and a founding member of the Professional Advisory Board for the Computer Science Department at Eastern Washington University. Teaching experience includes serving as adjunct faculty to the Western Archives Institute, the University of British Columbia and the University of Hawaii - Manoa. Constantly in pursuit of further knowledge, Adam has received the following certifications and recognitions: Certified Records Manager, Microsoft Certified Professional, Master of Information Technology, Certified Document Imaging Architech and he received an Interdisciplinary Master’s Degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from Eastern Washington University. His research interests include the creation, use, preservation, and forensic analysis of trustworthy digital records which he put to great use with the InterPARES research project, first as a co-investigator and then as a graduate research assistant, from 2008 - current.