COREY CHIMKO

Corey has over 20 years of experience in all aspects of Digital Asset Management from content creation to long-term storage. For 11 years Corey managed over half a million digital assets for Cornell University, evolving Cornell's DAM into the go-to content hub for a variety of audiences, including marketing and communications staff, design firms, and external media. Now, after founding smallDAM in 2017, Corey specializes in large volume, high-speed, high-accuracy asset processing and workflows for any DAM environment. He has also performed many from-scratch DAM implementations and system-to-system migrations. No matter the size of your organization or collection, Corey can help you implement, organize, optimize, and integrate your digital assets across any platform.

MEDIA

Chimko, C. 2019-06-06. “C.C.’s 5 Cs of DAM (Corey Chimko’s 5 Cornerstones of DAM): Values for Ensuring DAM Success.” smallDAM.com. https://corey-chimko.squarespace.com/s/2019-06-06_CCs5CsofDAM.pptx

Chimko, C. 2019-05-04. “DAM Basic Concepts.” smallDAM.com. https://corey-chimko.squarespace.com/s/2019-05-04_DAM_Basic_Concepts.pptx

Chimko, C. 2019-04-02. “DAM Basics: Your Asset Naming Convention,” DAMStraight, the smallDAM Blog. http://smalldam.com/blog/2019/4/2/dam-basics-your-asset-naming-convention

Chimko, C. & S. Schnepf. 2016-06-14. "Maximize your higher ed content management strategy with digital asset management." Elements: The Web Conference at Penn State 2016.

Chimko, C. & M. Thiesen. "DAM and Higher Ed: Best Practices from Real Admins." Widen Webinar.

Higher Ed Live. 2016-02-19. "Digital Asset Management: Channeling the Content Crazies." Higher Ed Live Special Edition. http://higheredlive.com/channeling-the-content-crazies/.

In this episode of Higher Ed Special Edition digital asset management pros will speak with Erin Supinka about how to keep your sanity when you face digital assets in a state of organizational disarray and content overload.

Mesibov, Marli. 2015-05-22. Live From Confab: Making digital asset management a success. http://marli.us/2015/05/22/live-from-confab-making-digital-asset-management-a-success/.

DAM Guru. 2014. Guru Talk: Corey Chimko – Cornell University. www.damguru.com.

Chimko, C. & D. Ballew. 2013-10-15/16. "Leveraging Single Sign On Authentication." Widen User Summit 2013.

Chimko, C. & N. Brakel-Schutt. 2013-10-08. "Making Digital Asset Management A Success For Higher Education." HighEdWeb 2013.

Chimko, C. 2013. Widen DAM in higher education webinar recording (with Corey Chimko of Cornell University). www.widen.com.

The presentation spotlights Cornell University's digital asset management (DAM) system and its Global Administrator, Corey Chimko, who shares what Cornell has done with their DAM system and how it's helped the university. We also had Widen DAM experts Nina Brakel-Schutt, Al Falaschi, and Kara Bubb on the webinar.
Corey Chimko is a big part of Cornell University Photography's DAM system. Toward the end of our first day of learning sessions, he had great things to say about the utility of the information presented and the focus on simplicity.

PROFILE

Master of Arts with a concentration in Museum Studies. 15 years experience in all aspects of digital asset management, 9 years in a higher-education marketing environment. Additional skills in collections management, digitization, registration work, web design, photography, illustration, fine art. Creative, efficient, very computer literate, highly adaptable self-starter.

EXPERTISE: DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT (DAM)

All aspects of DAM systems implementation, administration, management, maintenance and workflows. Systems Familiarity:

  • Widen Media Collective

  • Canto Cumulus

  • WebDAM

  • Resource Space

  • TMS

  • FileMaker

  • Multi-MIMSY

  • Ad-Hoc systems

EXPERTISE: COMPUTER SKILLS

  • OS: Windows, Mac

  • Imaging: Digital photography, flatbed, slide, transparency scanning, Adobe Creative Suite

  • Coding/Internet: HTML, XML, FTP

  • Networking/Protocol: TCP/IP, FTP, SFTP, SMB, CIFS, AFP, NFS, WebDAV

  • Internet and social media: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pinterest, Shopify, Merchify, WordPress, Blogger, Wix, SquareSpace, many more.

EDUCATION


New York University (New York, NY)
Master of Arts in Ancient Near Eastern Studies, with a concentration in Museum Studies (2001)                                                   
University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB)
Master of Arts with Distinction (1998)    
Major: Anthropology; Minor: Classics

LANGUAGES

  • English (fluent)

  • French (fluent)

  • German (in progress)