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/.

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.

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)