Bill Levay
Digital Archivist at New York Philharmonic
Sayreville, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBill Levay is a digital archivist and DAM specialist with 11 years of experience designing metadata strategies, implementing cloud-based asset platforms, and preserving nearly two centuries of cultural content at the New York Philharmonic. He combines hands-on technical work—leading a migration of over 3 million assets, scripting Python tools for metadata automation, and integrating AI-powered facial recognition and GPT-based audio summarization—with long-range preservation planning across AWS and local storage. As founder of Levay Information Services he advises nonprofits and cultural institutions on sustainable digital workflows, web development, and metadata cleanup, and his consulting emphasizes appropriate technology for limited-resource environments. He also teaches digital archives and information technologies at Pratt Institute, bringing classroom practice to real-world operations. A trained librarian and archivist with advanced degrees from Pratt and NYU, Bill pairs scholarly rigor and discographic research (including an award-winning musician discography) with pragmatic systems thinking. Based in Sayreville, NJ, he’s known for bridging archival values with modern automation to make collections both secure and more discoverable.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Humanities and Social Thought, Master of Arts - MA Humanities and Social Thought at New York UniversityMaster of Science - MS Library and Information Science, Master of Science - MS Library and Information Science at Pratt InstituteBachelor of Arts - BA Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Anthropology at Penn State University
Github Skills (8)
metadata10
reporter8
historical7
digitization6
islandora2
spreadsheet1
drush1
excel1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wjlevay/tumblr_image_bot
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
knologyhq/www
Oct 2019 - Dec 2025
Contributions:26 PRs, 178 pushes, 29 branches in 6 years 3 months
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