Nick Velkavrh
Director Of Collections, Systems, And Services at Occidental College
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolNick Velkavrh is a library technology leader with 13+ years of hands-on experience designing, administering, and integrating library systems for higher education. As Director of Collections, Systems, and Services at Occidental College and former systems lead at Whittier College, he blends technical fluency in ILS platforms (Innovative Sierra), discovery and proxy services (EBSCO, EZproxy), and digital repositories (Digital Commons) with strategic oversight of collections, budgets, and cross-department workflows. He programs and administers across stacks—PHP/HTML/CSS/JS, MySQL/MS SQL/Oracle, Apache/IIS, Linux and Windows servers—while also delivering user-facing CMS and LMS solutions (WordPress, Moodle). Known for translating cataloging and metadata standards (MARC, RDA, LCSH) into robust operational systems, he pairs practical sysadmin chops with library domain expertise to streamline access and resource sharing. Based in Los Angeles, he’s equally comfortable mentoring student assistants and negotiating vendor integrations, often surfacing workflow optimizations that non-technical colleagues find unexpectedly transformative.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityB.A., History, B.A., History at Occidental College
GermanGithub contributions (1)
nvelkavrh/iii_mcat
Jul 2012 - Dec 2012
Contributions:18 commits in 5 months
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