Tamara Marnell
Program Manager, Systems at Orbis Cascade Alliance
Greater Bend Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolTamara Marnell is a library systems program manager with eight years of experience designing, operating, and advocating for consortial academic library technologies across the Pacific Northwest. With an MLS focused on human-computer interaction and systems analysis, she blends front-end web development (HTML/CSS/JS, PHP) and backend skills (SQL, Linux/Apache, AWS EC2) with deep operational knowledge of Alma, Primo, EZProxy, and ILLiad. At Orbis Cascade Alliance she leads systems strategy, vendor negotiations, and training while maintaining critical web properties like Archives West, demonstrating a rare mix of policy, advocacy, and hands-on infrastructure management. Her background includes automating administrative workflows and building CMS and search solutions that reduced staff workload and improved discoverability, and she routinely ties usage statistics (Oracle BI) to practical improvements. Based in the Greater Bend Area, Australia, she is a pragmatic technologist who bridges library practice and scalable cloud-hosted services.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biology at Indiana University BloomingtonMaster of Library Science (MLS), Master of Library Science (MLS) at Indiana University School of Library and Information Science
Github Skills (28)
cascade10
xquery9
xml8
basex7
solr7
spine6
xml-database6
menu6
custom-actions6
xslt6
explore5
blacklight5
discovery5
ruby5
archives5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alliance-pcsg/orbis-label-printer
Dec 2020 - Mar 2023
Cloud App to print spine labels from an item screen in Alma.
Contributions:2 releases, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 3 months
3d-printeritem3d-printingspinealma
alliance-pcsg/ve-customizations
May 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:15 commits, 17 pushes in 10 months
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