Current Staff

Michael Angeletti, Moving Image Digitization Specialist
Michael joined the SMPL team in September 2010 after a successful stint as Video Preservationist at VidiPax, LLC. Before becoming introduced to the field of audiovisual archiving, he served in editor and producer roles at several post-production facilities in New York as well as a broadcast news photographer in Kansas.

Hannah Frost, Lab Manager
Hannah Frost has been leading media preservation efforts at Stanford University Libraries since 2001, and spearheaded the initiative to develop a media lab for Stanford's important sound and moving image collections. She has managed several media collection projects, such as the R. Buckminster Fuller Digital Collection, the Monterey Jazz Festival Collection preservation project, !Women Art Revolution, and Preventing Genocide. Hannah serves on the board of the Audiovisual Archive Network, and received a Digital Library Federation Fellowship for Librarians New to the Profession in 2004. Hannah earned her MLIS from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information in 2001.

Hannah also serves as Services Manager for the Stanford Digital Repository. In this capacity, Hannah contributes to the development of Stanford Libraries digital preservation program. She is currently focused on repository audit, Stanford’s new Electronic Thesis and Dissertation program and the JHOVE2 project, a collaborative software development project with Portico and the California Digital Library.

Geoff Willard, Media Digitization Production Coordinator
After becoming disillusioned with music retail, Geoff remembered how much fun he had at his college radio station as the music librarian and decided that was a more righteous path. Leaving Boston, he went down south to pick up an MSIS degree from the University of Texas at Austin. While in school he worked as an audio technician at the Harry Ransom Center, and as a video technician at the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. He first came to Stanford as an intern for the Hoover Institution after graduating in May 2010, and then came back to campus in January 2011 to serve as Media Digitization Production Coordinator at Stanford Libraries.

SMPL Alumni

Stefan Elnabli, Intern (June 2009 - August 2009)
Stefan had a summer internship at SMPL while enrolled as a student in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate program at New York University. The focus of the internship was arranging and processing the papers of media artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson.

Franz Kunst, Digital Media Specialist and Production Coordinator (October 2007 - September 2010)
An avid record collector and natural archivist, Franz brought these skills and interests to bear at the Media Lab. He contributed his efforts to a variety of audio and video projects, including the Monterey Jazz Festival collection, the Peter Erskine collection, and overall smooth operations of lab activities. Franz is an active member of the Association of Recorded Sound Collections and earned his M.L.I.S. from San Jose State University in 2007.

Andrew Matthews, Audio Digitization Specialist (December 2008 - March 2011)
Andrew came to SMPL after working several years as the Senior Audio Associate for the Music and Sound department at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Andrew has a B.A. in Recording Arts and a M.A. in Jazz Studies (saxophone), both from California State University, Chico.

Jayn Pettingil, Intern (June 2010 - August 2010)
While enrolled in the M.L.I.S. degree program at San Jose State University, and leveraging her strong interests in jazz and music librarianship, Jayn spent a summer at the Media Lab helping to clean moldy audio tapes in the Peter Erskine Collection and to create metadata records for audio recordings in the Stanford Speech Collection.

Crystal Rangel, Fellow (September 2009 - August 2010)
Crystal was awarded a one-year fellowship, supported by the New York University Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate program with funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, to work as a moving image archivist at Stanford University Libraries. Crystal processed several collections containing media materials, including those of filmmakers Lourdes Portillo and Lynn Hershman Leeson. She lent her technical skills in the effort to preserve video content in several digital collections, as well as to provide online access to the material through streaming media.