Jane is currently the Digital Channels Content Advisor for Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, and prior to that, created digital label interactives, telling New Zealand’s stories in exhibitions at Te Papa. She is a strong advocate for plain language, te reo Māori, and accessibility, both technically and culturally.

Previously, Jane has been a freelance digital content wrangler for several New Zealand companies. She is an experienced content manager, web editor, proofreader, digital asset manager, copy editor, image researcher, transcriber, and subtitler.  She navigates the unfolding territory of digital content with curiosity and ease.

She has created and curated simple, elegant and clear websites for award-winning New Zealand authors, literary journals, individual books, writer residencies, publishers, academics, architects, a photographer and GLAM-sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums) memberships and SME businesses. She is not currently taking on new clients.

She has over thirty years of bookselling under her belt, from brick-and-mortar stores to web-based e-commerce bookshops. She crossed over to publishing in 2009, gaining experience in copy-editing, production, and marketing of New Zealand books for Phantom House Books and Te Papa Press. She has wide experience in online content and digital asset research, wrangling, and management.

All of these perspectives and her can-do attitude enable her to understand many of the requirements and idiosyncrasies of digital assets and websites. By defining, communicating and translating ideas and system requirements between stakeholders and technical developers, she has practical and intuitive approaches to finding solutions in many areas of small and larger organisations.

She finds writing about herself in the third person most odd.