We would like to share with you this wonderful news about our former student assistant Carlos Fernando Lopez, who called last week and told me that he worked for Ricky Martin’s 10th studio album “A Quien Quiera Escuchar,” which won Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards. You can find his name everywhere in the album credits as arranger, programmer, recording engineer, piano player, and even as background vocalist!
Carlos worked for us from 2010 to 2012 on digital projects while studying for his master’s degree in music at the Frost School of Music. He is not only a talented musician, but also was an excellent student assistant for us who was instrumental in figuring out how to improve productivity and accuracy at the beginning of our biggest in-house digital project at the time. Digitizing over million pages of documents and printed materials from the Office of the President Records seemed like a daunting task for everyone involved in the project at Richter, but our student assistants led by Carlos and supervised by Digital Production colleagues figured out a new way to scan a large amount of documents in high speed with quality that helped us achieve the goal.
It was not easy for him to go to school while raising a family of two beautiful children with his talented pianist wife, Laura. He has told us he liked working for the Archives because the position provided him a stable employment and flexible work schedule. I think he also got to like his alma mater more by working for us because he discovered amazing stories and people at the University while working on archival projects. Congrats Carlos on your great accomplishment!
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