The Genesee Country Village & Museum (GCV&M) is a 700-acre open air museum with an historic village of 68 relocated structures, a costume and art museum, library, carriage museum and nature center. At GCV&M, I direct seven museum departments charged with providing curatorial, collections and exhibit services, interpretive and educational programs, historic building preservation and maintenance, as well as natural, agricultural and horticultural programming. These seven departments employ nine full-time, seven part-time and over ninety seasonal employees. As a senior director I work with the President/CEO, other senior staff and members of the board of trustees to establish, attain, and maintain the institution's goals, policies, procedures and programs. I also generate and track department and project budgets and create, monitor and evaluate work and program plans and schedules. I conduct research, develop exhibit plans, write and provide training. I am a member of GCV&M's strategic planning team and the primary author of the museum's IMLS funded Master Interpretive Plan.

Member of ALHFAM since 1986.Regional Representative for the Mid Atlantic Region of ALHFAM (2012-2014)President of ALHFAM (2007-2009)Vice President (2005-2007)Member of the Board of Directors (2001-2004)

As Site Director for Historic Brattonsville, a property of the York County Culture & Heritage Commission, I provided administrative oversight for an historic site with 45 structures, Revolutionary War battlefield, historic farm and trail system. I managed four departments with a staff of 20 full and part-time employees charged with operating the site. I set goals and initiatives, created, monitored and evaluated work and program plans and schedules, generatd and tracked budgets, managed special events and worked with senior C&H Commission staff to establish, attain and maintain the agency's overall goals, policies, procedures and programs. As curator, I directed process to generate the site's Master Interpretive Plan, set priorities for, and oversaw the preservation and interpreation of the site's historic resources; provided content expertise on a variety of interpretive, historical, curatorial and operational matters; conducted research to support the current and future interpretation of the site and directed the site's historic agricultural program.

As Chief Curator of the State of North Carolina's Museum of History in downtown Raleigh, I directed the curatorial section of ten employees, by creating and evaluating annual and special project work plans, developing and tracking budgets and allocating human and fiscal resources. I worked with senior management to establish, attain and maintain the museum's goals, policies, procedures and programs and was a member fo the museum's strategic planning team.In conjunction with other senior staff, I managed the museum's exhibition program that generated over 40 exhibits and displays between 1997 and 2001. I set and maintained the exhibition schedule, provided consultation to staff during the creation of exhibit proposals and to exhibition teams during the development process. I conducted content and design analysis of planning documents and was the principal author of the museum's Exhibition Development Process Manual. As curator, I provided lectures, tours, demonstrations and docent training; wrote for a variety of publications; provided assistance to the museum's youth history magazine; chaired the museum's acquisition committee; acquired and documented agricultural and industrial artifacts, including a 1740/1760s two room frame structure relocated to the museum; acted as subject matterial specialist for the museum and its three regional facilities and was co-team leader of a 9,500 square foot, award-winning exhibit entitled "Health and Healing Experiences in North Carolina."

GOS Grants Reviewer for the Institute of Museum and Library Services 1998, 2000, 2001Course Instructor 1999Public History Graduate Program, North Carolina State University, RaleighCo-instructed graduate course entitled "Material Culture in History Museums" Cataloger 1994Historic New England, Boston, MANEH funded position to catalog the organization's 2,500 piece collection of early American household textiles.Research Historian 1993U.S.S. Constitution Museum, Boston, MAGrant funded position to provide research for the development of a long-term exhibition interpreting the frigate's 1844-46 world cruise.Historical and Architectural Review Board, City of Bethlehm, PA 1992-1993Henry Antes House Restoration Committee 1992-1993Goschenhoppen Historians Inc., Green Lane, PAConservator's assistant 1991-1992Dorothy McCoach, Textile Conservator, Bethlehem, PACataloged 120-piece private collection of Pennsylvania German show towls in preparation for exhibit at the Allentown Art Museum (1992).Interim Curator 1988-1989Old Barracks Museum, Trenton, NJCurated two exhibitions and completed an evaluation of the museum's 18th and 19th century furniture collection.Curatorial Assistant 1987-1988Chester County Historical Society, West Chester, PAGrant funded positions to catalog CCHS's 400-piece collection of 18th and 19th century Delaware Valley case furniture collection and its 500-piece agricultural tool and equipment collection. I also curated and designed a permanent exhibition on early agriculture in Chester County for Springton Manor, a county owned farm park.

As Curator of Museum Services, I directed the interpretation of the ten-acre site with five historic structures, in downtown Bethlehem. I developed and managed special events, public programs and exhibits, conducted research to support the interpretation of collections, historic properties and programs; supervised guide coordinator and site maintenance and temporary staff. As curator I also was responsible for the acquisitions, care and security of collections, creating and maintaining records, documents and retrieval systems associated with the collection; and developed, wrote and implemented grant-funded initiatives for exhibits, collections and public programs.