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New York, Ny, Us

Greater New York City Area

Partnerships Lead for Bloomberg Connects digital platform, responsible for strategic collaborations with museums, historic sites, theaters, parks, botanical gardens, and cities throughout the world. Working in parallel with engineering, UX, and marketing colleagues, I and my team work to better serve the 3M app users and 350+ cultural institutions seeking to engage their visitors and expand their audiences via the free Bloomberg Connects app.

Queens, Ny

• Oversaw the daily operations of the museum, cultivating and mentoring a diverse staff; enabled a team of curators and cultural producers to build a unique and robust exhibition, education, and community engagement portfolio; and share the museum’s ongoing discourse with more than 500,000 onsite, offsite, and digital participants.• Determined annual budgets with leadership team.• Fostered a welcoming, informative, and varied visitor experience by building a multi-lingual, multi-generational visitor engagement team, enhancing wall texts and collateral materials that bridge the art world and real world, and securing partners whose approach and service augmented amenities and comfort levels.• Executed all capital projects ranging from a $69 million multi-phased master site expansion, to energy conservation initiatives, infrastructure upgrades, and vehicle acquisitions.• Responsible for the daily functioning of the 105,000 sq. ft. building and its immediate environs, including maintenance, safety, security, energy consumption reductions, IT infrastructure, and streamlining processes to increase the efficency of the aforementioned.• Led and shaped communication efforts through interwoven multi-platform, multi-initiative, and multi- stakeholder campaigns.• Spearheaded government relations outreach efforts on all levels, resulting in more than $80 million in capital and expense funding, and forging partnerships with officials, agencies, foundations, and groups that dovetailed with our initiatives.• Revamped and created earned revenue streams for retail operation, catering and café enterprises, and for film, tv, and photo shoots.• Served as point of contact for legal matters including exhibition contracts, insurance claims, internal policy revisions, and employment issues.

• As part of a three-person leadership team, worked closely with the Board to head all aspects of daily museum operations, bolstering institutional momentum at a crucial post-expansion transitional moment, and offered both leadership and support to staff, programmatic partners, and stakeholders while the search to identify a new Executive Director was undertaken.

• Managed all aspects of the museum’s $69 million, master site expansion project which doubled the size of the institution, created new galleries, public gathering spaces, visitor amenities, entries, and exterior features. Responsibilities included raising necessary funding; overseeing a design process that reflected the varying needs and expectations of multiple internal and external constituencies; interfacing with government agencies involved directly and indirectly with the project; day-to-day liaising with architects, construction management team, trades, and contractors; phasing construction operations to maintain public hours and visitor experience until final stage of project; coordinating the successful reopening and rebranding campaigns with outside PR and design firms.• Developed short- and long-term integrated public relations and marketing strategies for exhibitions, programs, and institutional initiatives that resulted in increased visibility for the museum, as well as steady growth in engagement onsite, offsite, and through digital and social media.• Initiated and realized comprehensive institutional rebranding campaign including museum name change, design of a new logo mark, print material scheme, graphic standards manual, and website, and positioning as institution marked by openness.

Brooklyn, New York

• Established New York-based administrative office for internationally renowned contemporary artist Takashi Murakami; created and implemented new systems for the tracking of production, shipping, and sales of artwork in four international art markets; managed daily office operations including dealings with gallerists, museums, members of the press, and collectors; and coordinated exhibitions at galleries, museums, and exhibition spaces throughout the world.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Devised and executed full-scale publicity campaigns for major exhibitions, public programs, and special events garnering significant print and broadcast coverage on international, national, and local levels; organized national and international press events and trips resulting in substantial media coverage for exhibitions; acted as spokesperson for select print and broadcast opportunities; and oversaw design and production of project-specific collateral materials.

Master'S Degree In Visual Arts Administration, Arts Administration

Sustainable Marine Ecosystem Management

Intensive marine biology research program in British West Indies marrying community needs and ecosystem longevity.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Dual Major - English And Marine Biology

High School