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Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Established, mentored, and trained the NHM Unlocked Digitisation team using a positive, trusting management style to ensure successful team performance and skilled staff development. Trained additional junior and senior staff members in digitisation workflows resulting in wide-ranging improvements in digital and data literacy across teams. Utilised strong project management skills to manage (from concept to execution) seven concurrent and innovative digitisation projects between the… Show more Established, mentored, and trained the NHM Unlocked Digitisation team using a positive, trusting management style to ensure successful team performance and skilled staff development. Trained additional junior and senior staff members in digitisation workflows resulting in wide-ranging improvements in digital and data literacy across teams. Utilised strong project management skills to manage (from concept to execution) seven concurrent and innovative digitisation projects between the Vertebrates, Invertebrates, Entomology, and Earth Sciences departments, and practiced effective stakeholder collaboration with multiple diverse perspectives across museum departments to ensure creation of digitisation standards in workflows that promote best collections practice. Show less

London Area, United Kingdom

Identified, developed, and presented strategic recommendations for coherent, end-to-end data workflows to enable future digital tracking of 27 million specimens involved in the NHM Science and Digitisation Centre Moves Project. Created and shared digitisation best practices with internal and external stakeholders and project partners via reports, briefing papers, and presentations at senior governance groups and established core standards for recording accurate information about digitisation… Show more Identified, developed, and presented strategic recommendations for coherent, end-to-end data workflows to enable future digital tracking of 27 million specimens involved in the NHM Science and Digitisation Centre Moves Project. Created and shared digitisation best practices with internal and external stakeholders and project partners via reports, briefing papers, and presentations at senior governance groups and established core standards for recording accurate information about digitisation workflows for project/programme evaluation and monitoring. Additionally analysed and manipulated legacy collections data using the Museum’s Collections Management System (EMu) and Microsoft Excel to support novel workflow production and inform on minimum data requirements for specimen data recordings. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the mass data capture of specimen metadata via image capture, transcription, type status verification, georeferencing, and database record creation and enhancement for a variety of entomological, botanical, and palaeontological collections. Involved in re-curation, rehousing of specimens, and investigations of historically problematic taxonomic and curatorial specimen issues. Extensive experience in using the Museum’s collections management system ‘KE EMu', to create, edit, and… Show more Responsible for the mass data capture of specimen metadata via image capture, transcription, type status verification, georeferencing, and database record creation and enhancement for a variety of entomological, botanical, and palaeontological collections. Involved in re-curation, rehousing of specimens, and investigations of historically problematic taxonomic and curatorial specimen issues. Extensive experience in using the Museum’s collections management system ‘KE EMu', to create, edit, and update specimen records. Represented the ‘Digital Collections Programme’ in numerous tours, formal Museum events, and on social media channels to promote programme values and wider digitisation practices to varied audiences. Show less

Applied emergent collections management skills to improve collections’ overall discoverability:▪ Autonomously completed inventory of natural history specimens (~5k objects) across palaeontological, zoological and mineralogical collections, improving both accessibility to the curator and discoverability for future research.▪ Supported curator and moving team with successful decant of the collections post-disaster; assessed object vulnerability, catalogued, packed, imaged, organised, and… Show more Applied emergent collections management skills to improve collections’ overall discoverability:▪ Autonomously completed inventory of natural history specimens (~5k objects) across palaeontological, zoological and mineralogical collections, improving both accessibility to the curator and discoverability for future research.▪ Supported curator and moving team with successful decant of the collections post-disaster; assessed object vulnerability, catalogued, packed, imaged, organised, and transported diverse natural history objects to secure storage. Show less

Development and application of practical collections management skills through various successful tasks:▪ Specimen rehousing, labelling, sorting, storing and reorganisation; palaeontological collections databasing using 'Mimsy XG' collections management system; identification of skeletal and fossil remains; disarticulation and rearticulation of mounted skeletal specimens; preparation of specimens for exhibition displays; relocation of main zoological collections (inc. Edward Hart… Show more Development and application of practical collections management skills through various successful tasks:▪ Specimen rehousing, labelling, sorting, storing and reorganisation; palaeontological collections databasing using 'Mimsy XG' collections management system; identification of skeletal and fossil remains; disarticulation and rearticulation of mounted skeletal specimens; preparation of specimens for exhibition displays; relocation of main zoological collections (inc. Edward Hart Collection) to new storage. Show less

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Developed knowledge and understanding of palaeontological processes alongside key analytical, observational and interpretational skills for application toward studies in both lab and field: ▪ Key modules: Comparative anatomy; taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography; techniques in palaeobiology (mechanical, chemical, SEM preparation); collection and extraction techniques.▪ Field experience: Sierra Norte, Spain (2010); Ludlow, Wales (2011); Germany, Austria (2012); Isle of Wight, England… Show more Developed knowledge and understanding of palaeontological processes alongside key analytical, observational and interpretational skills for application toward studies in both lab and field: ▪ Key modules: Comparative anatomy; taxonomy, cladistics and biogeography; techniques in palaeobiology (mechanical, chemical, SEM preparation); collection and extraction techniques.▪ Field experience: Sierra Norte, Spain (2010); Ludlow, Wales (2011); Germany, Austria (2012); Isle of Wight, England (2013). Show less

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc)

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