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United States

Responsibilities included project management; business development; NEPA projects, including environmental assessments and categorical exclusions; biological resources surveys and reporting; cultural resource inventory, mitigation, monitoring, laboratory management, artifact analysis, research, curation, data management, technical writing and editing.

Responsibilities included report writing, participating and leading intensive-level survey projects. Contribute to Class I procedures, prefield and post-field methods, and reports. Responsible for documenting and compiling site documentations for Utah and Nevada projects, including NRHP assessments. Participated in laboratory analysis and data recovery projects.

Ithaca, New York

Lead the SUNY procurement process for Contract Colleges Facilities. Responsible for formalizing project requirements, including design consultant selection, committee formation, advertisement development and placement, point of contact for consultants, long list and short list documentation, and posting of contract award on Contract Colleges Facilities website. Program Manager for Minority/Women/Disabled Veteran Owned Business (MWBE/DVOB) program at Cornell University, determining goal percentages for all projects, documenting contractors’ good faith efforts, and tracking all projects for compliance. Communicated project goals and responsibilities to staff. Managed the prevailing wage rate program. Maintained certified payrolls and project oversight documentation in accordance with University, State and other legal requirements and responded to Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests. Executed training for project managers on New York State prevailing wage rates, implementation, and compliance. Managed Cornell University's compliance with New York State’s Project Sunlight, maintained a database of contacts and training as required, prepared and delivered annual and refresher training to Cornell staff. Managed the Cornell University interface with the SUNY and SUCF AiM database for the four contract colleges. Evaluated existing processes for potential improvements or changes and made recommendations to management for implementation. Provides professional administrative support to Senior Director and CCF staff. Responsible for the office management and related business transactions: complex scheduling, meeting preparation, document preparation, coordination, tracking, and/or completion of diverse range of routing and special communications, projects and activities. Compiles information into well-formatted and organized reports and analyze data to prepare spreadsheets and presentation materials. Develop/maintain administrative and project record keeping.

Ithaca, New York

Provide professional administrative support to Senior Director and Contract College Facilities staff. Manage complex calendars and organize meetings/events for Director and Project Management Staff, schedule rooms, invite participants, prepare and distribute materials and handle other logistics. Assist with preparation of various meeting and presentation materials using Microsoft Office. Coordinate travel and conference arrangements. Develop/maintain administrative and project filing systems (electronic and paper), and maintain office supplies. Create project service requests/work orders Maximo, track project budgets, and maintain project certified payroll records in accordance with University, State and other legal requirements. Assist others in maintaining CCF website. Support activities include collecting and distributing mail, scanning and mailing outgoing correspondence, and may answer computer-related questions from staff concerning hardware and software, and serving as data/telephone coordinator. All support functions require attention to detail and ability to provide timely and appropriate follow-up. Serve as the receptionist to CCF area.

Orange, Va

Cultural resource specialist for mitigation work at James Madison's Montpelier, excavating the entrance to the ice house which is part of the Temple restoration project. Duties include; excavation, identifying 18th, 19th and 20th century artifacts and stratigraphic layers, site documentation, shovel testing, laboratory work, and public facing archaeology. Lab work includes; flotation, preparing artifacts for cataloging, cataloging faunal and iron artifacts, interacting with visitors, and data entry.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Responsibilities include participating and leading intensive-level survey projects. Ms. Poffenberger is a key member of the Field Management group and has contributed to Class I procedures, prefield and postfield methods, and reports. Specifically, she is responsible for documenting and compiling site documentations for Utah projects, including NRHP assessments. She has participated in laboratory analysis and data recovery projects.

Orem, Ut

Responsibilities include participating and leading crews during survey, testing, and long-term excavations. She has participated in monitoring of archaeological sites. Ms. Poffenberger split her time between the Anasazi and Great Basin regions of Utah, as well as monitoring work in the Elko District in Nevada.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Responsibilities include site updating and re-recording of several archaeological sites for a short-term project in Nevada.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Responsibilities include participating and leading intensive-level survey projects. She has participated in laboratory analysis, pedestrian surveys and data recovery projects. Ms. Poffenberger also contributed to the office procedures and was a part-time receptionist during the archaeological off season.

Moab, Ut

Responsibilities included extensive surveying, site recording, entering photos into database, preparing IMACS forms, obtaining GIS information on GPS Pathfinder, assisted with the implementation of a total station during data recovery and excavation. Ms. Poffenberger spent time in both the Anasazi and Great Basin regions in Utah conducting fieldwork.

Tucson, Arizona

Responsibilities include extensive surveying, site and artifact identification on a short-term project in Utah County, Utah.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Responsibilities included extensive surveying, site and artifact identification in the Anasazi Region of Utah for a single short-term project.

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Anthropology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Art History, Criticism And Conservation

Archeaology And Geographic Information Science And Cartography

Archaeological Field School- Benin

Associate Of Science (A.S.), Environmental Studies, Hotel And Resort Hospitality, Biology