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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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

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