Manage WY Pioneer Memorial Museum, POW Camp Douglas Officers’ Club State Historic Site & Ft. Fetterman State Historic Site

Manage collection storage areas. Responsible for preservation and/or conservation of artifacts and structural features. Registrar duties/Administrator of the PastPerfect database system. Perform curatorial collections management associated with the history, folklore, and material culture relative to western pioneers and Wyoming in particular as interpreted by the Pioneer Museum, Ft. Fetterman State Historic Site and Camp Douglas Officers’ Club State Historic Site. Responsible for all documentation associated with acquisitions, deeds of gift, insurance, condition and facilities reports, and collection inventory. Responsible for preservation and/or conservation of artifacts and structural features. Responsible for public programming and interpretation with the goal of increasing public awareness, access, and understanding of the Wyoming Pioneer Museum, Ft. Fetterman State Historic Site and Camp Douglas. Assist with organizing, installing and de-installing exhibits, and the development of new exhibit topics. Responsible for development, implementation, and evaluation of public programs for students, (K-University), teachers, and the general public, which includes scheduling and organizing educational tours for schools and community groups that provide every student, teacher or visitor a high quality, interactive, and engaging experience whether on-site or through outreach programs. Implement outreach efforts by developing innovative connections with new audiences using traditional as well as social media. Scan images and documents. Use Photoshop to create new exhibits, graphics, and text. Provide research, reference services, and technical assistance to government officials, academic researchers, and the public. Serve as Volunteer Coordinator, managing site's volunteers to include recruiting, coordination, and evaluation of the volunteers. I am also responsible for posting on each of our three Facebook pages on a daily basis.

In charge of museum historical collection. Responsible for accession of incoming donated artifacts. Responsible for out going loans and all paperwork. Works with the Assistant Director and Director and the Collections Committee with regards to all 3-D collections donations and deaccessioning of objects that no longer meet the mission of the museum. Work with Exhibits committee to develop new and intriguing exhibits for History museum gallery, traveling exhibits and online exhibits. Write an article in quarterly museum news letter. Responsible for inventorying and updating the museum's backlog in PastPerfect. Assist with bringing museum up to National Institute of Libraries and Museum standards. Responsible for Integrated Pest Management, Environmental controls, and housekeeping of all museum galleries, exhibits and storage facility. Assist in writing updated Museum Collections Management Policy. Responsible for writing and implementing the Emergency Preparedness Plan. Works closely with the Director of Archives on various projects. Works with exhibits team to develop and execute new exhibits in both the main Cache Street Gallery and I the Indians of the Greater Yellowstone museum location. Also share duties for community outreach projects. Supervise summer volunteers.

Via Telework technology, I assist with data entry of completed surveys of State park and Historical Site visitors. The data is used by the agency to assess visitor needs and the direction of park management and development. An access database will be populated with data by the intern. Work with State Park and Historical Site field staff and volunteers to collect and coordinate the collection of visitor surveys. Collection required strict adherence to sample size and sampling dates. Research legal land descriptions, State Statutes, rules and regulations for disposal of lands for State Parks & Historical Sites land ownership requirements.

Assist the public with checking out material, computer and internet assistance and other questions as they arise. Assist staff with research, projects, and programs. Assist volunteers, repair materials as needed, Stack/shelve materials, cover books, assist with story hour for toddlers once a week. Assist staff with programs and fundraising events. Assist History Librarian with scanning newly acquired photos into database using PastPerfect software.

Filled in to finish out seasonal position that was left vacant prior to season being over. Primarily retail in either the main museum store and/or the secondary location at the Indians of Greater Yellowstone museum. Some Docent/Interpretation as requested or needed.

Assist Collections Manager with cataloging, inventory, exhibits, and other duties a assigned. Specific duties included but not limited to the following: Cataloging including loans, accessions and deaccesioning artifacts using PastPerfect software. Experience photographing objects, uploading to PastPerfect for cataloging/inventory/condition reporting. Experience with nomenclature. Understand the importance of using proper materials when handling, cataloging artifacts. Also, monitoring climate control with HOBO data logger devices. Knowledge/experience of integrated pest and insect control in storage and exhibit areas. Knowledge of proper practices for storing artifacts. Extensive experience with inventorying artifacts and items in museum and in storage areas of museum. Knowledge and experience in development and creation of text for exhibit labels. Also, frequent communication with Director and board members regarding work and progress going on at the museum.

Invoicing, billing, manage company accounts, depsoit entry, license & register company fleet in 2 states, keep unemployment, worker's compensation certificates of good standing current, order certificates of limited liability insurance as required for each company contract, other duties as assigned. Also have experience with human resource functions such as drug testing, background checks, certification of citizenship, such as E-Verify, policy and procedure acknowledgements and much more.

As part of my Master's degree program, I worked directly with the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum's collections manager in implementing a fledgling idea from the museum educator into a permanent exhibit. With this I curated the project from an idea to installation. This entailed thematic brainstorming, research, letter writing for permissions, combing through thousands of archival pieces, scanning objects, items and artifacts into the museum's software program (which was a project on it's own as the museum needed this done as well), photographing items, writing label text and execution of project with installantion.

Assisted students with questions regarding research, book check out, library card registration, computer issues. Responsible for creating and coming up with a theme for the monthly changing display. Responsible for daily periodical check in, display, and storage of older periodicals.

Assist with collecting information to complete a survey of State park and Historical Site visitors. The data is used by the agency to assess visitor needs and the direction of park management and development. Data collection will follow strict protocols to insure results are statistically reliable and comparable to previous surveys. An access database will be populated with data by the intern. Work with State Park and Historical Site field staff and volunteers to collect and coordinate the collection of visitor surveys. Collection required strict adherence to sample size and sampling dates. Research legal land descriptions, State Statutes, rules and regulations for disposal of lands for State Parks & Historical Sites land ownership requirements.

Collected admissions feed from museum visitors, introduced visitors to the museum and floor plan, answered questions relating to history and/or artifact or item within the museum. Assisted Museum Collection Manager with accessioning and deaccsioning collection items.

Seasonal Position-Take admissions for museum, answer guest’s questions regarding museum and Johnson County, Wyoming history, answer phone, security detail, which consists of walking around museum to monitor artifacts and make sure guests needds are met.

assist the Curator of Education in implementing new games, activities for the Hands on History Room. In addition, I designed the t-shirt for the 2008 Annual Earth Day celebration for the museum, as well as researched requested materials in the State Archives as requested by the Curator of Education.

Ground Water Division, Cheyenne Compiled, processed and recorded correspondence, applications, contracts, legal documents, reports, performed research and verified applications. Trained new technical records staff, acquired detailed knowledge of state and agency policies, services and programs. Support administrative and technical staff. Researched water rights and land descriptions.

Researched and created travel arrangements for clients including, airline, hotel, rental car, vacation packages. Used Apollo travel reservation system. Skills: Volunteered at the Wyoming State Museum in Cheyenne from December 2007 through April 2008 assisting the Curator of Education in implementing new games, activities for the Hands on History Room. In addition, I designed the t-shirt for the 2008 Annual Earth Day celebration for the museum, as well as researched requested materials in the State Archives as requested by the Curator of Education. I continue to volunteer at the State Museum on occasion. Most recently portrayed Caroline Lockhart at the annual "Night at the Museum" Halloween party 2009. Proficient with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Power Point, MS Desktop Publisher, Excel, Photoshop, Windows XP, Internet Explorer, familiar with Past-Perfect software; Quick to learn new software programs. GoWYLD Catalogue library search and other article/journal databases such as EBSCO. Scanning of public record document and handling of and looking up records on Microfilm.Know a great deal about travel and tourism including eco-tourism. Obtain a current Wyoming Substitute Teacher Permit. Attended the Mountain Plains Museum Association (MPMA) Conference 2009 in Cheyenne, WY.