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United States

Overland Park, Kansas, United States

• Develops front-end websites using React, Gatsby, Wordpress, PostCSS, Sass and other technologies
• Integrates websites with Kontent.ai, Contentful, Wordpress, Algolia, Typeform, and custom APIs
• Ensures digital/web accessibility standards are met in development.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Design and develop Wordpress-based websites for small business clients representing business associations, city governments, law firms, arts groups, web series, and more. Draft website content for better search engine optimization and social media engagement. Manage digital mailing lists and social media communities to increase visibility and brand.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Designed and implemented COVID-19 communication plan, launching 10 new website landing pages to meet remote school needs and maintaining community by reimagining spring traditions as video-rich microsites
• Developed microsite to propel fundraising success for $52M Building Together capital campaign, incorporating JavaScript for interactive charts and animation to increase user engagement and enhance aesthetic of site
• Managed school website, using CSS, Javascript, HTML, and CMS platform. Updates website to ensure best practices use of new products; Audited and improved website accessibility consulting WCAG 2.1; Integrated Google.
• Maintained five school community web portals that serve 7,000 constituents. Performs heuristic analysis and conducts UX research to redesign information architecture to meet user needs and streamline sitemap..
• Produced and editted video including promotional videos, testimonials, event live streams, digital video ads, and user-generated content
• Designed social media and digital advertising strategy, including Social, PPC, SEM, and Display campaigns; Liaises with advertising agency contractor to implement strategies; Managed assignment calendar for social.

Kansas City, MO

• Integrated multiple ticketing, fundraising, volunteer, and special events management platforms into a single Blackbaud.com CRM solution to optimize operations efficiency
• Created and implemented website, social media and email strategies, ultimately increasing email subscriptions by 420%, Facebook audience by 39%, Twitter audience by 30%
• Served as internal project manager working with contracted developer team for redesign of museum website in Drupal, achieving 72% increase monthly user sessions and 12% increase in on-site customer retention
• Developed kcjazzfest.com in Wordpress, integrating the site with Eventbrite and the museum’s CRM to provide smooth customer workflow and create infrastructure for future festivals

Kansas City, MO

• Grew contributed revenue to 35% of $2M annual budget through solicitation of major gifts, grants, corporate sponsorships, annual luncheon, and individual donors
• Selected to serve as sole staff liaison to Board of Directors’ Strategic Planning Committee to objectively represent diverse staff opinions so the Board could make well-informed policy decisions

Savannah, Missouri, United States

• Directed all programmatic museum activities including collections acquisition and care, temporary exhibitions, public programming, and classroom outreach
• Implemented temporary exhibition program that included Smithsonian Institution and Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History traveling exhibitions, reaching over 300 students and 900 visitors with Smithsonian The.
• Developed and relaunched andrewcountymuseum.org with custom WordPress theme written in PHP
• Managed a 4-10 person team of volunteers, part-time high school summer staff, and college interns to accomplish organizational goals

Lubbock, Texas Area

• Assisted in collections care and preventive conservation in Ethnology and Textiles, History, and Art museum collecting divisions
• Developed new FilemakerPro Ethnology & Textiles collections database and migrated legacy collections data
• Designed and developed website for History division

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Researched and maintained information files for artists in Kemper Museum permanent collection for registration records and curatorial use.
• Authored artist questionnaire and new copyright agreement for updating object files

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Organized local college, high school, amateur, and recreational league scores for print
• Provided quality customer service for newspaper customers after regular business hours
• Researched local sports history through newspaper archives for special features and articles

Software Engineering

M.A., Museum Science

Activities and Societies: Museum Heritage Student Association - Financial Committee Chair, Mountains Plains Museum Association, Texas.

B.A., History

Activities and Societies: Phi Alpha Theta, Phi Kappa Phi, Institute for the Study and Practice of Leadership, Pi Delta Kappa, Debate and.