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Greater Los Angeles Area

Provides consulting services to museums and cultural heritage organizations.communications, technology, social media, usability, accessibility, plain language, web design, content development, information architecture, communities of practice development

The Museum Education Roundtable provides leadership in professional development for a broad and diverse audience of museum educators. Through its publications, programs, and active communications network, MER: 1) Fosters professionalism among peers and others committed to excellence in lifelong learning, 2) Encourages leadership, scholarship, and research.

CAM assists California museums in fulfilling their missions as educational and research institutions that interpret and preserve art and cultural and scientific artifacts for public benefit.The CAM Board of Directors, representing the breadth of museums across the state, is dedicated to serving the California museum community, assisting museums of all.

Currently on detail to the NIH Office of the Chief Information Officer. Duties revolve around an examination of social media, making Web sites more accessible and general communications.Plans, develops, implements, and evaluates a comprehensive communications and outreach service program to convey complex information simply, concerning NIH technology and.

Worked out of the NINDS Office of the Director to coordinate the development of all NINDS websites and collaborative web projects. Served as the contracting officers technical representative (COTR) to direct and manage the technical team responsible for website development. Worked closely with the IT department to coordinate hardware and software needs..

The Museum Computer Network (MCN) supports the greater museum community by providing continuing opportunities to explore, implement, and disseminate new technologies and best practices in the field.

The Museum Educators of Southern California (MESC) is a nonprofit organization for museum professionals whose work is focused on museum audiences. MESC strives to ensure that museums place education at the center of all of their activities. MESC is dedicated to audience advocacy and enhancing visitor's learning opportunities and experiences. MESC works to.

Built the museum’s computer network infrastructure and web sites from scratch by engaging stakeholders and seeking support from outside funding agencies. Co-authored grants that allowed the museum to 1) connect to the Internet, 2) purchase hardware and network infrastructure, 3) devise on-line exhibits Participated in exhibit design teams at several Los.

-Conducted research in the early developmental genetics of fruit flies.-Discovered a natural ability with computers and information technology.-Investigated interesting DNA sequences for potential production of important protein molecules.-Developed laboratory procedures.-Developed an appreciation of science and the ability to communicate with other.

Provided assistance to Dr. Ellis Englesberg in the isolation and purification of gene products expressed in mammalian tissue cultures. Duties ranged from maintenance of mammalian tissue culture lines to screening for proteins.

Summer internship with AMGEN in Thousand Oaks, California. Provided technical assistance to the vector development group.

Research centered on the study of stromatolites and microbial fossils. As a student, I worked with Dr. Stanley Awramik to photograph and catalog pre-phanerozoic microfossils. Duties ranged from isolating fossils from rock samples, to the photography, development and printing of photographs to cataloging.

M. A., Molecular Biology/Immunology

I double majored in biology and geology as an undergraduate because I was interested in paleontology and felt I needed to be grounded in.

B.A., Geology, Biology

Activities and Societies: marine invertebrate zoology, marine invertebrate paleontology, studied at Friday Harbor in 1982.