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 Develop interpretation, story line, and design for exhibits and site plans for three museum locations. Manage and develop all educational programming including standards-aligned outreach, summer camp, field trips, programs and events. Leadership role in Museums’ redesign of the Astor House Museum. Aspects of project include stabilizing the structure and a complete re-interpretation to incentivize repeat visitation. Master Site planning at the Clear Creek History Park creating a phased plan to create interactive, engaging spaces. Work with community advisory committee to develop content for encompassing Golden Master Timeline, contributed to exhibits “Made in Golden” and “Epic Events” at Golden History Center. Manage, develop and grow Hands-on History Summer Camp. Increased attendance and revenue by over 30%. Designed new camps that teach local history as well as art, dance, science, technology, theater, film, civics, and more. Through evaluation and focus groups, parents and campers noted that camp was hands-on, engaging, game based, and disguised summer learning as fun. Designed, managed, and grew the revenue-generating education outreach program “Building Colorado,” a fourth grade standards aligned game teaching all social studies standards. Evaluation projects including designing instruments to collect demographic information, qualitative and quantitative analysis of programs and sites, and formative evaluation for exhibit development. Extensive training with the Denver Evaluation Network. Published, edited and produced "Inside the Astor House." Redesign of all programming and events. GHM is offering over 65 programs in 2016. Contributed to successful State Historical Fund grant for $200,000. Frequent contributor on other grants. Volunteer management and implementation of Volgistics software Lead Education Department and a staff of between 1-9 part-time and seasonal employees

 Managed and trained a staff of 8 employees. Created 2 theatrical programs (including development, research, writing, costuming, set, props, and evaluation) for pan-Institution events and Latino History Month. Operated knowledge carts and employed Harvard University Project Zero thinking routines to promote meaningful discussions with thousands of visitors. Contributed to the museum’s blog and other social media outlets. Interacted with museum donors and VIP visitors. Created marketing material for distribution including photography, collecting visitor feedback and layout design. Researched and implemented new interpretation techniques and training methods for employees and actors.

Coordinated the sales of conferences by writing contracts, letters, and creating reports. Provided technology support for the office and maintained financial and legal records. Coordinated special events for both formal and casual occasions for clients and donors. Created marketing and advertising material, including personally creating the successful bid for the 2012 National Governor’s Association Annual meeting whose attendees will include all 100 US Governors and their staff and families. Acted as historic liaison between hotel and historic area programming. Experienced the important connection between the business and museum worlds.