Kelly Mishler Email & Phone Number

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Responsible for tracking and managing multiple budget lines for exhibits and programs in tandem with the Operations Manager. • Perform as the main operational point of contact for animal care in ScienceWorks. • Lead several closet reorganization projects throughout the institution focused on staff safety, cost-saving measures, professionalization of the institution, and collections care. • Acted as project manager and/or operations lead on 5+ Core Teams including Doc McStuffins: The Exhibit, Dinosaur Train: The Traveling Exhibit, Sacred Places, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Secrets of the Sewer, and Mandela: The Official Exhibition. • Functioned as an integral part in the first launch of WinterFaire including tech point for WinterFaire-y Tale, lead on costume management for 30+ staff members, and Santa lead 3 days a week.

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

• Responsible for introducing new staff and volunteers to early childhood education in Playscape through exhibit, program, and operational training. • Managed the inventory and organization of supplies for Playscape and Humanities spaces. • Ensured the daily monitoring of Playscape and other museum galleries, working within the team to implement routine daily operation checklists and cleaning plans. • Acted as a second contact for managing Humanities staff members’ performance, schedules, and needs throughout the working day. • Maintained a dynamic approach to gallery and atrium programming to enable family learning and trained Gallery Interpreters to do the same, ensuring consistent visitor satisfaction across multiple programs and exhibits.

• Organized and implemented gallery staff training for programming and operations in FIX: Heartbreak and Hope Inside Our Opioid Crisis. • Created programming and labels through research and prototyping of daily engagement activities. • Developed and managed community partnerships to collaborate on projects and events. • Coordinated exhibit related events and programs.

• Collaborated on multiple reorganization projects for collection spaces in and outside of the museum. • Independently organized museum’s 350+ 2-D art collection and updated condition reports in PastPerfect. • Cleaned and created custom housing for the museum’s 200+ trophy collection while creating, organizing, and updating object records in PastPerfect.

• Collected data via museum visitor observations, interviews, and surveys• Designed evaluation instruments for various projects• Entered, cleaned, and analyzed data collected from guests and exhibits• Interpreted data and assisted in writing summative evaluation reports

Indiana

• Ensured that database systems were performing efficiently and created functional tools for data management and access across departments. • Acted as team coordinator to ensure deadlines were met by all, including lawyers. • Worked autonomously on daily screening tasks and ongoing research.

• Worked on the floor in permanent galleries with children and adults, facilitating an estimate of 20 different programs that rotated seasonally to educate and entertain visitors while encouraging family learning behaviors. • Provided exceptional customer service to visitors, ensuring satisfaction and safety. • Worked within a team to create world class experiences in the arts and sciences with the goal of creating exciting and immersive learning opportunities for children and families.

• Managed and trained a team of 5-15 students for event work.• Improved storage spaces in the auditorium and maintained detailed records of equipment.• Restructured the prop’s collections space, focusing on accessibility and prop safety.• Onsite manager during events hosted in 2 on-campus auditoriums.

Master'S Degree, Museology/Museum Studies

Bachelor'S Degree, English Literature/Theatre