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Los Angeles, California, United States

Currently supporting the preservation, organization, accessibility, and safety of the Lucas Museums collection in storage. Familiar with and adhere to museum best practices for safe object handling, and archival rehousing for a variety of collection materials ranging from objects, textiles, paintings, and works on paper. Daily tasks include inventorying and rehousing the collection, updating locations and object information in the collections database, and pulling and staging works for incoming registration, viewings, research, photography, and conservation.

Phoenix, Arizona

Respond to patron inquiries as well as refer patrons to appropriate library services while maintaining a professional manner. I supervise numerous student assistants while delegating daily tasks to be completed. Daily duties include assisting students with research, and reference materials for classroom assignments, reports, and research papers.

Phoenix, Arizona

Responsible for the processing of collections by rehousing, arranging and describing materials in accordance with DACS standards. Create work plans which record basic information about the collection, suggest proposed arrangement schemes, as well as the estimated duration of the project and any decisions made during the project.Performs basic preservation work.

Tempe, Arizona

Worked with museum collections to inventory and update object records in PastPerfect, as well as rehousing objects after being inventoried. Collections include textiles, memorabilia, posters, glassware and cultural materials.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Key responsibilities regarded the print book and journal collection of the Wolbach Library, including weeding, shifting and shelf-reading. Using the in-house system ALMA for updating holdings. Primary tasks included assessing the physical condition of printed volumes, selecting and processing duplicate titles for removal. Prepared shipments of discarded material for pickup and transition to the Harvard Depository.

Boston, Massachusetts

Prepare digital images and associated metadata for ingest into CONTENTdm- based repository.Digitization of text- and image-based collections using best professional practices.Create, enhance, and migrate existing metadata from the library catalog, finding aids, and other systems into the digital repository.Quality control and quality assurance of existing images and metadata.

Boston, Massachusetts

Responsibilities include uploading assets in the digital asset management (DAM) platform, organize, catalogue, assign metadata, keywords, and descriptions to assets in the DAM.

Boston, Massachusetts

Gained experience processing a portion of the Edward Starr collection containing several boxes of paper, photographs, miscellaneous items. Responsibilities included archival arrangement, accessioning and processing, records into acid free folders, cataloguing each item with proper descriptions; completion of finding aid to DACS standards

Tempe, Arizona

As an archaeological collections intern at Arizona State University I gained experience in handling ceramic, lithic, groundstone and ornaments from archaeological excavations and how to prepare transitioning artifacts to archival packing and the appropriate curation spaces. Knowledge of standard museum collections practices relating to research, cataloging and care of anthropological artifacts.

Tempe, Arizona

As a physical anthropology collection intern I handled human and faunal remains and acquired the proper knowledge for the appropriate care and documentation of anthropological collections. Projects included the identification of human and faunal remains from previous excavations and transitioning the artifacts into the appropriate archival packing and storage, as well as the production of casts and molds of requested artifacts that were to be sent to other universities or labs.

Tempe, Arizona

Serve as an office assistant for The Sanford School and help with staff and faculty; daily tasks include answering general or specific questions for students and faculty over the phone or in person, completing copy and print requests, faxing, scanning, maintenance requests and booking rooms for staff meetings. Performed tasks using Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Peoplesoft.

Kampsville, Illinois

Attended the Kampsville Field School through Arizona State University where I learned field, laboratory methods and research design, all while engaging in problem oriented research at the Golden Eagle site. I learned techniques through field exercises for field methods in geophysical testing, total station use, excavation and laboratory methods; including mapping, soil description, artifact and debris processing, water flotation collection, processing and curation.

Master'S Degree, Library And Information Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Anthropology

Bachelor'S Degree, Religion/Religious Studies