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Jefferson City, Missouri, United States

Collaborate with park and historic site staff to research and write museum quality interpretive text across 90+ facilities within Missouri State Parks. Curate historic documents and images that illustrate the cultural and natural history goals of each facility. Coordinate with in-house and contract designers to develop and refine exhibit designs that drive learning outcomes and foster community engagement. Communicate with multiple industry vendors at the state and national level to secure favorable returns on taxpayer dollars. Conduct meetings with field and central office leadership to convey priorities and progress across dozens of active, ongoing interpretive projects.

Scott Joplin House State Historic Site

Conduct museum collections management duties. Coordinate comprehensive redesign of interpretive exhibits in the museum. Facilitate bid process and collaborate with mechanical and construction contractors. Responsible for light maintenance tasks. Train under the site administrator and perform basic management duties. Serve as facility manager in the absence of site administrator.

1025 E. Broadway

Performed all facets of facility maintenance and renovation construction in a two story, active commercial structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Identified, prioritized and budgeted all necessary projects and presented findings to ownership for project approval.

Salt Lake City, Ut

Established and maintained proper control of museum property through conducting collections inventory, updating object catalog database, and drafting and implementing collections management policies in accordance with Federal laws and regulations. Developed working knowledge of Federal cultural resource laws and their applications. Participated in collection disposition team process during precedent setting policy formulation.

Researched archival source materials and state government online databases to draft histories of World War I military units from Missouri and bios of all Missouri casualties from WW I to be included in 2017 exhibit at MHM.

3430 Morganford 63116

Coordinated and supervised a total renovation of a 3,000 square foot commercial property in the Tower Grove South neighborhood of St. Louis, MO. Aspects included frame and finish carpentry, installing ceramic floor tile, painting, drywall, light electrical and plumbing. Project completed on time and in budget.

I was responsible for the daily operation of the archaeology collections lab for three and a half years during a comprehensive re-curation and re-cataloging project of the UMSL archaeology collection consisting of over 40,000 catalog entries containing more than 400,000 objects composed of prehistoric and historic Midwest Native American lithics, ceramics and textiles.