As the Executive Director, I am the primary adviser to the Board of Directors, it is my duty to set goals and objectives, inspiration to the staff and provide a vision for the Museum. I evaluate, set and implement policies and procedures, resolve any Human Resource concerns, process payroll for the employees, develop an annual financial budget for the Museum and evaluate and present the forecast budgets for the following year based on growth trends. I focus my attention to visitor experience through enhancement of the Museum’s exhibitions, and educational programs. I am the face and representation of the Museum. This position requires effective communication to reach the community and civic organizations. As the leader of the Museum, I develop and foster relationships between the Museum and elected officials, government agencies both local and statewide, tribal councils, and other museums. To accomplish these tasks, I rely heavily on time management.

As the Executive Director, I report to the President of the Board, Executive Committee and the Board of Directors. In this position, I oversee the staff, financials, fundraisers, capital campaigns, grants, events, educational programs and the collection management. This position is also responsible for the development and growth within the surrounding community through programs, internship and volunteer opportunities. As Executive Director, I raised over 1 million dollars in capital campaign monies and wrote grants that exceeded fifty thousand dollars to develop a traveling exhibit, funding for archival materials, and to digitize the collection. The traveling exhibit continues to travel across the Nation to a variety of museums including: National Parks Service Eleanor Roosevelt Museum, Lubbock Silent Wings Museum, and the Wright Brothers Museum to name a few. As Chief Curator, I protect and preserve the collection. I ensure the Museum is utilizing proper methodologies for exhibit development and collection management policy and procedures. I am also responsible for writing grants and developing research opportunities for academic purposes. I implemented an internship program that allows students hands-on training. The Interns, under the supervision of the Chief Curator, help me develop exhibits (traveling and permanent), catalog and condition reports and capture data that’s used to digitize the collection.

In this position, I held both Customer Service Representative and Special Project Coordinator. As the CSR, I provided estimates, answer incoming calls and solicit new clients. This position follows strict guidelines to eliminate guesswork on every job for the dispatcher and art handlers. I provided estimates to all clientele interested in shipping art or antiquities, storage needs, crate jobs or any installations and confirms bookings. As the Special Project Coordinator, I was responsible for all the hands-on projects. This job requires a basic understanding of the construction of crates and crating materials, installations (residential or commercial) and major moving of sculptures requiring gantries/hoists. Each job presents unique challenges and requires attention to detail.

In this position, I oversaw fundraisers, capital campaigns, grants, and other various programs. For the educational outreach programs, I focused on interactive exhibits for children ages 4-15. The Director of Educational Programming was responsible to market the educational programs with TEKS requirements to coincide with local school.

As the Curator, I maintained the Museums database. This required an acute knowledge of the Database system, inserting information, processing catalog and condition reports, supervising other student employees and volunteers. I established a social networking, answering any queries, provided tours, assist in developing exhibits, and became the liaison between the museum and the Education Department at Wichita State University. As Curator, I was responsible for a variety of exhibits: WSU Expedition to Asmat, African Metals, Zoology Exhibit, and Weapons of the World Exhibit.

Lowell D. Holmes Museum of Anthropology, Wichita State University As the Curator of Exhibitions, I was responsible to assist the Curator in the development of exhibits. This required the proper handling and use of materials for exhibit development. Other responsibilities required a due-diligence to check the temperature and humidity control, pest management, and check the artifacts on display. I helped students as they developed exhibits during the Museum Exhibitions course provided by the Anthropology Department. This allowed me to show other students various methodologies that was effective through the exhibit development stages of their course.