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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

I manage a team of 12 Preventive Conservation Technicians and Aides to provide the best care of our collections and their environments. I coordinate Preventive Conservation projects and ensure completion.

As a Senior Historic Interiors and Collections Care Technician for the Department of Conservation, my duties have expanded from my previous role to include being responsible for updating our department-wide Emergency Storm Plan which prepares for and responds to severe weather in historic buildings and collections spaces. I am also more active in.

My focus as a Historic Interiors and Collections Care (HICC) Technician is preventive conservation. We are proactive in battling agents of deterioration and preventing the need for interventive conservation for as long as possible. This includes monitoring and reporting on environmental conditions, actively caring for the collection by dusting and.

Washington, District Of Columbia

In my role as a contractor for the National Museum of Natural History I reviewed, transcribed, and imported over 450,000 newly imaged specimen records into the EMuseum database within a timeline. I had to be consistent and accurate with my process and intensively used Microsoft Access, Excel, and EMuseum database tools and functions to aid me. In.

Lorton, VA

As a collections intern at Gunston Hall Plantation, my main role was to tend to and monitor the mansion and collections. This included monitoring and recording conservation concerns and environmental levels within various spaces and performing a partial inventory of the collections on the first floor of the mansion. I learned how to create and update.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Being a collections and digitization intern at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History was my introduction to the inner workings of a large-scale museum and research institution. I enthusiastically learned what it took to inventory and organize over 2,000 bulky bamboo specimens in the NMNH Botany collection. This included creating and updating.

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

In this seasonal role I was part of a team responsible for organizing over 500,000 sensitive exam materials per season and participated in the complete process from receiving shipments of raw CFA exams to seeing the three part exam graded in its entirety. In 2016, I helped manage the flow of materials and coordinated multiple tasks between personnel as a.