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Fort Mill, Sc, Us

Fort Mill, Sc, Us

Lancaster County, South Carolina, United States

Responsible for research and development of educational programs focused on American Revolution for the Lancaster County 250 Committee.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Creating and delivering interpretive talks and educational programs for historical venues and organizations throughout the metropolitan Charlotte area since 2013. • Identifying lecture themes and performs interpretive talks. • Performing in living history-themed educational programs, special event programs, and scripted scenarios.

Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States

Responsible for establishing and cultivating a positive welcoming experience for all store visitors.CLUB team member responsible for direct marketing, off-site marketing, customer engagement, store wayfinding, and customer service fulfillment.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

• Developed a customized educational tour of Charlotte's Liberty Walk. • Collaborated with the Mecklenburg Historical Association and the May 20th Society to deliver guided interpretive tours of Charlotte's Liberty Walk for fund-raising efforts.

Rock Hill, Sc

• Evaluated long-term preservation needs for archival collections and recommended remedial solutions. • Administered the planning for arrangement and description of archival collections. • Conducted ongoing long-term preservation assessment.• Monitors and recommends facilities environmental controls.• Recommended the adoption of archival standards based policies and procedures for Local History use.• Completed an assessment of the library building's physical integrity and HVAC systems to identify factors impacting environmental regulation and control resulting in documentation needed to justify future preservation grant applications and assessment of long-term preservation needs..• Submitted recommendations needed for long-term preservation resulting in the creation of the library's first formalized environmental monitoring program for the Local History Room and archival collection storage area.• Performed an initial inventory the library's unprocessed archival collections resulting in the identification of one manuscript collection group of national historical significance, additional manuscript collection groups important to the local history of Rock Hill, South Carolina.• Completed an assessment of archival housing needs for the archival collections resulting in the re-housing of loose and disordered unprocessed collections to an organized temporary order needed to streamline archival processing. • Conducted ongoing long-term preservation assessment by tabulating different archival collection formats during archival processing resulting in the identification, documentation, and physical location of several hundred photograph, film, audiovisual, and newsprint formatted items requiring special preservation needs.

Rock Hill, South Carolina

• Reference Services / Wayfinding Consultations – Assisted with reference and research services and campus/local area way finding to patrons in the archives and Dacus Library.• Archival Responsibilities - Inventorying, processing, and arranging all sound and moving image assets.• Environmental Monitoring Program Manager – Monitoring environmental conditions in archival storage areas and developing long-range preservation goals. • Preservation Assessment Project – Devising a systematic inspection system used to locate and identify film, audio, moving image, and photographic materials for the archives. • Coordinator, Oral History Program and Veterans History Project – Planning and conducting and transcribing interviews using leads and contacts. • Digital Re-Formatting Projects - Responsible for analog to digital re-formatting of the Oral History Project and the VHS tape collection. Responsible for initiating contact with reputable vendors. • Work-Flow Analysis - Prepared monthly status and work progress reports on audio-visual assessment and digitization projects. • Exhibits – Assisted with brainstorming and incorporating multimedia content for archive exhibits.• Grant-writing - Assisted with grant-writing initiatives for archives and audiovisual content.

Dacus Library - Rock Hill, South Carolina

• Dacus Library Reference Librarian - Assisting with library instruction program and providing way-finding and reference services for library patrons.• Assistant to the Coordinator of Government Documents – Assisted coordinator with reference duties and providing assistance to patrons with microfilm and fiche.• Government Documents Weeding Project - Developed a systematic inspection process used to identify and locate non-catalogued items. • Assisted with other duties as assigned.

Claude Pepper Center - Tallahassee, Fl

• Item-Level Manuscript Digitization Project – Co-supervised an item-level digital preservation project resulting in the creation of 227,871 document, image, and audio-visual files. • Prepared Dublin Core metadata template and trained student workers on data entry procedures resulting in consistent identification and tracking of digital assets.• Manager of library and museum operations resulting in identification of preservation and maintenance needs..• Reference and Research Consultation - Assisted library patrons with reference and research consultations and directional way finding questions.• In-reach and Outreach Public Outreach Coordinator - Led tours of the Pepper Library and Museum for class groups, visitors, and monthly Art Crawl Trolley-hop program. Coordinated thematic art exhibitions.• Daily Operations Manager – Responsible for coordinating information and library reference services, security, environmental monitoring, pest management, and facilities management operations for the library and museum.• Staff Supervisor – Supervised Pepper Library staff, student workers, interns, and volunteers.• Needs Assessment Consultation – Performed a self-assessment of the library and museum’s security, environmental monitoring and management, and fire suppression system needs. • Museum Exhibits Installation – Assisted in the oversight of the installation of two permanent exhibits.• Museum Facilities Infrastructure – Worked with vendors and university facilities resulting in the implementation of a $75,000 lighting upgrade project.• Environmental Monitoring and Management – Established new environmental monitoring methods and guidelines. Established an on-going dialogue with facilities management engineers to improve environmental conditions in collection storage areas. • Archival Processing - Coordinated item-level inventory and management of the Reuben Askew Collection.• Coordinated the re-development of the Claude Pepper Center Web site.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Data entry – Responsible for item level artifact descriptions from handwritten field notes to Microsoft Access database.• Education outreach – Created object movies to create virtual two-dimensional representationsof 17th and 18th century artifacts for a middle school aged summer camp program.• Living history interpretation – Assisted with living history programs and special events.

Claude Pepper Center - Tallahassee, Fl

• Collections management • Training • IT support • Project management • Special events• Research and reference consultations

Florida State University - Department Of History

• Web Development • IT Support

Office Of The State Courts - Tallahassee, Fl

• Hardware and Software Troubleshooting - Performed hardware and software troubleshooting and diagnostics for a 100+ user group. • Data Backups - Performed daily and monthly file server backup procedures and performed restore procedures on an as-needed basis.• Team Based Projects and Support – Assisted IT staff with various network, software, and hardware upgrades as assigned.

Tallahassee, Florida Area

• Web development • IT support • Consultation, departmental IT resource needs

Daytona Beach, Florida Area

• Marketing and public relations• Information fulfillment• Web editing and development - DBACVB Web site• Destination Marketing – Assisted with the fulfillment of the CVB’s regional tourism promotion and marketing goals. • Scheduled Tours - Hosted travel writers and arranged area destination tours.

Florida Legislative Reporters - Tallahassee, Fl Area

• Political reporting• Analysis • Writing and editing

Charleston, South Carolina Area

• Seaman – Provided administrative assistance aboard the USS MOUNT BAKER (AE 34) stationed, Goose Creek, South Carolina.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), History And Historical Administration & Public History

Activities and Societies: Sigma NuAllen Parker Scholarship, Florida Huguenot Society (recipient) National Huguenot Society Scholarship.

Certificate, Museum Studies

Master Of Library & Information Science (M.L.I.S.), Library And Information Science

Activities and Societies: President, Florida State University Chapter of the American Society for Information Science (ASIS)Martha S..

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

Activities and Societies: Golden Key National Honor Society