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Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States

-Develop and implement interpretive plans and displays for 6+ county park historic site areas.-Oversee and direct exhibits and displays for the 4 publicly accessible historic homes and sites owned by the parks.-Work closely with the Friends of the Parks group on donations, fiscal spending, and special projects.-Maintaining a departmental budget of $26,000 as well as working on special project capital campaign budgets of up to $2 million.-Ensure proper maintenance and upkeep according to professional standards of the 4 historic sites.-Oversee site managers development programming that coincides with the displays.-Caring for a collection of over 4,000 objects ranging from large farm equipment to furniture to paintings.-Managing a collection staff of 4 and an educational staff of 50.-Organizing and 6 offsite storage facilities and ensuring proper record keeping.-Coordinating the accessioning of over 50 new acquisitioned objects for the collections per year and managing deaccessions when necessary.-Coordinating and managing both permanent and temporary loans for rotating and permanent displays.-Facilitating 10-15 new donations yearly according to established professional standards.

South Orange, New Jersey

- Oversee the care, maintenance, and accessioning of Seton Hall University’s 30,000 objectcollection.- Coordinate all incoming loans for 5 yearly exhibitions. This includes loan agreements,shipping/couriering, condition reporting, mount making, installation planning /scheduling,monitoring/maintenance, managing the de-installation team, coordinating return shipment,and overseeing gallery prep.- Oversee the work of a full-time Collections Assistant.- Created and managed the Walsh Gallery’s internship program, supervising approximately 6internships per year. - Managing all internal and external outgoing loans.- Creating and upholding policies such as an emergency management plan, integrated pestmanagement plan, and collecting policies.- Managing online collection databases such as Google Arts and Culture.- Represented the gallery in larger university wide committees.

Corpus Christi, Texas Area

-Deliver high-quality focus programs to pre K-12 students from a developed roster of Museum created curricula. -Developed and implemented 3 Girl Scouts badge program through the museum. -Developed and leaded 2 of the museums Family Fun Day monthly program. -Deliver high quality programming to everyone who visits the museum. -Lead overnights, workshops, tours, camps, and family programs as needed. -Maintain the education collection and touch table as well as the corresponding database.

-Helped with the orientation and registration of 55 new incoming interns and 50 new incoming fellows to the Met.-Worked with my co-workers to follow through with organizing educational and useful programming for interns and fellows.-Maintained Wizehive application and databases on interns, fellows, and research scholars.-Developed statistical analysis of fellows background from the past two years.

New York, New York

-Aided with the facilitation of approx. 150 auctions per year.-Registered approx. 100-200 bidders per sales.-Provided answers to clients with questions about how to bid and how to register.-Maintained registration and sales databases which included over 750,000 clients and sales.-Maintained Christies’ online bidding systems.

New York, New York

-Assisted clients during viewings before the auction, including handling of objects to allow better a viewing experiences.-Provide further information about auction objects including condition reports, location reports, providing auction information, and directing clients to register for upcoming auctions.-Performed Christie's Live Clerk and Entry Clerk duties including manually updating the Christie's Live system and entering sales results into the Christie's database system.

New York, New York

- Worked with over 200 museums around the country such as the Met and the Whitney to facilitate the de-accessioning and purchasing process.- Aided approx. 40 different museums in provenance research.- Provided administrative assistance to the department including writing proposals and correspondence with various museums.

South Orange, New Jersey

-Developed and implemented a historical exhibition on New Jersey’s Film History.- Researched content for 7 subsections within the exhibition as well as over 200 objects.-Coordinated the delivery and return of approx. 100 objects.-Developed and coordinated film screening and lecture attended by 40 people.-Developed supplemental website for the exhibition.-Managed a budgeted of $4,000 which included all cost for the exhibition.- I was awarded $3,000 New Jersey Council for the Humanities Mini-Grant.

New York , New York

-Worked on the creation and implementation of the 3-D exhibition design.-Researched product prices, material types,and pre-made 3-D sketches.-Created mock-ups using vectorworks.-Worked on to scale models.-Found images to develop the look and feel of the exhibition.

-Coordinated volunteer groups of about 10-20 people.-Collaborated with various artists to produce 6-8 yearly exhibits.-Planned, interpreted, and organized exhibitions.-Installed and de-installed approx. 30-40 exhibition pieces per exhibition.-Planned and implement 6-8 yearly opening receptions as well as all 20-25 public programming events yearly.-Developed and initiated 2-3 yearly educational programming in collaboration with the education coordinator.-Performed gallery maintenance and repairs-Maintained a budgetof about $1,000 for incoming exhibits.-Initiated and developed relationships with the local arts college and other non-profit organizations.-Managed the shipping of art if necessary-Worked to connect with local high schools throughout the county and surrounding areas by hosting events and programming geared towards learning and self expression, including a yearly exhibit of high school works with awards to help promote young developing artists.

Jamestown Area, New York

-Transferred information from approx. 150 paper records into Past Perfect.-Filled out initial incoming records of a real estate collection including over 100 separate records.-Transferred the entire collection to new location which included unpacking, re-evaluating, repacking, and documenting all 50,000 objects in the collection.-Reported on the condition of 15 new incoming objects as well as the objects.-Photographed 20-30 objects for condition reports as well as for the databases.-Visited with new donors and helped with the pickup of incoming objects.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Museum Professionals

Activities and Societies: IME (International Committee of Museum Ethics)- Event Coordinator-Exhibition and Registration duel track.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

-Majored in History with a Major concentration in Atlantic World History and a Minor concentration in Native American History -Minor.