After seven years in American Samoan Power Company, I returned to the US mainland to take up a new professional challenge. Since 2011, I have been a key member of an interdisciplinary team that identifies and preserves culturally, historic, and scientifically significant archaeological sites across West Virginia. My role combines fieldwork, preservation, and administrative roles.As an Archaeologist with this public agency, I implement site identification surveys, assess scientific and cultural significance of each site, carefully excavate historic and prehistoric sites, and meticulously review excavated materials to assess National Register eligibility. I carefully evaluate, classify, and interpret artifacts to determine age and cultural identity. In addition, it’s my responsibility to analyze landform integrity, draft and incorporate maps, drawings, and charts into reports. My contributions include: • Facilitated completion of 500+ public road construction projects by ensuring that cultural resource policies and issues were addressed prior to funds being released and the start of construction.• Continue to initiate collaboration with experts in prehistory and history while thoroughly assessing consultant reports relating to site identification, evaluation, excavation, and analysis prior to finalizing approval recommendations for each site.• Engage public while demonstrating passion for historic, scientific, and cultural preservation by delivering public outreach events such as keynotes, talks, and workshops on archaeology and related topics.• Apply communication skills to compile and edit site identification, evaluation, excavation and analysis reports.

My promotion to Program Supervisor provided me with an opportunity to integrate my administrative, scientific, and operations skills. As a senior program manager with the public utility, I developed and implemented program and project budgets. I also managed teams and processed payroll for up to 20 workers. My areas of responsibility included research design, surveying, testing, excavation, artifact analysis, site interpretation, and artifact curation including researching, writing, and publishing detailed reports. My administrative and IT contributions also included: • Continually enforced compliance with National Historic Preservation Act (Section 106), NEPA, and local laws while directing daily field and laboratory activities on all projects.• Facilitated interdisciplinary collaboration and strengthened relationships with engineering consultants, the Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, and Federal Emergency Management Agency to facilitate planning and promptly address compliance issues.• Built effective working relationships as liaison with funding agencies that facilitated continuous infrastructure construction in American Samoa such as DOI, FEMA, USDA and FHWA.• Rolled out a comprehensive GIS program that enabled teams to catalog thousands of artifacts that crews collected in the field each month.• Demonstrated leadership aptitudes by managing large scale projects that encompassed significant village areas, mapping cultural features, and excavating human remains under while heeding the wishes of village leaders the instruction of village chiefs.• Coached 15-20-person crews completing Phase I, II and III projects at prehistoric and historic sites. This included directing managing daily work and training teams in identifying and processing artifacts. This include overseeing included photography to define site boundaries, site mapping, and horizontal and vertical control definition.

In this new role, I directed and trained a 5-20-person crew in field survey, testing and mitigating prehistoric and historic sites. Our goal was to eliminate any change that utility construction might disturb irreplaceable cultural remains. My contributions included the following. • Demonstrated mentoring skills while supervising fieldwork and coaching teams in archaeological fieldwork practices to identify and process fragile, ancient artifacts such as prehistoric tools or discarded food remains.• Managed multiple priorities and stakeholders while overseeing excavation in villages, mapping cultural features, and handling excavated human remains while complying with village chiefs' wishes.• Ensured compliance with federal and local laws, liaised with key government departments such as the Department of the Interior, Environmental Protection Agency, and Federal Emergency Management Agency. • Supervised fieldwork operations such as photography, defining site boundaries, site mapping, determining horizontal and vertical control, and record keeping. • Built ASPA Archaeology GIS, archived photos, drafted monthly reports, logged all daily work, as well as managing and upgrading computers.

Departmental and project budgeting; stakeholder, agency and engineering consultation; research design, survey, testing and excavation; artifact analysis, site interpretation and artifact curation; as well as report preparation, review and publication. Supervising and training a 5 -20 person crew doing Phase I, II and III on prehistoric and historic sites in areas where utility construction may have an adverse effect. Responsible for: keeping projects in compliance with Federal, and local legislation. Liaise with the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency regarding planning and compliance issues. Continued supervising fieldwork including: photography; definition of site boundaries; site mapping, establishing horizontal and vertical control on sites. Added to and maintained the ASPA Archaeology GIS, archived photos, wrote monthly reports, kept daily log of all work activities, and report writing. Maintained and upgraded office computer network.

Assisted with departmental and project budgeting; stakeholder, agency and engineering consultation; research design, survey, testing and excavation; artifact analysis, site interpretation and artifact curation; as well as report preparation, review and publication. Supervising and training a 5 -20 person crew doing Phase I, II and III on prehistoric and historic sites in areas where utility construction may have an adverse effect. Responsible for: keeping projects in compliance with Federal (especially Section 106 NHPA and NEPA), and local legislation. Liaise with the Department of the Interior, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency regarding planning and compliance issues. Continued supervising fieldwork including: photography; definition of site boundaries; site mapping, establishing horizontal and vertical control on sites. Added to and maintained the ASPA Archaeology GIS, archived photos, wrote monthly reports, kept daily log of all work activities, and report writing. Maintained and upgraded office computer network.

Supervision of crews of 5 -10 people at times. Field survey, monitoring heavy equipment uncovering prehistoric and historic features; mapping the extent of each feature and then carefully excavate them; excavation of human remains, shovel testing and recording of prehistoric and historic sites; excavation of 1m x 1m excavation units; establishing vertical and horizontal control of area using total stations and GPS technology; definition of site boundaries; mapping of sites; record keeping.

Responsible for equipment acquisition for a crew of fifteen field workers and three office workers. Customized the PenMap data collection program to work specifically to be used in collecting data on 5,000 miles of electrical distribution lines for Sam Houston Electrical Co-Op. Trouble shot any technical problems the field crew was having. Was in charge of getting payroll turned in on time. Also responsible for processing into GIS form all data collected.

Responsible for field coordination of survey projects, and equipping and training survey crews of 5 to 7 people on GPS and conventional survey equipment and methods. Responsible for equipment asset management and technology research and development related to survey hardware and software Also responsible for processing all data collected in field to be sent to the CAD and GIS departments.

Van Horn, Hoover and Associates, Inc., sub-contracted me to the Land Services office at MAPLLC. I was made responsible for technical support for all GPS equipment and PenMap software, developing standards and procedures of GPS data collection, data delivery and final quality control.

Responsible for the processing of thousands of miles of Marathon Ashland pipeline data. Developed data transfer and PenMap file back-up procedures. Also participated in the development of the company wide GIS promoting efficient data flow through the office.

Responsible for locating and mapping over 700 radio and television towers in 20 states using the latest in GPS technology, GIS mapping software (PenMap) and field computers. The work had to meet stringent FCC and FAA requirements for accuracy. Performed spatial analysis of location data to determine interference with flight paths at air facilities across the country.

Supervision of crews of 5 -10 people at times. Field survey, monitoring heavy equipment uncovering prehistoric and historic features; mapping the extent of each feature and then carefully excavate them; excavation of human remains, shovel testing and recording of prehistoric and historic sites; excavation of 1m x 1m excavation units; establishing vertical and horizontal control of area using total stations and GPS technology; definition of site boundaries; mapping of sites; record keeping.

Developed field and laboratory forms; set-up and supervision of field lab; establishing grid using EDM and theodolite; record keeping; photo preparation; excavation. Large prehistoric site.

Field survey, testing, mitigation, and monitoring of Pre-Latte to Latte Phase prehistoric sites. Photography; mapping of sites, features, sections, caves, overhangs and planviews; establishing horizontal and vertical control on numerous sites; detailed record keeping, and assisted in compilation of data for report production.

Field survey, testing and mitigation of prehistoric and historic sites. Photography; definition of site boundaries; mapping of sites, features, profiles and planviews; establishing horizontal and vertical control on sites, and detailed record keeping.Utah - Intensive areal excavation of a transitional Fremont to Anasazi Archaic village site. Excavation; mapping of planviews and profiles and detailed record keeping of all activities within 1x1m excavation units within extensive pit house and ceremonial features.Maryland - Intensive areal excavation of a Paleoindian to Late Woodland Period site. Excavation; mapping of planviews and profiles, and detailed record keeping on all 1x1m excavation units and associated features.