SKILLS

• Highly skilled with Re:Discovery collections management software, including data entry and manipulation, searches, quick entry, accessions, and imaging.

 
• Skilled with Organize! collections software, including data entry, manipulation, and customization.

 
• Skilled in marking and labeling museum artifacts in accordance with standard museum procedure.

 
• Skilled in research on museum artifacts and historic structures, including chains of title.

 
• Experienced and published writer; has studied grant proposal writing.

• Currently working as freelance museum researcher and cataloger (details, client list, and work samples are on previous page).

 
• National Park Service, National Capital Region, Museum Resource Center, Box 435, Glen Dale MD 20769. July 1990 to May 1998. Artifact cataloger for Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection. Cataloged artifacts, assisted with collection management, moved and transported artifacts, and wrote cataloging procedures. Used and took basic classes in Rediscovery (museum cataloging software), DBASE III Plus, Windows, and Corel WordPerfect 7. Worked on the exhibit of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection items now at the National Museum of American History (Smithsonian Institution), and past exhibits at the Museum of Our National Heritage in Lexington, MA (1994) Gerald R. Ford Museum and Presidential Library, Grand Rapids, MI (1995), George Rogers Clark National Historic Site, Vincennes, IN (1997), and the Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO (1997). Marked artifacts, often under tight exhibition deadlines. Answered many questions about collection and shared information with general public and members of the press. Outstanding performance awards, 1990 to 1997 (every full year in which position was held). Office manager for Combined Federal Campaign, Fall 1993. Worked on detail basis on museum collections at Antietam National Battlefield (1997) and Mary McCleod Bethune Council House (1997).  (Click here to see one of the catalog descriptions I wrote for the VVMC.)

 
• Art History Department, Mary Washington College, College Avenue, Fredericksburg, VA 22401. Sept. 1989 to May 1990 (10 hours/week). Arranged, repaired, and identified photographic slides used in class lectures. Identification included translating Italian captions, using knowledge gained from Italian class at same college.

 
• Baltimore Museum of Industry, 1415 Key Highway, Baltimore, MD 21230. June to August 1989 (20 hours/week) and 40 hours/week during June 1990. Had wide range of duties: maintenance, handling of artifacts (including large Nineteenth-century machinery), demonstrations of historic equipment, tours, and museum store operation.

 

• James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, 508 Monroe Street, Fredericksburg, VA 22401. February to May 1990 (approx. 12 hours/week). College internship. Designed, procured materials for, and installed several special exhibits of artifacts from Monroe's home and office. Used acid-free paper to protect archival materials. Received 3 semester hours credit.

 
• Maryland Museum of African Art, 5430 Vantage Point Road, Columbia, MD 21044. May to October 1993 and on occasions after that date. Volunteer gallery attendant. Referred museum curators to Combined Federal Campaign for fundraising, 1995; museum is now a Combined Federal Campaign charity. Currently researching collections management options for museum collection (more information on main page).

 

• Graduated from Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA, May 12, 1990. Majored in historic preservation. Total credits, 123 semester hours. Course work included extensive writing. As part of major, completed National Register of Historic Places nomination form for Level Green, a historic house in Centreville, Virginia; form included a chain of title.

 
• Took credit course in Beginning Typing, Howard Community College,  Columbia MD, Fall 1992.

 
• Trained in various computer applications at National Park Service position (details above); also trained in dealing with the media (1994), public speaking (1995), and grant proposal writing through the Foundation Center, Washington, DC (1995).

 
• Knowledge of Rediscovery software through use at National Park Service position and extensive self-training after that.

 
• Took non-credit course in Microsoft Power Point, Prince George's Community College, Landover, MD, June 1999.

 

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