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Museum Director with over 15 years experience, skilled at building relationships and community partnerships. Proven success in leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development with keen understanding of importance of community buy-in and support. Recognized for inspiring team members to excel and encouraging creative work environments.
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Planning/Management
- Updated all policies, procedures and operations to be in line with County policy and with industry standards and best practices
- Led Strategic Planning working with Museum Association, key stakeholders and community members, and County leadership
- Organized and managed a six-month closure for interior renovations including budget, project
management, and liaising with multiple contractors and County departments
- Supervision and training of staff, interns, and volunteers
Financials
- Write annual budget for department and work with Museum Association to write annual budget
- Pay bills/monitor budget/prepare mid-year budget review
- Plan and execute fundraising strategies including events, online campaigns, and mailings
- Launched new donor recognition program in Nov. 2018 and new membership program in Jan. 2020
- Management of event rental space from policy/procedure to customer service
- Advocate for funding with the County Administrative Officer and Sutter County Board of Supervisors
- Write grant applications, manage funded projects including paperwork and reporting
- Management of Museum Store including inventory, advertising, and upgrade to new Point-of-Sale system
Exhibits
- Management of rental of traveling exhibits, creation of in-house exhibits, and work with local artists
- Research and planning for updates to permanent exhibits
- Working with exhibit design firm to create a Master Plan to drive redevelopment of all permanent exhibits, including meeting with community and stakeholder focus groups
Collections
- Undertook a full physical inventory of artifacts in the collection
- Artifact care, accessioning, evaluation, and deaccessioning
- Reorganization of collection storage areas
Education
- Research, planning, and implementation of programs for adults and children
PR/Marketing
- Research/planning/implementation of marketing plan
- Built relationship with local newspaper for ongoing advertising and coverage
- Work with graphic designer to create all collateral material from general brochure to advertisements to quarterly publication for members
Partnerships
- County leadership
- Community Memorial Museum Association
- Sutter County Library
- Yuba Sutter Arts (local Arts Council)
- Yuba-Sutter Farm Advisor and Sutter County Agriculture Commissioner
- Sunsweet Growers Inc.
- Exhibit Envoy
- Playzeum Yuba-Sutter
- Sutter County Children & Families Commission
- Japanese American Citizens League, Marysville Chapter
- City of Yuba City (various departments and City Council)
- Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust
- Middle Mountain Interpretive Hikes
- Yuba City and River Valley High Schools
- California Highway Patrol
- United Auburn Indian Community
- Enterprise Rancheria
Community
- Started the Sutter County Museum Farmers Market in May 2020 to support food access in our community, and to support local farmers
- Organized the Sutter COVID Outreach Resiliency Effort (SCORE) Team for Sutter County to educate local businesses on COVID regulations and guidelines from the state, and to help them operate in the safest manner possible. The team is comprised of employees from three County departments
- Run the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards for a seven-county region
- Local Artisans/Crafters are featured heavily in the gift shop
- Added the Artisan Community Garden to the Museum in 2018 to offer opportunities for local children to learn about gardening/agriculture and to promote community togetherness
Planning/Management
- Worked with exhibit design firm to create Exhibit Master Plan
- Wrote Architectural Plan, Research Plan, and Disaster Response Plan
- Worked with team on Strategic Plan
- Worked with variety of committees on various aspects of museum planning
Financials
- Wrote materials for and helped to plan fundraising campaigns
- Worked with team to prepare annual budget
- Assisted the Executive Director in writing a staffing plan and budget for lead-up to opening and estimates on the first few years of operation
Exhibits
- Research for creation of exhibits
- Worked with exhibit design firm to decide which stories to tell and to design exhibits to tell these stories
- Liaison between exhibit design firm and architects
Collections
- Built collection from scratch: researched potential artifacts, worked with potential donors
- Care and management of all artifacts
- Wrote Collections Management Policy, Collections Plan, all necessary forms and procedures
- Worked with U.S. Marshals Service on transfer of artifacts to museum
Education
- Worked with Director of Education to plan and implement educational programs and events
- Research of U.S. Marshals Service history to create related programming
Partnerships
- Multiple cultural heritage organizations in Fort Smith
- U.S. Marshals Service and U.S. Marshals Service Association (retirees)
- Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole)
- Was on the commission planning the celebration for the 200th anniversary of Fort Smith
Financials
- Assisted Curator in preparing department annual budget.
Exhibits- Permanent
- Research for updates
- Planning and supervision of facilities upgrades in permanent exhibit galleries
- Supervision of Exhibit Technicians and repair schedules for exhibits, monitored repairs
Exhibits- Temporary
- Management of temporary exhibit programs
- Management of exhibit rentals including layout, installation, condition reporting, contracting, shipping, logistics, creation and maintenance of records
- Working with local/regional/national artists to create temporary exhibits
- Supervision of installation of art exhibits by contract art handlers
- Creation of temporary art exhibits including concept, design, layout, text, gallery guides
- Gave tours of, presentations about and interviews regarding individual exhibits and the Springs Preserve in general
- Worked with the marketing team to create promotional materials and press releases for exhibits
Education
- Worked with Education team to create programming related to temporary exhibits
- Supervised the operation and staff of the Nature Exchange ("…an international program that allows young collectors to trade naturally found items")
Community
- Ran the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards program for high school students in a three-county region
Exhibits
- Research, design, and installation of temporary exhibits
- Liaised with other cultural heritage organizations and local artists for temporary exhibits
Collections
- Organization and management of all collections storage areas, including move into new collections storage facility
- Assisted in writing new collections management policy
- Worked with lenders and donors to manage loan, accessions, and deaccessions
- Created and maintained records (hard copy and electronic) including collating legacy numbering systems
- Created finding aids for archival collections
- Digitized archival collections and photographs
Education/Volunteers
- Worked with Education Director to create guided tours of facilities, and gave tours
- Supervised volunteers working in archives and on special projects
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University of East Anglia - Norwich, England,
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School Attended
- University of Oregon
- University of Oregon
- University of East Anglia
Job Titles Held:
- Museum Director/Curator
- Curator of Collections and Exhibits
- Assistant Curator
- Assistant Registrar
Degrees
- Bachelor
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Master’s Degree
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