OBJECTIVE
To provide leadership in the planning and implementation of programs (Pre-k-adult), training and development, digital integration, blended learning, and community engagement.
PRIMARY SKILLS
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT | DIGITAL INTEGRATION | PROJECT MANAGEMENT | DIGITAL INTEGRATION | BLENDED LEARNING | VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT | VOLUNTEER MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING | PROGRAM PLANNING | TEAM BUILDING
WORK EXPERIENCE
BLENDED LEARNING SPECIALIST
AUGUST 2019 TO PRESENT
AUGUST 2019 TO PRESENT
- Lead and facilitate blended learning classes for adult learners.
- Plan and deliver coursework in IT Fundamentals, ranging from programming and app development to networks and security.
- Use LMS and related tools to manage classrooms and assess performance.
- Establish a new education department, including vision for staff, volunteers, and programs.
- Supervise seven staff members, two hundred volunteers, and interns.
- Manage budgets and grants for the education department.
- Establish new partnerships to engage diverse communities and strengthen relationships.
- Design a new volunteer program to include training and a Volunteer Management System (VMS).
- Serve as lead administrator for education in board meetings and public appearances.
- Develop budgets for department, staff, and expenses; write grants for educational programs.
- Supervise full-time, part-time education staff, volunteer training, interns, and committees.
- Design and implement school, adult and family programs & Duncanson Artist-in-Residence.
- Design digital content for exhibits, education spaces, and online learning.
- Supervise full-time, part-time education staff, docent volunteers, and interns.
- Design and implement adult, school, family, and outreach programs.
- Supervise departmental budgets and grants for the educational department.
- Design and implement digital content for education, collections, exhibitions, and social media.
- Manage the museums family interactive gallery and studio classes.
CURATOR OF EDUCATION
COLUMBUS MUSEUM
JULY 2007 TO OCTOBER 2010
COLUMBUS MUSEUM
JULY 2007 TO OCTOBER 2010
- Lead administrator for the education department.
- Supervise staff, programs, volunteers, budgets, and grants.
- Supervise Transformations, a family interactive gallery.
- Manage the Museum’s non-circulating library and education resource center.
- Introduce digital integration in the form of kiosks and websites.
ASSOCIATE CURATOR OF EDUCATION
HUNTER MUSEUM OF AMERICA ART
JANUARY 2003 TO JULY 2005
HUNTER MUSEUM OF AMERICA ART
JANUARY 2003 TO JULY 2005
- Organize studio classes, teen programs, summer camps, and after school programs.
- Plan weekly adult evening programs.
- Manage digital signage and ticketing systems.
- Lead teacher workshops and volunteer training.
- Provide digital integration including video podcasts and cell phone tours.
- Establish the Museum’s first education department.
- Establish the first docent volunteer training program.
- Design K-12 tours, teacher workshops, family programs, camps, and Saturday drawing classes.
- Establish collaborations with Auburn City Schools and Auburn University.
- Lead tours and workshops for Arts in the Basic Curriculum.
- Provide curatorial assistance for the Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Department.
- Design outreach program with Community Women Against Hardship.
- Partner with the University of Missouri to design summer camp middle school students.