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Peabody Essex MuseumAssociate Preparator
Jun. 2023Salem, Massachusetts, United States• Under direction of Preparator, and in coordination with various other staff for specific projects, handle and install museum collection and loan objects for exhibitions, including changing exhibitions and new and rotating installations in permanent galleries. • Represent the Preparation department in exhibition design process for multiple projects concurrently, evaluating overall designs and casework construction from angle of art and personnel safety. • Participate in processing invoices, scheduling outside contractors and temporary staff, and maintaining checklists and documentation for exhibitions. • Manage mountmaking process, including planning and execution of mounts, mannequins and frames, collaborating on mountmaking and framing decisions. • Coordinate access to objects for conservation review and treatment, including transport to offsite conservation studios. • Maintain and organize shared workspaces, such as object staging and prep rooms. • Participate in retention, management, storage, and disposal of mounts, mannequins, frames and crates. • Arrange crate fabrication and packing for PEM collection objects in exhibitions. • Transport art objects between campus locations, offsite storage facilities, and other offsite locations via PEM van. • Track object movement and exhibition activity using collections management database. • Other collections and exhibitions duties as time permits, including but not limited to object photography, documentation, and rehousing. • Assist other museum staff, as directed.
Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumCollections Care Associate
Jun. 2015 - Jun. 2023Greater Boston Area• Manage the overall daily appearance of the historic galleries • Work with Collection Maintenance Technicians, Conservation Technicians and Facilities staff on collection cleaning schedules, maintaining lights and window shades and other gallery appearance issues • Work with various departments, including Education, Membership, Horticulture, Marketing, Contemporary, Development and Rental Events on planning programs, tours, events and other activities that are safe and practical for the collection and galleries • Carry out conservation and collections orientations for new staff, as well as contracted photographers, musicians, and artists who will be working in the galleries • Review work orders and attend operations planning meetings as a Conservation and representative • Maintain conservation policy documents for gallery activities • Provide scheduling, coordination, art handling and communication support for all movement of collections objects for all purposes related to the photography project, capital projects, conservation requests, changing exhibitions, etc. • Carry out matting, framing, re-housing, mount making, packing and unpacking in support of all permanent gallery and changing exhibition needs • Assist with creation of exhibition furniture for changing exhibitions, including casework, label rails, pedestals/risers, etc
ArtfactRemote Auction Clerk
Sep. 2010 - Jan. 2015Working on a contract basis running the remote clerking console to add an online bidding element to auctions held around the country by auction houses who would otherwise not have the staff/infrastructure to take online bids. I work with a phone contact who is present on the auction floor. The contact relays asking prices to me that I enter and update into the console while I relay internet bids to the contact who then bids on behalf of the internet bidders.
Peabody Essex MuseumCollection Specialist
Mar. 2009 - Jun. 2015As a Collection Specialist at the Peabody Essex Museum I am in charge of storage and access for a number of curatorial departments at the museum. Compulsory job duties consist of facilitating access to the collection by internal staff of the museum (curators, registrars, conservators, integrated media, public relations, creative services, etc) and external visitors (scholars, researchers, visiting curators, contract/visiting conservators, etc.), installing changing exhibits and performing rotations of artwork in the permanent collection as well as long-term storage improvement projects. Quite often we are also called in to support other departments who work with the museum collection and may be asked to perform many other tasks in an effort to fulfill the museum's mission. I also still perform regularly or occasionally many of the duties described under my experience as a Registration Project Assistant. In addition to overseeing specific portions of the museum collection, I work closely with the other two collection management staff members with projects in their areas.
The Vitamin ShoppeStore Manager
Nov. 2006 - Mar. 2009The store that I most recently managed is located in Harvard Square and is a very successful location that I helped to perform better year to date then it did in previous years. We generally had between 100 and 160 customers a day and average daily sales of $3,000 to $4,500. A large part of the business cultivated at the Vitamin Shoppe is through Market Activation which requires creative networking with other local business and creating exciting events in order to benefit my store as well as our partners. This could be anything from having a local gym come to the store to share the benefits of its facilities, a local naturopath giving consultations on products, a massage or reflexology practitioner performing short sample work for customers or a local healthy restaurant sampling its food for people. The coordination of all these events while maintaining a trained staff, in stock store and excellent customer service is no small task. Couple this with the need to creatively advertise and promote these to ensure that it is a benefit for my store as well as the market partners was a great outlet for my various skills. While manager at Vitamin Shoppe I had four employees under my direct supervision promoted, one to store manager, two to assistant manager and one to key holder.
Best BuyPersonal Computers Home Office Supervisor
Jul. 2006 - Nov. 2006This was a sales supervisor position of the Computers/Home Office (PCHO) department for a new store which I was hired to assist in Grand Opening at the South Bay Center in Dorchester Massachusetts. The PCHO supervisor is in charge of the second largest revenue producing department within Best Buy stores and at this particular location also must work closely with the Best Buy for Business (BBFB) Supervisor and Geek Squad supervisor. This entails training and maintaining a staff of 8 – 15 sales associates; working with the store managers, vendors and district staff to drive revenue and net operating profit; prevent shrink; and provide an excellent customer experience by recommending the best solutions for each individual customer.
Elizabeth Lahikainen and AssociatesConservation Technician
May. 2006 - Mar. 2009In my role as a Conservation Technician for EL and Associates I assisted with conservation projects under supervision of the textile and upholstery conservator Elizabeth Lahikainen and performed general tasks associated with the maintenance and upkeep of a busy conservation lab. I assisted with object treatments, creation of physical files for objects, creation of proposals and treatment reports, research into materials and supplies for projects, consultation on technology needs for the lab and maintaining the cleanliness and organization of the space.
Peabody Essex MuseumRegistration Project Assistant
Jan. 2005 - Mar. 2009As a Project Assistant for the Registration department I worked in various capacities on a number of exhibits helping handle artworks for moving and installation/de-installation as well as performing condition reports for objects entering the museum from other institutions for exhibits, returning to said institutions after exhibits or objects belonging to the PEM going out on loan/returning from loan. I assisted in packing and unpacking objects, as well as retrofitting crates for shipment and I have taken every opportunity to watch the professional art shippers and the manner in which they pack and handle objects. There was also considerable time in assisting with paperwork in the Registration Department by working with loan requests; incoming and outgoing receipts; condition report generation; organization of the permanent records (deeds of gifts, loan files); data entry in the collection management database, Argus; numbering objects by hand; organizing mailings for contacting private lenders and lending institutions; consolidating acknowledgments with correspondence; updating and maintaining Registrar’s calendar; organizing slide library of photographic archives; compiling information on potential venues for traveling exhibits; maintaining and updating object lists for incoming exhibitions and maintaining and updating exhibit files for incoming exhibitions.
General Nutrition CentersStore Manager
Jan. 1998 - May. 2006My last position with GNC was Store Manager of a Downtown Boston location. My duties included, but were not limited to: Maintaining store files; hiring, training and maintaining a sales staff; preparing the store according to merchandising manual; ordering third party merchandise; paying vendor invoices in a timely manner; setting store and employee goals to drive business; customer service and effectively controlling store shrink to maximize profits. Through 2006 I consistently ran better then last year in all areas of operation, and while the region as a whole had a 177% turn-over rate of employees I lost only two; one due to a change of employment and the other to school responsibilities. While employed at my last GNC location I had five employees under my supervision promoted internally and externally either from sales associate to assistant manager or from assistant manager to store manager.
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