Experience

Tri-Cities Historical Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Collections Manager

  • Sep 2020 - Present

  Processing and Cataloging artifacts and archival materials using Collective Access and PastPerfectTransferring textiles from flat storage to hanging storage, digitizing artifacts, and mitigating mold on affected artifacts.Managing volunteers working on textile transfer projectContributing articles to quarterly newsletter

• Front Desk Staff

  • Sep 2019 - Sep 2020

  Able to greet persons entering establishment, determine the nature and purpose of visit, and direct or escort them to specific destinations.Operate telephone to answer, screen, or forward calls, providing information, and taking messages.Assisting updating storage of artifacts and archivesTranscribing local radio editorials



Renegade Raven Designs

• Online Retailer

  • Sep 2009 - Dec 2021

  Designed and created unique clothing, costumes and accessories for my Etsy store. Promoted store on Social Media Provided excellent customer service Designed and created unique clothing, costumes and accessories for my Etsy store. Promoted store on Social Media Provided excellent customer service



Holland Museum

• United States
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Collection Assistant

  • Feb 2018 - Apr 2019

  • photographed over 800 artifacts, scanned over 2000 archival documents and uploaded the images into Collective Access• Prepared and installed artifacts for exhibition, ensuring the artifacts' safety, reporting their status and condition, and identifying and correcting any problems with the set-up.• Managed volunteers for inventory project.

• Visitor Services Receptionist

  • Jun 2016 - Apr 2019

  Able to provide superior customer service to a diverse range of customers.Selected and ordered merchandise for museum gift shopResponsible for daily operation of museum including tracking gallery temperature and humidity.



ALS Environmental - North America

• Metals Prep Technician

  • Sep 2008 - Jan 2010

  I was brought back to ALS Laboratory Group as a contract employee to work in the metals prep lab.

• General Chemistry lab analyst

  • Feb 2007 - Sep 2008

  I spent a brief period of time in organic prep doing extractions before being placed in the general chemistry department. There I learned and performed many different tests. They include Adsorbable Organic Halides(AOX), Chloride, Flashpoint, Karl Fischer moisture, % solids, total suspended solids, total dissolved solids, Alkalinity, Walkley-Black total organic carbon, and % ash.



Eagle Ottawa

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Senior R&D Lab Technician

  • Jul 2005 - Sep 2006

  Test leather from Research and Development for physical and chemical properties. Entered data into spreadsheet and inventory control program.(BPCS). Set up filing system for in house sample data. Increased number of formaldehyde samples tested to alleviate backlog of samples. Test leather from Research and Development for physical and chemical properties. Entered data into spreadsheet and inventory control program.(BPCS). Set up filing system for in house sample data. Increased number of formaldehyde samples tested to alleviate backlog of samples.



Eagle Ottawa Leather

• United States
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Corporate Lab Technician

  • May 2001 - Jul 2005

  Tested leather for physical and chemical properties. Tested leather for physical and chemical properties.



Trace Analytical Laboratories, Inc.

• United States
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Laboratory Technician

  • 1996 - 1998

  prepared soil and water samples for metals analysis. Also tested soil and water samples for mercury by CVAAS prepared soil and water samples for metals analysis. Also tested soil and water samples for mercury by CVAAS