Experience

National Atomic Testing Museum

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

• Executive Director/CEO

  • Dec 2015 - Present

  I am managing a 1.9 million dollar budget and a professional staff of 13 with 9 additional contractors. (Please see annual report link: https://nationalatomictestingmuseum.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/annual-report-2018.pdf.) This museum is one of nine nationally designated by an act of Congress. During my tenure, I am pioneering new social media outlets and writing many historical monographs. I am overseeing the drafting of a new strategic plan and master plan. This job is allowing me to work closely and on a weekly basis with partnering organizations like the Smithsonian Institution, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Nevada Desert Research Institute, Nevada National Security Site and University of Nevada Las Vegas. The museum’s web page can be viewed at https://nationalatomictestingmuseum.org/. (Average museum yearly attendance 80,000.) Other duties include:• Serving as CEO to Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation Board of Directors.• Museum representative to city, school board, county, state and federal elected officials.• Managing Distinguished Lecture Series with nationally recognized speakers.• Educating a multi-generational audience through interdisciplinary programming, engaging exhibits and lectures as we honor the men and women who have addressed the challenges of the nuclear age in war and peace. Honoring our nation’s Cold War-era veterans. • Serving as a premier STEM (and standards-based) educator for students from Southern Nevada and beyond and providing collection-based exhibits and related learning activities for greater public understanding and appreciation of the world in which we live.• Designing with my education staff creative programming to serve a diverse public of varied ages, backgrounds and knowledge. • Operating a transparent efficient business that sustains our mission as we serve not only as an employer, but a cultural asset for our community.

• Executive Director, CEO

  • Nov 2015 - Present



Roswell Museum & Art Center & Robert H. Goddard Planetarium

• Executive Director

  • Feb 2014 - Sep 2015

  I led a complex organization with multiple partnerships including a supporting board, foundation, a municipal administration and a close partnership with the local school district. I had been most active in this position in creating a new wide range of educational art, history, science and environmental science programming focusing on multi-generational activities which have greatly increased services to families with children from economic and social backgrounds not previously served.



Gold Coast Ralroad Museum

• United States
• Graphic Design

• Executive Director

  • Aug 2001 - Dec 2013

  I managed a six decades-old Dade County working railroad museum spanning fifty-five acres with 52,000 feet of display space and hosting sixty-three pieces of historic railroad engines and rail-cars, three of which are listed on the National Register as well as the former Presidential rail-car Ferdinand Magellan, Miami’s first National Historic Landmark. I pioneered, in coordination with eleven Florida Division of Cultural Affairs grants that I secured, a new emphasis in children’s-related events and interdisciplinary and multi-generational educational programming focusing on industrial arts displays.



Schoolhouse Children s Museum

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

• Executive Director

  • Oct 2006 - Aug 2009

  I managed City of Boynton Beach children’s educational facility and pioneered interdisciplinary astronomy, environmental science, art history and performing arts educational programming as additions to the museum’s already successful Florida history and natural history curriculum. I also added home-school science and art classes taught by Florida Atlantic University instructors, all funded by grants I solicited from the Palm Beach Cultural Council. I was responsible and successful at maintaining community partnerships with educational and cultural stakeholders.



Montgomery County Historical Society

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

• Executive Director

  • May 1987 - Aug 2001

  I directed and oversaw educational programming for a 120 year-old accredited museum site within the Indiana State Museum System with a 17th-20th century fine arts and decorative arts collection.