Tamsin McDonagh

Conservation Technician at Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History
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(386) 825-5501
Location
ワシントンDC - ボルチモア エリア
Languages
  • English 母国語またはバイリンガル
  • French 挨拶レベル

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Experience

    • United States
    • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Conservation Technician
      • 2021年10月 - – 現在

    • United States
    • Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Conservation Technician & Pre-Program Intern
      • 2017年9月 - 2022年1月

      Performed treatment of an oil painting that involved surface cleaning, consolidating paint and fibers, varnish removal, and in-painting. Pre-Program work on paper includes surface cleaning, humidifying creases, mending tears, and creating fills. Object treatments include waxing bronzes, rejoining fragments of a stone object, cleaning silver, and creating small fills. Assist with dusting museum objects in galleries, sculpture garden treatments, textile collection care and rehousing. Attain experience with art handling, ODDY testing, pest management, fiber analysis, environmental monitoring, and drafting treatment reports. Advance understanding of non-destructive analytical techniques for museum objects such as XRF, UV Fluorescence, visual microscopy, and solvent testing.

    • Museums
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Pre-program Intern in Painting Conservation
      • 2019年9月 - 2020年5月

      Create a strategy for conservation of a 16th c. French oil painting and perform hands-on treatments, documenting the process throughout. Examine and evaluate paintings in the Italian Renaissance galleries, and write reports documenting their condition. Develop microscopy skills and knowledge of non-destructive techniques for analysis of paintings, and gain familiarity of commonly used conservation materials through select readings and discussions with painting conservators. Create a strategy for conservation of a 16th c. French oil painting and perform hands-on treatments, documenting the process throughout. Examine and evaluate paintings in the Italian Renaissance galleries, and write reports documenting their condition. Develop microscopy skills and knowledge of non-destructive techniques for analysis of paintings, and gain familiarity of commonly used conservation materials through select readings and discussions with painting conservators.

    • United States
    • Law Practice
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Intellectual Property Litigation Paralegal
      • 2016年4月 - 2016年11月

      Used critical thinking in order to analyze and organize case information, manage case deadlines, perform legal and factual research, draft legal documents, manage vendors with a budget of $1,500-10,000 per project, and prepare correspondence; primary paralegal involved in drafting trial exhibit list that included cataloging over 1200 evidentiary documents Used critical thinking in order to analyze and organize case information, manage case deadlines, perform legal and factual research, draft legal documents, manage vendors with a budget of $1,500-10,000 per project, and prepare correspondence; primary paralegal involved in drafting trial exhibit list that included cataloging over 1200 evidentiary documents

    • Assistant Gardener
      • 2012年6月 - 2016年2月

      Under overall aesthetic direction from Master Gardener, works independently to design flower bed layouts, cultivate plants and generally maintain English-style gardensCo-designer of seasonal decor arrangements for 4 Bagby restaurants and Manor Under overall aesthetic direction from Master Gardener, works independently to design flower bed layouts, cultivate plants and generally maintain English-style gardensCo-designer of seasonal decor arrangements for 4 Bagby restaurants and Manor

    • Organic Chemistry Lab Teaching Assistant
      • 2014年8月 - 2015年5月

      Aided students in performing organic syntheses and in developing scientific writing skillsFostered a safe and exciting intellectual environment, improved oral communication skills Aided students in performing organic syntheses and in developing scientific writing skillsFostered a safe and exciting intellectual environment, improved oral communication skills

    • Higher Education
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Sexual Misconduct Advisor
      • 2012年5月 - 2015年5月

      Collaborated with peers to promote an environment of respectful sexual relationships on campus.Responded to persons who experienced a form of sexual misconduct in a confidential, informed, and caring way. Collaborated with peers to promote an environment of respectful sexual relationships on campus.Responded to persons who experienced a form of sexual misconduct in a confidential, informed, and caring way.

    • Student Researcher
      • 2014年1月 - 2014年5月

      Collaborated with a senior research student and PI to discover the minimum energy pathway and mechanism of a Diels-Alder reaction using Gaussian 03 Collaborated with a senior research student and PI to discover the minimum energy pathway and mechanism of a Diels-Alder reaction using Gaussian 03

    • Chemistry Tutor
      • 2012年8月 - 2014年5月

      Lead Tutor positions: Introductory Chemistry (Fall 2012), Neurochemistry (Fall 2013) Lead Tutor positions: Introductory Chemistry (Fall 2012), Neurochemistry (Fall 2013)

Education

  • Kenyon College
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), magna cum laude, received distinction on Senior Exercise, Chemistry
    2011年 - 2015年
  • The Catholic University of America
    Non-Degree, Studio Art
    2017年 - 2019年
  • Friends School of Baltimore
    GED, summa cum laude
    2008年 - 2011年
  • The George Washington University
    Non-Degree, Art History
    2017年 -

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