My specialization in my Museum Studies  graduate degree  was in collections management. Through this formal training, as well as a number of internships and post-graduate work experience, I gained the essential skills needed for collections care and registration. I am comfortable handling all kinds of objects from works on paper to large sculpture. I am experienced in condition reporting of 2D and 3D objects including photography, annotation, and detailed descriptive markers. I have prepared condition reports as part of routine collections management as well as for loans, transportation, and exhibition. 

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I am also capable in preventative conservation tasks like cleaning, mount-making, housekeeping in collections spaces, environmental monitoring, numbering and labelling, and preserving collections information through cataloging. The databases/collections management systems I have significant experience using are: The Museum System (TMS), Re:Discovery, EMu, MimsyXG, Axiell Collections, CollectionSpace, Filemaker Pro, Past Perfect, Microsoft Access, Archivist Toolkit, ARCTOS, Specify.

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Some notable projects:

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In the spring of 2015 I undertook a project to process a recent accession of baskets from the Southwest. This included cataloging, imaging, relabeling, some light cleaning, creating a new storage unit, moving the collection, determining permanent locations, and creating/filing necessary paperwork.

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In the fall of 2014 I completed the processing and rehousing of an archaeological collection of lithics and bone tools from an important dig site in Colorado. Many of these objects were casts and molds of the original lithics that were no longer in the collection, necessitating their addition to the permanent collection and subsequent cataloging. This presented some unique challenges in cataloging (how to relate the molds and casts to the artifacts they represented in the collection) and required using different techniques for applying permanent numbers to plastics.