Work history
Intern, Exhibits Production
tags:
intern
• fabrication techniques
• research
• team observation
• large format printing
How would you describe your time at National Museum of American...?
Research project and special study of interactions between exhibit design and fabrication teams, while based in Exhibits Production Studio at the NMAH. Additional focus on large format output, fabrication and maintenance.
Museum Assistant
tags:
customer service
• experience guide
• museum professional
How would you describe your time at The Phillips Collection?
As a museum assistant, I am responsible for guarding the works of art as well as providing for the museum goers experience. I provide visitor services in the form of information about the museum, the museum patron, the building and the art. The roll has been an excellent platform from which to observe museum visitors as they interact within the museum environment, noting the influence of design on experience.... 
Senior Designer
tags:
mentoring
• art direction
• editing
• copywriting
• design
• brainstorming
• conceptualization
• file management
• attention to detail
• marketing & advertising
• teamwork
• website maintenance
How would you describe your time at Sage Communications?
Art direction, design and production for start-up advertising and communications agency. Concept through mechanicals for print ads, annual reports and collateral to trade-show displays and signage. Clients include AT&T Government Solutions, Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, Goodwill and the U.S. DOT. Maintenance of several clients Web sites, updating images, creating graphics and coding in HTML....
Intern, Peformance Programs
tags:
artist management
• facililtating
• coordination
• arts management
• stage management
• intern
How would you describe your time at Museum of Contemporary Art,...?
Stage- and performance-related equipment management for Summer Solstice, a 23-hour event with over 10,000 guests.
Designer, Production Manager, Video Editor, Sole Proprietor
tags:
research
• software purchasing
• time management
• art direction
• client relations
• client development
• video editing
• production management
How would you describe your time at noneDESIGN?
Freelance and pro-bono client relationships developed over seven-year period, several while enrolled in full-time school. Work includes art direction, design consultation and editorial production to broadcast digital video and magazine production management.
Clients include: Allen Spiegel Fine Art (publisher), Brainfood (nonprofit), DRIVE! Media (publisher), Immigration Equality (nonprofit), Orrick (law firm), NFTE (nonprofit), +SmithGifford (ad agency)...
Production Designer
tags:
print production
• press checks
• editorial layout
• photo editing
• newspaper design
• newspaper redesign
How would you describe your time at The Recorder?
Created eye-catching, daily front-page designs and monthly magazine spreads for an American Lawyer Media/Wasserstein & Co. publication. Oversaw redesign to smaller page size.
Design and Marketing Associate, Newswriter and Production Editor
tags:
newswrting
• production
• marketing analysis
• design
• art direction
How would you describe your time at SNL Financial?
Promoted to marketing and then design associate from nightly production and newswriting for weekly and daily publications covering the financial, insurance and real estate industries.
As a design associate, worked with a team that redeveloped the corporate brand, while specifically responsible for advertising design....
Education
Museum Exhibition Design and Planning
tags:
best practices
• group dynamics
• exhibit design
• smithsonian
• museum studies
• exhibit development
• internship
• certificate
• team work
• interpretive exhibits
• concept brief
How would you describe your time at Georgetown University?
Earned a professional certificate while working two jobs.
The program was closely integrated with the Smithsonian via faculty and in terms of best practices in the field. In the spring I completed an exhibition design project through concept brief that was so well received it is currently in review at the National Museum of American History for incorporation into their exhibit on the internment of the Japanese....
Media Arts (Film/Video/Performance)
tags:
video art
• public art
• installation art
• experience development
• interaction design
• bfa
• performance art
How would you describe your time at california college of the arts?
Completed my BFA while creating work at the intersection of video, performance and installation.
I created projects that were focused on interaction and experience. I explored issues of the body, the body in the urban environment and mark making. My media ranged from video to drawing to edge technology.
Much of my work was collaborative in nature. I also had concentrated study in public art and teaching....
Anthropology, Architecture History
tags:
arts
• leadership & team work
• leadership
• urban studies
• journalism and writing
• anthropological study
• architecture history
How would you describe your time at University of Virginia?
In an attempt to fashion an urban studies curriculum, I majored in cultural anthropology with a minor in architecture history and supported by classes in urban government and sociology.
In my free time, I was an arts and literary editor for a weekly student newsmagazine, a student orientation facilitator and president of the first year class in the architecture school....
