I am…

….an award winning creator of interpretive experiences for museums and other organizations with over twenty-five years of experience.

Experience

Principal, Designer

emDESIGN, New Market MD / 2008 to Present

• Providing creative and consulting services to a variety of museums and other cultural institutions.

• Select clients include:

• Paleontological Research Institution’s Museum of the Earth

• Alusiv Inc / Penn Museum of Archeology and Anthropology

• National Museum of Industrial History

• The Mutter Museum

• Da Vinci Science Center

• Please Touch Museum

• Children’s Museum of Southern MN

• Great River Children’s Museum

• The Doseum

• St. Luke’s Hospital

• Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museums

Exhibit Designer

National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Center for Media Services

Harpers Ferry WV / 2020-2025

• Provided creative and contract leadership (FAC COR Level II)for NPS interpretive media projects.

• Lead in-house project teams to develop engaging interpretive solutions for media projects.

• Served as project advocate and primary liaison between NPS clients and contractors.

• Provided technical expertise and championing improved  programmatic and physical accessibility across NPS projects.

• Collaborated with NPS staff, subject matter experts, and park stakeholders to articulate and achieve project goals.

• Advised NPS client leadership on interpretive media strategies to ascertain the best path forward.

• Developed project briefs, scopes of work, and project solicitations to meet client needs.

• Assessing contractor deliverables from schematic design through production and fabrication to ensure quality and exceed client expectations.

• Serving on interviewing panels for interpretive media hires.

• Leading staff and contractor orientation and training programs

• NPS entities served include:

• Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

• Haleakalā National Park

• Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park

• Klondike Goldrush National Historical Park

• Stika National Historical Park

• Kenai Fjords National Park

• Joshua Tree National Park

• Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument

Design Director, Experiences / Director, Exhibition Design/ Exhibit Development Manager

National Geographic Society, Washington D.C. / 2017-2020

• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to envision and produce exhibitions and experiences that communicate National Geographic’s mission, build enthusiasm for the brand, highlight the work of our explorers, and compel people to act.

• Collaborated with a broad array of internal and external partners and stakeholders.

• Coordinated project schedules and budgets across multiple creative disciplines and project conributors.

• Projects include:

• Once Upon a Climb: Stories from Everest

• Becoming Jane: The Evolution of Dr. Jane Goodall

• Women: A Century of Change

• Photo Ark, Southampton Art Center, Southampton NY

• Day to Night: In the Field with Stephen Wilkes

• Queens of Egypt

• Photo Camp, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

• Titanic: The Untold Story

• Photo Ark, Annenberg Space of Photography, LA

• Spinosaurus, Burg Dankwerode, Braunsweig, Germany

Exhibits Production Director

The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA / 2016 to 2017

• Responsible for conceptualization, design, and documentation for temporary and permanent exhibitions that incorporated media, physical and digital interactives, and museum artifacts.

• Projects include:

• Think Music

• The Franklin Institute Virtual Reality Initiative

• Escape Rooms at the Franklin

• The Elaine and Peter Levitt Gershman Education and Conference Center

Visual Information Specialist (Media Designer)

Contracting Officer’s Representative

National Park Service, Harpers Ferry Design Center

Harpers Ferry WV / 2015 to 2016

• Served as designer and design consultant for a variety of interpretive media projects for NPS sites across the Northeast and National Capital Regions.

• Managed contracts awarded for design and fabrication of interpretive projects.

• NPS entities served include:

• The Elaine and Peter Levitt Gershman Education and Conference Center

• Cape Cod National Seashore

• New Bedford Whaling National Historic Park

• Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River

• US Marine Corps War Memorial

• Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial

Curator  of Exhibitions / Director of Exhibitions

Hugh Moore Historical Park and Museums, Easton, PA / 2004 to August 2008

• Served as principal investigator for a $1.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to design and install new interactive science and history exhibits at the National Canal Museum.