Experienced Collection Manager looking to relocate outside of California

[izzyrenee]

Headline: Experienced Collection Manager looking to relocate outside of California
Name: Michelle Sifuentes
Email Address: izzyrenee@sbcglobal.net
Current Location: Fontana, CA

Preferred Job Category: Registrar/Collections Manager

Personal Statement:
A museum professional, with a combined ten years experience, working in various historical foundations throughout Southern California’s Inland Empire specializing in Collection Management. Currently look to relocate out of the Southern California area. Would like to settle in Middle Tennessee area but am open to other areas

Education:
M.A. Public History – Archival Management - 2006
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA

B.A. History - 2000
University of Redlands
Redlands, CA

Professional Experience:
March Field Air Museum Riverside, CA 2006 - Present
Collections Manager
•Oversees the daily operations of collection department
•Supervise collections volunteers
•Assisted in the AAM Accreditation Process including writing portions of the proposal and preparing for peer review site visit for the March Field Air Museum. Accreditation was granted to the museum August 2011
•Developed Museum Collections Disaster Plan
•Rewrote Collection Management Plan and brought it up to the standards set forth by AAM
•Developed and implemented an extensive Inventory Plan to cover all of the museum’s collection
•Maintains documentation of permanent collection
•Maintains the Collections Database – MS Access
•Supervises all loans to and from the museum
•Implements care and preservation of collection throughout the museum.
•Assist in the installation of exhibits

San Bernardino County Museum Redlands, CA 2003 – 2006
Project and Archival Assistant – History Division 2003 – 2006
•Update and renovate the existing subject heading files for the photographic collection.
•Prepare updated headings for posting as a finding aid on the Museum website.
•Organize negative collection by analyzing images for content.
•Create catalog records and spreadsheets.
•Tasked with overseeing supply and inventory for re-housing of photographic collection.
•Reorganize and update subject headings for information files.
•Create an information file index

Docent/Interpreter – Agua Mansa Historical Cemetery – Colton, CA Feb. 2006 – Aug. 2006
•Assist with onsite public relations, including the history and burials at the cemetery and general information.
•Develop and maintain administrative documentation, including visitor logs and quarterly visitor count.
•Maintain office and site activities.

Mission Inn Foundation & Museum Riverside, CA 2001 – 2006
Volunteered as a museum docent, collections inventory volunteer and worked as an archival intern for the National Endowment for Humanities grant.
Docent 2001 – 2006
•Lead and assist in museum tour groups for the Mission Inn Foundation.
•Guest Relations Specialist

Inventory Assistant & Recorder 2001 – 2002
•Assist with inventory of museum collection, focusing on three-dimensional artifacts.
•Identified, measured, and determine the condition of each individual artifact.
•Assigned accession numbers and barcodes to artifacts
•Log information for ARGUS database.

Archives Intern Feb. 2006 – Aug. 2006
•Review and identify archival information to be included in Access database.
•Assist in re-housing of archival materials.
•Review and reevaluate current catalog series.

Other Experience
•Maintains March Field Air Museum’s Facebook page
•Serve as media technician for special events at March Field Air Museum
•Assists in the daily administrative operations for March Field Air Museum (i.e. money count and technical support)
•Coordinate museum volunteers for special events at March Field Air Museum
•Thoroughly examined sections of archival collection to determine inclusion in Riverside Metropolitan Museum’s inventory.
•Assisted with drafting technical reports for the Riverside Art Museum.
•Create a research index for the Kirke Heart Field scrapbooks collection at the A.K. Smiley Library in Redlands, California.

Applicable Skills:
Competent in Microsoft Office programs (Word, Excel, Access, Outlook and Power Point).

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