
Development Assistant at The New York Academy of Sciences
Greater New York City Area

Development Assistant at The New York Academy of Sciences
Greater New York City Area
Museum and Non-Profit Administration and Development
General Administration: office management, accounting, purchasing, Mac and PC software.
Grant Writing: preparing, co-authoring, and editing proposals for research grants.
Composition and Publishing: writing and managing design, printing, mailing, and advertising for appeal letters, websites, and newsletters.
Website Management: HTML, CSS, basic PHP.
Database Administration: Excel, Access, Filemaker, etc.
Event Planning: registration, schedules, publicity, vendors, and contracts.
(Non-Profit; Museums and Institutions industry)
August 2009 — Present (4 months)
(Philanthropy industry)
June 2009 — Present (6 months)
Developing Excel and Salesforce solutions for online gift shop sales management.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
September 2005 — January 2009 (3 years 5 months)
Assisted the Director of the LMP and one other professor. Responsible for general financial and administrative tasks; budgeting and purchasing; editing and assisting with the composition of grants, journal articles, and other academic documents; and conference and event planning.
Spearheaded the launch of five new websites for department programs and maintained same. Developed and maintained online conference registration system.
Orchestrated the Lab's first-ever alumni mailings in 2005 and continued to increase the level of connection and communication with alumni through web, print, and email outreach.
Acted as coordinator and point of contact for the Master’s of Engineering in Manufacturing Degree Program: facilitated recruiting, developed online and print publications, and organized admissions data and activities. Under my management, applications to the program increased 150% from 2006 to 2008.
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
July 2008 — December 2008 (6 months)
Intern in Architecture and Design Department
Prepared catalogs, finding aids, online and print educational materials, assisted with a variety of museum tasks.
Primary project: Using the Museums Buckminster Fuller collection to create a model for managing multimedia collections for internal organization and public accessibility, including methods for cataloging, and creating online and educational workshop materials
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2003 — May 2005 (1 year 9 months)
Supervised, assisted and graded students in undergraduate analog and digital electronics course.
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Higher Education industry)
January 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 5 months)
Prepared materials and supervised labs for first-year introductory physics course.
Cert , Museum Studies , 2005 — 2008
MA , Physics , 2003 — 2005
1999 — 2003
Sustainability, science education, museums, food and cooking.
MIT Infinite Mile Award for Excellence, awarded to LMP Support Staff Team