Heritage advocate with 20 years' experience in developing and delivering conservation and collection care programmes for archaeology, natural history, fine art, industrial and library and archive collections.
Work History
May 2022 - January 2025
• Developing and delivering preventive and interventive conservation operations for museum
Key Achievements
• Advocating for and building 6 permanent conservation roles and ensuring developmental needs are addressed
• Creating and implementing a framework of policies, plans and programmes to underpin the Museum’s mission statement and collection need
July 2021 - May 2022
• Series of short term interventive and preventive contracts with Auckland heritage institutions including Auckland University, Auckland War Memorial Museum and Auckland University.
Key Achievements
• Quickly and successfully navigating move to a new country by immersing myself in the conservation community
January 2018 - July 2021
• Progressing collection care activities for thirty university libraries
• Contributing to and managing research into preventive care of collections
Key Achievements
• Successfully prioritising, negotiating and implementing preventive and collection care best practice for multi-phase, multi-location capital projects
• Significantly improving operational storage and display upgrades across the libra
October 2011 - January 2018
• Managing preventive programs, research and advice for 32 university libraries
• Supervising volunteers, interns and junior staff
Key Achievements
• Systematically benchmarking the collections to identify needs and gaps enabling the department to focus on most cost-effective solutions
• Successfully coordinating and delivering Bodleian conservation input for Mellon funded research project
September 2015 - March 2016
