I am an experienced museum educator whose strength is developing and implementing curriculum. I also plan special events. My experience has allowed me to prepare curricula in many disciplines for presentation to audiences of widely varying ages and backgrounds. I enjoy training and managing volunteers of any age. I have also handled the administrative duties that go along with any cultural institution's education department.

Due to the small competitive nature of my chosen field, I am looking to move to a similar field where I can use my experience and enthusiasm. Specifically, I am looking to stay in education, resource development, or training. A unique experience earlier this year in a radically different field helped me understand that working in a job where I can prepare learning units and teach is truly what gets me out of bed in the morning.

Along with the skills developed in my museum education experiences, I also have acquired a number of skills through various hobbies. I have enjoyed leadership positions in various organizations, and have experience establishing or growing groups to a stable level. I am considered to have excellent people skills, strong anayltical and problem solving skills, and a natural creativity. My technical skills, mostly acquired through either self-interest or necessary skills for volunteer positions, include beginner to intermediate understandings of the Microsoft Office suite, web design principles, and Photoshop 7. In my spare time, I maintain two websites and four blogs.

My reading and blogging interests cover a wide variety of topics including building or changing careers, entrepreneurship, freelancing, graphic design, web design, experiential education, and e-Learning. My list of RSS feeds and blog readership are both growing steadily, although my list of feeds still dwarfs the number of visitors to my blogs. My CareerNiche(approve sites) blog has recently been added to the blogrolls of two more well-known bloggers and the Resources Directory? od Resume Wiki?.

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