Shogren Consulting | Heritage, Museum & Cultural Planning

(10/2002-7/2003)

Served as part-time contract administrator & consultant to the Board of the Working Waterfront Museum. Oversaw and managed daily operations, completed Phase 1 construction project serving as Construction Superintendent, Owner’s Representative and Laborer; served as Exhibit Director opening first professional museum exhibition (1,600 sq.ft.), and worked with Board to rescue and preserve a 45,000 ft², National Register of Historic Places eligible maritime warehouse.

• Institutional & program planning

• Construction Superintendent (supervision of trades and unions, and exhibition volunteers, assessment of work done)

• Coordination of project with lead architect

• Developed Interpretive Themes

• Sought out and Secured Objects and Graphics for Interpretive Exhibit

• Created exhibit design, specified fabrication and installation.

• Installed windows, exhibit fixtures, artifacts, and applied finished surfaces.

• Curatorial & collections management

• Clarification of vision and mission

• Supervised and coordinated creation of new institutional graphic identity

• Board relations and development

• Volunteers and staff supervision

• Budget management

• Donor and foundation relations

• Grants management

• Membership list management & evaluation of new membership management software

• Solicitation of discounts & donated materials

Graduated March 2005 (60 credit hours, quarter system)

Division of Public Administration, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government,

Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207 2000-2005

Coursework included: Strategic Planning, Public Human Resource Management, Public Budgeting, Administrative Theory & Behavior, Public Policy: Formation & Process, Administrative Ethics and Values, Administrative Law and Policy, Analytical Methods, Introduction to Public Administration, Case Analysis, Values Based Management.

Research & Policy Focus: Preservation, Arts and Culture, Cultural Tourism, Civil Society

Advanced Certificate in Nonprofit Development

Institute for Nonprofit Management, Mark O. Hatfield School of Government,

Portland State University, Portland, OR 97207 Sept. 2004

Coursework included: Grant-writing, Financial Management of Nonprofit Organizations, History & Foundations of Nonprofit Organizations, Introduction to Nonprofit Management, Fundraising for Nonprofit Organizations, Advanced Financial Strategies, Advanced Fundraising: Major & Planned Giving, Managing Nonprofit Boards (Governance)

American Association for State and Local History, Nashville, TN June 2000

Topic Covered included: Leadership & Management, Mission, Vision & Planning, Governance, Organizational Change, Resource Management, Fund Development, Human Resource Management

Sponsored by: AAM, AASLH, National Park Service, National Trust for

Historic Preservation and Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Williamsburg, VA Oct.1997

Topic included: Leadership, Museum Management Theory & Practice, Managing Change, Cultural Tourism, Technology in Museum, Evaluation, Interpretation & Public Program, Marketing, Research in Museums, Exhibitions, Legal and Ethical Issues, Publications, Trustee Relations

University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469 1992

Coursework included: History &Historiography of American & World Maritime Historical Studies.

Association of New England Archivists, Boston, Massachusetts 02134 1990

Coursework included: Archival Theory and Practice, Arrangement & Description of Historical Materials, Records Management Policy & Practice, Records Destruction, Curation

University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 1990

Courses included: Leadership & Management of Museums, Historic Properties, Museum Education, Historical Structures, Curatorship-Collections Management, History and Foundations of Museums.

University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716 1986-1989

Courses included: Labor History, Colonial American History, Industrial History, 19^th C. America, Intellectual History, American Vernacular Architecture, American Material Culture & Graduate Writing Seminars.

Co-Instructor (Graduate Teaching Assistant): Museums and Historical Archaeology with Dr. David Orr, Mid-Atlantic Regional Archaeologist, National Park Service. Course taught at the Hagley Museum and Library where I taught archaeological excavation and field documentation, archaeological laboratory methods and artifact handling.

Research Focus: American Material Culture, Vernacular Architecture, Industrial Workers Housing, Colonial and Industrial Mill Technology & the Industrial Revolution, Irish Industrial Workers, Public Archaeology & Museum Interpretation, Commercial Archaeology, American Ceramics

The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187-8795 1983-1984

Courses included: Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Archaeology, Archaeology Theory and Methods, Historical Archaeology, Historical Ethnography, Biological Anthropology, Archaeological Conservation, Cultural Resource Management, American Material Culture

Research Focus: Historical Ethnography of Colonial Maine, Colonial Industrial Technologies, Colonial Settlement Patterns, Historic Preservation, Commercial Archaeology

Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin 54971 1982

Courses included: Social and Cultural Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, History of Archaeology, Archaeology Theory and Methods, Mesoamerica, American History, Scientific Photography, Astronomy, Physics. Psychology, Comparative and World Religions, Music Performance

Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin 54235 1978