Project Manager Management

Wayne J. LaBar

VP, Exhibitions & Featured Experiences,

Liberty Science Center

Principal-in-Charge,

LSC Experience Services

Liberty Science Center

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Jersey City, NJ, 07305 USA

Experience

Responsibilities at the NJ/NYC metropolitan area s largest (300,000

Vice President,

sq. ft.) and recently expanded/renovated science and technology

Exhibitions & Featured Experiences

center include leadership and overall management of 37+ staff

Liberty Science Center

whose work includes: creation and daily operation of all science

center exhibitions, programming of the IMAX Dome theater and

Principal-in-Charge

3D digital high definition theater; architectural and building

LSC Experience Services

aesthetics; all science center graphic needs; an extensive live animal

collection and aquaria; new technology initiatives and exhibition

1999 - present

support for student/family/adult programs. This encompasses

Liberty Science Center

serving as: a member of senior management Steering Team; liaising

Jersey City, NJ

with the Exhibitions & Featured Experiences Committee of the

Board and the full Board; participating in the requisite fund raising

and grant development efforts; and managing a $2.8 million

operating budget. Current technology initiatives include the cellular

telephone project Science Now Science Everywhere SNSE

(http://snse.lsc.org) and personally managing open-source guest

involvement Exhibit Commons (www.exhibitcommons.org).

Current exhibition projects include Cooking

(http://cookingexhibitchefs.ning.com/)

These responsibilities have now broadened to include leadership

and management of LSC Experience Services, the science center s

consulting, design, traveling exhibition and program effort for

museums, science centers and cultural institutions. Currently,

Experience Services has active projects or consulting arrangements

in Puerto Rico, Turkey, Manitoba and Saudi Arabia, with contracts

in excess of $550,000. Current traveling exhibitions include Islamic

Science Rediscovered.

As part of $109 million expansion effort completed in July 2007,

responsibilities included management of a $20+ million capital

budget, co-leading the effort with New Jersey s Economic

Development Authority to develop the architectural program and

design for the center s expansion, participation in capital fund

raising, developing a strategic experience master plan, creating an

exhibition department, an exhibition renewal strategy, overseeing

all exhibit content, development, design, evaluation, prototyping,

fabrication, implementation and installation.

work/mobile: 201-***-****

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Experience (continued)

Director of Exhibits/ Responsibilities included overseeing the development, design,

Director of Exhibit Implementation evaluation, fabrication and all other aspects of implementation for

1994 - 1999 the 220+ exhibits developed for the opening of a new 112,000 sq.

ft. state-of-the-art science center facility. This included the creation

The Tech Museum of Innovation

and management of an Exhibits department of 14 individuals,

San Jose, CA

overseeing a $15 million budget, developing relationships with

major technology companies for equipment support, coordinating

the integration of exhibit design and development with the building

architecture, coordinating, writing and overseeing all bids and

contracts for exhibit implementation, managing content, design

programming, fabrication and installation of the exhibits, oversight

of multimedia and graphic design, writing and managing grants,

overseeing prototyping, coordinating and managing formative

evaluation for exhibits and actively participating in fund raising.

Project Manager Responsibilities included project management, exhibition planning,

1992 - 1994 and involvement in proposal writing and production, conceptual

Krent/Paffett Associates, Inc. design, educational program development, content research, acting

Boston, MA as client liaison, AV production, budget and schedule management,

participation in creative design sessions and writing design

submittals, exhibit outlines and interpretive text. Clients included

the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, the North Alabama

Science Center, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, the

Science and Technology Museum of Atlanta, Electric Power

Research Institute, The Tampa Museum of Science and Industry

and the Missouri Botanical Gardens.

Project Manager Responsibilities included project management, creative

1987 - 1992 conceptualization, content development, exhibition planning, and

Carnegie Science Center research of exhibits and programs; development of issue-oriented

Pittsburgh, PA student curriculum; development of production and exhibit

specifications; development of multimedia applications for exhibits

and programs; budget management, grant writing, fund raising;

research documentation and serving as a member on numerous

project teams all part of this facility s grand opening.

Research Assistant Responsibilities included geological and geochemical analyses,

1987 mineral identification, lithological descriptions, field work and the

The Carnegie Museum of drafting of geologic papers.

Natural History

Pittsburgh, PA

Engineering Trainee Responsibilities included aerodynamic tests, preliminary design of

1982-1985 robotic tool system and robotic testing procedure, high-voltage

NASA Langley Research Center switching experiments and software testing for wind tunnel.

Hampton, VA

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Museum/Science Center Projects

Following are project scopes conducted under LSC Experience

Services:

Centro Criollo de Ciencias y Tecnolog a Completed: Master planning including mission, goals, audience and

(Caguas Science Center), content for first science center of Puerto Rico, as well architectural

2006 and location review

Caguas, Puerto Rico

ongoing Exhibition design, large format theater study, information

technology review and signage

Kocaeli Science Center Completed: Master planning including mission, goals, audience,

2007 content, facility planning, operational structure and architectural

Kocaeli, Turkey review

Saudi Aramco Cultural Center Mission creation and initial planning, educational programming,

ongoing volunteer effort and operational planning

Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

The Manitoba Museum Master planning, mission, impact, goals, content, facility planning,

ongoing operational structure and architectural planning for new expansion

Winnipeg, Canada initiative

Education and Training

To Be a Director, Getty Leadership Institute, The Getty Museum,

2006

Los Angeles, CA

Museum Leadership Institute, Getty Leadership Institute, The Getty

2004

Museum, Los Angeles, CA

Developing a Leadership Communication Strategy The Center for

2003

Management Research, Cambridge, MA

Museum Design and Planning Harvard University, Graduate

2000 School of Design, Office of Executive Education

Entertainment Design Harvard University, Graduate School of

Design, Office of Executive Education

The Disney Approach to Leadership Excellence Disney Institute,

1999

Orlando, FL

Geology and Planetary Science Master of Science studies

1986 -1987

(incomplete), University of Pittsburgh, PA

Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of

1986

Technology, Atlanta, GA

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Publications and Recognition

selected recent (2004-2008) highlights

2008 Co-author/Presenter, Tall Tales: A Century of Exhibiting Tall

Buildings, Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH)

Congress and Proceedings, Dubai UAE

Panelist, Can You Tube & Wikipedia be Models for Creating

Exhibits, 2008 American Association of Museums (AAM)

Conference, Denver, CO

Chair, The Outsiders: Working with Consultants and Contractors,

and Speaker, Have our Audiences Left Us Behind, 2008 Mid

Atlantic Museum Association (MAAM) Creating Exhibitions

Conference, Philadelphia, PA

Panelist, Science Centre of 2020, Use of Technology to Prolong

Experiences and Strengthen Learning and Climate Change,

Sustainability and the Environment, 2008 European Collaborative

for Science, Industry & Technology Exhibitions (ECSITE)

Conference, Budapest, Hungary

Panelist, Traveling Exhibitions Choices as an Expression of

Institutional Intent, Fifth Science Centre World Congress, Toronto,

Canada

Contributor/Chapter Author, Visitor Voices in Museum

2007

Exhibitions edited by Kathleen McLean and Wendy Pollock, ASTC

Co-author, Science Mobilized: Bringing Up-To-The-Minute

Headlines Into the Museum and Back Out Again: The Times Square

of Science and Technology, 2007 Museums and the Web

Conference, San Francisco, CA

Author, The Exhibit Commons Using the Internet for a New

2006

Exhibit Paradigm, 2006 Museums and the Web Conference,

Albuquerque, NM

Chair, two sessions, 2106: Looking Back at the Next 100 Years of

Exhibition and BYOD: Guest-Provided Devices in the Museum

Experience, Centennial AAM Conference, Boston, MA

2005 Panel Member, Expanding Your Science Center Why and How,

European Collaborative for Science, Industry & Technology

Exhibitions (ECSITE) Conference, Helsinki, Finland

Invited Award Dinner Speaker, Seventh World Congress of the

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH), New York,

NY

Co-Chair, Personal Mobile Devices and Science Centers, ASTC

and NAME Roundtables for Advancing the Professions (RAP),

Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ

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Publications and Recognition

selected recent (2004-2008) highlights

(continued)

2005 Chair, Exhibitions for Global Issues/Global Connections/Global

Citizens, Fourth Science Centre World Congress, Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil

Representative, Electronic Guidebook Forum 2005: Issues and

Questions about Wireless Learning Technologies and Handheld

Computers In and Beyond Museums, by invitation only,

Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

2004 Chair, Conversations with the Museum Field, Association of

Science Technology Centers (ASTC) Conference, San Jose, CA

Chair, Exhibits and Expansion in the 21st Century Continuing the

Discussion, ASTC Conference, San Jose, CA

Chair, Exhibits and Expansion in the 21st century, ASTC and

NAME Roundtables for the Advancement of the Professions (RAP),

Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ

earlier Publications and Recognition available upon request

Professional Associations

Member, Getty Leadership Institute (GLI) Advisory Committee

Program Co-Chair and Board Member, National Association for

Museum Exhibition (NAME), a Standing Professional Committee

of the American Association of Museums (AAM)

Member, Learning and Education Committee, Giant Screen Cinema

Association (GSCA)

Member, International Council of Museums (ICOM)

Member, American Association of Museums (AAM)

Member, Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA)

Grant Reviewer for National Science Foundation (NSF)

Personal Interests

Playing guitar, music, biking, geology, reading (science fiction,

science, technology, public policy and history) travel, technology,

skyscrapers, cooking, wine and tequila

References

References are available upon request

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