Hester Charlaine
********@***.*** BUFORD, GA, US 678-***-****
WORK HISTORY
Senior Archivist at Heritage Werks, Inc.
****-**-** - ****-**-31(8 Year(s))
Managed and supervised a team of archivists and archives technicians servicing corporate, sports, fashion and family archival collections, supervised small teams of archivists and archives technicians establishing new client archives, project planning in an Agile work environment, budget planning, strategic planning for improvement and archival innovation, developing new processes and better tracking of client content using Smartsheet, created and updated Standard Operating Procedures for the Archives, collaboration with other departments related to client archives, project timelines and research requests, coordinating and planning special projects, curation of artifact tables, displays and presentations for visiting and prospective clients, responsible for administrative reporting of metrics, status of projects, supplies used and linear footage of material processed.
GS-12, Archivist at NARA - Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library 2000-01-01 - 2016-02-29(16 Year(s))
Areas of Specialty The US and Western Europe, Eastern Europe and the USSR, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, Arms Control and Disarmament and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Responsibilities included the systematic and mandatory declassification review of foreign policy materials using complex guidelines including a highly successful three-month rotation with the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library training on and completing FOIA requests answering complex reference requests for internal and external stakeholders creating records arrangements, finding aids, scope and content notes and subject-specific research guides creating and writing descriptions for the Archival Research Catalog Chairman of the Processing Committee tasked with developing a strategic plan to meet processing goals served as a member of the declassifications and the employee engagement teams cataloging and creating databases for special media and executing agency review decisions under Mandatory Review Declassification requests.
GS-7 9 Archives Technician at NARA - Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library 1992-01-01 - 2000-12-31(9 Year(s))
Served as an Archives Technician as a NARA reimbursable employee by the US Department of State assisting State historians with their research for the Foreign Relations of the United States Historical Series answered complex reference requests Mandatory Review of foreign policy documents creation of finding aids and research guides conducting remedial preservation of at-risk manuscript materials training of employees on Mandatory Review procedures and staffing the Archives Reading Room.
EDUCATION
Mercer University Atlanta - Bachelors Degree
Graduated 1970-01-01
BACHELOR OF ARTS, PIANO PERFORMANCE
Austin Community College - Masters Degree
Graduated 1970-01-01
BA in History MASTER OF MUSIC, PIANO PERFORMANCE