2005-2013: State Certified Instructor, Arts Magnet High School, Willimantic, CT;
___________ teaching various classes, related to costume design and technology;
___________ supervising student designers
____________________ Samples of students' work

• Katrina Kirby, an undergraduate student of mine, received a Merit Award for Makeup Design for Awakenings: Youth and Chitra at the 2019 KC-ACTF
• At 2014 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Keri Smart, an undergraduate student of mine, won, as a third place recipient behind two graduate students, a one week scholarship at Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas
• Was organizer of the Day of Theater, Department of Performing Arts, ECSU, 2019;
• Was faculty organizer for the New England Monologue Contest, 2014;
• Member of CREATE Committee (2017-current) and co-designer with Chase Rozelle of "Pathways to Leadership" curriculum;
• With no special programs or concentration available, my students from both ACT Magnet High School and ECSU have chosen and were accepted, respectively, for costume design training at college and to leading national gradute programs in costume design;
• Developed and taught several new-for-the-university-and-highschool courses related to costuming.

• Directed and curated an exhibit, Sidonia's Thread: Crafting a Life from Holocaust to High Fashion, Feb. 8 to April 28 2019, at the Windham Textile and History Museum, Willimantic, CT. The exhibit was sponsored by ECSU, CT Humanities grant, Windham Textile and History Museum, and by Hochberg Committee for Holocaust and Human rights Education of Temple B'Nai Israel of Willimantic.
• Designed a Torah Cover for a Historic Torah Scroll from a town of Tabor, Czechoslovakia; on Permanent Exhibit in the Temple B'nai Israel, Willimantic, CT

• Summers 2011, 2012 - Associate Costume shop Manager, CRT Summer Theater, Uconn;
• Managed Costume Shop at ACT Magnet School, Willimantic, often running large crews of volunteer helpers for school theater production;
• Have been instrumental in developing Costume Shop at ECSU

• Cutting and draping, tailoring, dyeing and painting, mask making, prosthetics, millinery, hair and makeup, wig styling and ventilating.

• Worked utilizing large groups of volunteers.

• 2018, Merit Award for Conceptual Collaboration for Thread City presented in the FAIC Proscenium Thrust Theater (Fall 2017)
• 2016, Represented at Costume Design at the Turn of the Century, 1990-2015 international exhibit at A. A. Bahkrushin Museum, Moscow, Russia
• 10 adjudicated shows with high reviews

• In collaboration with Mara Lieberman and Bated Breath Theatre Company from Hartford, CT that partner with museums to produce innovative and interactive plays inspired by their exhibitions, I was a Costume Designer for The Un-Making of Toulouse-Lautrec, conceived and directed by Mara Lieberman that was staged in NYC, November 2017.
• Costumes for Gala-event related to Boston Pops performance, Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts, UConn, Storrs, CT

• University Of Connecticut, MFA in Costume Design, 2005, Storrs, CT.
• Moscow Institute of Railroad Transportation, Railroad Electrical Engineer, 1984 M.S. in Automatics, Telemechanics & Communication on the Railroad