Jennifer Polardino
Basehor,United States
Summary
A thorough and team-oriented professional with strong organizational capabilities to handle multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring accuracy. Experience has honed the ability to effectively prioritize tasks and consistently meet deadlines. Possesses a keen attention to detail and commitment to excellence in managing complex workflows and delivering high-quality results.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Historian
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
05.2013 - Current
- Reviews pertinent Federal statues, regulations, and Executive Orders to determine the effects on federally-recognized Native American Tribes with present or historic ties to geographic ties to which the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is reviewing activities proposed under a project's license for a hydroelectric project.
- Writes, edits, and issues letters to federally-recognized Native American Tribes in order to fulfill obligations of the Commission's Tribal Policy and to comply with section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
- Goal-oriented professional with proven success in applying analytical skills to solve complex problems and overcome challenges. Dedicated to enhancing team performance and driving business success.
- Organized and detail-oriented with a strong work ethic.
- Assisting with the coordination of energy-related activities pertaining tribal outreach and consultation under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Executive Order 13175-Consultation and Coordination with Native American Tribal Governments and Commission's policy.
- Gained extensive knowledge in data entry, analysis and reporting.
- Writes and review agreement documents pursuant to section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
- Used strong analytical and problem-solving skills to develop effective solutions for challenging situations.
- Specifically, Memorandum of Agreement and Programmatic Agreements to mitigate adverse effects to cultural resources and historic properties.
- Coordinated with State Historic Preservation Offices nationwide, federally agencies, and federally recognized Tribes regarding these documents.
- Written the environmental documents such as the Environmental Assessment and have been support for Environmental Impact Statements to comply with the National Historic Preservation Act (NEPA) for the surrender and amendment of hydropower projects.
- This involves analysis of environmental impacts regarding the National Historic Preservation Act, Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, etc.
- Handles the coordination of review for section 106 between the Commission and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, SHPOs, and Tribal Historic Preservation Officers.
- Writes and reviews orders determining Commission action regarding surrender and amendments on orders.
- Contacts Tribal Governments, hold meetings, and requests comments regarding proceedings
- Participates in tribal meetings regarding amendment and surrender actions with federally-recognized Tribes.
- Prepares memorandums and documents for internal review.
- Participates in transition meetings between new licensee holders and Commission staff.
- Serves as the go-to person for documents for review for cultural resources.
- Worked on Environmental Justice analysis for NEPA documents.
- Presented at the conference for the Utilities Roundtable on Cultural Resources.
- Determines the jurisdictional status of hydropower projects based upon completing research related to regional American energy development.
- Utilizes materials readily available in agency files and records or in other records depositories or libraries.
- Possesses a working familiarity with the with context and organization of these records in order to determine which records to consult.
- I have also coordinated mitigation plans to mitigate the adverse effects to historic properties and cultural resources.
- Supervisor: Jot Splenda 202-502-6530
Preservation Technician
National Archives and Records Administration
05.2010 - 05.2013
- Inspects and assesses a broad range of condition of records, which may include but are not limited to: burned, brittle, distorted, or mold-affected.
- Determines later treatment actions for records.
- Completes project tasks that involve surveying and subsequent selection for treatment.
- Gathers and interprets data for environmental monitoring and integrated pest management.
- Participates in disaster preparedness and recovery.
- Works independently and as a team to meet project or assignment goals.
- Completes project tasks that involve appropriate handling of original documents for a variety treatment actions, including holding maintenance, cleaning, repair, reformatting or other rehabilitation options.
- Prepares new folders, boxes, enclosures.
- Works with small groups of people to meet project or assignment goals.
- Prepares detailed arrangement of work at individual page, document or filing unit level.
- Examines documents for identification and verifies them against appropriate finding aids to determine their correct arrangement.
- Performs selective searches for information in inter-related series of records.
- Detects missing or misfiled items, refiles records, including separated enclosures.
- Takes corrective action where discrepancies occur and prepares appropriate cross-references for records previously filed in a different series or record group.
- Prepares or assists in preparation of location registers to inventoried records.
- Prepares or affixes labels.
- As directed, oversees archives aids or contracted staff in projects that involve: packing, shelving or moving records; and preparing labeling containers and folders.
- Prepares basic internal finding aids, indexes, and lists for series or records, as required, to maintain intellectual control over preservation documents.
- Prepares reports for documentation of daily production as well as preservation treatment.
- Prepares reproduction service orders, and processes reproductions for delivery; receives and processes requests for loan of damaged, at-risk, or treated records.
- Responsible for co-leading a Hazmat mold survey of over 14,000 cubic feet.
- Shaped and structured the database, survey forms, instructions and developed the survey database, a separate quality control tracking database. This information gathered was reported on a weekly basis to provide supervisors with weekly statistics on the performance of individual technicians, overall totals, and projection completion based on work levels.
- Supervisor: Sara Holmes (314) 801-0912)
Project Archivist
Santa Fe Trail Center
06.2009 - 05.2010
- Processed, maintained, and performed holdings maintenance on documents and artifacts.
- Also processed and cataloged over 5,000 photographs, over 3,000 slides, and started the project of processing and providing holdings maintenance for the Glass Lantern Slide Collection of over 2,300 slides.
- Coordinated and wrote the digitization plan for the IMLS Digitization Project, set up a committee to decide which items should be digitized at two locations - The Santa Fe Trail Center and the Pawnee County Courthouse.
- Scanning 18th to 20th century documents into database utilizing the OPUS 3 scanners both at the Trail Center and at the Pawnee County Courthouse
- Created metadata for the digitized archival material utilizing the Dublin Core metadata standard.
- Utilized applications for digitization such as LUNA to upload photographs and archival paper material for the public and educated researchers, teachers, and community members of the benefits of the archival material.
- Supervised volunteers regarding processing material and scanning archival material in the museum.
- Implemented exhibits for the museum regarding preservation.
- Lectured on the topic of preservation and items held at the Center for conferences at the Santa Fe Trail Center.
- Accessioned unprocessed donations to the Trail Center.
- Wrote detailed finding aids for unprocessed materials and collections as well as material donated by the Pawnee County Courthouse.
- Developed and wrote new collections procedures in regards to digitization, temporary custody agreements, and helped determine which items to deaccession.
- Familiar with PastPerfect software and entered accessions into the database.
- Wrote four grants for the museum towards preservation for the Kansas Museums Association Institution Grant and the IMLS- American Heritage Preservation Program, the Golden Belt Community Foundation for redesigning the Santa Fe Trail Center's website, and the Golden Belt Community Foundation grant which provided for additional shelving space at in the archives at the Santa Fe Trail Center.
- Reorganized and arranged the archival holdings within the archives to enable the ease of search by staff members.
- Created a general finding aid was also created for materials located within the archives.
- Removed mold from materials and utilized other preservation techniques such as humidification and mending.
- Answered multiple research requests on archival holdings such as Kansas history, Pawnee County history, elections, and school history on-site and through e-mail correspondence.
- Supervisor: Ruth Olson Peters (620) 285-2054)
Education
Master of Arts - History
University of Missouri- Kansas City
Kansas City, MO12-2008
Bachelor of Arts - History
Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS05-2005
Skills
- Oral communication
- Proofreading
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Time management
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Written communication
- Report writing
- Organizational skills
- Public speaking and presenting
- Customer Service
- Detail orientation
- Time management abilities
Timeline
Historian
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
05.2013 - Current
Preservation Technician
National Archives and Records Administration
05.2010 - 05.2013
Project Archivist
Santa Fe Trail Center
06.2009 - 05.2010
Master of Arts - History
University of Missouri- Kansas City
Bachelor of Arts - History
Kansas State University
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