Experience and Skills

Business Operations Assistant

Utah Shakespeare Festival

Amy serves as the Business Operations Assistant for the Utah Shakespeare Festival. In her first year, she streamlined purchasing card processes, resulting in improved audit outcomes and more organized expense reporting. Additionally, she analyzed and updated hiring procedures, enhancing workflow efficiency across the entire organization. Amy also serves as the Artistic Administrator for the Words Cubed New Play Development Program, where she increased efficiency in the program's processes by adding it to Airtable, a cloud-based collaboration and productivity platform.

Manager & Grant Writer

Orchestra of Southern Utah

Amy played violin and viola with the Orchestra of Southern Utah for five years before transitioning to the administrative side. In her original role, she managed front-of-house operations for concerts, oversaw online ticketing, coordinated school visits and educational guests for the annual Children’s Jubilee concert, cultivated relationships with local businesses to secure donations for the yearly fundraiser, and contributed to a variety of operational and administrative tasks that supported the orchestra's success. As of April 2024, Amy manages the staff and musicians, plans concerts, writes grants and contracts, conducts community outreach, plans the season budget, and undertakes numerous other responsibilities. In her first eighteen months, the orchestra saw a turn around of 34% revenue (deficit to surplus), 39% funding through grants, an average 20% increase in ticket sales, and the highest attended opening concert in the history of OSU (October 9, 2025).

Administrative Director

Suzuki Strings Cedar City

Amy serves as the Administrative Director for Suzuki Strings Cedar City, a small music nonprofit. In this role, she oversees all administrative functions, including managing registration, coordinating communications, developing long-term financial plans, writing grants, arranging guest clinicians, and assisting with the planning of concerts and fundraising events.

Educator

Amy started her education journey

teaching preschool music. She has since taught elementary music, middle and high school choir, done a long term sub for third grade, taught two years of special

education, and three years of online

English as a Second Language courses.

For over fifteen years, she owned and

ran her own music studio teaching

violin and viola. She spent six years

as the assistant director for a touring

children’s choir traveling to Carnegie Hall

in New York City and to Italy, as the music director for elementary school musicals,

and teaching group strings classes

and beginning orchestra.