Managing and Preserving Digital Assets: Securing Long-Term Digital Success
Introducing your Course Leader
Alex Kron
With over 15 years of experience and education in information and project management inside and outside of the cultural heritage field, Alex specializes in the research and evaluation of cultural technology solutions and best practices including digital asset management, digital preservation, and collection management. Her current work involves building community engagement through facilitating meaningful conversations around cultural heritage technologies and field-wide needs.
Alex’s career began in 2007 with a focus on project administration for commercial businesses followed by work with a federal contractor for the National Museum of the Marine Corps. Her journey into the arts and culture field began with a passion for art history and took hold through volunteer work at local museums. While living abroad in Okinawa, Japan Alex pursued her master’s in museum studies and digital curation.
After completing her graduate studies, Alex served as the Curator of Collections at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum, working in collection management, digitization, exhibition development, and digital asset management. She then used those skills to guide and support a variety of arts and culture organizations in diverse projects as Balboa Park Online Collaborative’s Digital Operations and Collections Information Analyst. Alex currently works for Terentia as their Community Engagement and Business Development Manager and teaches a Digital Preservation course for Johns Hopkins University’s Museum Studies program.
Alex earned her BA in Art History from California State University, Fullerton, and her MA in Museum Studies and Digital Curation from Johns Hopkins University. She is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) through the Project Management Institute.