Program Team

Senior Program Manager

As Senior Program Manager, Christine works closely and collaboratively with the ArchivesSpace community, advisory groups, and Governance Board to set the strategy and goals for ArchivesSpace.  Christine is involved in all aspects of the program, and serves as a key spokesperson and advocate for the program.

Christine has worked in archives for over 25 years, in a number of academic and non-profit settings. From 2009 to 2014 she was the archivist for the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, a charter member of ArchivesSpace. Prior to that she was the archivist and project director for the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL) Consortial Survey Initiative, a project to assess un- and underprocessed archival collections at 22 Philadelphia area institutions. She has also held positions at the Cambridge Public Library, the 92nd Street Y, the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, and Harvard Business School. She received an MSI from the University of Michigan’s School of Information and a bachelor’s degree in English from Wesleyan University.

Community Engagement Lead

As Community Engagement Lead, Jessica is responsible for user support, training, outreach, and communications across the ArchivesSpace community. She works to bring our community together through events and activities and is always willing to consider new areas for connection as our community continues to grow and mature.

Jessica was the leader in ArchivesSpace implementation in her role as archivist in the Irvin Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of South Carolina (USC).  She worked closely with colleagues to develop training, documentation, and opportunities for collaboration as well as working closely with the developers and system administrators who facilitate the technical side of their ArchivesSpace implementation. In addition to her work on ArchivesSpace,  she was involved in all aspects of managing physical and digital collections and making them accessible, including providing outreach to donors and users.  As a graduate student and early professional, she had previously been actively involved in USC’s implementation of Archivists’ Toolkit.  Jessica received an MLIS from the University of South Carolina and a BA in History from Wofford College.  Jessica also recently received her Digital Archives Specialist certificate through the Society of American Archivists.

Technical Lead

As the ArchivesSpace Technical Lead, Thimios is responsible for the infrastructure of the ArchivesSpace application and managing our different streams of development, including work from staff developers, contractors, and community members. He works closely with community members and the rest of the program team to ensure the ArchivesSpace application meets the needs of archives and other collecting institutions now and in the future.

Since 2005 Thimios has been developing software for small startups and bigger companies including Deutsche Telekom, the United Nations and Microsoft, working in Germany, Italy and USA. Before joining ArchivesSpace he has been leading software teams in various sectors. He has a Master degree in Computer Science and is a PhD Candidate at the Technical University of Berlin. His research focus has been usability and software evaluation. Originally from Greece, he has lived for more than ten years in Berlin, Germany. When not in front of a screen, Thimios enjoys traveling, practicing yoga and Jazz guitar.

Junior Developer

As Junior Developer, Zeff works on a range of projects. He is particularly focused on assuring steady progress on smaller features, bug fixes, and user-facing functionality in the application.

Zeff comes to ArchivesSpace with a wealth of experience in testing automation, quality assurance, and software development. He has worked for small and large organizations, both non-profit and for-profit, including GitLab, a widely used open-source platform for developing and deploying software, where he wrote code and collaborated with distributed teams and community contributors on feature specifications, bug fixes, and documentation. He has also built and supported web applications using Ruby on Rails, MySQL, and JavaScript at Lexmark, Indigenous Thinking, and Thiel Audio. Further back in his professional life, he developed curriculum and taught in a Montessori school, skills which he has continued to draw on in his technology-oriented work when thinking about how to understand the diverse needs of users and build tools that will help them do what they need to do in the ways that will work best for them.

Standards and Testing Archivist

As ArchivesSpace’s Standards and Testing Archivist, Martha keeps a close eye on the dynamic standards landscape and work on standards-related projects to ensure that the ArchivesSpace application meets the needs of our current and future community. Martha also works toward improving our mechanisms for manual and automated testing, as well as increasing the level of testing coverage for the application overall. She works closely with the Metadata Standards and Testing sub-teams of our Advisory Councils in these activities.

Martha has been active in archives and open-source communities for over a decade. She was previously at Barnard College’s Archives and Special Collections, where, in roles including Director and Digital Archivist, she was responsible for all facets of running a busy archives and implementing the software applications it needs. She has been particularly involved in the Islandora and Archipelago communities, with an eye toward ensuring the software meets the needs of smaller academic institutions. Martha has also been instrumental in the Prison Library Support Network reference project, an all-volunteer effort to respond to requests for research assistance from incarcerated individuals and served as an Adjunct Professor in the Archives and Public History Master’s Program at New York University. Martha has an M.S. in Information Science from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in Sociology from Wesleyan University.

Developer

As Developer, Lora works closely with the other members of ArchivesSpace’s development team to implement priorities for the application established by the ArchivesSpace community and help to manage the application’s underlying infrastructure. She has a particular focus on larger projects that span the application.

Lora has been an active presence in archives and ArchivesSpace for many years. She served as the program team’s Junior Developer from 2018-2021, during which time she worked on many key features, including container merging and expanded language support, and was deeply involved in improving the application’s accessibility and formalizing some of our technical processes. She later worked for Fearless, a federal contractor, as a Senior Software Engineer focusing on search.gov, and at the Smithsonian as an IT Specialist, where she developed code and supported ArchivesSpace and other systems across the Smithsonian’s 18 archival units. Prior to shifting to development, Lora was an early adopter of ArchivesSpace as an archivist at Colgate University and the Digital Archivist at Johns Hopkins University. Lora has also served as a trainer on technical and non-technical topics throughout her career.

Front End Developer

As Front End Developer, Brian is responsible for the user facing systems of ArchivesSpace. He works with the program team and community to maintain and improve the ArchivesSpace user experience.

Before joining ArchivesSpace Brian was Assistant Director of the Web Services Office at the Network of the National Library of Medicine where he supported the project, knowledge, and content management needs of a nationally distributed organization. Prior to that he taught and collaborated with health and life sciences researchers to solve problems through design, 3D printing, and code as the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s inaugural Emerging Technologies Librarian. Brian has a MLS in Africana Studies from the University of Toledo where he was actively involved in the burgeoning field of community informatics. His thesis was based on an early web site directory of local Black hair salons, community organizing around digital literacy, and a socio-technical analysis of cultural production. This focus continued at the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences where Brian worked and later earned his MS in Library and Information Science. Here he played a central role in deploying and growing local knowledge sharing web applications, being called a “Civic Hacker Hero” by Code for America. Brian lives in Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and three children (and extensive vinyl record collection).

Program Assistant

As ArchivesSpace Program Assistant, Bailey-Grace works part-time with the team on a range of activities, primarily supporting events and communications. Bailey-Grace has a strong background in events management, training administration, and customer service. Most recently she has been working as a Public Course Manager for Crucial Learning, which involves managing both in-person and virtual courses attended by thousands of people each year. In previous positions she has overseen client onboarding and support, software testing and troubleshooting, and creating instructional materials to help new and existing software users. Her undergraduate studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte focused on international business, psychology, and Spanish. Bailey-Grace has also done some graduate work in Spanish, obtaining her Graduate Certificate in Business Spanish from UNCC.