Alex Phillips
Owner & Consultant at Alex Phillips Consulting: https://alexphillipsconsulting.com
Davis, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Phillips is a professionally certified archivist and consultant with over 20 years organizing historic records and nine years of focused professional experience across academic, medical, and federal institutions. As owner of Alex Phillips Consulting, they help organizations preserve physical and digital collections, design data management strategies, and deliver practical project plans informed by hands-on processing work at UC Davis, MIT, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Alex combines traditional archival practice—creating finding aids, MARC records, and exhibits—with technical skills like Python scripting and web-archiving to streamline digital preservation workflows. Based in Davis, California, they’re known for connecting everyday artifacts to larger histories and for supervising and training diverse teams to make collections accessible.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), English Language and Literature/Letters at Smith CollegeMaster of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Archives Management, Master of Library & Information Science (MLIS), Archives Management at Simmons University
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lizcphillips/AmerineTest
Aug 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:14 commits in 5 years 2 months
lizcphillips/Finding-Aid-Cleanup-Tools
Oct 2020 - Jun 2023
Scripts for cleaning up finding aids and legacy box lists
Contributions:18 PRs, 73 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
cleaningpythonboxfindinglists
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