Alexander Duryee
Service Manager, Archives And Special Collections Systems at Harvard University
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Duryee is an archives and metadata systems leader with 11 years of experience designing and managing large-scale special collections operations, most recently as Service Manager for Archives and Special Collections Systems at Harvard. He spent eight years shaping metadata strategy and running archival discovery platforms at The New York Public Library, acting as product owner for ArchivesSpace and driving automation that improved data quality and maintainability. As Archive Lead for the COVID Tracking Project, he preserved complex national testing records to make them accessible to researchers while ensuring compliance with archival standards. He also consults broadly on ArchiveSpace implementations for institutions such as Stanford and the Naval War College, blending hands-on technical configuration with policy and documentation work. Known for cross-team collaboration, he bridges archivists, engineers, and product owners to turn user needs into pragmatic, auditable metadata workflows. Outside work he’s an avid board gamer (ask him about Netrunner) and a guinea pig caretaker, a detail that speaks to his patience and love of systems both playful and precise.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS, Library and Information Science, Master of Library & Information Science - MLIS, Library and Information Science at Rutgers University–New BrunswickBachelor of Arts - BA, HISTORY, Bachelor of Arts - BA, HISTORY at The College of New Jersey
Github Skills (46)
community-management10
lcg10
xslt10
date-parsing10
barrage10
archives10
jruby10
javascript9
json9
ruby9
fastjson9
mhealth9
android9
date-parser9
discovery8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
SAA-SDT/EAS-TagLibraries
Apr 2018 - Dec 2022
Tag Libraries for Encoded Archival Description Version 3 and Encoded Archival Context: Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families
Contributions:4 reviews, 81 commits, 67 PRs in 4 years 9 months
personsencodedcorporatefamiliesarchival-description
alexduryee/timetwister
Dec 2015 - Jun 2022
Powerful Ruby date parser
Contributions:43 commits, 11 PRs, 32 pushes in 6 years 7 months
date-parserruby
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