Faculty workshop on bringing archival resources online at Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Musée de l’Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire – Dakar, Senegal

Pennington is an experienced digitization project manager, digitization workflow consultant, cultural heritage photographer, IT consultant, and digital media producer. He has over two decades experience managing digitization projects for original archival textual, audio, and video records, managing digital surrogates and their derivatives, and creating and/or standardizing metadata.  Pennington has consulted widely with educational, governmental, and non-governmental organizations on digitizing endangered and/or rare cultural resources for preservation, online access, and research.

For over fifteen years, he specialized in assisting under resourced and often politically or culturally marginalized cultural heritage institutions, partnering with these organizations to find funding for digitization projects, to establish digitization workflows, to train non-technical staff in digitization techniques, and to work side by side with administrative partners in those institutions to create manageable project outcomes. He has extensive digitization, technology, and project management experience at universities and cultural heritage institutions in both the United States and the Global South. Pennington currently serves as the Partnership Projects Manager for the United States National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC.

Pennington has led multiple teams across several countries, on site and online, and is adept at working with staff, technicians, and project managers in multi-institute, international, and multi-lingual efforts.