Ben Sullivan is a Museum Specialist in the National Air and Space Museum's Collections Processing Unit (CPU). As a member of the CPU team, he shares duties with his colleagues supporting the concurrent missions of the Museum and the Smithsonian. His work includes the full gamut of collections care responsibilities—managing the physical needs of all types of objects during movement and storage, creating and maintaining database records to track and describe all the artifacts in the collection, fabrication of individually tailored object housings, movement of objects among the Museum’s three facilities, and more.

Ben’s eclectic background brings a range of skillsets to the Museum. He started with the National Air and Space Museum as a volunteer object documentation photographer in 2009 and has worked in that role for the Museum over the span of eight years. He also worked with the Smithsonian’s Digitization Program Office as a Mass Digitization Specialist for two years, supporting the design, development, and implementation of digitization projects at a number of the Smithsonian museums to help bring over 500,000 of their collections’ objects and specimens into the digital realm. He worked with the National Museum of African American History and Culture as well for two years as a photographer documenting events, museum spaces, and collections objects including specialized full 3D digitization of selected objects for special projects on the Museum’s web sites and in kiosks within the Museum itself. His previous experience includes educational software development at Addison Wesley Publishing, web technology corporate partner support with Amazon.com, web store management for the San Francisco Symphony, and graduate program registration services at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Engineering’s Distance Learning Program. He holds a B.S. Degree in Product Design Engineering at Stanford University.