Ms. Ocon received her undergraduate degree in Art History in 1990 from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, concentrating on Northern European art of the 16th and 17th Centuries. Ms. Ocon entered the Art Conservation Program at State University College at Buffalo, NY in 1993, following an apprenticeship in Washington, D.C. After interning at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, she graduated with a Masters of Art with a certificate of advanced studies in conservation in 1996. Ms. Ocon accepted a position in the conservation department at the NCMA in 1997.

Research and treatment of the permanent collection is her main focus, with contributions to the Systematic Catalogue of the Dutch and Flemish Collection and Egyptian Collection, and the upcoming Systematic Catalogues for the Classical and Northern Renaissance collections. Another focus is that of technology in the examination and documentation of paintings, including infrared reflectography and x-radiography. She was one of a team to help develop confocal x-ray fluorescence at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and Project Platypus with Duke University.