SELLERS CONSULTING SERVICES, LLC
TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA

Jeff Sellers has over 35 years of experience in a variety of information system capacities including data management, data warehousing, information security, database administration, and data systems. He was among the first staff hired to support the development and implementation of Florida’s PK20 Education Data Warehouse (EDW) and became its director in 2003. Florida’s EDW is a comprehensive data repository of education data spanning prekindergarten through postsecondary graduate-level achievements, providing a seamless data link between Florida’s public PK–12, workforce education, community college, and university systems. Sellers directed all aspects of the EDW life cycle and was responsible for final review and approval of all EDW project deliverables. He oversaw the application of data warehouse methodology to the PK–20 education environment; coordinated standards for the data dictionaries; reviewed proposals for database information systems; and recommended implementation if merited or design modifications if warranted. He coordinated research and technical evaluations of new development in hardware and software, provided recommendations for improved staff productivity and system efficiency in the data environment, and evaluated business intelligence tools for implementation using Florida education data. Sellers has served on multiple boards, advisory committees, and taskforces for regional data centers and national organizations on issues of connecting and using data longitudinally across education sectors and with related agency services. He has represented Florida in national meetings including those sponsored by the National Governors Association, National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, State Higher Education Executive Officers, the National Commission on Higher Education Management Systems, the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, The Education Trust, and the Council of Chief State School Officer’s Education Information Management Advisory Consortium. Sellers has participated on a research and policy project committee reviewing and evaluating the use of education data and how it can inform decisions related to evaluating education policies and programs. Recently, he has been involved in projects related to data governance, data usage, research consortia, project management, and data system redesign.