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Jay Pfeiffer, Senior Associate, MPR Associates

Jay Pfeiffer is a graduate of the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Biology. Between graduating and attending graduate school, he was an officer in the United States Marine Corps with four years of service in the United States, Vietnam, and Okinawa. He has been working in education, employment, and training information services since 1972. He joined MPR Associates Inc. in July, 2009 as a consultant on state education data systems. Before that, he was the Deputy Commissioner for Accountability, Research, and Measurement in the in the Florida Department of Education, until January, 2009. In this capacity, he provided division-level oversight for four primary operations: the statewide assessment and performance unit for secondary and postsecondary assessments; the integrated, longitudinal education information systems operations combining secondary and postsecondary education, career and technical education, and adult general education; units responsible for the original collection of student and staff education data across the state; and an operation that provides employment and education outcome data for students, participants exiting all levels of education and training in the State of Florida. He has worked with states other than Florida and has worked on higher education development projects in Indonesia. in the mid 1990's.

In 2004 he received a life time achievement award from the National Association of Workforce Agencies. In 2009 he received the first lifetime achievement award from the national Data Quality Campaign for his work with longitudinal education data.