Jerry Bracken has made significant contributions to electronic data exchange (EDX) for many years. He is a founding member of the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC) and has continued to be active since 2000. He has served as an active member of the AACRAO SPEEDE Committee since 1993, longer than any current member. He has also served on the ANSI Accredited Standards Committee X12 from 1993 to 2004 and on the AACRAO Board of Directors and as the VP of Information Technology from 2005 to 2008. Bracken is retired from Brigham Young University where he focused on Java web development, application design, and data modeling.
Jeff Elliott is a Data Architect at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Previously, Elliott was with the University of Missouri System for more than ten years as the senior manager of Enterprise Data Warehouse and Reporting, supporting UM System and four campuses across the state. He represents the data domain on the Division of IT Enterprise Architecture Review Board and has been involved in electronic messaging and data exchange, first in public health and now in higher education, for more than fifteen years. Elliott was actively involved in the SPEEDE Committee and PESC.
Monterey Sims is a Director of Admissions and Evaluation at the University of Phoenix where she has worked for more than 25 years. She spearheaded efforts to implement electronic transcript exchange at the University of Phoenix, earning recognitions from Southwest Alliance for Excellence – Showcase in Excellence Award for the Transcript Acquisition Process and the PESC Best Practices Award for the Electronic Transcript Acquisition Process. Monterey has been a member of the AACRAO SPEEDE Committee since 2008 and is actively involved in AACRAO, PACRAO, and PESC.
Matt Bemis is an Associate Registrar at the University of Southern California and is responsible for degree progress operations. He serves as the administrator over degree audit and transfer credit applications, is responsible the certification of student athlete academic eligibility, and is the project lead for the electronic data interchange (EDI) initiative. Bemis has been responsible for many process innovations via collaboration with several service providers and has been active within the AACRAO and PESC communities for many years.
Joey LaConte has worked as an IT professional for more than fifteen years at the University of Colorado. As the Associate Registrar for Technology, Communication and Data Reporting, he helps to automate business processes in the registrar’s office. He oversees operational reporting for student records and enrollment communications. In a former role as the technical lead for web services on a campus, LaConte is familiar with XML standards and structured data. Currently he is helping to provide resources as Colorado’s institutions of higher education embark on the adoption of electronic data exchange (EDX).
Craig Karlin has been with Fort Hays State University for 30 years and is currently the Registrar managing records and registration processes, supporting systems, and the admissions processes for all undergraduates. Karlin serves at the functional lead for admissions, records and registration for implementation of Workday as the university’s ERP and is active in AACRAO through the SPEEDE and KACRAO (Kansas) committees. He also serves on the Kansas Board of Regents Transfer and Articulation Committee that governs the state’s efforts with system-wide transfer and Kansas Core Outcomes initiatives.
Patrick S. Elliott, Ed.D., has more than fifteen years of experience in higher education working with electronic student records and reimagining student services. He spent more than eleven years at University of Maryland University College, leading electronic content management, electronic transcripts and business process workflows initiatives while serving in several functional and technical positions – including senior associate registrar. In 2017, he joined Harford Community College as the Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management, overseeing the admissions, registration and records, financial aid, and testing functions as well as leading strategic enrollment management for the college. Partnering with the local school district and central IT resources, he recently led his team through implementing data exchange for dual enrollment students.
Jim Feigert, Ed.D., is Registrar at Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, CA, one of the 116 California Community Colleges. Feigert is responsible for the admissions and records operations for the college and its 26,000 students. Jim previously led the student records area in the Office of Academic Records and Registrar at the University of Southern California for more than ten years. While at USC, he oversaw the launch of USC’s PDF transcript product in 2009, one of the largest universities to send PDFs at the time. He currently serves as the chair for the AACRAO SPEEDE Committee and has been active within the AACRAO community for more than ten years. Feigert earned his Ed.D. from USC in 2014.
Doug Holmes is the Manager of eTranscripts at the Ontario Universities' Application Centre (OUAC), a centralized admissions application processing service for the universities in Ontario, Canada. Originally a software developer, he was part of the team that developed OUAC's EDI-based postsecondary transcript exchange system in 1996 and later augmented that system for PESC XML transcripts (both high school and postsecondary). He has worked with calculating GPAs from incoming electronic transcript data and has supported the OUAC's various proprietary admissions application exchange systems. Holmes was also part of the team that mapped and implemented PESC XML standards for both the admissions application and test scores, as part of the OUAC’s data exchange process with their university partners. He has served as the Association of Registrars of Universities and Colleges of Canada (ARUCC) representative to the AACRAO SPEEDE Committee from 1998 - 2005 and from 2011 to present, and is also co-chair of the Canadian PESC user group.
Sue Reyes is an Analyst/Programmer in the Administrative Information Systems department at San Diego State University. She earned her M.S. in Business Administration - Information Systems from San Diego State University. In her nineteen-plus years at SDSU, Sue has played a key role in paperless application processing and electronic transcript processing. She is the technical lead for EDI transcript processing as well as the lead developer for SDSU’s OnBase ECM software. She has also served as an Oracle Application Developer, EDI Developer, SQL DBA and is a Certified OnBase System Administrator and OnBase Workflow Administrator. Reyes joined the AACRAO SPEEDE committee in 2012 and was the acting chair from 2017-2018. Sue has represented AACRAO on the PESC Change Control Board and as a member of the PESC Seal of Approval Committee.
Tuan Anh Do has more than 24 years of IT experience, of which more than 19 has been dedicated to mid- to senior-level IT production/operation management and consultation. Do's current role is in central ITS as Senior Director of ERP & Business Intelligence, overseeing PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, HRMS and Finance. Do has been with the university for more than 23 years and has been active in the AACRAO SPEEDE Committee since 2003. Do served as vice president and president of the Singularity Users Management Team (SUMiT) as well as an active member of the Postsecondary Electronic Standards Council (PESC). Most of Do’s efforts have been through providing webinars, presentations, and workshops, as well as being a contributing author to the AACRAO EDX primer.
Nancy Umphres is a Senior Business Systems Analyst with California State University’s Office of the Chancellor and is the functional lead for the advisement and transfer credit modules within PeopleSoft since 2016. In her current role, she works with EDI and is on the eTranscript California steering committee. Previously, she was with the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, where she held various positions within the Office of the Registrar, lastly as a Business Analyst. She was heavily involved with SACRAO, the national Oracle/Peoplesoft user group community (HEUG), and co-founded a regional users’ community (SCHRUG). She joined the SPEEDE Committee in March 2020.
Electronic Transcripts 2021: The Landscape and Future of Electronic Document Exchange