Experience

ESP Solutions Group, Inc.

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Support Specialist

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  As ESP's Project Support Specialist, Mrs. Swafford is responsible for implementing each of ESP’s products on behalf of all clients. Her duties and expertise spans across a multitude of projects. She is heavily involved in writing the documentation for ESP’s Ed-Fi Services. Additionally, she plays an intricate part of training clients to utilize the Ed-Fi Dashboards as well as testing and validation for the product. Mrs. Swafford designs diagrams for ESP's ISInsight™, an ecosystem visualization template that is used for SEA’s and LEA’s to view an in-depth analysis of their data collections, repositories, and reporting tools. Her role as the DataSpecs® team lead continues as she is a vital part of building out SEA’s and LEA’s enterprise data dictionaries and integrating statewide course coding structures based on national standards. Her extensive experience in manually mapping clients to the Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) as she has built so much knowledge in this area has led to her managing and architecting the development of an automapping tool called MAP2. She also documents statewide collections for ESP’s State Report Manager (SRM)™ product. Mrs. Swafford is actively engaged in the enhancements and improvements for all of ESP’s products. ESP Solutions Group provides extaordinary insight™ into P20W (pre-kindergarten through workforce) data systems and psychometrics. Our team of industry experts pioneered the concept of “data-driven decision making” and now help optimize the management of our clients’ education/labor data. Show less



ESP Solutions Group

• Metadata Specialist and Public Media Coordinator

  • Dec 2011 - Present

  ESP Solutions Group provides extaordinary insight™ into P20W (pre-kindergarten through workforce) data systems and psychometrics. Our team of industry experts pioneered the concept of “data-driven decision making” and now help optimize the management of our clients’ education/labor data.-- Responsible for building out SEA’s and LEA’s enterprise data dictionaries and integrating statewide course coding structures based on national standards. These processes include identifying and documenting education agencies’ collections, repositories, and reports; and within those components - identifying and documenting their code sets, periodicity, business rules, and any other available metadata, then mapping these components to national standards such as SIF, NCES, EDFacts, NEDM, CEDS, CDM, SCED, or to an existing SEA or LEA data dictionary or course coding structure. -- Team Lead for ESP's metadata management tool, DataSpecs. Responsible for generating specifications for new product enhancements, prioritizing features for new releases, testing, training, and professionally using the DataSpecs application. -- Manage all ESP social media pages, the company website, and www.p20wforum.info (an open forum web resource that facilitates the finding and sharing of best practices for the P20W community). Show less

• Office Manager

  • Aug 2009 - Dec 2011

  -- Assumed all office manager responsibilities in order to keep our team organized and contented.-- Responsible for receiving and distributing information to employees and clients by means of phone, fax, mail, e-mail or personally.-- Organized and participated in business and team meetings regarding current projects and working with clients to obtain their satisfaction.



Austin ISD, Hays CISD

• Substitute Teacher

  • Oct 2008 - Jun 2011

  Worked as a substitute teacher in various elementary schools throughout the Austin area, including special needs classes. Worked as a substitute teacher in various elementary schools throughout the Austin area, including special needs classes.