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Dr. Frank Olmos, Ed.D.

Executive Director at a K-12 school district. President of DFO HR Consulting. Adjunct Professor of Statistics at Cal State LA. Author, framework builder, and the 2024 recipient of IPAC's Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award.

Dr. Frank Olmos
Biography

Frank Olmos has spent more than 25 years in public-sector HR and personnel work, and he still does the job every day. His practice covers exam development, structured interview design, classification, and applied psychometrics: the work that has to hold up in front of a commission, a union, and a court. That is the standard he brings to an AI session, whether the room is a corporate HR team, a nonprofit staff, or a city department.

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He serves as an Executive Director at a K-12 school district in Los Angeles County, after HR leadership roles at a county office of education and two other school districts. His practice spans exam development, structured interview design, classification, and applied psychometrics: the work that has to hold up in front of a commission, a union, and a court.

He teaches statistics as an adjunct professor at Cal State LA. He grew up in Maywood, a small city ten miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. He holds a doctorate in education.

Since 2023, through DFO HR Consulting, he has trained staff at public agencies, courts and private employers in the practical, defensible use of generative AI, and he provides hands-on AI assistance to small businesses and corporate teams: one to one coaching, workflow and assistant setup inside the tools a client already approves, and team adoption with a plan for follow-through. Clients include the Los Angeles Unified School District Personnel Commission, the Los Angeles Superior Court, WRIPAC, the City of Moreno Valley, the Kings River Conservation District, the Walnut Valley Water District, and the Oxnard School District. He also designed, and continues to deliver, the five-course AI in HR Today certification series for CPS HR Consulting.

His consulting practice also serves private employers directly. For a multi-location, family-owned restaurant group he delivered an AI integration program for the business, then designed a manager professionalism and training curriculum along with the sustainment system, including a manager handbook, that turns a one-day training into lasting practice. That engagement shaped how every DFO program now ends: with something the team keeps and uses.

In 2024, the International Personnel Assessment Council recognized him with the Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award. He is a past president of the Personnel Testing Council (PTC-SC) and is active in CSPCA, WRIPAC, IPAC, PCASC, and CODESP.

Books

Three books on assessment, differentiation, and AI.

Smells Like A.I. SpiritFrank Olmos

On generative AI at work: what it changes, what it does not, and how to use it without losing your judgment.

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Appetite for Differentiation: The In's and Out's of Multiple Choice TestingFrank Olmos

A practitioner's guide to writing multiple-choice items that actually discriminate, drawn from years of building civil service examinations.

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Square Peg in a Round HoleFrank Olmos

On fit, classification, and the people who do not slot neatly into the boxes organizations draw for them.

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Dr. Frank Olmos, Ed.D., is President of DFO HR Consulting and an Executive Director at a K-12 school district. He has spent more than 25 years in public-sector HR and personnel work, teaches statistics as an adjunct professor at Cal State LA, and is the author of three books. He created the CHATPROMPT framework and trains HR, finance, engineering, and operations teams at corporations, small businesses, nonprofits, and public agencies in the practical, defensible use of generative AI. He received IPAC's 2024 Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award.

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Dr. Frank Olmos, Ed.D.
Executive Director, K-12 school district
President, DFO HR Consulting
Adjunct Professor of Statistics, Cal State LA

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