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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AboutDr. Frank Olmos, Ed.D.
Executive Director at a K-12 school district. President of DFO HR Consulting. Adjunct Professor of Statistics at California State University, Los Angeles. Author, framework builder, and the 2024 recipient of IPAC's Stephen E. Bemis Memorial Award.
Biography
Frank Olmos has spent more than twenty years inside California Merit System human resources, and he still does the job every day.
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 Southern California 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 California State University, Los Angeles, and 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 public-agency staff across California in the practical, defensible use of generative AI, including the Los Angeles Unified School District Personnel Commission, the Los Angeles Superior Court, WRIPAC, the City of Moreno Valley, Kings River Conservation District, Walnut Valley Water District, and Oxnard School District, and he designed and delivers the five-course AI in HR Today certification series for CPS HR Consulting. He created the CHATPROMPT framework, a ten-level structure for prompt engineering that anchors all of his training.
His consulting practice also serves private employers. For a family-owned, multi-location restaurant group in Southern California 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 of Southern California and is active in CSPCA, WRIPAC, IPAC, PCASC, and CODESP.
Books
Three books on assessment, differentiation, and AI.
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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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 an Executive Director at a K-12 school district and President of DFO HR Consulting. A 20-year California Merit System HR executive, adjunct professor of statistics at Cal State LA, and author of three books, he created the CHATPROMPT framework and trains public-agency staff statewide 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, California State University, Los Angeles
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