Bio

As a Director in the Office of Data System Management, Colleen oversees one of DESE’s most critical applications – ePeGs - a grants management system used by more than one thousand school district and DESE users combined. Colleen and her team interact with six DESE business program areas and a dedicated OA-ITSD team in order to maintain an efficient and productive ePeGs application for all of its users. Colleen is also DESE’s EDFACTS Coordinator; a role responsible for planning efforts and coordinating timely submissions of Missouri’s education data to the U.S. Department of Education. Colleen holds a Bachelors of Arts from Marquette University, and her first “real job” was with DSS, followed by OSCA. After spending almost seven years in the private sector, Colleen returned to the state first with OA and now DESE. She is going on her 22nd year with the state.