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Jeff Sisson

Program Manager, Data Access and Dissemination Systems Program
U.S. Census Bureau

Jeff Sisson is the Program Manager for the Data Access and Dissemination Systems (DADS) program at the U.S. Census Bureau.

The DADS program is responsible for developing and operating the American FactFinder, which is the dissemination vehicle for the Decennial Census, the American Community Survey, the Economic Census and a number of annual economic surveys, and the Population Estimates Program. Over the last two years, Sisson has led the development of the new American FactFinder to be released in January 2011. In addition, the DADS program is responsible for development of the tabulation system and completion of the tabulation of Decennial Census data.

Sisson joined the Census Bureau in 2000 in the Modeling and Outreach Branch of the Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division. He worked on tax modeling and outreach activities for the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Sisson joined the Decennial Systems and Contract Management Office in 2002 as part of the program management office for the Master Address File/Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Accuracy Improvement Project contract. He joined the Data Access and Dissemination Program in 2005 as a member of the program management office working on management of the current DADS contract and preparation for the DADS II contract and became overall program manager in 2007. Prior to joining the Census Bureau, he worked in a number of private and quasi-government organizations including the U.S. Postal Service, Amtrak and PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Sisson received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Maryland.