Stephen Jackson began his career at the U.S. Census Bureau in 2012 as part of the Trade Data Collection Branch (TDCB) in Economic Management Division (EMD). As a member of the AES Compliance Team in TDCB, he leads the monthly AES Compliance Review Program. Mr. Jackson led and contributed to EMD’s testing, outreach, and training initiatives related to the transition of the legacy AESDirect applications into the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), a component of the International Trade Data System (ITDS) Presidential Initiative. His efforts include determining, coordinating, and reviewing requirements to maintain and enhance the AESDirect applications per the Foreign Trade Regulations and other partnership government agencies (PGAs) specifications.

Mr. Jackson is currently the supervisor of the AES Compliance Team and serves as part of the AES Seminar team, conducting presentations to trade audiences around the country on how to comply with Foreign Trade Regulations and the Automated Export System compliance practices. Mr. Jackson is the program manager for the Electronic Export Manifest (EEM) team at Census, established to evaluate the usefulness of EEM data. 

Mr. Jackson received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Salisbury University and holds a Master’s Certificate in Business Analysis from the George Washington University School of Business.