Nikki Eatchel is a global assessment professional with 30 years of experience and is currently the Chief Assessment Office for Prometric. She has spent her career focused on assessment development and psychometrics as well as the expanded and complex activities involved in the design, development, and growth of global assessment programs. She has served in Chief leadership positions in several large-scale, international organizations. In her positions she has worked in various testing segments, including K-12, Higher Education, Certification and Licensure, Pre-Employment and Workforce Development.

She has designed and implemented thousands of assessments with traditional approaches as well as with innovative designs supported by AI-human hybrid practices in assessment design, item and exam development, item classification, assessment delivery and scoring. She has also worked on a variety of assessment types including emulations, simulations, performance-based tasks, and virtual reality assessment. She has been personally responsible for ensuring the validity, fairness, and equity of large-scale, global programs as well as statewide clients, working in some capacity with all 50 states within the U.S. and extensively in the within Europe, Central America, India, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southern Asia.

She has added to her well-rounded approach to the assessment industry by serving in executive leadership positions in product management, program management, customer support, documentation, training, software development and QA. Her most recent focus has been in incorporating AI tools ethically and responsibly throughout the assessment process. She has also worked in the arena of employment litigation support (for pre-employment assessments).