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Catalog 2024-2025

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Career Programs Advisory Boards

Administration of Justice Advisory Board

Sergeant Ed Flosi, Retired, San Jose Police Department

Stacy Hopkins, Esq., Instructor, Paralegal Department at West Valley College

Mikelle Le, M.A., LMFT, Division Director, County of Santa Clara Behavioral Health Services; Consumer, Family Affairs and Cultural Wellness

Daniel C. Okonkwo, Supervising Deputy District Attorney, Santa Clara County

Vanessa Payne, Retired Sergeant, San Jose Police Department

Jason Reardon, Captain, San Jose CHP Commander

Chief Chris Rolen, West Valley/Mission District Police Department

Derek Rush, Assistant Chief, Santa Clara Police Department

Lt. Clint Tada, Los Gatos/Monte Sereno Police Department

Sergeant John Thornburg, Monterey County Sheriff’s Department

Assistant Sheriff Rick Sung , Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office

Matt Van Dyke, Supervisory Special Agent, U.S Department of Homeland

Assistant Chief Knox, San Jose Police Department

 

Architecture Advisory Board

Keith Blaine AIA, LEED AP BD+C

Brad Cox, AIA, LEED AP

Michael Dern, AIA

Soroush Ghahramani, International Associate AIA

Gaspodinka Mirkovski, AIA

Jim Morelan, AIA

Sharon Refvem, FAIA, LEED

Dick Smith, AIA

Steve Sowa, AIA

 

Business, Accounting, and Real Estate Advisory Board

Moe Baniani, Alain Pinel Realtors

JC Berger, Netflix

Markus Breitbach, Help and Care

Manny Cappello, West Valley College

Carolyn Cooper, Internship consultant 

Nancy Ghodrat, West Valley College

Ginny Grace, San Jose State University

Ryan Iwanaga, Sereno Group

Ketan Jashapara, Compass Real Estate

Keong Kam, Apple

Michael Metz, Retired business leader

David Palter, Silicon Valley Leadership Group

Konstantin Perevoztchikov, Retired business leader 

Sara Seyed, Foothill College 

Lance Shoemaker, West Valley College

Teresa Thompson, West Valley College

Meg Virick, San Jose State University

Pat Winter, HR consultant

 

Certified Personal Trainer Advisory Board

Blake Gourley, Owner, Movement Evolution, San Jose

John Heringer, Owner, Method3 Fitness, San Jose

Meaghan Hicks, Cisco Systems, Director of Group Fitness, San Jose

Steve McCann, Faculty Emeritus, West Valley College

Najet Raffoul, Los Gatos Massage Clinic

John Rhodes, Health & Fitness Director, Southwest YMCA

Diane Rudy, Faculty Emeritus, West Valley College

Davidson Wong, Davidson Strength & Performance, West Valley College

 

Child Studies Advisory Board

Ruth Cook, Professor emeritus Santa Clara University

Kimeesean Donaldson, Recruiter Child Care Careers

Laurie Dotson, Chair, Child Studies and Elementary Education departments

Michelle Francis, Coordinator, WV Professional Development, Instructor, Child Studies and Elementary Education departments

Jackie Funk, Little Tree Montessori Int’l.

Elley Ho, Inclusion Training Specialist Inclusion Collaborative

Ann Horgan, Director, Child Development Centers

Willy Kwong, Mission College Chair Child Development Department

Gizzele Linayao, Moreland School District

Shama Marshall, MTSS Coordinator Santa Clara County Office of Education

Lucille Satana, One World Montessori

Eva Schulte, COO Catalyst Family Inc.

Nora Segovia, Program, Let’s Play in Spanish

 

Commercial Music Advisory Board

Joseph Alexander, Former Recording Engineer/Professor of Recording Arts CSU Chic/Current Dean at CSU Chico

Jennifer Lucy Cook, Songwriter/Composer/Lyricist, Los Angeles

Bill Crooks, Former AV Tech, Recording Engineer/Manager of Technical Operations for Advanced Systems Group at Google

Blair Hardman, Owner/Producer/Engineer of Zone Recording Studios

Michael Lande, Music Orange/Media Composer, Berkeley

Dan Marschak, Las Positas College/Commercial Music Coordinator

Lauren Pham, Media Composer, Los Angeles

Nadia Wheaton, Music Designer, Bungie, Washington 

Trevor Wylie, Former ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ Commercial Music Student; BA in Recording Arts @ CSU Chic/IT Service Technician II @ SJSU

 

Communication Design Advisory Board

Su Akyuz – UX Design, Instructor

Julie Cardona – Freelance Graphic Designer

Harvey Chin – Video Producer

Sergio Elisondo – Web Developer, Instructor

Eujin Park – UX Design, Instructor, Google

Jeff Rascov - Instructor, Program Coordinator

David Smith – Business Development, Mltwist

Ben Wood – Artist, Designer

 

Computer Science Advisory Board

Mandy Ng, Google

James Chen, Oracle

Bill Albert, Albert Education Services

 

Court Reporting Advisory Board

Karen Buchanan, CSR, Deposition Reporter

Jeff Cobb, Enterprise Sales Executive-Nationwide, LIT Software

Ana Fatima Costa, CSR

Marilynn Flippin, Captioner, San Jose State University

Karen Franco, Captioner, DeAnza College, Levi Stadium

Stacy Gaskill, CSR, Official Reporter, San Mateo County Superior Court 

Tobi Giluso, CSR, Official Reporter, Santa Clara County Superior Court

Amy Gooding, CSR, Official Reporter, Santa Clara County Superior Court

Lisa McMillan, CSR, owner, Creekside Reporting

Kim Meierorro, CSR, Deposition Reporter

Trudy O'Brien, CSR, Deposition Reporter

Diane Pessagno, CSR, Official Reporter, San Mateo County Superior Court

Robin Riviello, CSR, Deposition Reporter

Lindsey Sill, CSR, Deposition Reporter

 

Data Science Advisory Board

Deepak Agarwal, LinkedIn

Alan Enemark, NVIDIA

Rebecca Hiller, West Valley College

Reed Kamsler, Uber

Laura Plunkett, West Valley College

Kirthi Shanbag, Western Digital

Vikram Tuli, Universal Music Group

Michael Yoshizawa, Lyft

Rebecca Wong, West Valley College

 

Engineering Advisory Board

David Brubaker

Nik Djordjevik, Lockheed

Ronald Gerola, P.E. Mech.

Lu Li

Thomas Sanford, P.E. Civil; P.E. Mech.

Bob Struk

 

Fashion Design and Related Technologies Advisory
Board

Alex Brownless, Arts Thread

Steve Burns, Levi's

Jonathan Cheung, Jonathan Cheung

Shane Cullen, Shane Cullen

Joseph Domingo, Joseph Domingo Studio

Denise Katz, Specialized Bicycle

Krista Lippert, Browzwear

Tirsa Parrish, Time to Scale

Alyce Parsons, Universal Style International

Jim Simon, CLO3D

Mindy Trisko, Wilcox High School

Simon Ungless, When Simon met Ralph

Andrew Wyatt, CALA, Inc.

 

Health Care Technologies Advisory Board

Kenny Clymer, Palo Alto Medical Foundation

David Clymer, El Camino Hospital

Nicole Faria, Kaiser Santa Clara

Zohreh Feyzi, Principle, eMedical Billing Management

Marissa Francis, Stanford Hospital

Treveni Gore, Kaiser San Jose

Jabari Hamilton, Orthopedic Technician Kaiser San Jose

Sanaz Hariri, M.D.

Lex McAfee, Kaiser San Jose

Rejean McAfee, Sutter

Kobra Mirzaeian, Medical Assistant

Loc Nguyen, Kaiser San Jose

Adam Salinger, Pro-Med Billing

Georganne L. Soule, Kaiser

Mark Sudyka, Promedico

 

Interior Design Advisory Board

Nathasha Cherubin, KBM-Hogue

Peter Christensen, Christensen Consultants

Susan Foong, HGA Architects

Anna Harrison, ASID, LEED AP

Anjana Joshi

Elke MacGregor, DES Architects + Engineers

Parisa Maghsoud, Interior Designer

Patrick McClintock, LPA Design Studios

Patricia McDonald, ASID

Mary Ann McEwan, ASID, Reviresco Design

Morana Medved, CID, IIDA, LEED ID+C, Well AP, Artik Art & Architecture

Hilda Moattar, Hilda Moattar Interior Design

Pamela Pennington, ASID, Pamela Pennington Studios

Terry Pollard, ASID, Design Works

Nakisa Rezvani, NRK Design Studio 

Tamara Roth, Design Blitz

Mollyanne Sherman, MAC Design Studio

Nick Steele, IIDA, Steele Designs

Lisa Welty-O’Hare, One Workplace

 

Musical Theater Advisory Board

 Daren A.C. Carollo, Exec Director, 42nd St Moon Productions

Dolores Duran-Cefalu, Music Director, California Great America 

Sean Kana, Music Director, Broadway by the Bay

Dottie Lester-White, Choreographer, TheaterWorks 

 Lee Ann Payne, Actress, 42nd St Moon and TheaterWorks 

 Jacque Wilson Scharlach, Mezzo-Soprano, San Francisco Opera

 

Paralegal Advisory Board

Maria Abaruzinni, Paralegal Yahoo

Sheryl Boardman, SCULPA

Stephanie Dawkins, Paralegal, instructor

Oscar De Latorre, Paralegal Santa Clara County District Attorney

Navy Fahimi, Attorney, Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy

Diane Hodges, Paralegal Thoits Law

Stacy Hopkins, Chair and instructor Paralegal

Eva Martin Long, State Farm

Tanya Raidino Esq., Santa Cruz Senior Citizen's Legal Services

Paris Scott, Esq., PARS Equity

Cyrus Tabari, Esq.

Terri Walinsky Groom & Cave

Adrea Wheeler, Adjunct faculty, Patent agent, Paralegal, instructor

Karen Whitaker, Legal Ease

 

Park Management Program Advisory Committee

David Aguirre, Palo Alto Parks & Open Space

Matt Anderson, Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District

Kim Aufhauser, ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ Park Management Program, Emeritus

Chris Barresi, Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District

Chris Cruz, Full-time Faculty and Department Chair

Eric Grabiel - Dean of SPS

Pat Jones, Watershed Keeper, San Francisco Water

Alex Leman, Loma Prieta Fire-CalFire

Huy Mack - City of San Jose

Eric McFarland, Santa Clara County Parks

Heidi McFarland, Faculty, West Valley College

Benjamin Mendelsohn, Faculty, West Valley College

Tadashi Moody, Fire GIS Specialist, State of California

Dorsey Moore, San Jose Conservation Corps

Derek Neumann, Santa Clara Open Space Authority

Brad Pennington, Mid-Peninsula Regional Open Space District

Matt Price, Santa Cruz County GIS Manager, Adjunct Faculty

Don Rocha, Director, Santa Clara County Parks

Teri Rogoway, Santa Clara Open Space Authority

Tom Smith, Park Management Program - Emeritus

Frank Weiland, Santa Clara County Parks, Senior Ranger

 

Pilates Instructor Advisory Board

Michele Mandell, Jewish Community Centers

Jen Moulios, Club Pilates Morgan Hill

Vera Szepesi, Esprit de Core Pilates Studio

Elain Hayes, MNTStudio