Program Advisory Board and Chair Members

Thank you to our chairs and advisory board members for your continued service and dedication our UCSC Extension Silicon Valley programs!

AI Strategies, Productivity and Practices

AI Strategies, Productivity and…

Hien C Luu

Senior Engineering Manager, DoorDash

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Hien C Luu

Senior Engineering Manager, DoorDash

Jason Samaha

Asst Prof, Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience: Cognitive Neuroscience

Mike Schmidt

Director of Software Engineering, AMD

Paul Baldassari

Executive Vice President, Worldwide Operations, Flex

Artificial Intelligence Application Development

Artificial Intelligence Applica…

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics

Janani Rangarajan

Statistical Data Analyst, Gilead Sciences | Program Chair

Paul A Saunders

Biotechnology Consultant

David Bernick

Assistant Adjunct Professor​, Project Scientist/Lecturer

Gregory Frank

Biosciences Instructor, UCSC Extension Consultant

Robert Knight

Founding CEO MyClassText.org Statistics Instructor, UCSC Extension

Biotechnology

Biotechnology

Edward James Rozhon

Program Chair | Retired Sr. Manager, Clinical Operations, Genentech

Thomas R Pamukcu

CEO, Health Wallet

Abizar Lakdawalla

Director, Proxeom​

Ahmed Hamdy

Head, Early Stage Clinical Development

Alyson Falwell

Clinical Research Operations Manager

Michael Huston

Huston Associates, LLC

Business Administration

Business Administration

Dianne V Conry

Consultant, Kranz & Associates | Program Chair

Judy A Lacroix

Talent Management & Development | Leadership & Organization Development

Richard B Rondeau

Agile Coach/Program Manager Safeway

Stephanie Evans-Wemusa

Director, DEI & Belonging, Mindbody | Advisor, UCSC Ext. HR Management

Benjamin Wang

Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer NeVap, Inc

Larry O'Connell

Former Instructor, Business Administration Program

Phil Brotherton

Principal, Phil Brotherton Consulting

Wenlei Shan

Former Instructor, Business Administration Program

Clinical Trials Design and Management

Clinical Trials Design and Mana…

Edward James Rozhon

Program Chair | Retired Sr. Manager, Clinical Operations, Genentech

Narinder Singh

Pharmacy Director, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Thomas R Pamukcu

CEO, Health Wallet

Ahmed Hamdy

Head, Early Stage Clinical Development

Alyson Falwell

Clinical Research Operations Manager

Michael Huston

Huston Associates, LLC

Computer Programming

Computer Programming

Ajay K Mittal

Senior Software Engineer, SCIF

Bineet Sharma

Director/Assoc. Professor, Univ. of Silicon Valley|Chair/Instructor UCSC SV

Data Engineering

Data Science

Data Science

Data Science and Data Analytics

Data Science and Data Analytics

Parthasarathy M Padmanabhan

Data Engineering Lead, New Relic | Program Chair

Armen Pischdotchian

Academic Mentor, IBM Watson Solutions

Ashish Gupta

Senior Staff Engineer, LinkedIn

Ching-Fong (CF) Su

Director of Engineering, Machine Learning, Quora

Lise Getoor

Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz

Piyush Bhargava

Senior Director in Data & Analytics Organization, Cisco

Rama Oruganti

Principal Engineer in the Data & Analytics organization, Cisco

Early Childhood Education: Associate Teacher

Early Childhood Education: Asso…

Melissa Chi Le

Teacher | Program Chair

Early Childhood Education: Supervision and Administration

Early Childhood Education: Supe…

Robyn F Stone

Leader in STEM Education

Alicia Arizmendi

TUPE Coordinator & Student Support Specialist, Morgan Hill Unified School

Angel Chang

Bilingual Educator and Researcher, Stanford University

Nell Redaniel

President and State Director, Santa Clara Valley Chapter of CAAEYC

Educational Therapy

Educational Therapy

Bibinaz Pirayesh

Educational Therapist & Founder, www.OneOfOneKids.org

Diana Black Kennedy

Educational Therapist, Speaker, Author

Sharmila Roy

Special Consultant, Schwab Learning Center | Program Chair

Ashley Shapiro

Founder of Edcahoots

Erin Powers

Educational Therapist

Embedded Systems

Embedded Systems

Mandar M Munishwar

Formal Verification Engineer, Google

Sam D Huynh

Principal Member of Technical Staff, AMD

Yuchung M Wang

Director, Global Academic Program at Digi-Key Electronics

Abdo Babukr

Consultant, Embedded Computing, Wave Spectrum, Inc

Alfredo Alba

Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center

Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management

Judy A Lacroix

Talent Management & Development | Leadership & Organization Development

Marco F Rosa

HR Exec Consultant & Coach | Search Consultant

Stephanie Evans-Wemusa

Director, DEI & Belonging, Mindbody | Advisor, UCSC Ext. HR Management

Yvette Durazo

Principal Consultant, Unitive Consulting

Gina Ayllon

Executive Director, SHRM-Northern California

Jenny Dearborn

Board Member, Advisor, Investor

Kat Hsueh

Director, Talent and Technology ROI Communication

Philip Ziman

President Zi-Tech Professional Services

Linux Programming and Administration

Linux Programming and Administr…

Ajay K Mittal

Senior Software Engineer, SCIF

Raghav Vinjamuri

Independent Computer Software Professional | Linux Program Chair

Marketing Management

Marketing Management

Ly-Huong T Pham

Educator, Business, and Technology Executive

Thomas P Moyer

Group Media Director, H&L Partners

Cory Treffiletti

Global Head of Marketing, Cisco Webex.com

Inka Tews

VP Human Resources Infineon Tech North America Corp

Patrick Williams

Instructor, Santa Clara University/ Stanford University

Rick Reed

Online Media Research

Steve Brown

Strategic Marketing Storyteller

Steven Fund

Corporate VP, Brand and Marketing Operations, AMD

Medical Device Quality and Design

Medical Device Quality and Desi…

Kiran Gulati

Principal Medical Device Consultant / Exemplar Medical Device Lead Auditor

Niranjan Maharajh

Director of Engineering, J&J MedTech

Jennifer Mascioli-Tudor

VP, QA & Regulatory Affairs, Outset Medical, Inc.

Nancy E. Isaac

Regulatory Counsel and VP, Quality Moximed, Inc

Premed Postbaccalaureate

Project and Program Management

Project and Program Management

David Bakhtnia

Certified Technical and Professional Consultant

Frank M Mangini

Instructor | Program Advisor

Hong Nguyen-Phuong

Independent Consultant

Mohammed Fennich

Business Technology Management, SalesForce.com

Richard B Rondeau

Agile Coach/Program Manager Safeway

Timothy Bombosch

Chair | Project Manager, Technical University of Munich North America

Mary Ann (Faue) Higgs

Former HR Chief of Staff, Cisco Systems

Regulatory Affairs

Regulatory Affairs

Kiran Gulati

Principal Medical Device Consultant / Exemplar Medical Device Lead Auditor

Narinder Singh

Pharmacy Director, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center

Thomas R Pamukcu

CEO, Health Wallet

Jennifer Mascioli-Tudor

VP, QA & Regulatory Affairs, Outset Medical, Inc.

Meredith Brown-Tuttle

Regulatory Affairs Consultant, Regulatorium

Nancy E. Isaac

Regulatory Counsel and VP, Quality Moximed, Inc

Silicon Chip Design & Semiconductor Engineering

Silicon Chip Design & Semicondu…

Benjamin Ting

Principal Engineer, Microsoft

Mandar M Munishwar

Formal Verification Engineer, Google

Yuchung M Wang

Director, Global Academic Program at Digi-Key Electronics

Jeffery Gooding

Account Technology Executive, Cadence Design Systems

Jose Renau

Prof, CS & Engineering, Jack Baskin School of Engineer

Vidhyadharan Jayapal

Senior Manager, Applications Engineering, Synopsys Inc.

Software Engineering and Quality

Software Engineering and Quality

Alka S Jarvis

SEQ Chair | Global SQ Process/Performance Excellence Officer

Hong Nguyen-Phuong

Independent Consultant

Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management

Caleb J Zhang

Partner, Alliance Solutions LLC | Chair, Supply Chain Management Program

Darin L Matthews

Chief Procurement Officer, California Polytechnic State University

TESOL

TESOL

James S Dinwiddie

TESOL Instructor | Program Chair

User Experience and Web Design

User Experience and Web Design

Ajay K Mittal

Senior Software Engineer, SCIF

Luis Calero

Chair | Conversational UX Designer, Centene Corp.

Min Wu

Senior Staff Software Engineer, ServiceNow

Arin Bhowmick

Chief Design Officer, IBM Products

Raj Sidharthan

CEO & UX Strategist, Freshdesign

Willy Lai

Chief Design Officer, Haggleland