About Us

Equitable Opportunity. Equitable Technology.

The SFUSD Department of Technology (DoT) leads SFUSD’s efforts to transform into a digital district. 

Under the leadership of our Chief Technology Officer, Melissa Dodd, the department convenes district, community, and industry leaders to align resources and investments strategically and to prioritize major technology projects in a coherent way to enable the district to embrace a digital approach to education that is interactive, intuitive, and personalized to the needs of our students, educators, and families. This Digital District Plan articulates the role technology will play as a critical enabler to our vision, building on the foresight of both our education professionals and thought leaders within our communities and across the country. 

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Melissa Dodd

Chief Technology Officer 

Ms. Dodd is charged with leading the district's technology vision and digital district plan, Building a Digital District, which articulates the district’s strategy to transform learning with technology, infusing technology into teaching, learning, and operations to realize the goals of Vision 2025 and the SFUSD graduate profile for college and career readiness in the 21st century.

Ms. Dodd is the 2017 Withrow CTO of the Year through CoSN, a national, professional association for school district technology leaders and the 2018 Distinguished Leader for Technology through the Council of Great City Schools. Follow her on Twitter @MelissaPDodd

Vision 2025: Building a Digital District

To deliver upon the vision of a world-class education, SFUSD will need to embrace a digital approach to education based on the best of the changing technologies around us. 

From the lunchroom to the classroom, the promise of technology to positively impact the learning and lives of our students is clear. Our vision clarifies how SFUSD is taking a leadership role to innovate educational equity and excellence for all our students. The time is right to let our community know that investing in our equity agenda will ultimately help solve one of the key challenges we face today, which is maintaining a diverse and vibrant community in San Francisco.

To learn more about SFUSD’s transformation into a digital district, visit: www.sfusd.edu/digitaldistrict

Department of Technology Leadership Team

David Malone

David Malone, Deputy Chief Technology Officer

Lake Raymond, Ed Policy Analyst, Strategic Initiatives

Department of Technology Operations Team

Jennifer Louie, Director of  Business Services and Operations

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Raymond Situ, Sr. Administrative Assistant

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Diana Pham, Management Assistant

Digital Learning and Enablement Team

Steve Kesel

Steve Kesel, Digital Learning Program Administrator

Ricardo Elizalde

Ricardo Elizalde, Teacher on Special Assignment

Dan Frost

Dan Frost, Teacher on Special Assignment

Technology & Innovation Team

Michael Bloemsma, Program Administrator 

Cary Batty

Cary Batty, Tech Access Manager

David Lanham

David Lanham, Operations Manager, Ray Porter Center for Digital Equity

Student SystemsTeam

Ellis Tan, Director of Product Design

Victoria Hui

Victoria Hui, Business Analyst 

Martin Cameron

Martin Cameron, Senior Programmer

Haydee Diaz

Haydee Diaz, Sr. Business Analyst

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Rhonda Kreklau, Database Administrator

Jan Gyn

Jan Gyn, Business Analyst

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Ray Kuan, Business Analyst

Project Management

Elva Gutierrez

Elva Gutierrez, Project Manager

Document Publishing and Distribution Center

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Aye Khine, Management Assistant

Lourdes Espejo

Lourdes Espejo, Offset Machine Operator

Help Desk and Production Team

Adam Zabarte

Adam Zabarte, Production Operations and Help Desk Manager

Aurelyn Castillo

Aurelyn Castillo, Help Desk Analyst

Stanley Wong

Stanley Wong, Help Desk Analyst

Belinda Serrano

Belinda Serrano, Production Control

Spencer Johnson

Spencer Johnson, Production Operator

Blair Cunningham

Blair Cunningham, Help Desk Analyst

Support Team

Dave Pankenier

Dave Pankenier, Support Manager

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Brian Cheung, Support Technician

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Benjamin Zhong, Support Technician

Leonard DeJesus

Leonard DeJesus, Operations Support Administrator

John Hanley

John Hanley, Support- Assistant Manager

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David Soohoo, Operations Support Administrator

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Brian Durr, Support Technician

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Julia Latrellie-Favre, Support Technician

Network Team

Nathan Wong

Nathan Wong, Assistant Network Engineer

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Brad Davis, Cable Splicer

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Gill Patterson,  Assistant Network Engineer

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Philip Siu, Assistant Network Engineer

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Jeffrey Sniffin- Dixon, Assistant Network Engineer

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Larry Takamoto, Assistant Network Engineer

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Jason Young,  Network Engineer

Telecommunications Team

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Ivan Amador, Telecom Technician

Digital Services Team

Eddie Ngo

Eddie Ngo, Director of Applications

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Alain Jimenez, Senior Programmer Analyst

Employee Information System Team

Jason Wong

Jason Wong, Engineer

Shannon Lee

Shannon Lee, Business Analyst

Anita Chow

Anita Chow, Business Analyst

Server Team

Mike Scripps

Mike Scripps, Server Operations

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Allen Lui, Server Operations

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Eric Ma, Server Operations

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