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.
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, Deputy Chief Technology Officer
Lindsey Blass, Executive Director of Digital Learning & Enablement
Sandy Maynard, Executive Director of Enterprise Systems
Lake Raymond, Ed Policy Analyst, Strategic Initiatives
Department of Technology Operations Team
Jennifer Louie, Director of Business Services and Operations
Raymond Situ, Sr. Administrative Assistant
Diana Pham, Management Assistant
Digital Learning and Enablement Team
Steve Kesel, Digital Learning Program Administrator
Ricardo Elizalde, Teacher on Special Assignment
Dan Frost, Teacher on Special Assignment
Allison Rothman, Online Learning Integration Designer
Stu Jernigan, Teacher on Special Assignment
Shirley Ong, IS Trainer
Jessica Pederson, Digital Learning Integration Designer
Technology & Innovation Team
Michael Bloemsma, Program Administrator
David Lanham, Operations Manager, Ray Porter Center for Digital Equity
Cary Batty, Tech Access Manager
Steve Netniss Google Solutions Architect
Student SystemsTeam
Ellis Tan, Director of Product Design
Daisy Chin, SIS Applications Manager
Martin Cameron, Senior Programmer
Haydee Diaz, Sr. Business Analyst
Chris Frazier, Sr. Programmer Analyst
Jan Gyn, Business Analyst
Victoria Hui, Business Analyst
Ray Kuan, Business Analyst
Rhonda Kreklau, Database Administrator
Project Management
Elva Gutierrez, Project Manager
Maz Tafreshinejad, Project Manager
Michael Kifer, Senior Project Manager
Joseph Monardo, Project Manager
Document Publishing and Distribution Center
Aye Khine, Management Assistant
Lourdes Espejo, Offset Machine Operator
Barry Robinson, Mailroom Clerk
Help Desk and Production Team
Adam Zabarte, Production Operations and Help Desk Manager
Aurelyn Castillo, Help Desk Analyst
Olivia Chang, Production Control
Blair Cunningham, Help Desk Analyst
Spencer Johnson, Production Operator
Belinda Serrano, Production Control
Stanley Wong, Help Desk Analyst
Jasmine Woody, Help Desk Analyst
Support Team
Dave Pankenier, Support Manager
Brian Cheung, Support Technician
Leonard DeJesus, Operations Support Administrator
John Hanley, Support- Assistant Manager
Anthony Kuan, Support Technician
Brian Durr, Support Technician
Benjamin Zhong, Support Technician
David Soohoo, Operations Support Administrator
Craig Van Spronsen, JAMF Admin
Julia Latrellie-Favre, Support Technician
Network Team
Meheretab Mengistu, Network Engineer
Brad Davis, Cable Splicer
Gill Patterson, Assistant Network Engineer
Philip Siu, Assistant Network Engineer
Jeffrey Sniffin- Dixon, Assistant Network Engineer
Larry Takamoto, Assistant Network Engineer
Nathan Wong, Assistant Network Engineer
Jason Young, Network Engineer
Telecommunications Team
Ivan Amador, Telecom Technician
Digital Services Team
Alain Jimenez, Senior Programmer Analyst
Eddie Ngo, Director of Applications
Employee Information System Team
Court Jackson, Applications Manager
Shannon Lee, Business Analyst
Anita Chow, Business Analyst
Jason Wong, Engineer
Server Team
Kwok Chew, Server Manager
Allen Lui, Server Operations
Eric Ma, Server Operations
Mike Scripps, Server Operations
