Jesse Luna

I ran the Web marketing and communications program for the company.  This includes managing online and offline advertising, trade shows, blogs, email promotions, and vendor marketing relationships. I started as a programmer and helped design and code the initial corporate website portal.

Key accomplishments:

• Created compan's promotion tracking system

• Created and deployed over 500 Web promotions

• Created the initial data driven Web site and conceptualized its portal framework

• Helped design and launch the first of the companies vendor Web Store sites

• Initiated creation of company's Strategy plan

Taught several sections of Management of Information Systems in the Business department.

Key accomplishments:

• Led students to create consultant-level analysis document of company IT infrastructures

• Taught all students the basics of HTML and blogging

Co-founding member of Dot Com startup focused on providing services to independent bands and musicians

Key accomplishments:

• Managed the creation of the Web site

• Helped architect initial digital portfolio project

I managed three youth programs and a staff of 20 young adults. Included academic enrichment, job training,  docent training program and an intense five-week summer program for 50 students

Key Accomplishments:

• Helped launch the grand opening of the revamped California Science Center

• Managed and staffed three 5-week summer programs with only three weeks notice

• Instituted first community meetings for the program

I was a bilingual teacher in the district for four years, though not in a row. In between those years I taught in Redwood City, CA and in San Francisco's Mission District. 

Key Accomplishments:

• Created a class newspaper that was digitally designed by students

• Taught students to use a pre-Pascal program, Karel the Robot

• Taught students to do video presentations

I worked as a technician/researcher at Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Materials Lab, Stanford University's Neurology and Materials Science Lab, and as a Ford/Mellon Fellow at Princeton University's Chemistry department.  The project I worked on was to make room temperature superconductivity a reality.

I received two degrees from the University of Denver.  The first was a Masters in Computer Information Systems.  The second was an MBA from Daniels College of Business. As a student I volunteered for Net Impact, an organization promoting social corporate responsibility and also interviewed an organization for consideration in the Colorado State Ethics Award.  My final year I also spent a week at the United Nations as part of the Bridges to the Future program.

As I was teaching, I worked towards getting a Multiple Subject Bilingual Credential.  Coursework at CSU campuses in San Francisco, Long Beach, and Los Angeles.

Majored in African and Afro-American Studies. I was a Ford/Mellon Fellow my Junior year and also won the Albert J. Hettinger Scholarship via my fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon. I volunteered for Barrio Assistance, Project Motivation, and other community education programs.