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The Business Management Program is no longer active, why don't you check out the following:
Business Management Certificate Program FacultyThe BUMA program at San Jose State University Professional Development is taught by industry professionals who are focusing on eCommerce in their day-to-day jobs. | |
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 | Mitchell Levy, Program Consultant and faculty member for the Business Management Certificate Program is also Director of the innovative Silicon Valley Executive Business Program and a partner in CEOnetworking. His latest company is Happy About™ which which writes and publishes books for corporations. He is also President and CEO of the Strategic Consulting firm ECnow.com, author of the books Happy About Outsourcing, Happy About Knowing What to Expect in 2005, and E-Volve-or-Die.com, creator of the Value Framework®, and on the Board of Directors of Rainmaker Systems, a Nasdaq traded company. Mr. Levy was the conference chair for four Comdex conferences and was at Sun Microsystems for 9 years, the last 4 of which he managed the e-commerce component of Sun's $3.5 billion supply chain. He is a popular speaker, lecturing on business and management issues throughout the U.S. and around the world. |
 | Virginia Beck, training and development analyst, human resources, City of San José, has extensive experience in the supervision and management of staff and volunteers to accomplish project development, implementation and evaluation. She manages the City of San Jose's Citywide Training Program and is, herself, a skilled trainer with over 25 years of experience in adult learning. She has taught for Ohlone College, Fremont, CA; SJSU's Professional Development Program, and the City of San Jose as well as private companies in the Bay Area. |
 | Angelika Blendstrup, Ph.D, Founder, Professional Business Communications is a business communications coach who helps foreign-born executives with problems understanding the complexities of American business culture and the English language to communicate skillfully and effectively. In particular, she helps improve their written and oral communication skills, prepares them for media interviews and works on reducing their accents. Angelika has traveled extensively throughout Europe and Latin America and speaks Spanish and Portuguese as well as French and German. |
| Mark Bronder, MBA, has been an executive in steel, management consulting, hi tech, and venture capital. He is a successful entrepreneur who built a company from scratch to over $70M in revenues, took it public, and then sold it. Mr. Bronder began his career as an IT executive at Inland Steel Company in Chicago, worked as a Management Consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton and worked for Rolm Corporation (now part of Siemens) and Sun Microsystems during periods when both firms were experiencing their greatest growth. Mr. Bronder also spent five years at Institutional Venture Partners as a Venture Capitalist. He Co-Founded Pete's Brewing Company (now part of Gambrinus), brewers of Pete's Wicked Ale. |
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Hugh Coppen, a law graduate from the University of Cape Town and now president of Winning Leadership, Inc., is a professional seminar leader, executive coach and professional speaker on leadership and change management. A three-time former CEO, Coppen's expertise has been gained from a successful multi-industry, 30-year business career. He has lived and worked in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom and Zimbabwe. |
 | ArLyne Diamond, PhD, management consultant and professional development coach, consults with CEOs, board members and executives. Her board training manual has been used by more than 50 boards she trained. Former psychologist, business owner, board member, president of associations and business manager, Diamond is author of more than 100 articles, is quoted extensively, appears on radio and TV and has taught at many universities and colleges. |
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Andy Decker, Director, Experiential Learning Center at City Beach, has earned a reputation for his passion in studying and learning about his clients to design curriculum and materials that match the experiences, dynamics and challenges that groups and organizations face. |
 | Carolyn Feuille, MA, MS, Esprit Global Learning, is a training consultant and business coach to global organizations and individuals, specializing in leadership, teambuilding, intercultural communication, doing business with the French, business process improvement and career transition. She has consulted in high tech, banking, healthcare and the agriculture industry since 1988. Feuille is a certified coach of Corporate CoachU International. |
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Lucy Freedman, professional coach and principal of Syntax Communication Modeling Corporation, has consulted to organizations and designed and led learning programs since 1973, to increase effectiveness through mutual understanding. She has extensive experience working with managers, IT professionals, engineers, financial professionals, customer service representatives, consultants, coaches, trainers and facilitators in organizations such as Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and government agencies. Lucy is co-author of Smart Work: The Syntax Guide for Mutual Understanding in the Workplace, a handbook for technical and professional people. She holds a Master of Arts in Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education. |
 | Derinda Gaumond is Founder and CEO of WorkIt.com, a website calendar that compiles and delivers listings of high-tech networking events happening in Northern and Southern California. For nearly two years she has been involved in the networking scene for startups and has created the most comprehensive resource of events in the Bay Area. Prior to founding WorkIt, Derinda worked at three other startups in the Bay Area including Ateva.com and RampUp. She has an extensive background in publishing, both in print and online. Derinda also coaches individuals on how to improve their networking skills. |
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Chris Gill, executive director, McClellan Technology Incubator and president, CGS&M Associates, has broad experience in Europe, North America and Asia with start-ups, turnarounds, acquisition integration and business development in Fortune 500 and privately-held companies, including the Access Group, Avnet Inc., ITT, Mostek International and ZF Micro Devices. A serial entrepreneur, author and interview source, this active Angel has compiled a comprehensive guide to venture financing and was co-chair of the Silicon Valley Association of Start-Up Entrepreneurs entrepreneur basics program. |
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 | L'esa Guilian, PhD, has been in human resources and training development for more than 15 years. She has worked in large and small organizations and consulted with organizations nationwide on issues of employee relations, employee performance, job loss intervention, career development and organizational change. She is human resources director at a private graduate school in San Francisco. |
| Jean Hollands, CEO, Growth and Leadership Center, has been consulting executives from Fortune 50 companies to start-ups for the past 22 years. Her clients include some of the biggest and brightest corporate officers in Silicon Valley. Hollands is the author of four bestselling how-to books for business. |
 | Phil Hood, Partner, Transcend Strategy Group, is one of Silicon Valley's most thoughtful voices on the development and use of multimedia and pervasive computing technologies. He is the former executive editor of NewMedia Magazine, and a contributing columnist to Wired. As the former CEO of Digital 4Sight, he directed a series of multi-year research studies that explored the links between emerging technologies and business ethics and strategy. He is a Senior Consulting Associate to Stanford Research International (SRI), the President of the Music Magazine Publishers Association, an engaging speaker, and a partner with Alex Lowy in the Transcend Strategy Group. |
| Jane Kow is an experienced employment lawyer and human resources consultant who has worked at top California law firms and as senior counsel at a large Silicon Valley company. She has represented Fortune 500 and start-up companies against wrongful termination, breach of contract, discrimination, sexual harassment, emotional distress and wage and hour claims. She provides training for new companies on their personnel policies and practices. |
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James Y. Lin, PhD, MEd, BA, LTh, is a Polynesian-born and Western-trained multitalented psychologist, corporate trainer and humorist. Chairman and CEO of Quality Lifeskills Quantum International (http://www.jyl2000.com). This American resident of Singapore synergizes East-West KTC (Knowledge, Talents and Culture) training people to develop their quality lifeskills with a touch of humor. He is a well sought inspirational speaker for international conventions and professional conferences. His multi-ethnic international team serves both government institutions and the MNCs, SME's in China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Japan, Indonesia, Middle East and the United States. He lives and works on the motto 'Take life humorously, take humor seriously'. |
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Linda S. McChristian, former Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Randstad Communications is now founder/owner of Notary Coach, Incorporated, a mobile notary and loan document signing service. This is the second company Linda has founded and owned. Her strengths as an entrepreneur, leadership expertise, competencies in strategic direction and management were garnered from her vast experience with Fortune 500 companies. Most notably IBM, Steelcase, and Owens Corning Fiberglas. Her other entrepreneurial adventure, Identity Plus is a professional consulting, coaching and training organization. |
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| Steve Mezak, principal, Acclerance, helps entrepreneurs launch successful software start-ups. A veteran of six start-ups, with roles ranging from technical lead to CTO and CEO, he has shown dozens of Silicon Valley CEOs and entrepreneurs how to use offshore development as a major strategic advantage. He has more than 25 years of software development experience. |
| Nicole Schapiro, principal, Nicole Schapiro & Associates, is author of the New York Times best-seller Negotiating for Your Life. She has worked with many large corporations, including Microsoft, Ford Motor Co., Eastman Kodak, Cisco Systems, and Xerox. She was the first woman senior vice president of sales and marketing at Citicorp, New York. |
| Debashish Sinha, managing director, neoIT, has more than 15 years of experience as a senior advisor to U.S. enterprises for offshore IT and business practices outsourcing. Sinha has worked in corporate banking and finance, as a structured finance and investment analyst and in supply-side offshore outsourcing. He is a regular speaker on global outsourcing and is widely quoted in leading media. |
 | Laura Steck, GLC's Acting CEO, is a licensed clinician and senior executive coach at the Growth & Leadership Center. With over 15 years of experience in corporate psychology, she is an expert at teaching optimistic interactions during critical transitions. She provides team-building tools and consultation to senior executives on how to deal with business changes, succession planning and conflict resolution. |
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Howard Thomas, a CPA in California and a Chartered Accountant in the United Kingdom, has more than 35 years of experience working in a wide variety of industries, on two continents, as a financial executive or public accountant. He is CEO of The Thomas Consulting Group, providing corporate financial management services to Silicon Valley start-ups. He was the Founding Chairman of the California CPA Society's successful "High Technology Industry Conference" held annually in Silicon Valley. Thomas has developed and taught business classes, for business professionals, for fifteen years. |
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Patricia Vasconcellos has 25 years of management, coaching, human resource development, training, and facilitation experience. As an independent consultant, Patricia provides strategic organizational development planning, executive coaching and facilitates group meetings and offsites. Additionally, she custom designs communication, collaboration, and decision-making skills workshops for Fortune 500 corporations, nonprofit organizations and public education. Her work emphasizes a dialogical approach, one that surfaces assumptions and seeks shared meaning. Her clients include the County of Alameda, Apple Computer, Inc., the Carnegie-Mellon University, Interval Research Corp., Netscape, Santa Cruz Community Counseling Center, Santa Clara County Water District, and the County of Santa Clara. |
 | Atul Vashistha, CEO, neoIT, founded the company in 1999 with the mission of helping clients evolve and improve the way services are globally outsourced and managed. His experience includes Fortune 50 senior leadership experience and the unique challenges of a fast growth start-up. He has developed methodologies to create global firms and has evaluated hundreds of firms in more than 20 countries. He is a popular conference speaker and media source. |
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Norma Watenpaugh, principal, Phoenix Consulting Group, is a Global Board Member of the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals, has more than 20 years of experience in the hi-tech industry focused in partnering, marketing and business development. She works in partner strategy, alliance and emerging market development, and channel architecture with firms such as Sun, IDC Global Software and BEA Systems. |
| Traci Willard, training and organizational development professional with eight years of experience in the areas of facilitation, needs assessment and evaluation and training delivery, holds master's degrees in industrial/organizational psychology as well as clinical psychology. |
 | Greg Zegarowski, MBA and MS, ethics, is president of Financial Leadership Corporation and was a CPA with Deloitte and Touche as well as a CFO for an international medical equipment company. He has provided consulting services to companies and organizations across industries, ranging in size from start-ups to Fortune 100. He demonstrates an integrated approach to building sustainable success in businesses and organizations. |
