Barrie Hathaway, Executive Director    510.234.1300 ext 1   email barrie

Joe McKinley, Director of Training  510.234.1300 ext 2   email joe

Michelle Shutzer, Associate Director    510.234.1300 ext 4    email michelle

Liliana Melano, Student Relations Manager    510.234.1300 ext 8    email liliana

Isaias Leiva, Instructor    510.234.1300 ext 5    email isaias

Norman Trudeau, Instructor    510.234.1300 ext 7    email norman

Rachelle Forbes, Office Manager    510.234.1300 ext 3    email rachelle

Barrie Hathaway, Executive Director.  Barrie has been the Executive Director of Street Tech / Stride Center since October 2004. A former supply chain management executive in the high technology sector, over the last twenty-five years he has worked for computer and telecommunications firms including Sun Microsystems, Bay Networks and Marconi Communications. He is the president of the board of directors for Care Through Touch Institute, an appointed member of the Richmond Workforce Development Board, the Co-Chair of the Community Technology Network of the Bay Area and a member of the City of San Pablo’s ad hoc committee on community wireless. Barrie is a graduate of the University of San Francisco where he completed a B.S. in Organizational Development and a Master of Nonprofit Administration.
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Joe McKinley, Director of Training.  Joe serves Street Tech in a dual role as Director of Training and Manager of Information Systems. Combined with his former background in retail he brings nearly twenty years of management experience to the highly qualified team at Street Tech. He worked as Lead Technical Trainer at Techskills® in the heart of San Francisco’s financial district for three years where he implemented many new ideas in technical training. He has a number of technical certifications including A+, Cisco, Network+, and MCSE certifications in both Windows NT and Windows 2000, much of which was self-taught. He is responsible for new course offerings and developing materials for workshops featuring experienced career professionals. He is noted for successfully mentoring over 300 students through the exam certification process. Joe is also an ordained Baptist minister responsible for evangelism ministries at the Paradise Baptist Church in Oakland California.
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Michelle Shutzer, Associate Director. Michelle has been participating in and working with nonprofits: arts, media, social justice and community technology organizations. She has managed numerous outcomes-based programs, developed successful earned-income initiatives, and managed marketing campaigns that have positively impacted service delivery for community based organizations in San Francisco and the Bay Area. She served as corporate liaison at the Bay Area Video Coalition, steering committee for the San Francisco Information Technology Consortium,  the associate director for the Youth Media Initiative at the National Alliance of Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC), social net-worker for NetSquared, as well as an entrepreneur and business consultant to the commercial sector and social benefit corporations. Selected as a fellow of the Congress-Busndestag exchange, and Zero Divide Fellow, she participates with the Community Technology Network as well as social networks doing social good.  Her Masters in Nonprofit Administration is from the University of San Francisco.

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Liliana Melano, Student Relations Manager, Liliana joins    the Stride Center community having worked at a non-profit organization called Making Waves Education Program as an academic tutor, helping children from the Richmond/San Pablo area gain success in school and achieve higher learning by applying to accredited universities. She comes to the Stride Center with enthusiasm and passion to work with our students and bringing them success. Having worked in the non-profit community for 5 years she is now building on that training here at the Stride Center. She completed her undergraduate work at Saint Mary's College in Moraga. There she graduated with a major in Politics and spent time volunteering at Community Violence Solutions, and the Oakland Animal Shelter. She spent time in Rome, Italy during the fall of 2007, where she focused her studies in International Politics and also joined the women's soccer team. In her spare time Liliana enjoys spending time with her family and traveling.

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Isaias Leiva, Instructor. (IC3, A+, Network +).  Isaias A. Leiva teaches the Computer Apprentice Training program and A+ Certification Course among others. With 14 years in the work force diagnosing and repairing onboard computer systems, over the last 3 years, Isaias has taken twenty two computer courses in pursuit of an AA in Computer Network and Information Technology. Isaias is IC3, MOS, A+, N+, MCP, MCDST certified. Isaias is also an IC3 Authorized instructor and an approved BPPVE instructor. Isaias has significant technical experience and great passion for technology which combined with the mission of Stride Center has produced a technical instructor whose teaching style has been welcomed by our students.

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Dag Richards, Instructor. (Linux+, Network +).  Dag teaches Linux+ and Network+ classes for the Stride Center, having been a volunteer for two years. He has been a Unix admin since leaving the restaurant business in 1992. Dag has professionally administered Linux systems since kernel 1.0, and most major commercial Unix's in education and medical environments. He holds CCNP, IBM P-series AIX, RHCE Certifications, and is a CISSP candidate. He currently works for a large East Bay health care system as a firewall, network, and Unix administrator.

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Norman Trudeau, Instructor. (A+).  Norm has spent the past 40 years working in the IT industry. Working over 20 years in Mainframes and moving on to Telecommunications. Norman has been a Network coordinator, Senior Teleprocessing Analyst and Manager for a Fortune 500 company in the financial district of San Francisco. Norman has been involved in teaching in the IT industry for over 20 years, most notably A+ and networking. Norman was Technical Training Coordinator involved in setting up and critiquing technical classes covering a wide variety of subjects to include programming and computer operations. He has taught at both public and private institutions such as Chabot College and Silicon Valley College and Martinez Unified School District. Norman is A+ certified.

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Rachelle Forbes, Office Manager. Rachelle Forbes has been employed with The Stride Center since 2005.  Rachelle had worked in the travel industry for over ten years, but when her office closed, she made the transition to obtain skills towards an Office Administrator position. She enrolled as a student in March 2004, and has taken all classes that The Stride Center has to offer, as well as received several industry standard certifications: MOS, A+ and MCDST.  In 2005 Rachelle joined The Stride Center as the Office Manager.  Rachelle earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Speech and Communications from San Francisco State University.

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