OUR LEADERSHIP

Meet the dedicated individuals committed to bringing new opportunities
in the software development industry to our veteran community.

LEADERSHIP

Rodrigo Levy
Founder, Executive Director

Jim Hennessey
Director of Marketing

Thida Sam
Development Director

Rich Luby
Head of Career Services

Bill Blouin
Human Resources Director

Adam Cahan
Program Director

Nick Smith
Program Manager

INSTRUCTORS AND PROGRAM STAFF

Chandra Arya
Senior Instructor

Francisco Avila
Full-stack Software Engineering Instructor

Jordon West
Lead Evening & Weekend Instructor

Umar Ahmed Badami
Evening & Weekend Instructor

Tiffany Sidell
Evening & Weekend Instructor

Julius Bautista
Lead DevOps and Cloud Engineering Instructor

Preston Moody
DevOps and Cloud Engineering Instructor

Reno Averill
DevOps and Cloud Engineering Instructor

Rogelio De La Garza
Foundations of Programming Instructor

Aaron Wood
Quick Pass Instructor

Guillermo Aguilar
Pre Work Coordinator

Greg Drobny
Student Outreach and Recruitment Manager

Kayla Elkin
Marketing Content Manager

Lang Waters
Grants Manager

Tish Johnson
Student Support and Compliance Manager

Katherine Byrnes
Career Services Coordinator

Charles Kubiak
Volunteer Coordinator

GOVERNING BOARD

Edward Donovan
Board President, Chief Operating Officer at TerSera Therapeutics

Don Bora
Co-Founder and Principal of Technology at Eight Bit Studios

Michael Dorsey
Code Platoon alumnus, Owner at MD2 Pro Solutions

Iggy Khan
Managing Director, Head of Digital Products, Chase Merchant Services at JPMorgan Chase

Paul Knudtson
Technology Consulting Manager at Accenture

Dan Reilly
Corporate Vice President at Motorola Solutions

Andrea Fishman
Partner at PwC

Adrianna Grimsley
Manager at KPMG US

Seth Thomson
Partner and Chief Administrative Officer at Geneva Trading

Rene Duquesnoy
Technology Software Services Team Lead at DRW Trading Group

Brian Willard
Uber TL for Risk Platforms at Google

Al Cave
HR & Operations Executive

James Bell
Engineering Manager at Google

ADVISORY BOARD

FOUNDING BOARD

Avi Kaufman
Co-Founder & Managing Broker at Accent Realty

Jill Greer
Nonprofit Management

Curriculum Advisory Committee

Jorge Lara
Software Engineer at Airbnb

George Mauer
Engineering Lead,
Delivery at Ninety

Jim Durán
Site Director
at Motorola Solutions
Innovation Center, Research Park

Chad Mowbray
Data Engineer,
Phrase Health

GOT QUESTIONS?

NEWSROOM CONTACT

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