December 21, 2019od2019Armed Forces, ITComments Off on 025 – Change Agents – Rodney Arthur – Director of Information Technology at DCX-CHOL Enterprises, Inc
Interview aired on 11/06/2019
Radio interview with Rodney Arthur. Mr Arthur is an experienced Cyber Security, and Infrastructure Leader with a demonstrated history of success in both the Retail, and Defense Industries. He is also a US Navy Veteran and is currently serving as an Active Commanding Officer for a reserves communications unit in Tucson, Arizona.
During the interview, Mr. Arthur speaks about his leadership journey and challenges encountered during his professional career.
November 25, 2019od2019Business, EducationComments Off on 023 – Change Agents – Nola Wanta – Senior Director, Business Development & Strategy at Loyola Marymount University
Interview aired on 10/23/2019
Mrs. Wanta most recently served as Director of Program Services for the MBA for Executives (EMBA) Program at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining UCI, Nola held various leadership positions in graduate program management, recruitment and admissions at the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, UCLA Anderson and UCI The Paul Merage School of Business. Currently, she is completing her Ed.D at UCLA. Nola earned an M.A. in social science specializing in demographics and social analysis, and a B.A. in anthropology and social science from UC Irvine.
November 19, 2019od2019Education, LeadershipComments Off on 022 – Change Agents – Dean Dr. Professor Richard Arum – Dean of the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine
Interview aired on 10/02/2019
Dean Dr. Professor Richard Arum is an American sociologist of education and stratification, best known for his research on student learning, school discipline, race, and inequality in K-12 and higher education.
November 19, 2019od2019Health CareComments Off on 021 – Change Agents – Yadab Sam Sitaula – Director Of Case Management at Prime Healthcare
Show aired on 09/25/2019
Mr Sitaula is Director Of Case Management at Prime Healthcare. During the interview, Mr. Sitaula talks about his leadership journey, his position at Prime Healthcare, and climbing Mount Everest.
Karl Tokita is the CEO at Chiron Total a medical marketing and research organization that provides convenient, one-step health checkup programs for early detection and referrals to comprehensive treatments. Mr Tokita was a Board Member of the Irvine Public Schools Foundation and is a current Board Member of the Medici Foundation.
During the interview, Mr. Tokita speaks about his personal journey and the challenges that he has faced in his leadership journey.
Council Member Arlis Reynolds was elected in November of 2018 to represent Costa Mesa District 5, one of two westside Costa Mesa districts. She is the first person elected to represent District 5 as part of the City of Costa Mesa’s historical first District Elections and was sworn in on December 4, 2018.
Dr. Arvind Sathi is the Director and Architect in KPMG’s Global Intelligent Automation and a faculty member with University of California where he teaches courses on Analytics. Dr. Sathi received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University and worked under Nobel Prize-winner Dr. Herbert A. Simon. Dr. Sathi is a seasoned professional with leadership in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science solution development and delivery. He works with IBM clients worldwide to envision and build AI and Data Science solutions. Dr. Sathi was a pioneer in developing AI solutions at Carnegie Group (a Carnegie Mellon startup), leading to its successful public offering as a profitable AI company. At KPMG / Bearingpoint, he led the practices for Intelligent Process Automation, Enterprise Integration, & Analytics. At IBM, Dr. Sathi has led several AI and Data Science programs involving a number of IBM products from IBM Watson, and Hybrid Cloud business units, and has provided technical oversight to IBM’s strategic accounts. He has also delivered a number of workshops and presentations at industry conferences on technical subjects, and holds two patents in data masking. He has published four books on analytics – Cognitive (Internet of) Things, Engaging Customers Using Big Data, Big Data Analytics, Customer Experience Analytics. He has also been a contributing author in a number of Data Governance books written by Sunil Soares, and has published a article series on Advanced Analytics for IBM Developer Works.
Dr. Zinger began his career in education as a high school science teacher in Santa Ana, California, where he had a direct impact on students opportunities to engage in meaningful science learning. It was during these years that he learned that every student can learn, given the right opportunities. As a teacher, Dr. Zinger helped develop a summer program to engage students in deeper learning and established the school’s science fair. He eventually transitioned to school administration and oversaw two schools with 60 teachers and staff, serving more than 600 students.
In his current role as director of the CalTeach program, Dr. Zinger focuses on recruiting and preparing diverse science and math teacher candidates and preparing them to teach in schools serving large proportions of historically underserved students. Through this 4-year program, pre-service teachers can earn a Bachelor of Science in either science or math as well as their teaching credential.
Ty Tran talk about Applied Data Systems, Inc. and how the company is helping customers integrate computing, interconnect, storage, parallel files ystem and middleware.
