Smarter Balanced Staff
Smarter Balanced is a public agency supported by its members, and is housed at the University of California Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension. Contact us.
Executive Team
Tony Alpert
Executive Director
Bryce Carpenter, Ph.D.
Executive Administrative Officer
Rochelle Michel, Ph.D.
Deputy Executive Program Officer
Christyan Mitchell, Ph.D.
Executive Operating Officer
Lynelle Morgenthaler
Executive Program Officer
Executive Team Support
Joana Espinoza
Executive Assistant
Lisa Forns
Executive Assistant
Human Resources
Valerie Chavez
HR Specialist
Kahil Morales
Director of Human Capital Strategy
Sakinah Nuckles
HR Coordinator
Internal Operations
Ana Maria Dascalita Haut
Project Manager
Melissa Estuesta
Contract Monitor
Camilla Fincham
Project Manager
Susan French
Contract Monitor
Rami Houssari
Budgeting and Financial Analyst
Diana Lomas
Administrative Specialist
Renee Longoria
Project Manager
Marty Mineck
Director, Business Development
Bobette Nelli
Project Manager
Militza Seehaver
Finance Specialist
Russ Wegfehrt
Director, Strategic Planning
Jackie Wyatt
Project Manager
Communications and External Affairs
Kimberly Blanchard
Director, External Affairs Programs
Amulet Chambers
Records Specialist
Michael Navarre
Director, Communications
James Nicholson
Writer & Editor
Content and Student Supports
I’Shea Boyd
Quality Control Analyst
Tere Jimena
Lead, Accessibility & Inclusion
Natasha Johnson
Associate Director, English Language Arts/Literacy
Tina Posner
Director, Tools for Teachers
Lori Sheirich
Technical Project Manager
Vitaliy Shyyan, Ph.D.
Director, Student Supports
Shauna Stewart
Administrative Specialist
Bryan Toller
Director, Mathematics
Mark Valderrama
Business Systems Analyst – Test Packaging Lead
Brad Vasil
Director, ELA
Katlyn Westgate
TIMS Production Specialist
Information Technology
Louis Blakely
Cloud Infrastructure Manager
Rashidul Bhuiyan
Quality Analyst
Kristin Bradham
Senior Web Developer
Alex Chivers
Administrative Specialist
Alex Dean
Associate Director, Systems Architecture
Andrew Facchiano
Sr. Web Developer (TIMS)
Peter Flores
Director, Application Services
Melissa Lauzon
DevOps Administrator
David Malveaux
Associate Director of Infrastructure Services
Charles McIntyre
Senior Director, IT
Javasia Mixon
Business Analyst
Ipsita Mohapatra
Test Automation Engineer
Jessica Müller
Associate Director, Systems Architecture
Shankar Ramachandran
Associate Director, Application Administration
Kristi Seymour
UX
Danny Shultz
Associate Director of Systems Architecture
Sanket Sharma
Java Developer
John Wood
Sr. Business Analyst
Xuping Xu
Senior Java Developer (RDW)
Member Services
Supports for Instruction
Sarah Birgé
Educator Engagement Specialist
Lauren Butler
Project Manager, Consortium Reporting
Genoa Faber
Document Specialist, CA Reporting
Chari Holman
Administrative Specialist
Muriel Ortiz
Coordinator, Tools for Teachers
Systems Design
Tharunya Chandrashekar
Data Analyst
Teresa Dillard
Administrative Specialist
Catherine Francis
Director, Psychometrics
Hotaka Maeda
Psychometrician
Shumin Jing
Psychometrician
Donald Murray
Director, Research Data Analysis
Aren Simmons
Research Data Analyst
Julia Wallace
Data Analyst