Resume

• 1980

  Prapavessi

  Diablo Valley College

  San Francisco Bay Area

  •\tPromoted faculty development in areas of equity

  student success and professional growth; designed and delivered professional development for faculty. \n•\tRecruited and led multi-college faculty teams in projects advancing educational innovations. \n•\tWrote and implemented three national grant awards impacting over 1

  000 students to date. \n•\tFive years of leadership in project development and budget management. \n•\tUsed the mathematics curriculum to connect the classroom to business

  industries and research 
organizations in the Bay Area through field trips

  talks and internships. \n•\tCo-chaired and served on various shared governance college bodies such as accreditation 
committees and college councils. \n•\tNumerous presentations at national conferences and facilitation of training workshops. \n•\tResearched the effectiveness of various mathematics curricula interventions and communicated 
the results to the college community.

  Professor Of Mathematics

  Diablo Valley College

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Mathematics Department Chair

  Department Chair

  Diablo Valley College

  San Francisco Bay Area

  Interim Dean of Mathematics

  Computer Science

  Business

  and Culinary Arts

  Diablo Valley College

  San Francisco Bay Area

  •\tProvides year-round leadership

  management

  participation and development of programs in the areas of Math

  Computer Science

  Business and Culinary Arts

  including hiring and evaluation

  maintaining budgets

  programmatic assessment

  facilitating grant applications and management

  enabling good unit communication and conflict resolution.\n•\tCo-led and supported the development of the MESA (Mathematics

  Engineering and Science Achievement) program at the college. 
\n•\tCo-led and supported the development of the Stemovation program at DVC

  a multi-faceted

  ongoing faculty initiative to bring equity in STEM.\n•\tSupported the Culinary Arts department through its 2018ACFEF (American Culinary Federation Education Foundation) Accreditation. \n•\tSupported Year-Up

  a community partner that offers a one-year

  intensive training programs in IT Helpdesk/Desktop Support for under-served young adults

  ages 18-24.

  Dean of Mathematics

  Computer Science

  Business

  and Culinary Arts

  Diablo Valley College

  Doctor of Philosophy - PhD

  Mathematics

  University of California

  Berkeley

  Master's degree

  Mathematics

  University of California

  Berkeley

• 1977

  Bachelor's degree

  Mathematics

  University of California

  Berkeley