Computer Technologies Program Board

President
Ainsley Nies
Principal
Acorn Consulting Enterprises

Board Secretary
Tim McInerney
Programmer/Analyst
Information Services & Technology
U.C. Berkeley

Board Treasurer
Helen Cademartori
Chief Financial Officer
University Health Services
U.C. Berkeley

Board Member
Jane Fabian

Board Member
Shirley Mar
Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator
SCIF

Board Member
Pamela Pitts
President
Pamela Pitts Consulting

Board Member
Linda Pratt
IT Group Lead
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Ainsley Nies graduated from CTP in 1978. She has remained involved with the program in many aspects and received an award from the California Department of Rehabilitation for Public Service. Ainsley has also served as a member at large for a national association, Association of Rehabilitation Programs in Computer Technologies. She created and sponsors the "Al Nies" Further Award for students of CTP programming classes. Ainsley launched her consulting business in 2005 after more than two decades of programming and project management work in IT and Finance at Hewlett Packard. Ainsley joined the CTP board in 2002.

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Linda Pratt graduated from the University of Colorado in Bolder in 1974 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. A car accident in 1978 resulted in a spinal cord injury that left her paraplegic. Linda enrolled in CTP's Programming Class #13 in 1982 and graduated in May of 1983 after an internship at Transamerica Airlines. She worked for the airline until 1985 and then for Southern Pacific Railways until 1987. In 1987 she started as a senior programmer with the University of California in Berkeley in the Administrative Systems Department. Today, she still works in the same UCB department as a Computer Resource Manager serving the Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Purchasing centralized systems. Linda and Joe Pratt, a CTP guest lecturer, were married in 1984 and have two teen-aged children. Linda has continued to stay active with the CTP Business Advisory Council and Alumni by participating in a capital campaign, technical review boards, providing internships and hiring CTP graduates. By June of 2001, Linda joined CTP's Board of Directors.

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Helen Cademartori has worked in accounting and finance for the past 12 years; in the early days as a sideline while attending graduate school and becoming a mom, and then full-time for the past 8 years. She was controller of a San Francisco based recruiting firm and has worked as a consultant to sole proprietors and small businesses in manufacturing, construction, service-oriented and health care sectors for over a decade. Helen is now the Chief Financial Officer for University Health Services - Tang Center at U.C. Berkeley.

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Shirley Mar Shirley Mar joined the CTP board in 2007 and has used her business contact experience to help the CTP’s technical review board by recruiting new business volunteers for the training evaluations for students. Shirley graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in Social Sciences and Golden Gate University with a MBA. She is on the advisory board of the Marriot Foundation for the Bridges from School to Work Program since 2007. Shirley is currently employed at the State Compensation Insurance Fund as an Equal Employment Opportunity Coordinator. She works with employees needing reasonable accommodation in performing the essential functions of their jobs. Shirley serves on the company’s Disability Awareness Committee (DAC). She investigates sexual harassment and discrimination complaints in her assigned territory. Shirley was born and raised in the Bay Area and currently resides in San Francisco with her family.

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In 1980 Pamela Pitts was the first manager at the Federal Reserve Bank to hire a graduate from CTP. She became involved with the CTP Business Advisory Council and eventually became the BAC chairperson. Although Pam left the Federal Reserve Bank to start her own consulting company, she continues to hire CTP graduates. Pam is also active in city government and proudly served as a council member for her home town, Vallejo. Pam has been involved in all aspects of CTP's program and is a member of the CTP Board.

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Linda Pratt,
CTP Board Member