Executive Director
Joan Breves
510 849 2911 extension 302
joan@ctpberk.org

Admissions and Student Services Coordinator
Mark Hendrix
510 849 2911 extension 303
mark@ctpberk.org

Business Advisory
Placement Coordinator
Anne Steiner
510 849 2911 extension 307
asteiner@ctpberk.org

IT Manager /
Technical Instructor
Alex Tabony
510 849 2911 extension 304
alex@ctpberk.org

Office Systems Training
Program Coordinator/Instructor
Dana Cayce
510 849 2911 extension 305
dcayce@ctpberk.org

Deaf Services Coordinator
Mykel Gubin, CI & CT
510 849 2911 extension 306
Voice and Video Phone: 510 849 2911
mykel@ctpberk.org

Office and Finance Manager
Christine Rombilas
510 849 2911 extension 301
christine@ctpberk.org

NTST Lab Instructor
Web Developer
Jasper Hill
jasper@ctpberk.org

Volunteers at CTP
Rose White
Dina Valicenti

Since 1981, Joan Breves has been part of over 400 CTP graduates success stories. As Executive Director, Joan is responsible for ensuring that all operations are in line with CTP’s mission. She analyzes and approves the budget, oversees each staff position and maintains active communication with community leaders, executives of funding agencies and other stakeholders important to CTP’s mission.

When Joan started at CTP she traveled around to the different rehabilitation facilities to talk to potential students about the Computer Technologies Program. Joan was CTP’s top recruiter. It didn’t matter if that potential student was still in a hospital bed undergoing treatment or getting ready to go forth into the world. Joan wanted everyone to know about the opportunities that awaited them at CTP.

It is Joan’s passion and enthusiasm for providing disabled people with opportunities that has made CTP a success for over two decades. CTP continues to hold a high placement rate for its students and now offers a Networking and Technical Support Training program in addition to the Office Systems Training track. Over 60 Bay Area corporations participate as members of CTP's Business Advisory Council.

Besides the many awards that she has received throughout the years, Joan's most impressive accomplishment was overseeing a $450,000 capital expansion campaign to allow CTP to enhance and expand its services to the community. By partnering with a developer to build a mixed-use facility which includes a ground floor café and a garden rooftop, CTP currently has 4000 sq ft office and training space in downtown Berkeley's burgeoning Art District.

Joan is the proud recipient of the Willard Scott Award for her unique and outstanding contributions to the National Association of Rehabilitation Programs in Computer Training. She has been honored by nine partners of the Ed Roberts Campus Project for her insight and vision in the creation of that campus and she has received an award from the State of California Department of Rehabilitation for her outstanding services in providing employment for persons with disabilities.

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When Alex Tabony was a young he enjoyed taking things apart to see how they worked. His junior high school had one of the first computer labs, and Alex hung out there before, during and after school to learn how computers worked.

After graduating from the University of Cincinnati with a B.A. in mechanical engineering, Alex applied his degree to what he loves most: computers. He spent several years working as an independent computer consultant, computer programmer, network administrator and web developer before coming to CTP in 1999.

Currently, Alex administers to all of CTP's computer needs. He teaches, performs server administration and maintains CTP's computers. He has an innate ability to see the big picture and knows what academic skills are necessary in the working world. He develops appropriate curriculum for each class, taking into account market trends and BAC feedback, so that each student can learn as much as possible within the duration of the NTST program and be adequatly prepared for their first technical support position.

Alex understands that learning how to work with computers and networks takes huge amounts of patience. He applies that patience to his classroom training and works with his students so that they can complete projects with great proficiency while still meeting the assigned project deadlines.

Alex is an approved post-secondary instructor. In his spare time, he enjoys writing, reading, seeing movies, building websites and evaluting and drinking coffee.

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When Mykel Gubin first became fascinated with American Sign Language while living on Long Island, he had no idea that one day he would have a career involving the language.

In 1998, Mykel completed an interpreter training program that utilized Berkeley s Vista College curriculum. Upon graduation, Mykel was employed at Mill Neck Services for Deaf Adults as an employment consultant/advocate working with the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing. The job consisted of assisting them with their employment needs, training and education. At the same time, he worked part-time as a freelance interpreter.

Mykel made the transition to full-time freelance interpreter in 2002. Within a year, he decided to take advantage of the benefits of freelancing and moved to his favorite place: San Francisco. Always wanting to live in California since he was a child, Mykel made the city his new home.

After freelancing in the Bay Area for a couple of years, Mykel took over Maureen Fitzgerald s position as the Deaf Services Coordinator at CTP. In addition, he continues to freelance as a certified interpreter.

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Most of Rose White's career was in the social services field. She worked as a mental health counselor and a pre and post HIV test counselor. It wasn't until after her retirement, when she was looking through one of her friend's books, that she realized that she had an inherent understanding of technology.

Rose enrolled in the Office System Training at CTP and found that she enjoyed technology and working in jobs that have people contact. Offering to volunteer at CTP, Rose is now the receptionist and intake coordinator for students who are blind. Rose loves the ease of performing tasks on a computer, typing a letter and pushing a button to print it. There is nothing like the instant results.

Rose's hobbies include music, cooking and gardening. She is known for her homemade cobblers and pies. Rose sang professionally with the Walter Hawkins Love Center Choir, a gospel choir, and with various local jazz groups. She is the mother of four adult children, grandmother of five, and has one great grand child.

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Former Director
of Training
Joe Quinn