Staff

List of 7 items.

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  Fin Vega

  Network Security Analyst / Information Technologist
  Bachelor of Science, Lewis University
  Master of Computer Science, Lewis University
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  Stacey Vega

  Information Systems Manager
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  Stacey joined the Sonoma Country Day School community in 2014 as our Registrar and Database Administrator and is now our Information Systems Manager. She manages all of the software systems that make things run smoothly here! Stacey has an Associate's Degree in Business Software from Heald College, in addition to certifications in computer forensics and Blackbaud, the software platform we use at SCDS. Prior to working at SCDS, Stacey spent eight years at Sonoma Academy, working in enrollment and marketing. 
  
  Stacey lives with her husband, Fin, and two children who are in the class of 2025 and 2027. Stacey is a native to the area, and her family opened the first Mexican restaurant in Sonoma County!
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  Sean McFarland

  Operations Manager
  Bachelor of Arts, UC Berkeley
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  Operations Manager Sean McFarland joined SCDS in 2014 after an extended stint as Chief Engineer of Madrona Manor in Healdsburg. After graduating from UC Berkeley in 1993, he caught a serious travel bug which led him to Portugal to write a guidebook on the country, then to Mexico and Central America where he ended up running the Green Tortoise Adventure Travel's Central American operations. After ten years of driving busses through the jungles of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Panama, he decided it was time to move to beautiful Sonoma County with his wife, who he had met on the bus.
  
  He now enjoys a somewhat more predictable life and lives with his wife and son in Forestville. At SCDS he loves keeping the buildings and grounds running smoothly and looking beautiful as well as sharing a lifetime's worth of hands-on skills with the students.
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  David Cordero

  Operations Associate
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  David is one of our Operations Associates. He very much admires our community here at SCDS because students, parents, and staff are all so welcoming. What David enjoys most about being a member of our Facilites team is that he gets to experience the entire campus. He also has the opportunity to interact with the students, from building bird houses with the eighth grade class to mining for gold in the garden with fourth grade scientists. He enjoys traveling with his wife and likes to spend his weekends doing carpentry, working on DIY projects, and biking at Annadel park. 
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  Aly Conway

  Middle School Dean of Students
  Middle School Math
  Bachelor of Science, Sonoma State University
  Master of Arts in Teaching, Sonoma State University
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  Aly Conway began teaching at Sonoma Country Day School in 2015. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Sonoma State University, where she was a four-year member of the Women's Basketball Team and served as Team Captain. Aly participated in the Student Athletic Advisory Committee and was President during her Senior year at SSU. After college Aly worked for a start-up company in the North Bay as a data analyst and also coached basketball at Sonoma State and Cardinal Newman High School. It is through these coaching experiences that Aly discovered that her true calling is teaching. Aly returned to her alma mater to earn a Single Subject Teaching Credential while also teaching in the math department at Santa Rosa Middle School.

  
  

  Aly works to bring out a love of math in all of her students. She challenges them daily to develop strong problem-solving skills as well as teamwork and critical thinking. Aly believes all students have the opportunity to succeed and that making mistakes can actually enhance the learning process when students work hard and persevere.

  
  In her spare time Aly enjoys hiking and being outdoors. She also coaches basketball and loves the opportunity to travel with her teams during the summer.
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  Annaliese Van Sickle

  Extended Programs Associate
  Substitute Teacher
  Bachelor of Arts, Sonoma State University
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  Reina Cardenas

  Security and Safety Liason