Candidate for
Member; Santa Clara County Board of Education; Trustee Area 2

Charlie Ahern Candidate, Santa Clara County Board of Education, Trustee Area 2

Community Activities

• Board member and member of the Audit Committee, EHC Lifebuilders (previously known as the Emergency Housing Consortium). Non-profit agency addressing the needs of families, children, and single adults with no or low incomes, who need temporary shelter, transitional housing, permanent homes, and supportive services.

• Commissioner, Cupertino. Technology, Information, and Communications Commission.

• Past president of the Board and former Treasurer, Social Advocates for Youth. Non-profit agency providing at-risk youth with temporary shelter and programs addressing transition from foster care to independence, truancy, academic mentoring, and family counseling.

• President of congregational Board, Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Sunnyvale.

• Member, Cupertino's General Plan Task Force.

• Writer; ten years experience developing technical curriculum and documentation for accounting software applications. Currently with a small start-up; previously at Oracle.

• Financial Analyst; fifteen years experience at 3Com and Control Data. Worked with Engineering, Marketing, and Sales organizations.

• Leadership Cupertino
• MBA, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), Finance
• BA, Tufts University, Education and Political Science

• My wife teaches developmentally disabled adults for the Mountain View-Los Altos High School District. Previously taught in a Hope Rehabilitation Services program.

• My son attends De Anza College and attended Cupertino schools since pre-school.

• Mother was a school nurse. Father was a civilian employee of US Army.

• E-mail - charlie@ahernforsccboe.org
• Web page - http://www.ahernforsccboe.org
• Mailing address - 20660 Stevens Creek Blvd., #185, Cupertino, CA 95014