Jane Dick

Experience

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  Apple

  Aug 1991 - Aug 1997

  Developer Support Program Manager
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  HomeChef

  Dec 1997 - Jan 2000

  Cooking School Manager and Instructor

  Managed the kitchen and cooking school staff and also taught courses in this kitchen store and cooking school.

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  Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation

  Jun 2000 - Jun 2002

  Trustee
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  Kappa Alpha Theta Headquarters

  Jun 2000 - Jun 2002

  Fraternity Vice-President Alumnae

  Director on the Board of the Fraternity, chair of the Alumnae Committee.

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  Friends of Preschool Family

  Mar 2008 - Mar 2014

  President

  Board member 2008-2011, President 2011-2014Supporting organization for Preschool Family, a 65 year-old parent education preschool.

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  Ohlone Elementary School PTA

  Jul 2009 - Jun 2011

  President

  Co-president (2009-2010) and President (2010-2011) of very active Parent Teacher Association. Worked very closely with principal of 600-student elementary school on identifying and addressing school community issues.

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  Palo Alto Unified School District

  Aug 2011 - Jan 2023

  Manage the office in a very busy 600-student alternative public elementary school (K-5), assisting students, staff, and parents. Solve problems, operate (cheerfully) in interrupt-mode, improve communications and processes, assist with budgets and expenses, help with boo-boos and hurt feelings, first-line contact for prospective parents. Work in small groups and one-on-one with 2nd and 3rd graders and provide support to credentialed teacher. Manage office in busy 600+ student school, assisting staff, students, and parents (on a substitute basis).

  • School Secretary

    Apr 2016 - Jan 2023

  • instructional aide & office sub

    Aug 2011 - Apr 2016
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  Connections Program at JLS Middle School

  Jul 2012 - Jun 2014

  Board co-chair

  Co-chair of parent-staff board of middle school project-based learning community program.

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  Ohlone Elementary School

  Aug 2012 - Jul 2013

  Site Council Chairman

  Chaired committee of school administrators, staff, and parents to set school-wide plan of student achievement. Instituted tracking of data to measure against plan goals and created/implemented school community survey as additional data collection.

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  Kappa Alpha Theta Headquarters

  Jun 2014 - Jul 2024

  Fraternity Vice-President

  Director on the governing board of Kappa Alpha Theta, an international women's fraternity with over 200,000 members.

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  Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation

  Jul 2024 - now

  Board Trustee

  Trustee on the board of the Kappa Alpha Theta Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization focused on securing and managing the resources to further the educational, leadership, and philanthropic programs of Kappa Alpha Theta and to support the scholastic, professional, and service pursuits of its members.