Team

Edward King

I.T. Networking.  Edward is a senior-level executive with extensive experience in computer systems, finance, administration, and public accounting.  Edward’s experience in diverse industries includes light and heavy manufacturing, retail industries, food and restaurant industry leaders, government and military defense industries, public schools, and banking industries.  Edward has proven abilities to improve operations, develop business growth and maximize profits.  Edward received a BS degree in Mathematics from San Diego State, a BS degree in Accounting and an MS in Cybernetics from San Jose State.  In addition to Edward’s education, he also holds various different licenses to include Certified Public Accountant, Cisco Certified Network Associate, CompTIA Security+ and CompTIA A+ and Network+ Certifications.  Prior to Alliance Career Training Solutions, Edward worked as an Accountant, a Finance Director, VP of Finance, Chief Financial Officer, and Chief Executive Officer.  Edward is passionate about keeping up to date with the current technology and enjoys stepping into a classroom to teach students the latest information.  He believes in empowering individuals through education.

As far as our students are concerned, Ed is the best thing to come along since microchips! His wealth of knowledge about all things “techie” and his skills as an instructor made him an instant favorite.

Julie King

Business Law Instructor.  Julie received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a member of the Political Science Honor Society.  She received her Juris Doctor degree from Loyola Law School, was an extern law clerk to the Justice of the California Court of Appeal, Fourth Appellate District.  Julie has over 25 years of experience in law practice; worked as the Assistant General Counsel of Toshiba America Business Solutions, Inc., and its 16 independently-operating subsidiaries.  She has counseled and trained employees for McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. on contracts, licensing, trademarks and handling legal issues of the company.  Julie is a noted speaker with the State Bar of California; Continuing Education of the Bar of California; the Celtic Bar Association; the Orange County Bar Association; and Lorman Education Services. Additionally, she has been a guest lecturer on employment law at the California State University, Fullerton, and taught classes at Western State University School of Law and the University of California Irvine’s Paralegal Program.  Julie has been active in the Association of Corporate Counsel and served on her Chapter’s Board of Directors for eight years, including as its President.  She also served for four years as the Co-Chair of her local bar association’s Corporate Counsel Section and was honored as a Woman of Distinction in the Business Law Community.

With over 25 years as an attorney, Julie keeps us out of trouble. She always lends a hand, teaches classes, and has a great sense of humor.

Alex Sanchez

Microsoft Introduction and Academic Director.  Alex has been teaching Microsoft Office and other business software for over ten years.  He is a Certified Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Master, with training in staff supervision and classroom management.

Alex helps ensure your delight with your Alliance Training experience by overseeing all of our instructors, curriculum, and courseware. A man of many talents and great humility, Alex has an informal student fan club.

Carolyn Gallego

carolyn@alliancetrains.com

Jose Avalos

Microsoft Software Instructor.  Jose has been teaching Microsoft Office and other business software programs for over 10 years.  He has achieved the title of Certified Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Master and continues to learn new software relevant to his classes as it is released.  Additionally, he is training in other software to reach a new level of qualification that will allow him to teach more classes.

Jose teaches career retraining programs as well as one-day classes for our business clients. Jose is a certified Microsoft Master whose students often praise him for his tremendous patience.

Paula Matelli

Paula is an IT business professional with 30 years experience in many aspects of the Information Technology/Information Systems field.  Paula started her own business, PJ Grafx, in October of 1991 as a graphic designer and desktop publisher.  She went on to become a State of California Credentialed Instructor and has been teaching since 1992. She has taught a wide range of classes from beginning computers to advanced programming.  She is well versed in custom database design and custom programming for Microsoft Excel. Her teaching qualifications include the following: database design with Microsoft Access, graphic design & desktop publishing with Dreamweaver, InDesign and Acrobat, SharePoint-both on-premise and cloud versions, VBA for applications, Power BI and PowerPivot, Dashboarding with Excel, SQL, Crystal Reports, and Tableau.

Bill Koresko

Bill comes to us with over 30 years of IT experience, and it shows–our equipment and classrooms are running like clockwork! On top of keeping us online, Bill will be teaching IT students to take the byte out of troubleshooting PCs and Networks.

Glenn Woodson