About Jesse P. Luna

The short version:

Jesse Luna has been in the tech industry for the past 12 years doing Web development, marketing, and tech training. He is an active blogger and has created dozens of tech/social media tutorial videos. He has a BA from Stanford University and an MBA and Masters in Computer Information Systems from the University of Denver. Jesse also enjoys cooking, watching independent movies, walking his Labrador, and documenting these activities via social media.

The long version:

Jesse has been involved in teaching and technology since 1986.

By the age of 21, he had interned at Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Princeton’s Chemistry Department, and Stanford’s Materials Research lab.

Jesse Luna re-visiting JPL at the JPL Tweetup in Pasadena...And about to be run over by a mini Mars Rover!
Click to watch the video.

In college he was a counselor for a nationally recognized student-run organization and volunteered for several university tutoring/mentoring groups (when he wasn’t dancing as part of Stanford’s Ballet Folkorico).

Jesse re-visiting Stanford University (Rodin Sculpture Garden)

After college he taught elementary and middle school in the Los Angeles and Bay areas for seven years, focusing on Math, Science, and ESL instruction. One of his former students was recently elected board member of the same school district.

Jesse at McKinley Middle School in Redwood City, where he once taught.

In 1998 he helped launch the new California Science Center as a Community Youth Programs Manager. Youths from his Learn To Earn program served as exhibit presenters and added energy to the amazing launch.

One of the amazing architectural features of the California Science Center, launched in 1998.

Jesse moved out to Denver for seven years to work as a Web programmer and corporate trainer for a high tech electronics company. He helped the company build up its Web site architecture, built a promotion tracking system, and launched over 500 Web promotions. He also earned his Masters in Computer Information Systems degree and an MBA from the University of Denver.

Sketch by Jesse Luna, straddling IT and Biz

In 1998, Jesse co-founded an indie music Dot Com startup (Xposure.to) with his college roommate and several friends. The two year venture ended as funding dried up with the bursting of the Dot Com bubble, but the many lessons will always be remembered.

Xposure.to business card. The company is now 'Dot Gone'

After moving back to Southern California, Jesse was a lecturer at California State University at Channel Islands, the newest school in the CSU system. He taught mostly Business students how to manage information systems and taught them how to blog and build Web sites using HTML.

In 2009, Jesse was part of one of the most amazing ventures of the heart. Jesse created a blog and designed an avatar banner to help a sister promote the effort to save her brother’s life. Over $1Million was raised in three weeks with the help of thousands of online contributions and kind-hearted celebrities. Jesse was interviewed on this cause by WhatGives at BlogWorld 2009. See below.