Tech Reformers
John Krull
President,
Amazon Authorized Instructor (AAI)
John Krull, Founder and President, is a Trainer and Consultant for Tech Reformers. He is the former CIO at Seattle Public Schools and CTO at Oakland Unified School District. Prior to leading school system technology, John worked at Microsoft and various startups implementing web and video technologies. John began his career as a teacher.
Emil Nisanov
Strategic Advisor,
Client Relationship Director
Emil Nisanov, Strategic Advisor and Client Relationship Director, is a former AWS Sr. Account Manager. Â Whether you are starting your cloud journey or have a cloud-first strategy, Emil can help with a solution to help facilitate teaching and learning, launch student analytics initiatives, and manage IT operations. He shows clients how AWS delivers a set of compute, storage, database, analytics, application, and deploy services that lower costs, scale applications, respond quickly in emergencies, and meet the ever-changing needs of clients.
Jason Morales
Strategic Advisor
Jason Morales is a Strategic Advisor and Data Specialist. In his previous role as Global Strategy Lead for Data & AI on the Worldwide Education team at Microsoft, he helped to launch and scale the Open Education Analytics (OEA) initiative to institutions, ministries and departments of education globally.
He co-hosts the podcast Ideate: Re-thinking Data & AI in Education to explore how guests foster innovation within their organizations using data and artificial intelligence.
Arif Bangash​
Strategic Advisor,
DevOps Engineer,
Amazon Authorized Instructor (AAI)
Arif Bangash is a Strategic Advisor, DevOps Engineer, and Amazon Authorized Instructor (AAI). Arif is a collaborative, experienced pre-sales Solution Architect with a wealth of experience designing and implementing Greenfield, SMB and enterprise-grade AWS Cloud Service solutions encompassing serverless, microservices, and security.
Bill Baig
Strategic Advisor,
DevOps Engineer,
Amazon Authorized Instructor (AAI)
Bill Baig is the Senior Cloud Architect, Consultant, & Principal Trainer with Tech Reformers. Bill has a strong focus on cybersecurity and is a Cybersecurity Architect in the financial industry. Bill is also a University Professor.
Katherine Adraktas
Training Coordinator, Curriculum Developer
Katherine Adraktas is the Training Coordinator and Curriculum Developer for Tech Reformers. Katherine has many years of experience as a trainer and training leader. She founded Capitol Training in Sacramento, gaining valuable experience working with public sector agencies.
Tasha Penwell
Amazon Authorized Instructor (AAI), Marketing Manager
Tasha Penwell has experience over the past 10 years in a combination of education and technology. As an Amazon Authorized Instructor (AAI) she makes a conscientious effort to continue to cultivate the merger of these two. She brings in real-world experiences and analogies that help learners grasp cloud concepts.
