About Catherine Vonnegut

• Pragmatic problem solver and collaborative team member, connecting people, ideas, and resources
• Effective and creative facilitator, providing timely, reliable information
• Experienced community and business leader and board member with management, planning, finance, and operations skills

EXPERIENCE AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Current President of MVLA Board of Trustees.
• MVLA trustee for the last 4 years. Participated in many significant decisions for the district.
• A Founder of Choral Fest: Worked, in my role as PTA Council president, with Community School of Music and Art and Mountain View - Whisman School District to create PTA-CSMA-MVWSD event at Shoreline Amphitheater.
• Past President of the Mountain View High School PTSA (2 years)
• Developed websites for Challenge Team, Los Altos/Mountain View PTA Council, Mountain View Education Foundation (MVEF) and candidates for elected office.
• Created information materials for incoming high school freshmen parents and handbook for parents in elementary school.
• Created emergency procedure postings for schools and church
• Led several “bail out” projects in software development
• Worked with Joint Venture Silicon Valley Network Disaster Preparedness Initiative
• Wrote parent/teacher scheduling software previously used by MVLA
• Current Tresurer of a non-profit endowment fund
• Current webmaster for Challengeteam.org
• Current co-chair of Los Altos Garden Club scholarship committee (for Foothill horticulture students)
• Past member MVSD district-level committee to discuss school open/closures 35 years ago.
• Past member MVWSD district-level finance committee
• Past Chair School Site Council at both Bubb and Graham
• Past President Los Altos Mountain View PTA Council (also Treasurer)
• Past President Bubb PTA (also treasurer)
• Chair Bubb walkathon
• Past board member Sixth District (Santa Clara County) PTA
• Recipient of PTA service awards at Bubb and PTA Council

PROFESSIONAL, EDUCATIONAL AND PERSONAL INFORMATION

• Retired software engineer/manager
• Former volunteer EMT with the Red Cross
• Recipient of Control Data Technical Excellence award
• Past consultant to MVLA in technology and emergency preparedness
• Past substitute teacher, MVWSD
• Past board member, MVEF
• Past vounteer Red Cross instructor of CPR, first aid, EMR, babysitting (CPR for over 35 years)
• MS in Computer Science and BS in Mathematics – Purdue University
• Former Santa Clara County licensed EMT
• Leadership Mountain View graduate
• Mountain View Citizen Police Academy graduate
• Mountain View CERT program graduate
• Resident/Home owner in Mountain View since 1977
• Married with one adult son (attended Bubb, then Graham and graduated MVHS 2005, teaches high school chemistry locally)

mailing address: PO Box 4149 Mountain View, CA 94040