Dr. Sacha
Joseph-Mathews
Dr. Sacha Joseph-Mathews holds a Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications from the University of the West Indies, Mona campus. A Masters of Science degree in Tourism and Hospitality Management and a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a specialization in marketing. She obtained both her Masters and PhD degrees from Florida State University. Professor Joseph-Mathews has been working and teaching in undergraduate, graduate and executive education for over 20 years and has been an inclusive excellence and marketing consultant for 15 years.
Dr. Joseph-Mathews has taught classes in the United States, the Caribbean, Asia and Africa. She is also an avid researcher and has published articles and done presentations across the globe on several topics including diversity, equity and inclusion, marketing, tourism, customer service, ethical consumption and international business.
In addition to her academic work and teaching at The University of the Pacific, Dr. Mathews runs an active marketing and inclusive excellence consultancy; Joseph-Mathews Consulting where she advises, coaches and trains boards, executives, supervisors and front-line employees both domestically and abroad. Her clients include companies like LA Metro, ACCESS Transit, BART, the State of California, First Five Alameda, The City of Tracy and SamTrans to name a few. She also works with law enforcement agencies such as Lodi PD and the San Joaquin Sheriffs to help them understand their biases and school districts like Lodi Unified and Woodland Unified to limit the effects of bias in schools. She worked with the faculty at the Eberhardt School of Business to develop a Certificate at the University of the Pacific and through her work there focuses primarily on small to medium sized businesses in the Central Valley.
When she is not teaching, researching or training she is travelling the world or hanging out with her husband Noren and their two kids; Naeomi and Lailoni.
Johnny
Arguelles
Johnny Arguelles is the Division Director at CodeStack, a department of the San Joaquin County Office of Education. Johnny is a software engineer born and raised in Stockton, with over 20 years experience in the field. While at CodeStack Johnny has led the development several large software SaaS (software-as-a-service) applications used across the state. He was instrumental in the growth of CodeStack, taking it from 3 full-time staff members, to over 90 today.
Prior to working at the SJCOE, at the age of 19, Johnny co-founded a startup in the Bay Area, which developed the world’s second payment gateway for processing credit cards online. Johnny was part of a small team that pioneered the development of the world’s first payment gateway algorithms, which helped detect and identify fraudulent or suspicious online credit card transactions, and was the world’s first platform that supported multiple merchants on one hosted SaaS model.
While working as a self-taught programmer, Johnny earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and saw first-hand the gaps in a traditional higher education setting compared to technology and practices used in the real-world. This, plus Johnny’s passion for coding and community led him to latest initiative, the establishment of CodeStack Academy. In 2018, under the SJCOE, Johnny launched CodeStack Academy, an immersive software engineering school, to create a pipeline of skilled software engineers and tech entrepreneurs in the Stockton region.