The H&RS staff members below participated in professional development opportunities at conferences or through involvement in professional organizations.

• Alan Ogi, Laureen Killenberger, Allison Pieloch, Craig Jerome, Chris Johnson and Stephen Rice attended the American College & University Housing Officers-International (ACUHO-I) conference in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  
  
• Amy Van Meter attended the Open Space Facilitation Training.
  
  
• Manny Marquez attended EMS Facilities Software Training.
  
  
• Sheryl Troy-Palladino attended the California School-Age Consortium.
  
  
• Roane Akchurin, Amy Van Meter, Jill Hurd, Marian Bankins, Alan Ogi, Allison Pieloch, Laureen Killenberger, Craig Jerome, Joyce Ester and Eric Heng attended Transformative Mediation training.
  
  
• Pam Lombardo participated in the Governor’s Conference for Women.
  
  
• Cheryl Johnson and Susan Badone attended the American Society of Women Accountants Conference in New Orleans.
  
  
• Erick McCurdy attended the Business Officers Institute (BOI) training and acquired the BOI Financial Certificate.
  
  
• Patty Aijian accomplished her Professional Competency Year 2 goal of distributing her Scripture Memorization program to additional schools.
  
  
• Seth Avakian, Charlene Chew-Ogi, Linda Croyle, Stephen Rice and Shalauna Miller attended the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) annual conference.
  
  
• Rob Donerson, Chris Johnson, Travis Douglas, Jessica Faulk and Lenny Perez attended the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) national conference.
  
  
• Linda Croyle attended the National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education (NCORE) national conference.
  
  
• Lenny Perez attended the Central RAP conference for student leaders.
  
  
• Stephen Rice attended the National Association of College and University Residence Halls (NACURH) conference.
  
  
• Joyce Ester and Stephen Rice attended the Gehring Institute for judicial affairs.
  
  
• Linda Croyle and Delilah Poupore attended the Lillian Roybal Rose Seminar for cross-cultural communication with Santa Barbara County employees.
  
  
• Eric Zobel attended the HOW Design Conference in New Orleans for the second year, gaining exposure to outstanding graphic and web designers, illustrators and artists. He also networked with numerous paper vendors learning about environmental and post consumer waste paper at the annual Paper Exposition.
  
  
• Tom Beland attended Western College & University Housing Officers (WACUHO) annual conference.
  
  
• Jeff Monteloene attended the TMA User’s conference, Supervisory classes and the Association of Higher Education Facilities Officer's APPA leadership training.
  
  
• Mike Pointer attended APPA training.
  
  
• Mark Rousseau attended a seminar in “green” building.
  
  
• DiAnne Voorhees and Kari Samlaska participated in the Supervisory Certificate program.
  
  
• Ginnie Thomas attended Worker’s Compensation training.
  
  
• Jorge Anaya, George Featherson, Manuel Herrera, Manuel Lopez, Teofilo Solis and Gary Taggart attended Irrigation School.
  
  
• Carlos Campos attended Stihl School.
  
  
• Ric Williams attended the American Association of Botanical Gardens & Arboreta (AABGA) Conference.
  
  
• Carlos Marquez and Randy Bittner participated in the International Sanitary Supply Association (ISSA) Interclean training.
  
  
• Doug Canaan attended the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA/NEC) Conference.
  
  
• John Fowler, Ramiro Arreola and Anthony Perez attended Supervisory Classes.
  
  
• Marc Favero participated in refrigeration and air conditional training.
  
  
• Andy Johnson participated in fire alarm systems and APPA Facilities training.
  
  
• Steve Smith and Mark Cooney attended APPA training.
  
  
• Steve Banks attended the AOLA Convention and Expo.