Biography

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The Pasadena Unified School District's business intelligence strategy was featured in the educational technology journal Databus. The article, co-authored by Phil Hopkins and Terence Atkinson, discusses the educational equivalent of corporate ROI when making strategic investments in technology, with an aim toward continuous and steady student performance improvement. Excerpts are available here.

The Web site Phil developed for the Pasadena Unified School District was identified as one of the best K-12 Web sites in the United States by the Center for Digital Education. The site was twice recognized for innovation, delivery of public services, efficiency and student access.


In 2005, Phil was honored with a Tech Champion Award by the U.S. Congressional Black Caucus.

Phil Hopkins

Senior Technology Executive

Phil is the Associate Publisher of Local News Pasadena, a new local journalism project serving the greater Pasadena, California community.

Phil is also the Chief Solutions Officer Emeritus at Sysazzle, Inc. With Sysazzle, his Information Technology consulting clients have included Panavision Inc., UCLA Geffen School of Medicine, Radiology Partners, DaVita Inc., Healthcare Partners, Gila River Indian Community, United States Army, Everytable and a number of high visibility brands supported on a confidential basis.

Before his work with Sysazzle, Phil was the Chief Technology Officer for Circle C Company, the developer of RiteVu™, the world's first results-based talent selection system.

Prior to joining Circle C, Phil was the Director of IT Process Management and Control for Avery Dennison. Phil led the multinational corporation's enterprise collaboration and messaging services, ITIL process management, and software performance and testing operations. Avery Dennison is a global leader in pressure-sensitive labeling materials and retail tag, ticketing and branding systems.

Before his work with Avery Dennison, Phil was the Executive Director of Information Technology for the Pasadena Unified School District, leading the 22,000-student district's technology and instructional television operations. His responsibilities included directing the implementation of mission-critical transaction and business intelligence systems, and creating many of Pasadena Unified's innovative communications technology solutions.

Previously, Phil was the Senior Web Development Manager for Non-Clinical Portals with healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente. His management area included Kaiser's public Web presence (www.kp.org), the corporate intranet (kpnet.kp.org), and the Web design group. He was the creator of Kaiser's innovative Web Academy, and held seven job titles of increasing responsibility during his decade with the HMO. Phil's other IT projects ranged from re-engineering pharmokinetic dosing protocol systems to leading technology support for Kaiser's $6Bn Hospital Alliance project.

Prior to his career with Kaiser, Phil was a journalist covering technology, general science, medicine and business management topics. Phil's media background includes editing consumer magazines (Personal Computer Age, Arcade), editing and reporting for online periodicals (Newsbytes News Service), science writing (The Cousteau Society), managing trade magazines (Rx Home Care, Hospital Information Management), newspaper reporting (San Diego Union/Tribune, La Jolla Light & Journal) in addition to wire service photojournalism (United Press International).

His book projects include co-authoring The Students' Survival Guide series and publishing his father's memoir Elephants Do Like Beer.

Phil majored in Journalism at San Diego State University. He is featured in WatchIT.com's management video, "Telemanaging the Dispersed IT Workgroup." He was awarded a Master-level certification in Project Management by Brainbench and is a member of Project Management Institute.

Phil currently serves as Chair of the Pasadena Community Access Corporation's Citizen Advisory Committee, and is a past Board Chair of the municipal nonprofit organization.

Additional biographical information about Phil is available in Who's Who in America.