My Background: Occupation, Education, and Family

Post date: May 09, 2019 1:51:21 PM

Some folks have asked what I do for a living, what else I am involved in besides being a Croton-Harmon School Board member, and about by background.

Since May 2016 I have have been working for Google, as a Technical Program Manager. My job is to manage complexity; organizing projects and programs across multiple teams, and putting into place processes that support achieving the goals of those projects and programs efficiently and predictably, all while creating a great work experience for the team members. Besides projects, T/PMs also develop, manage, and improve processes — patterns of work flowing between teams that have many things in common with projects, except that they repeat over and over again instead of having the fixed start and end dates.

In addition, as many of you know, I am the Eastern Regional Director for Destination Imagination of New York (nydi.org), a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. The Destination Imagination (DI) program empowers kids to use teamwork and creative thinking to solve challenges developed by topic experts to teach about engineering, the arts, culture, science and community service. DI fosters friendly competition against teams from around our region, from the rest of New York, and from all over the world. Or goal is to inspire and equip kids to achieve anything they can imagine in life.

I am also a member of Congregation Sons of Israel in Briarcliff Manor, where I have served on the synagogue Board of Trustees, and do other volunteer work.

Before all of that, I grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, attending the Beth Tfiloh Day School until 8th grade, and graduated from Pikesville High School. I received a Bachelor of Science degree in Math and Computer Science from University of Rochester in 1988, and worked on information technology in the finance industry for 28 years before moving to Google in 2016.

I moved to Croton with my family in 2001. My wife, Zhanna Glazenburg, is a physics and engineering teacher at Croton-Harmon High School. We have two sons: Max graduated from CHHS in 2014, and is now launching a career in transportation management. N’yoma is in the CHHS class of 2019, and will be attending Worcester Polytechnic Institute in the fall.

For the kids...

Josh Diamond

josh@windowoffire.com