Jesse Dieker
Chief Operating Officer
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJesse Dieker is a strategic operations leader with nine years of higher-education and program management experience, now serving as Chief Operating Officer for UC Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. He combines rigorous operational discipline—financial management, policy development, and cross-campus partnerships—with a track record of scaling academic and global programs to boost institutional impact and revenue. Previously he built and ran academic operations and student services across top engineering schools (UCLA, USC), often redesigning processes to improve efficiency and conversion across large applicant pools. Equally comfortable managing director-level teams as he is translating mission-driven priorities into measurable outcomes, Jesse brings a pragmatic, data-informed approach to innovation. A former US Scrabble champion and co-founder of woogles.io, he blends analytical rigor with playful creativity that surfaces in unconventional solutions to resource and engagement challenges. Based in Berkeley, he pairs an educational background in business and higher-education administration with hands-on operational execution.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Business Management and Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Science, Business Management and Entrepreneurship at University of Arizona, Eller College of ManagementMaster of Education - MEd, Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs, Master of Education - MEd, Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs at University of Southern California
Github Skills (3)
crossword10
game-ai9
golang7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
magratheazaphod/FREDA_python
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:270 commits, 234 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
magratheazaphod/RDA
Aug 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:97 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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