Julia Ceballos, February’s Employee of the Month at De Anza College, maintains content at the De Anza website and MyPortal.  
She came to work at De Anza in 2006, first as a temporary employee. Since July 2007 she holds her current position.   
Ceballos works in a team with two other employees at the Technology Resources Group.
“I like working in teams, and also enjoy working with students and with different departments of the college,” she says. “I love to help people to make connections, bring things together and solve problems.”
    Updating the website and tools according to the college’s changes is also her responsibility.
 Ceballos does a lot of staff training on how to use new computer tools.
“Departments have their own staff members for maintaining [their] content on the college website,” Ceballos said.         
 “I mostly oversee the work of departments and train staff.”
With bright black eyes emanating wisdom and kindness, Ceballos says she dreamed of being a news reporter but could not find a job in the field that would give her enough wages for living. After spending years working at different jobs she went back to school to learn new skills for a new era.
At De Anza, she took a wide range of disciplines, from astronomy and environmental studies to graphic design and computer science.   
“I always learned, took classes, but besides journalism I have been interested mostly in arts and technology,” Ceballos said.  
Ceballos says she lives in love with her husband of almost 30 years. Born and raised in California, she graduated from Cal State University in Los Angeles then moved to San Francisco, where she met her husband. The family moved to Sunnyvale and came to De Anza.
The nominator, Lois Jenkins from the marketing department says, “she always does extra work to help people with their websites” and “trains people how to maintain and update websites, while this is not part of her job.”