During his time as chair of finance, Zamorano said he had a strong sense of leadership in guiding the committee’s direction. But this inadvertently resulted in him trying to take all the tasks on himself which not only overloaded him, but made some other members unhappy.

“So I had to learn to delegate throughout the year, assign tasks and make members feel included,” said Zamorano. “I learned to work with others. I was definitely more abrasive at the beginning of the year and I had conflicts with other chairs and other members. I learned to treat people with tact and I learned how to approach them if I disagreed with them.”

Zamorano said he believes that his skills in delegating tasks and working with others will help him during his presidency. Currently many De Anza College programs are being cut and he said he expects to be negotiating with program coordinators over financial constraints.

Zamorano said the hardest part of running for office was managing his time. “I was taking 20 units that quarter, and I was still in the senate as chair of finance so I still had those responsibilities, and senate I would say is like is an eight-hour job a week, except you don’t get paid,” he said. “If you’re more involved, you put in more hours. Like the chairs put in more hours, presidents put in more hours.”

But Zamorano’s work is far from over. His new goals are to increase student involvement in the DASB and to increase the senate’s involvement by collaborating more with clubs and activism on campus.

He said, “The way I want to change our campus basically is to raise that awareness and hopefully we can raise our concerns of our budget, not just the DASB budget, I mean the state budget and the educational budget.”