I was born in Canada, but at the age of two, my family decided to return to Portugal where I spent the next decade growing up. When I was almost 12, my family moved to Santa Barbara and then a couple years later to the Bay Area. During my college years I worked local construction jobs while earning my Mechanical Engineering degree coupled with a heavy course load in business. After graduation, I worked as an Engineer in Fortune 500 companies like IBM, Seagate and Applied Materials. Some years later I left engineering and employed my business education at Merrill Lynch as a Research Analyst covering companies with multi-billion dollar market caps. One of th...

I moved from Wales, UK to the San Francisco Peninsula in 2001 with my husband and our two young children. After renting in Redwood City for a few years, we bought our current home in San Carlos. It took us a while to get familiar with our new surroundings, and we were in for a bit of a culture shock. I’ve always had an interest in home building and construction. My father did plasterwork when I was growing up, and I helped him on construction sites during the school vacations. After settling in the Bay Area, I studied interior design at Canada College in Redwood City and opened my own interior design staging business. I earned my real estate license in 2012...

Proud to be born and raised in the Pearl of the Orient Seas. The Philippines, where it's sunny every day except for the monsoons. Grew up with the loving care of a single mother who taught me to always share what I can and be kind. Mom always tells me that I can always get a fresh start every day and be a better person than I was yesterday, I grew up with these words. Ever since I've always adored the idea of being able to share what I can and what I know with the world, there is something about it that makes me wonder how can an act take you somewhere far. I took the Bachelor of Secondary Education Major in English (BSEd – English) at the Lyceum Unive...

Thankful to have a wonderful family, friends and people around me. I was born in the Philippines during the 80s, just years before the Internet hit the world. Life was so much simpler then. I love reading, studying... when I was young, I probably spent more time in the library than any place else. I was granted a scholarship from elementary to high school, and graduated with an IT / Business degree in college. After that I spent about 10 years in the music industry. Music and helping musicians became a passion in life. It taught me how to never give up, how to think outside the box; and gave me a lot of experiences I never thought I would have, like organize ...

Connie is as local as one can be. Raised on the water in Foster City, she attended San Mateo High School and graduated from UC Berkeley, where she competed on the Crew team. After living in and backpacking through Europe, she worked in cutting-edge business technology sales for over a decade in San Francisco and the surrounding areas. During this time, she presented to and consistently won Fortune 500 contracts. In 1996, she purchased her first (and current) home in Burlingame, and fell in love with the community. She has raised her children there and spent years of impactful work within the Burlingame community helping to shape and raise funds for the sch...