Leadership

The people accountable for program outcomes.

Clearlight combines district-facing leadership, operations, and real engineering practice — not just marketing copy.
Dr. Kenneth Perry

Dr. Kenneth Perry

Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Kenneth R. Perry is an accomplished inventor and educator with a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He is a co-inventor of the Pulse Oximeter, designed circuits for NASA and Motorola, and has also served as a Computer Science Department chair.

Dr. David Jackson

Dr. David Jackson

Administration / District Liaison

david@clearlightcodeacademy.com

David A. Jackson, Ed.D., is an experienced educational leader whose background includes administration, teaching, research, and district-facing program leadership.

Woodrow Wilson, III

Woodrow Wilson, III

Chief Operations Officer

woody@clearlightcodeacademy.com

Woodrow Wilson oversees business operations, contracts, and delivery readiness, bringing decades of IT operations experience to Clearlight.

Zaire Ali

Zaire Ali

Chief Engineer / Primary Instructor

zaire@clearlightcodeacademy.com

Zaire Ali is a senior cloud infrastructure and MLOps engineer who brings production engineering practice directly into Clearlight classrooms and workshops.

District trust

The team page now clearly supports the schools route instead of functioning like a generic about page.

Family confidence

Parents can see who is actually responsible for instruction, operations, and the partnership conversation.

Supportive internal links

The page now sits inside the broader site path that includes schools, parents, programs, and contact.

Need the right Clearlight contact?

Use the contact page to route district, family, or operational questions to the right person from the start.