Ms. Tina Mata is manager of Applications Development and Business Processes in UC San Diego Housing Dining Hospitality’s Information Technology division. 

HDH is a $100 million business providing students, faculty, staff and affiliates of UC San Diego with a variety of housing and dining services throughout the campus and university community. Mata’s specific role is to provide leadership and vision for HDH’s technological strategies. She supervises a dynamic staff of programmers responsible for creating enterprise applications, both web-based and client-server, across the various and diverse divisions  of HDH. She also oversees the new and improved Triton Card Accounts Services office which administers a number of Point of Sales programs on the Campus ID card such as the Dining Meal Plan and Stored Value Campus ID Card program, Triton Cash.

Mata earned a Bachelor of Arts in Math-Computer Science at UC San Diego and a Masters of Business Administration from Point Loma Nazarene University. Her MBA thesis project was to perform a cost benefit analysis of the prior UC San Diego Stored Value Campus ID Card program to determine its value to HDH and to UC San Diego as a whole, and how to rebuild and re-launch the program in a more efficient and fiscally responsible manner.

Mata and her husband and two children reside in San Diego. She enjoys watching her children’s activities of flute, figure skating, ice and roller hockey, and has taken up a new hobby of flower arranging. She also volunteers at her church as a facilitator for high school students’ religious education.