Originally from Rhode Island, Mr. Ceresa drove out to California in three days in 1994 after earning his Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Bryant University. A few years later, he earned his teaching credential from CSU-East Bay while working full-time for an investment management firm and planning his wedding. He now has the opportunity to help people as they begin to make one of the biggest decisions of their lives! Besides enjoying math and logic puzzles, Mr. Ceresa is an avid runner and helps coach the cross country and track teams here at Northgate.

Ms Tarantino graduated from Cal in 1986 with a degree in Economics and began teaching in 1987. She has taught everything from Pre Algebra through Precalc in 4 different high schools over the last 30 years. She has always taught at the same school as her children attend and she enjoys embarassing them. When she's not teaching, she likes hanging out with her family, reading, and going to the movies (where she talks too loudly about the movie) 

Mr. Tobin graduated with a BA in Math & History, and a PGDE in Math & History from University College Cork, Ireland. He also graduated in Engineering from Cork Institute of Technology.  After teaching in Ireland for two years, he decided to leave home (Ireland) to explore some other education systems. He has taught IB Math in numerous countries including Ireland, Australia and the US. He began working at Northgate in 2010 and established an engineering department with Mr. Lyons in 2012.

He is married to Maya (they met at Mr. Tobin's best friends wedding in Ireland) and he has a son Lochlan. His interests include soccer, golf and, reading non-fiction. He is passionate about Metallica, and Liverpool Football Club.