First, I just want to say I'm glad you didn't finish it in time, because otherwise I'd never have had a shot at a gold medal finish in the contest.
As to the logo, excellent stuff. I'm not sure I would've picked up that the creature was supposed to be a ray shark if you hadn't mentioned it. Not that it's a bad image or anything like that, it's just that to me it was pretty stylized and so I would've missed the connection. I'm a bit slow that way sometimes.
I love what you did with the Sunrays text though, it looks really, really great. Very nice idea, I'm going to have to keep that in mind for future inspiration.
The only suggestion I'd make is to make the San Jose a little bigger; it looks too small at the moment and as a result doesn't feel as integrated into the design as it would if it were somewhat larger. Perhaps try making it so that its baseline stretches from the left side of the U to the left side of the R in Sunrays.
Again, great work on the Sunrays text, it looks fantastic.