San Francisco Bay Area
Creative and innovative communications professional with experience evaluating and creating executive and employee communications programs, making enhancements and maximizing employee engagement and corporate programs worldwide. Possesses highly diversified writing experience with a proven ability to quickly move between corporate and executive messaging, community involvement, employee culture to external blogs and social media. Strong community involvement and extensive external and internal event planning experience with an emphasis on strategic planning and execution of executive and corporate-level initiatives and projects.
• Provide strategic business and political expertise. • Provided extensive day-to-day management and support of field operations for Residents and Business to Save Saratoga, No on Measure Q campaign. • Provided day-to-day campaign management for Forrest Williams for Santa Clara County Supervisor, June 2010 election. • Program design and development for a Multinational Women’s Conference. • Successfully planned, organized and decorated a sit down dinner for over 300 attendees for a homecoming fundraiser for Commander Otto Lee; raised over $50,000. • Successfully managed multiple Sunnyvale City Council campaigns including Anthony Spitaleri (November 2005 and 2009), Ron Swegles (November 2007), Tara Martin-Milius (November 2011), Glenn Hendricks (November 2013). • Responsible for creating budget, timelines, coordinating fundraisers, public appearances, writing text for brochures, speeches, endorsement questionnaire responses. • Participate in public and civic events. • Assisted with management and organization of Business Roundtable program to bring government, community and business leaders together. • Assist with the annual SUNPAC Political Action Committee fundraisers and events. • Ongoing community outreach, support during two Mayoral terms for Anthony Spitaleri.
Responsible for managing a small team dedicated to strengthening our high-level corporate messaging and brand internally and externally. Project manager and active contributor for the following: • Developing new programs and communication channels to elevate our employee engagement and strengthen our sense of Cypress community through an engaging and collaborative culture. • Global social responsibility program focusing on community, education and the environment. • Corporate sponsorship for the #5 Arrow McLaren SP Indy Car. • Global Philanthropy Program. • Corporate University Alliance Program. • Partner with executive team on external presentations, keynote opportunities, blogs, social media and true thought leadership direction. • Key stakeholder for the corporate intranet and redesign efforts. • Internal events including quarterly employee All Hands, Sr. Leadership conferences, Sales conferences and annual Supplier events. • Actively search out collaborative opportunities to breakdown silos and strengthen cross functional direction. • Partner with global facilities team to ensure internal branding meets our corporate standards. • NDA communication plans. • Writing and editing internal communication distributed to our global workforce.
• Tasked with establishing a new Northern California market for DISYS • Account Management and growth for Chevron California • All new business development from identifying target client list, client intelligence, cold calling, relationship building, etc
• Responsible for establishing and developing partnerships with strategic accounts throughout California, including Chevron, Rockwell Collins, Flextronics, Samsung, Applied Computer Solutions, ePlus, etc. • Tasked with furthering the company's presence in the Network Deployment project and Engineering project space. • Successfully placed 22 consultants and 5 direct hire employees during my first year with an average gross margin of 25%.