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Detroit, MI, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Consulting on sales, fundraising, content and consumer insights for business development teams looking to grow in the US and Asia.

Los Angeles, California, United States

Managing business development for Ouroboric's Music Reality Show 'The 7 Day Album'

Farmington Hills, Michigan, United States

Teaching classes on Chinese history, culture and film to residents at my mom's senior living home. Moderating focus groups to help management curate the best entertainment choices for the residents.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

Content production, celebrity outreach and corporate fundraising for Go4Garrett'sSpace - an annual event supporting this critical suicide prevention non-profit.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Advising Tempus on global development plans and back to office Covid-19 testing.

Hong Kong

Engaging the wonderful world of Fox, including Fox Entertainment, Fox Sports and National Geographic, to tell brand stories across Asia and the Middle East.

Shanghai City, China

Overseeing the development and re-branding of our entertainment content division from Access to Wavemaker - including expansion of our creative services and digital content offers, while continuing our rapid growth in TV and Film.

Shanghai City, China

Launched a new content division in China for one of the top global media agencies.

Beijing

Directing DMG’s efforts to build sponsorship platforms around our ever-growing house of China-market entertainment properties. This covers leveraging all branded content opportunities in traditional and new media, for all kinds of entertainment properties, including Film and TV.

Beijing

• Developing and executing China growth strategy, including an updated marketing plan and refined product development silo for an emerging digital media agency specializing in interactive branded content for customers.
• Creative development of stories and campaigns that broadcast brand messaging through all key China entertainment mediums including Film, TV, Web, Shopping Malls, Elevator, Events and Art.
• Production of custom content models including Tina’s World, a web show about a Chinese teen video blogging her way to study in the US, and Do You Know Me, an elevator show featuring the concerns of young Chinese.
• Managing multi-media event marketing campaigns that integrates branded web video with live action content for major partnerships between international philanthropies and leading China market brands such as Olay.

• China Activity
• Managed all aspects of business development relationships with China market brands to develop interactive digital media campaigns that blurred the line between entertainment and advertising.
• Designed community web show concepts that spur interactivity by incentivizing netizens to participate on crafting where the story goes.
• Created Chinese web show The 421 Mom, a reality show addressing the challenges for China’s one child mothers, for the top international diaper brand in China.
• Wrote the Chinese movie Distance Runners in cooperation with sponsorship from a major international footwear client, weaving brand messages into script.US Activity
• Developed film, TV and short form branded web content for new media campaigns designed to increase brand awareness and market share for US retail clients.

• Managed all business development activity within a 20 state Midwestern US territory for innovative mass market retailers-focused technology service in the Far East.
• Negotiated global proposals, including establishing relationships, developing marketing material, setting pricing and delivering presentations to audiences from all departments within the product development cycle.
• Managed 50 sales representatives to identify targets, develop initial sales cycle and enlist product manager support, resulting in annual net revenue increases from 550,000 USD in 1995 to 21,600,000 USD in 2004
• Managed three customer service representatives based in Chicago to establish and maintain detailed standard operating procedures for cargo and data, which yielded a 94% retention rate.
• Supervised vendor conferences in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei, Singapore, Cairo, Rotterdam and London

• Managed all business development activity within a Los Angeles territory for 33 billion USD multi-nationalocean cargo carrier focusing specifically on imports from Asia to the US.
• Negotiated a 65% increase in annual tonnage, including first time development of Kenya, Lesotho andSouth Africa trade lanes.
• Designed client specific purchase order tracking reports to meet client demands for additional levels ofinformation detail during peak shipping seasons.

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science, Chinese

Activities and Societies: Sigma Alpha Mu

Screenwriting, Film Business

Private Study, Mandarin Chinese