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Portland, Oregon, United States

Provide strategic and operational frameworks that provide a roadmap for success in public policy and government affairs, strategic communications and brand management, political campaign management, movement building strategies, application development and user experience design, international business, entertainment and digital media, hospitality, and leadership development and human design, and non-profit governance and management.The team at Strategy1 has collectively nearly 40 years combined as thought leaders in all areas of the economy, and have trained nearly 20,000 people to take leadership roles that elevate the success of their entire department, company, or personal life mission.See for yourself, why there is only one team and one strategy that you need: ...experience STRATEGY 1.

Nationwide

MEUSA aims to secure legally recognized civil marriage equality for all, without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity, at the state and federal level through grassroots organizing, education, action and partnerships. MEUSA’s Board is a special hybrid board where some members take on staff or leadership roles within the operations of the organization.In my capacity on the Board of Directors key highlights include:• Served on the Board Executive Committee as Board Vice President.• Served as an Ad-Hoc Member of the organization's Executive Team.• Co-Director of MEUSA’s Website Re-Design/IT Infrastructure project – managed the day-to-day operations.• Managed special project operations and strategic initiatives in the areas of Communications, Advocacy, and Public Engagement. • Set the organizations strategic short and long-term goals.• Managed and cultivated relationships to secure additional funding to sustain and increase organizational programmatic effectiveness and longevity.• Facilitated public engagement activities of the organization.• Served as an organizational ambassador to the community and built and managed long-term coalitions.• Approved and appropriated expenditures.• Aided in the development of the organizational work plan and programmatic development.• Served on the event and fundraising committees to increase the organizations resources and effectiveness.• Educated on behalf of the organization to volunteers nationwide and other groups such as UCLA’s 2013 Queer Youth Empowerment Day in the areas of effective messaging, organizing and lobbying strategies, capacity building, and leadership development.

Greater Los Angeles Area

LASTRA represents the owners, operators, and supporters of the Short Term Rental market throughout greater Los Angeles. We advocate for the establishment of fair and equitable regulations, proactive education, and continued support programs aimed at creating sustainable neighborhood partnerships that promote open communication, responsible management practices, and continued cooperation in the common pursuit of building communities that are safe, healthy, and vibrant places for everyone!Responsibilities include:STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS:• Design the strategic communications and social media outreach plan, messaging development, and dynamic content creation for all social media platforms aimed at promoting the organizations core message and values, gaining earned-media traction, increasing funding, & building organizational capacity.ISSUE ADVOCACY:• Develop strategic organizing plans to influence key decision makers in the region; including organizing and training our members to be effective activists.LEGISLATIVE & GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS:• Represent our memberships interests to ensure they have an active voice at the negotiating table throughout the public policy formation process through strategic lobbying initiatives, community organizing, and building broad based coalitions to galvanize community support and public engagement.PUBLIC POLICY FORMATION AND ANALYSIS:• Serve as the subject matter expert regarding the STR market by commissioning and evaluating in-depth public policy reports, creating editorial content, and providing training and workshops to key stakeholders, our membership, and the community at large.NEW MEMBERSHIP DEVELOPMENT:• Liaise with the community to engage the public to participate in advocating our interests. Cultivate, and solicit new potential members, donors, and community supporters to increase the organizations funding streams, longevity, and effectiveness.

Greater Los Angeles Area

FTVS is the TV production arm of Fox Entertainment Group and 20th Century Fox Television, Inc.Highlights include:• Assisted with all levels of studio production and co-production of international, scripted, and unscripted deals in television.• Actively participated in programming & development business strategy and analysis of production issues.• Assisted in day-to-day business and legal affairs issues for development projects and current series in all stages of production.• Participated in business and legal affairs deal strategy negotiation tactics and issue analysis.• Performed research and analysis of legal problems and issues and assists in the preparation of legal contracts and documents.• Interfaced and coordinated with the following departments: Creative, production, post-production, promotions, public relations, finance, music, distribution, marketing, and digital media.

California - Statewide

Equality California is the largest statewide LGBT advocacy organization in California working to secure full and lasting equality for and acceptance of LGBT people. Over the past decade, Equality California has partnered with social justice advocates, businesses, grassroots supporters and legislative leaders to strategically move California from a state with extremely limited legal protections for LGBT people to a state with some of the most comprehensive human rights protections in the nation. In my capacity as Board Member key highlights included:• Was an organizational plaintiff as an officer of EQCA in the "Re: Marriage Cases" that first brought marriage equality to California in 2008 via the California Supreme Court.• Set the organizations strategic short and long term goals.• Oversaw and approved the annual budget, staffing needs/projections, and fundraising goals.• Built coalitions and served as an organizational ambassador to the community.• Completed the annual Executive Director Evaluation and compensation review.• Directly and indirectly raised over half a million dollars for the organization.• Served on the Board Governance and Communications Committees.• Organized, promoted, and attended various fundraising events throughout the state.• Coordinated the organizations lobbying initiatives.• Worked with the Communications Department as a spokesperson to several media outlets and helped to established strategic communications and social network initiatives and deployment across several portals.• Completed the GAP analysis for the organization to garner additional funding streams.• Trained a group of over 1,000 activists for EQCA’s Marriage Lobby Day in 2009 to lobby their state Senators and Assembly Members about the freedom to marry.

West Hollywood, Ca And Beijing, China

Footprint Worldwide is a branded entertainment company, specializing in creating and producing content for distribution in China.In my role as Director of Program Management I was responsible for managing all company programs and inter-related projects.Highlights Include:• Instrumental in the strategy and development of an international entertainment and advertising company.• Oversaw content and distribution initiatives while managing cross-functional international project teams.• Reported to multiple project stakeholders and managed cross-functional teams, including partner and vendor teams.• Managed online, television, and radio channel distribution partner relationships with public and private Chinese firms.• Created and managed the company’s state of the art Web 2.0 and Flash website.• Oversaw the development of multi-lingual B2B and B2C website coding, and content creation employing HTML, Flash, Java, XML, and SQL coding infrastructures and database back-ends.• Managed the X Games content channel, distributed to college campuses in China, including page design, concept creation, phased re-design, content management system creation, and development.• Developed and managed digital and social media marketing and viral campaigns to the largest media portals in China and targeted specifically to the Chinese student community.• Conducted QA and UAT testing for multi-lingual websites through the SDLC and Product Roadmaps.• Managed budget approval, consolidation and reporting processes for all projects and programs.• Directed project discovery and feasibility studies and drafted scope documents and initial technical specifications.• Contract management and technical writing of project scopes for contracts.• Designed, managed and evaluated campus street and online marketing campaign for 2010 Kia X Games Asia event.• Provided database administration for SalesForce platform, including unique software customization.

Portland, Maine Area

NO on 1/Protect Maine Equality was a statewide, grassroots campaign defending the marriage equality law challenged by Question 1 placed on Maine’s ballot during 2009. • Served as Volunteer Staff and appointed to a high-level leadership role by campaign management.• Facilitated early vote, voter identification, and voter persuasion phone banks.• Set and reported goals in conjunction with the field plan.• Trained volunteers to build skills in the areas of volunteer recruitment, direct requests, and push backs dramatically increasing overall results.• Employed effective grassroots fundraising techniques to raise critical funds from the volunteer base.• Created training curriculum in conjunction with the Statewide Field Director.• Developed reporting, metric, operational systems and infrastructure for the field department.• Responsible for leadership recruitment, development, and training.• Oversaw a team of field organizers to ensure optimal efficiency and trained them in areas of skill development.• Lead staff and field team meetings in place of Regional Field Director.• Worked with the Director of Operations to develop and implement data team and field related processes and procedures to ensure optimal efficiency.• Served as a spokesperson for the campaign featured on the front page of the Los Angeles Times, The Portland Press Herald, and National Public Radio (NPR).• Facilitated all GOTV trainings to groups between 50 and 200 people per session.• Facilitated the training and inspiration of over 1,000 volunteers on Election Day.

Hollywood, Ca And Beijing, China

CRC Jianian, Inc. is a joint venture with China Record Corporation (CRC), the Chinese government's oldest and largest records company. In this capacity I was responsible for the worldwide distribution and exploitation of their historic music catalog that encompasses nearly 20,000 audio tracks and 1,500 compositions. My work consisted of digital marketing and promotions, global digital distribution, strategic partnerships, royalty collection, financial analysis, copyright, licensing, corporate training, and adapting to different cultures while working globally. Other highlights include:• Created and implemented Project Management Organization (PMO) methodologies, policies, and business processes for five subsidiary business units of the parent company.• Increased revenue by 30% by leveraging featured placements with leading digital networks.• Drove company re-branding to create a significant presence in music, entertainment, and new media technology.• Oversaw creation of a Web 2.0 Multi-Media Website with SQL database backend environment that was developed and launched in a 3-month period, reducing overall project cost by 10 %.• Developed and created social media and viral marketing campaigns to increase sales performance.• Created a marketing campaign governing music placement for the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing.• Developed and implemented a publishing strategy and plan of action for ensuring copyright protections and revenue streams related to intellectual property, prior to China’s entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO).• Saved $50,000 in potentially lost revenue by identifying revenue reporting and system errors from partners.• Created Asset Management systems for worldwide distribution of a library of more than 20,000 of digital assets.• Drove the creation, development, and ongoing administration of the company’s FileMaker Pro database.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Vote For Equality (VFE) is the organizing arm of the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center. Through grassroots actions, voter education, and leadership development, VFE works to advance marriage equality, reduce homophobia, and build the political power of LGBT people and allies in LA County.As Co-Chair of Vote For Equality I assisted the campaign with strategic planning and organizing, communications, brand recognition, and coalition building both inside and outside of the LGBT community, training volunteers to empower them to build the skills necessary to create change around the issue of marriage equality.

Greater Los Angeles Area

The No on Prop 8, Equality for All campaign was created to respond to attacks on the LGBT community’s constitutional rights and protections in California, and was the largest social justice issue campaign in the history of the United States.• Trained 3,000 volunteers for volunteer recruitment, voter identification initiatives, and Election Day initiatives to groups up to 300 people per session.• Performed numerous In Person Volunteer Recruitment (IPVR) initiatives.• Recruited over 3,000 specific volunteer shifts for the campaign.• Secured an in-kind Predictive Dialer donation that called 150,000 numbers using celebrity messages.• Formed a community business alliance within the LGBT Nightlife community in Los Angeles.• Aided in the development and strengthening of broad-based coalitions.• Provided inspiration, leadership development and skill building to countless volunteers.• Empowered others to change the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of voters moving the overall electorate in California by 12% in every demographic area in favor of marriage equality, and protecting LGBT Constitutional Rights.• Served as a campaign spokesperson for several interviews featured on NPR, Current TV and KABC Talk Radio, while staying on campaign message.• Coordinated several Public Service Announcements, press, and publicity initiatives.• Worked with Regent Releasing, Here Films!, and Outfest for the highly visible film launch of “Saving Marriage.”• Employed effective grassroots fundraising techniques to raise critical funds from the volunteer base.• Personally responsible for raising approximately $50,000 in donations to No on 8 – Equality California• Indirectly responsible for raising over $500,000 in donations to No on 8 – Equality California.• As part of Equality California, organizationally responsible for raising over $14 Million from No On 8 – Equality California to the No On 8, Equality For All campaign.

California - Statewide

The League is an association of California city officials who work together to enhance their knowledge and skills, exchange information, and combine resources so that they may influence policy decisions that affect cities. The GLBTO is a caucus of the league that represents nearly 30 different local officials statewide.I was appointed to this role by West Hollywood Mayor Jeffrey Prang. In this role I coordinated the policy positions of the caucus to stand behind certain specific legislation.

Greater Los Angeles Area

This was a consultancy position for a digital media start up company, where I was responsible for directing all actions associated with technical projects in regards to Worldwide Digital Media Distribution.

Analyzed the business processes of Live365 to identify gaps in processes or procedures and modified or made recommendations in order to establish the maximum level of efficiency within the areas of Project Management, Communications, Organization, Marketing, and Client Relations.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Assisted the Vice President of Strategic Franchise Marketing for Warner Home Video managing a variety of projects and programs and also serving as a business analyst.Additionally, coordinated the training of six hundred end users during a nine month extensive world wide training program for the implementation of a new resource tracking database within the Management Information Systems department.Worked in MIS, Consumer Products, Theatrical Ad Publicity, CFI, Animation, & Non Theatrical Domestic Franchise Marketing, Legal, WBTV Labor Relations

Worked in the nightclub industry doing marketing and club promotions. Facilitated client relations to ensure complete satisfaction and repeat business.Created marketing partnerships through out the Los Angeles area in digital, print, and retail channels.Handled all promotions activities within certain areas of Los Angeles, including digital, print, retail, and street teams.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science: Global Politics And Policy

Activities and Societies: Honors StudentB.A., Political Science: Global Politics and Policy - commenced 2015.

Associate Of Arts (A.A.), Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Transfer Honors Program (TAP)A.A., Politics and Government