As Chief of Staff, my role is to:• Oversee Strategic Support to Board and Senior Leadership Team• Serve as confidential advisor to the President/CEO• Develop and maintain senior leaders’ calendars to ensure efficient use of time;• Support policy and policy development activities• Provide support to ongoing research needs to inform mission, strategy, tactics andexecution• Support planning efforts; develop and maintain an annual calendar of majoractivities• Serve as staff liaison to Board of Directors• Serve as a liaison to the organization, ensuring outside inquiries are appropriatelyrouted and responded to in a timely manner• Provide support for planning and execution of external-facing activities of theorganization including strategic and routine communications, outreach, events,and government affairs, to include on-demand briefings, recurring newsletters,press releases, social media updates, proactive media outreach, and website

As Co-founder and acting CEO, I manage all business development and spearhead the company's marketing, branding, finances and advertising. I develop strategies and oversee all communications with employees, customers, partner organizations, government sectors and stakeholders. Additionally, I research, organize and analyze data in order to present reports to internal and external stakeholders and generate business solutions.

- Launched mayoral campaign against three times incumbent mayor and successfully elected second female mayor of Chapel Hill- Spearheaded official campaign platform that emphasized community involvement and was - Successfully defeated incumbent, something that had not happened in > 5 decades- Leveraged social media channels, including the campaign website, Facebook page, blog, Twitter, public forums, and interviews- Expanded community reach by optimizing internal and external communications, events, meetings, donations and outreach- Managed campaign calendar, communications, events, meetings,

• Consulted with variety of professional services business owners to enhance their website and digital presence• Implemented project management skills to track and manage all customer needs to ensure satisfaction and project completion• Focused on driving traffic to client’s website through SEO, marketing tactics, user interface and visibility• Partnered with NanoVest (Launch Chapel Hill) to direct marketing and grow business by hundreds of users within a few weeks• Collaborated with technical team to develop a user interface that better communicated with their audience• Coordinated multiple events with > 30 attendees to generate publicity

• Consulted with an S&P 500 companies, including world leading pharmaceuticals, with a focus on DB management and CRM• Applied SDLC methodology in leading website update under the AGILE framework• Partnered with CEO to direct brand management and marketing team• Led company-wide brand management training session• Assisted CEO to devise and implement recruitment strategy to increase hires and retention• Helped manage company website, social media sites (LinkedIn, Facebook, Glassdoor) and attended career fairs

-Initiated contact with approximately 200 local businesses for market research-Synthesized data for weekly briefings-Worked collaboratively with team to create company’s multipurpose and user-friendly interface-Trained interns and directed meetings for the start-ups’ marketing sector