Economic Development : Global Trade & Investment

Representative to: World Bank, District Export Council and World Trade Centers Association. Led International Trade Development Committee, the Global Cities Initiative’s Metro Export Plan Working Group with Brookings, International Trade Council and other trade & FDI efforts.

Exporting Innovation sponsored by HSBC, content for the Trade Profile Book, Global Cities Initiative Export Plan, and Houston Economic Development Guide, regional economic impact analysis, incentives analysis, foreign business and trade tie briefs for scores of countries and regions, research using BLS, Census, BEA, EIA, World Bank, IMF, and other sources for deep data analysis.

Private Sector Liaison Officer to World Bank

WTC Houston - International Investment & Trade

Information Division - TECO HoustonAide to the Director, Information Division Active in Communications and Public Affairs/Diplomacy: Identifying political, economic and cultural points of influence within the southern United States and beyond. Advocacy for US-Taiwan relations through building relationships with key people of the relevant given institutional structures. Developing actionable strategies to achieve desired short-term and long-term goals. Getting it done. Researching quantitative and qualitative data and information such as statistics, economics, policy and political situations in the context of local, regional and international spheres used in government policy and public relations publications. Creating top-quality economic, press and political presentations. Organizing and forwarding events such as presentations on sustainability and US-Taiwan relations. Writing articles published under Taiwanese Officer pens for such publications as Wall Street Journal Asia, International Business Times, Dallas Morning News and Houston Chronicle. Increased station partner base by more than 110% in less than 3 months upon starting. Active in Government Relations on many levels from City – State – National and International. Diverse demands and institutional portfolio.

International Relations, Public Citizen Diplomacy and Consulting on “Bilingual Living Environment”, international attraction to local industry, “Sister City International” relations and promoting the World Games Kaohsiung ’09. Gave innovative presentations to 150 City staff. This has been done while earning an AACSB accredited M.B.A.

Campaign Management with a team of young, talented supporters-Successful. Strategy included advertising and coalition forming. The strategy acted upon resulted in success from a five-candidate primary field to the runoff election. Developed public relations, advertising and finance strategy in a culturally diverse district. PR/Ad Strategy included newspapers, radio, print mailers and personnel coordination. Successful campaign.

Created nationally-recognized “2007 Energy Conservation and Environmental Plan” for Tulsa, OK. The scope of the 60-page Plan included $23,000,000 of city spend. Headed environmental meetings for the City of Tulsa. Coordinated with companies, agencies, environmental organizations, and surrounding municipalities. Created the first “Spend Analysis” report for Tulsa. Board and Executive Committee Member of the Tulsa Global Alliance. Speechwriter for Mayor’s Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC) Summit in Delhi, India. Organized a 27 member mayoral delegation to India and China. Led numerous meetings with international visitors, major leading global corporations, investment firms and other significant organizations. Rebuilt data to information: organized over 600 authority, board and commission positions for the City of Tulsa. Consensus building and recruitment of executive-quality talent. Oversaw a data/system conversion process.

Coordinated the strategy for the campaign with a young and energetic management team. Strategy included advertising and coalition forming. The strategy resulted in the youngest member being elected to the State House, ousting a five-term-strong popular incumbent opponent.

Campaign Staff, Front Lines, Database Management. I quickly built an actionable information-rich campaign database of over 3,500 new supporters. Assisted and led in office management, volunteerism, fundraising, and PR events. I also worked with Strother Duffy Strother, from Washington D.C. during campaign in Tulsa. I tailored innovative campaign tactics based upon each new situation.

Constituent Relations - Research - Fundraising