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Clients have included the Hawaii International Film Festival, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Honolulu Weekly, REHAB Foundation, Warner Brothers Records, Starr Seigle Communications, Wave Waikiki, The Hydrous, and film/video production companies.Highlights• Variance Films (2011) – Hawaii Publicist for the film, “AMIGO,” by Academy Award-winning director, John Sayles. Arranged publicity engagements for Filipino superstar, Joel Torre, including a morning show appearance on Hawaii News Now, helped coordinate a meet & greet at the Philippine Consulate, and served as host during his visit.• Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation (2011) – Designed marketing collateral for events, conceived a modern redesign of their trade magazine, “Ag Hawaii,”and template that was used by other freelance designers in later issues. The new glossy publication was carried at local Whole Foods stores where it was consistently one of the top free periodicals picked up.• Hawaii International Film Festival (1995-2002) – Program Guide Editor, Awards Ceremony Producer, Assistant to Director of Development & Marketing. Worked as a seasonal contractor in different capacities from designing marketing collateral, producing the black-tie Golden Maile Awards Ceremony, editing the 2000 Film Festival Program Guide, to conceptualizing and producing the 2003 Film Festival Trailer/PSA.• Honolulu Weekly (1996-2002) – Freelance Writer & Photographer• “State of Aloha” PBS Documentary (2009) – Production Coordinator• “The Thrill is Gone” PBS Hawaii PSA (2003) – Production Assistant• “The Debut” Feature Film (2000) – Location Scout/Manager• “But I’m a Cheerleader” Feature Film (1999) – Set Dresser & Art Department Seamstress• Warner Brothers Records (1997) – Cover Photographer for Mark Eitzel’s “West” Album• “Picture Bride” Sundance Award-winning Feature Film (1995) – 2nd Camera Assistant, Production Assistant, Photographer

• Exceeded my individual annual revenue target of more than $1 million by an average of 29% over the last 4 fiscal years.DutiesManaging all aspects of government contracts and foundation grants/proposals, including requirements gathering, project analysis, budgeting, writing, documentation, reporting, auditing, compliance, negotiations. Stewarding corporate donors and foundations, strategic planning, drafting external communications, Salesforce administration, developing SOPs.The mission of the American Red Cross is to prevent and alleviate human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors. We are the only nonprofit organization that responds to disasters 24/7, 365 days a year, and gives people essential resources to immediately plan their recovery.

• Associate Producer on the “Shaka, A Story of Aloha” documentary. (shakafilm.com).• Managed 30 temporary hires in the Aloha Connects Innovation program during COVID.DutiesAdministering various programs: Lemonade Alley, Project Lemon Tree, BizzyB, and the State of Hawaii’s ID8 Studios. Fundraising, coordinating events, public relations, e-marketing, maintaining multiple WordPress sites and social media accounts. ID8 (fka Bizgenics) is a Hawaii-based educational tech nonprofit that seeks to empower all people to discover unique personal skills and learn positive social values to catalyze a bright future. ID8 specializes in creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship programs.

• Secured more than $3 million in funding from foundations, corporations, and individuals.• Oversaw of the $6 million Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Hookupu Center Capital Campaign.• Coordinated the inaugural 2017 10th Anniversary Fundraising Event.• Launched 1st Annual Giving Campaign and 1st Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign.DutiesStrategic planning, budgeting, managing government and foundation grants/proposals, including requirements gathering, writing, reporting, compliance. Overseeing fundraising activity, including cultivating and stewarding donors, implementing corporate sponsorships, bookkeeping. Salesforce administration, evaluating software apps and their integration, developing SOPs, managing special projects, coordinating events, lobbying, public relations, designing marketing collateral, e-marketing, maintaining WordPress and social media accounts, SEO, managing consultants and volunteers.Kupu is Hawaii’s leading environmental education non-profit. Kupu’s unique, experiential programs seek to build character, leadership skills, a lifelong environmental mindset, cultural awareness, and civic engagement while allowing young adults to gain vital experience in the green jobs sector.Since 2007, Kupu has contributed more than $95 million in economic benefit to the state with an overall compound annual growth rate of 25.3% and a cost-to-benefit ratio of 1:3.

• Exceeded the department’s annual fundraising goal by more than 30%.• Oversaw the organization’s participation in a national grant contest, sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation and American Express, in which they won $250,000 through public online voting on the National Geographic website.• Successfully oversaw the migration of the company’s CRM database within three months.• Redesigned the quarterly membership magazine, “Remembrance.”• Took photos for the Diamond Head Self-Guided Tour Mobile App. DutiesGrant/proposal writing, maintaining corporate donor and foundation relations, overseeing and restructuring direct mail/membership procedures, managing special projects, handling governmental registration compliance, lobbying, public relations, print and digital marketing, bookkeeping for donor contributions, creating product descriptions and photos for ecommerce website, managing several staff and volunteers.Pacific Historic Parks is a non-profit which supports the National Park Service and the State Department of Land & Natural Resources by providing educational and interpretive programs at sites across the Pacific region: the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, Diamond Head State Monument on Oahu, Kalaupapa National Historical Park on Molokai, War in the Pacific National Historical Park on Guam, and American Memorial Park on Saipan. Pacific Historic Parks was the lead organization planning the 75th Commemoration of the Attack on Pearl Harbor Ceremonies in December 2016.

• Helped secure more than $1 billion in new construction work for the company.• Successfully marketed the company to win 2nd place in Pacific Business News’ inaugural “Book of Lists Brand Madness Competition,” beating out 62 of Hawaii’s top companies across all industries.• Launched a quarterly business-to-business e-marketing campaign with average open rate of more than 40%.• Led a joint Nordic PCL/INK Architects team to compete for the first time in the 2013 CANstruction fundraiser for Hawaii Foodbank.DutiesManaging government and private bid proposals, including requirements gathering, writing, reporting, compliance. Maintaining district CRM and SharePoint, developing SOPs, training staff in database administration, public relations, designing marketing collateral, e-marketing, creating content for web and social media, researching new business leads.Nordic PCL Construction, Inc. is a subsidiary of PCL Construction Services, the largest general contractor in Canada and one of the largest in the US. In 2014-15, Nordic PCL rose to ranking of 2nd largest general contractor and 21st largest company in Hawaii overall with $433 million in revenue.

• Received numerous awards from the Society of Professional Journalists Hawaii Chapter, Hawaii Publishers Association, the Online News Association, and Best of the West Awards.• Conceived and designed more than 25 interactive Flash projects for the web.DutiesDesigning print infographics, working closely with web engineers to code UX/UI for interactive web projects, creating LightWave 3D architectural models, blogging.The Gannett Company-owned Honolulu Advertiser was Hawaii’s largest daily newspaper until its merger with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin in 2010. Its website was one of the top-ten trafficked of all Gannett sites in the nation.

• Helped coordinate the Andre Kim Fashion Show & Benefit Dinner.• Updated department budget and accounts daily.

• Successfully completed approximately $3 million of own real estate transactions.• Assisted a Top Agent with administrative paperwork.

• Co-wrote and edited rough drafts.• Researched archival footage and documents.• Coordinated travel and interviews in Hawaii and Washington, DC.