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California, United States

Hayward, Ca, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Applied manufactures equipment for global semiconductor, display and solar companies. I was a key editorial team member for helping evolve Applied’s Intranet portal.• Provided project management support for the development of photography and writing of news content for Applied’s corporate internal website, “Inside Applied.”• Acted as an editor and reporter, creating company and brand-related written content for various internal communications channels (all-hands meetings, leadership messaging, Web-casts, key internal and external business announcements).• Worked with teams across the company (HR, Legal, Corp Comms) to faithfully materialize Applied’s vision.• Provided support and guidance to teammates to foster alignment of messages and communications strategies globally across Applied Materials.• Worked collaboratively with a group of internal and external communicators and brand experts to build an engaging employee experience.

Santa Clara, California, Us

A leader in genomics analysis, Affymetrix is a biotech firm known for being a pioneer in microarray technology.• Reduced Sr. Library Manager’s workload by 30% by completing routine monthly literature searches for various departments (Legal, Marketing and Sales).• Updated company style guide for Affymetrix’s Marketing department, making content usage easier to find from previous versions. • Assisted Affymetrix employees with reference help using scientific subscription databases (Google Scholar, Stanford HighWire, Elsevier, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Wiley, Springerlink and PubMed).• Coded new books into Affymetrix’s book database via copy cataloging.• Compiled and maintained monthly employee document purchases in Microsoft Excel as part of tracking library budget. This spreadsheet was also used by my supervisor in various budget meetings. • Prepared Affymetrix’s employee laboratory notebooks for scanning to ensure proper documentation for patent protection.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Attended graduate school for the iSchool--School of Information--department of San Jose State University (formerly the School of Library and Information Science). For more info: http://ischool.sjsu.edu/• SLIS Events Student Assistant: Provided administrative support to the SLIS Events Department. Duties included composing letters, writing reports and producing departmental announcements.• Dr. MLK Jr. Library Special Collections Student Assistant: Arranged and delineated archival collections, drafted collection inventories and encoded them for access on the Online Archives of California.

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ILOG is a software as a service (SaaS) company. • Co-managed ILOG’s PR agency with various projects, including editorial and award calendars, in addition to updating ILOG intranet content; also coordinated speaker placement opportunities at industry events.• In collaboration with ILOG’s PR agency, tracked and measured the performance of marketing efforts through monthly and ad-hoc reports. • For ILOG’s annual DIALOG Conference, co-coordinated user meeting events, including scheduling, site selection, contract negotiation, travel/transportation arrangements and agenda preparation. • Worked with Customer Relations Manager to create and distribute joint-customer press releases across a range of vertical market segments.• Monitored editorial calendars and pitch grids to ensure timely outreach, and organized interviews with key journalists for ILOG spokespeople.• Organized ribbon-cutting ceremony for ILOG’s new location with the Sunnyvale Chamber of Commerce.• Created an internal 20th Anniversary Blog/timeline for ILOG's intranet with assistance from Web team.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

With a staff of 6, wearing multiple hats was part of the daily plan for this nonprofit organization. • Served as manager and event planner for Chamber’s fifth annual Diversity Youth Forum and annual business roundtable/economic summit, Mountain View’s “State of the City” address.• Increased media coverage of the Diversity Youth Forum by 50% from the previous year.• Researched, pursued and coordinated outreach opportunities, as well as booked presentations with Chamber staff with city and community groups; secured Chamber event sponsorships.• Wrote, compiled and edited 16-page bi-monthly Chamber newsletter (print and online/PDF); co-managed production of print version with Goodco Press. • Crafted and sent Chamber event press releases for print, Internet, radio and television. Also created fact sheets, pitch letters, Chamber bios, e-mail blasts and various internal and external reports.• Maintained Chamber Website via Chamber WebLink and Microsoft FrontPage; coordinated placement of banner ads on Chamber Website. • Consulted with City of Mountain View officials and staff to deliver messaging with the most impact.• Represented Chamber at events, which included Business Mixers and smaller business seminars.

Milpitas, Ca, Us

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nl

Library And Information Science

Bachelor'S English (Career Writing Emphasis), Minors In Journalism And Film