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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

BLG is Canada’s oldest and largest national, full-service law firm focusing on business law, commercial and specialized litigation and arbitration, and intellectual property solutions. With more than 800 lawyers across Canada BLG serves clients throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Fully bilingual across all practice areas and sectors, BLG excels in Canada’s common and civil law systems.Key Highlights: Proposal Manager and Writer on a winning proposal to one Canada’s largest real estate company yielding a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract. Introduced a new process/software in our submission to one of Ontario’s largest municipalities and it was adopted by the client for all subsequent procurements/RFP requests. Assisted Metrolinx with training internal staff on expropriation processes. • Collaborate with partners, Business Development leaders, and other business units to develop successful win strategies for proposals across all practice areas.• Assume leadership over training and process improvements.

Vancouver

PBX Engineering is an electrical, systems and software engineering firm, with offices in Victoria and Vancouver. PBX develops leading edge systems for transportation, security, buildings and industrial applications across Canada. I worked closely with the senior PBX staff and had direct responsibility for all activities in the generation of proposals and marketing. Key Highlights: More than doubled the number of pursuits and winning proposals in 4 years leading to rapid growth (company nearly tripled in size). Marketing efforts yielded 7 awards for engineering projects completed by PBX between 2016 and 2019.• Managed the evolution of corporate branding including: award submissions, online and hard copy marketing (business cards, pamphlets, brochures, posters, swag) for exhibitions and conferences.• Responsible for business and professional development of engineering staff, attended networking events.• Generated proposals, created and implemented tools, processes, libraries of proposal materials and content, prepared bi-annual reports.• Organized, coordinated, and set-up client appreciation events, theme parties, and bi-annual staff conferences.• Trained 4 full time employees hired to replace my position in pursuits, office management, marketing, and business development.My daily activities included: - Analyze procurement documents, develop proposal content and create and maintain a toolbox of proposal materials - Coordinate activities between technical staff, partners and sub-consultants - Explore business development strategies and opportunities to help expand market presence - Oversee updates to marketing materials including managing PBX's web site and LinkedIn, create, design and procure marketing materials (swag, brochures, posters, and print media) - Manage the evolution of corporate branding - Organize marketing outreach activities: trade shows and conferences and accompanying marketing materials - Chief ass kicker

Edmonton, Canada Area

• Assisted and managed projects valued up to $5 million, monitored all regional projects from cradle to grave, expedited orders through the supply chain team, liaised with internal customers and other team members to ensure on time delivery of orders, prepared schedules and reports on on-going projects.• Implemented and administered training for the UK, France and Abu-Dhabi sales offices on SAGE 500• Played a key role in the launch of the SharePoint implementation team, prepared project charter

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Managed a staff of ten, hours, training and all other aspects as relating to clinic operations• Negotiated up to 400K in product retail purchases, supervised inventory, tracked sales and orders• Responsible for facilities maintenance and commercial representative on the strata board of directors• Developed advertisement copy/press releases, managed and oversaw content on website and social media• Monitored and created marketing programs (newspapers and radio – acquired 10K sponsorship from vendor) to promote sales on services and products (Obagi, Skinceuticals, Vivier, Cellcosmet, SkinMedica)

Vancouver, Bc

• Reviewed and approved applications for existing/potential licensees under the Financial Institutions Act• Applied relevant legislation, Council Rules/Policies in preparing and issuing correspondence to licensees• Independent analysis, judgment, discretion and diplomacy over individual cases that involve confidential and sensitive information, explained technical information to the public and financial sector regulators

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Assisted Director, Sr Management and Branch Managers in system implementation, operating budget development, and expense/revenue tracking• Assisted with operations, procedures, and special projects. Prepared monthly and quarterly reports.• Increased efficiency and corporate transparency by developing and maintaining SharePoint Web spaces• Coordinated and organized corporate conferences and special events

Victoria, Bc

• Reviewed and applied relevant legislation to develop the Mineral Title Clarification Act• Conducted Historical Title Research to determine and verify corporate claims to subsurface mineral rights• Corroborated with experts, GIS Analysts and the Sr Title Analyst create a multi-level web based data matrix

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

• Prepared legal documents for Intellectual Property litigation on trademark and domain name disputes• Conducted legal research, interviewed clients, prepared legal briefs and developed strategy and arguments • Researched and edited speeches and arbitration dispute decisions on behalf of managing partners

Biochemistry And Computer Science

Course focus was on Biology, Chemistry, Mathemathics and Computer Science (Programming in Turing)

Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law, Incomplete

Activities and Societies: Law co-op postings to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at Ram Rais & Partners in Intellectual Property and to the Ministry.

Project Management Certificate, Project Management

12-module Project Management Certificate (PMC) program included the following courses: PMGT101 Introduction To Project Management PMGT102.

Bsch, Psychology, 4.0

My Honours Thesis focused on the personality variation of incarcerated men serving time for Capital Crimes, namely Murder in the first.

University Transfer Courses, Social Sciences

Activities and Societies: Aided in the training of administering long distance classes over video-conferencing. Took a variety of courses.