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Redmond, Washington, Us

Issaquah, Washington, Us

Write and edit long- and short-form marketing content, including customer and student success stories, executive communications, blog posts, solution one-pagers, messaging frameworks, sales guides, customer pitch decks, infographics, and social media entries for various business groups at Microsoft. Originated messaging for major new product launch in June 2021.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Wrote 50 video scripts introducing teachers to a research-based curriculum on social and emotional learning for middle school and K-5 students. Directed shoots with on-camera host. Collaborated with product managers and educational experts to develop content.

Collaborate with clients and agencies to craft brand messages and tag lines, name organizations, develop content strategy, compose engaging stories, localize content, write and edit content, develop websites, and edit in WordPress. Content spans the gamut from technical engineering white papers to lifestyle blog entries. Plus everything in between.

Seattle , Wa, Us

Wrote compelling, multi-platform stories for top national and international brands as well as start-ups. Composed a range of content, from thought-provoking white papers to on-the-spot tweets and everything in between. Responsibilities included:• Understanding complex business ideas and developing narratives that told compelling stories for established and new brands and businesses operating in a variety of industries from healthcare to aerospace to financial technologies and more.• Wrote content for a range of companies that laddered up to the red thread of a greater brand story, including web content, editorial content, marketing, retail, social, etc.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Collaborated with change management team to increase technology adoption at T-Mobile. Developed an adoption playbook, including project templates and examples. Developed end-user-focused guides, employee-facing articles, and informational communications for the workforce.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Collaborated with marketing team, subject matter experts, and designers to create customer-focused content on best practices for technology adoption. Wrote and edited as well as sourcing and selecting visuals.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Collaborated with UX designer to create wireframes for nearly 80 pages for a new organizational website. Goal of redesign was to drive clinical trial enrollment, recruitment, and fundraising. Met with 30 stakeholders to review materials. Wrote and edited content, managed stakeholder communications, and secured approvals.

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Interviewed technical experts and conducted extensive research to create content for a start-up digital transformation firm. Originated the company’s communications materials, including the website, fact sheets, white papers, blog posts and social media entries, on tight deadlines. Consulted on content strategy.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Produced and directed the documentary shoots accompanying Seattle Cancer Care Alliance's broadcast spots, which aired during Super Bowl 50 and the 88th Academy Awards ceremony, in February 2016. Conducted on-camera interviews and produced and directed behind-the-scenes shoots. The documentaries were produced and edited by VisualContact, and the ad was directed by Uncle Bob, with creative agency GreenRubino.

Helped guide a team of writers, editors, animators, illustrators, and graphic designers to launch Ted Leonhardt's Worth It website on negotiation training. Wrote web content, articles, and scripts; edited learning guides and comics; produced and directed animation capture shoots; and helped produce teaching films.

Develop, write, and edit marketing collateral, presentations, case studies, and reports for an engineering firm that pioneers energy efficiency solutions for the hospitality industry. Content strategist for business development opportunities.

Developed and co-produced client films, including a piece memorializing the founder of a significant Seattle-based family foundation.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Develop, write, and edit content for several of Pyramid's marquis clients concerned with health, well-being, and environmental conservation.

Secured partnerships and sponsorships to support Collaborations for Cause, Blue Earth's flagship educational congress. A cross between a TED talk and a film festival, the conference brings together photographers, visual storytellers, and NGOs to share best practices, case studies, and strategies for creating impact.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Assessed funding proposals, wrote creative treatments, synthesized content.

As a consultant to the VP of Content, researched worldwide polio eradication efforts and wrote compelling, character‐based stories for fundraising and documentary program development. Landed the grant to create the associated teaser film in Nigeria. Managed relationships with senior staff at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, international NGOs, and WGBH/NOVA.

Created a documentary series featuring urban gardening and cooking. Raised development funding and filmed a short teaser film. Series is in development.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Wrote engaging content for weekly newsletter. Contributed product descriptions and stories for company website and in-store signage.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Represented the foundation and managed outreach to hundreds of Gates Foundation grantees. Facilitated communications informing Bill & Melinda Gates program officers about the plans for the Visitor Center.

Bethesda, Md, Us

Contributor to high‐quality brochure & associated website describing the National Human Genome Research Institute's (NHGRI) Division of Intramural Research.

Washington, Dc, Us

Writer, director, and producer of four‐minute shorts featuring the personal and professional accomplishments of Women of Vision award winners Aviva Kempner (2001) and Jennifer Lawson (2004). Films aired during the awards ceremony and gala in Washington, DC.

Owings Mills, Md, Us

Film inspires parents to take an active role in helping their children learn to read. Managed all aspects of research, writing, story development, preproduction, production, and post-production. Won award for creative excellence at 2003 International Film and Video Festival.

New York, New York, Us

Researched Holocaust images at the National Archives for Charles Guggenheim's last film.

Produced, wrote, and directed hour-long film on urban revitalization strategies in Denver, Hartford, and Atlanta. Program was selected for Washington DC’s 2001 Environmental Film Festival. Hosted by Charles Royer, former Seattle Mayor.

Boston, Ma, Us

Building Big was a national PBS broadcast series produced in conjunction with WGBH/Boston. Series consisted of 5 one-hour films on monumental engineering structures around the world. Series won 2001 George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in journalism.

Researched and wrote content for an NSF proposal for a PBS series on the origins of the universe, the solar system, and life itself. Contributed to win $2.1 million NSF grant. from NSF. Resulting 2004 BBC/WGBH co-production "Origins" launched Neil deGrasse Tyson's television career.

* For PBS Series - “Scientific American Frontiers”, Associate produced magazine‐style science documentary series hosted by actor Alan Alda. * For Discovery's "Destination: Mars", Researched and Associate produced a two‐hour, 16 mm film documentary shot in the US and Russia. Nominated for a personal achievement Emmy Award for research by The Discovery Channel.* For “AIDS: The War Within,” Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL, researched content and media for multimedia exhibits on the biology and sociology of AIDS.* For “The Greatest Show on Earth,” Museum of Science and Technology, Syracuse, NY, researched content and archival materials for a film on the geology and ecology of New York State.

Karachi, Pk

Edited and helped coordinate production of USAID reporting documents, funding proposals, andorganizational brochures for a worldwide family‐planning organization.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

* Wrote, edited, and supervised photography and design of the Institute’s AIDS Report. * Wrote and edited funding proposals. * For Harvard AIDS Institute, organized a regular speakers’ forum on AIDS research * Edited technical manuscripts on AIDS and HIV for publication in scientific journals.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Biology

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