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Irvine, California, Us

• Provide strategic partnerships and business development plans for for-profit and non-profit start-ups • Produce and create unique content for live events • Create new revenue stream to diversify stewardship including creation of memberships levels• Created and launched Oleada - a program that provides workshops for marginalized groups and teaches skills like design thinking and presentation skills.• Brand storyteller for CSR initiatives.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Oleada — A Self-funded women’s entrepreneurship pilot for migrant and refugee women. With limited resources I was able to: ● Created partnerships with various stakeholders in Barcelona● Mobilized a volunteer force that was willing to donate time and resources to this cause. ● Established relationships with several Barcelona based organizations including Typeform and Vueling to discuss CSR, a relatively new concept in the region and how partnering with my organization can help reach some of those needs.

● Served as the Project Manager for three active Client programs, totaling $MM+ in projected revenue ● Developed and maintained a detailed project plan for each individual account ● Oversaw coordination of the partners and working groups engaged in project work ● Ran ongoing internal project meetings, including weekly status check-ins ● Provided program and project status reports to the necessary parties. ● Responsible for managing the work of consultants, allocating and utilizing resources in an efficient manner, and maintaining a cooperative, motivated, and successful team.

New York City, New York, Us

● Worked with a variety of clients to produce experiential events, generate media impressions, gather speaking engagements and create social media strategies. ● Was responsible for taking raw ideas, hypotheses/scenarios as well as shaping them into comprehensive deployment plans to implement effectively. ● Executed high impact events that generated +MM media impressions

New York, Ny, Us

● Planned and promoted a limited book tour which included speaking engagements, creating presentations and speeches, video and blog post along with new content articles for various new outlets, including a piece I produced for GMA and Nightline. Planned and managed annual gala, salons and other events. Book was on the NYT Bestsellers list. ● Lead and directed entire cross functional teams on data management, operations planning and milestone tracking for strategic initiatives implementation.

New York, Ny, Us

The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Through discussions, debates, theatrical works, interactive explorations, musical performances, intimate salons, and major outdoor experiences, the Festival takes science out of the laboratory and into the streets, parks, museums, galleries and premier performing arts venues of New York City and beyond.

New York, Ny, Us

● Revamped Macy’s.com SEO and project managed the Q&A testing done by teams in NY, India and California. ● Alongside the developers created a new tracking system that streamlined the process for the creative department and increased productivity by 80%. ● Prepared budget reports for the VP of the department.

New York, Ny, Us

Designed, launched, and managed several TED Initiatives including the TED Fellows Program, the Associate Membership Program, the Open Translation Project and the internship program at TED and acted as the Customer Support Manager where I troubleshooted technical and conference related problems. ● My main responsibilities included running and managing the TED Fellows Program which consisted of meeting $1MM fundraising goals, developing strategic and pipeline partners, creating progress reports, creating and launching the TED Fellows Newsletter, managing the application cycle - including the PR and recruitment for the program -selecting the Fellows and helping them with their TEDTalk, liaising with both the developers and Fellows to create the TED Fellows Network, running the onsite TED Fellows events, in addition to growing and maintaining the Fellows social media channels. I was also responsible for planning Fellows events and TED Salons - more intimate events for local TEDsters, managing the budget for both the Fellows Program and the TED Book Club, audience development for both TED and TED Global, speaker development and presentation coaching. ● The TED Book Club and Onsite Book store which consisted of establishing relationships with publishers, authors and speaking agencies and managing the operations of the TED Book Club. I implemented a partnership with Amazon Kindle to offer the electronic version of the TED Book Club – the first of its kind and produced the Onsite Bookstore – including designing the theme of each bookstore and working with partners and vendors.

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Y&R is a leading global marketing communications company, with more than 189 offices in 90+ countries. Our job is to Resist the Usual – the mission Y&R was founded on in 1923. We operate as a global boutique; our agencies have the authenticity of their local markets and are empowered to be the best in their market. And at the same time, are unified globally by shared values, resources, and talent. Y&R is a member of WPP, the world’s largest communications services group.