• Partnering with Regulatory and Quality Assurance leaders and stakeholders to increase awareness of strategic initiatives• Driving an internal awareness campaign, showcasing employees’ commitment to quality• Supporting Inclusion & Diversity initiatives, including a global leadership training program

Drive awareness of middle school performing arts programs to parents, administrators, and the community. Help raise funds to support students across choir, dance, band, orchestra, and drama.

• Communications & Enablement: Drive content development including global DEI newsletter, resources for leaders and employees, blog posts.• Cultural Moment Planning: Partner with employee network members to develop programming, and lead cross-functional team to increase internal and external engagement. • Reporting: Lead the development of Adobe’s annual DEI report for 4 years including data visualization and content creation. • Event Planning: Help host Adobe’s annual DEI event which includes event format, video content development, employee storyteller support, key message and talk track development. • External Thought Leadership: Lead a speakers’ bureau program, develop thought leadership content across social media and blogs, prepare presentations, engage with enterprise customers.

• Executive Communications Lead for the office of the CTO (2015-2017) and CIO, supporting 2 consecutive CIO leaders (2014 – 2019)• Executive Communications Lead for the General Counsel (2014 – 2018) and head of HR (2014 – 2015)• Build the executives voice and “brand” as thought leaders and visionaries across technology (CTO, CIO), women in tech leadership (CIO), modern legal practices (GC), disrupting performance reviews (HR)• Develop executives content platform and supporting deliverables including story arcs, presentation content, and talking points for internal and external events• Drive internal vehicles for executive visibility, including tech summits, quarterly all hands meetings, regional site visits• Develop communications content for internal organizational updates and change management• Collaborate with corporate PR and AR teams to reach influential media and industry analysts • Build and manage CIOs external social media presence

Participate on the board for Merritt Trace's Parent Teacher Organization (non-profit). Help raise awareness and funds for the public school. Serve as co-chair for annual Fall festival for 3 years, helping to raise funds and bring together the community.

- Providing strategic internal and external communications counsel to leading technology companies and thought leaders. - Delivering strategic council and program execution for NetApp’s corp. internal communications efforts.- Helped launch NetApp’s employee ambassador program and contributing to continued engagement with ambassadors.- Driving awareness for SanDisk's Corporate Social Responsibility commitments. - Led account management for Omidyar Network--including strategic planning, thought leadership, and media/influencer relations--for the philanthropic investment firm.

Over the years provided internal and external public relations support for Yahoo! Inc.'s communications and community products, executive communications, and Corporate Social Responsibility efforts.Communications Products: Mail, Messenger, PhotosYahoo! Mail: • Led global competitive PR efforts in positioning Yahoo! Mail as the leading email provider• Increased industry thought leadership of Yahoo!’s legal and legislative anti-spam efforts• Coordinated PR efforts with Microsoft, AOL and Earthlink on the industry's first anti-spam allianceYahoo! Messenger: • Led global communications programs for launching competitive features and offerings• Promoted the industry's first IM interoperability agreement between Yahoo! and Microsoft• Raised visibility around open platform and developer efforts Yahoo! Photos:• Executed consumer PR programs to drive awareness and usage• Secured media exposure for re-launched Yahoo! Photos 3.0 • Managed communications around shut-down of service and transition to FlickrCommunity Products: Flickr, Groups, Pulse• Promoted innovative enhancements to Flickr’s photo sharing social media site including geo-tagging and video sharing• Showcased Yahoo! Groups’ users in the media and at community events• Launched Yahoo!’s social experience, Pulse, while managing external expectations Corporate Social Responsibility: • Promoted Yahoo!’s online child safety efforts among industry influencers and consumer media• Established Yahoo!’s leadership in providing accessible products and services to people with disabilities• Promoted Yahoo!’s position as a leader in green data center design; helped secure Yahoo!’s top ten ranking as a leading sustainable company in the U.S. in Newsweek• Increased awareness of Yahoo!’s re-branded CSR campaign in consumer print, radio and broadcast media

Provided public relations agency support for the following clients: Sun Microsystems, RealNames (Internet keywords); myCFO (wealth advisory services); Homestead.com (website publishing); Onebox (unified messaging); San Jose Tech Museum (event promotions); Miadora (jewelry e-tailer).• Served as account lead and day-to-day client contact for multiple clients with budget up to $80K a month• Implemented client programs including news announcements, product reviews, awards programs, product/service launches, special events, conferences and speaker’s bureau• Drove daily proactive media relations programs through business, trade and consumer targets• Facilitated media and analyst networking dinners at key conferences and tradeshows