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About Me

MBA Candidate with excellent international experience and cross-cultural communication skills. Client oriented professional with extensive customer facing experience, driven to achieve objectives. Expert in social networking, online marketing and research. Strong analysis and strategy skills coupled with presentation ability Fluent in Spanish and proficient in Japanese.

KITA Consulting, Salem, OR

Consultant, Present

• Working with major Portland non-profit to do pitch pack and due diligence for new social enterprise incubator.

GEOS corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Liason Teacher, 2009 – 2010

Responsible for English Teaching and developing new student contracts

• Organized individual lesson plans to help students reach their goals

• Liaised with management to drive business development of school, through new student interviewing and materials sales

• Planned and coordinated school events

• Maintained a high-level of customer service and communication with students

Responsible for placing high quality professionals in mid-career to executive level positions

• Specialized in placing high quality professionals in mid-career to executive level positions

• Worked with top international companies to locate skilled bilingual candidates for challenging roles in Finance and IT

• Utilized of resources including social networks and traditional methods to build business network and locate top candidates

• Conducted professional interviews of Japanese business people in order to assess their skills and motivation

• Independently created leads and successfully engaged in client development

• Worked with colleagues to drive business development and achieve recruitment results in a timely manner

• Handled all aspects of recruitment process and met challenging deadlines, exceeding expectations

• Conduced client meeting and professional sales presentations to CFO/CEO of major corporations

• Client companies included Sybase, Trend Micro, Coca Cola, Merck and Microsoft

• United States Senate Washington, DC

Intern, Office of Senator John Warner Winter 1996; Summer 1996

• Designed and updated media contact guide to enable quicker, more accurate communication-flow with the press and public.

• Researched and responded to constituent questions and concerns.

Responsible for managing patent schedule, client communication and paralegal team

• Worked with major foreign and Japanese clients such as Matushita, Volvo, NTT and Novartis

• Managed dynamic team environment with both Japanese and foreign staff from around the world

• Met demanding schedule and provided clients with sophisticated legal advice and solutions

• Showed leadership and effective communication skills with co-workers and customers

• Organized conference on youth diabetes in Ecuador

• Created press materials to publicize AYUDA's work

AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE MEXICO PROJECT, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Community Development Volunteer, Summer 2005

• Worked with rural community towards development goals and creating cross-cultural understanding

Education and Qualifications

WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY, Atkinson Graduate School of Management, Salem, OR

Master of Business Administration Candidate, expected May 2012

• Willamette MBA Scholar – recipient of merit-based scholarship

McGILL UNIVERSITY, Montreal, QC

Honors Undergraduate Degree, International Development Studies, 2007

• Wrote undergraduate thesis on links between US immigration policy and the development of gangs in Central America

• Vice-President of Communications for development NGO