Experience

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  Baxter Law

  • President & Founder

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  Baxter Law Corp.

  • Encinitas, CA

  • President & Founder

    • Jan 2018 - Present
    • Encinitas, CA

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  Startup Grind

  • San Diego

  • Chapter Director

    • May 2012 - May 2013
    • San Diego

    •StartupGrind is a monthly entrepreneurial event series aimed at helping educate, connect, and inspire founders•200 member chapter in S.D. built from the ground up•8 months planning, marketing, hosting events; recruiting the guest speakers; and doing writeups for the StartupGrind blog•8 months working with Basecamp, Meetup, EventBrite

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  Income.com

  • Project Manager

    • Jun 2011 - Sep 2012

    •16 months developing roadmaps, goal assessments, wireframing, user interface, testing, blog management, affiliate management, content writing, online marketing, SEO, video production•12 months BaseCamp, WordPress, CommissionJunction, MailChimp, GoDaddy, SendGrid, OmniGraffle•6-man team supervised: programmers, business developer, graphic designer, social media specialist

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  Ke Alaka'i - The Leader

  • Senior Editor

    • Sep 2009 - Apr 2011

    •10 staff writers mentored/copy edited•24 issues in production management•48 issues contributed to•Associated Press Style Guide (AP)•Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Live Type, Joomla. •Previous positions: video production, staff writer, and director of marketing (marketing budget, market research, promotional events, campus communication/PR, and revamping director of marketing guidelines and job description).•2 college media conferences with professional workshops in writing, editing, and marketing (Louisville, KY and Manhattan, NY).

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  The Willes Center for International Entrepreneurship

  • Team Director

    • Sep 2009 - Apr 2011

    •$65,000 total prize money allocated for winners of business plan competition & leadership conference.•80 to 300 increase in student participation in 1st year.•300 to 1,500 increase in student participation in 2nd year.•Directed 7 student/3 faculty event planning team•Expansion of competition categories from 3 to 10•Responsibilities – advertising, promotional events, video production, floor plans & logistics, event procedures, script writing, event mc-hosting, and entertaining donors, philanthropists, entrepreneurs, and other VIPs.

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  BYU-Hawaii Honors Program

  • Academics Coordinator

    • Jan 2009 - Apr 2011

    •1 semester teaching Honors 100 course. •14 lessons executed, engaging students in reading, rhetoric, critical thinking, and research.•1 semester as service coordinator•4 service projects executed: U.S.S. Missouri at Pearl Harbor, Polynesian Cultural Center, Honolulu Zoo, and Hukilau Beach cleanup.•1 semester as academics coordinator•10 speakers/lectures recruited and planned from various fields: medicine, business, NASA, humanitarian aid, music, fine arts, Shakespearian studies, law.

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  Missao Belo Horizonte Leste

  • Full-time Service Missionary in Brazil

    • Oct 2005 - Oct 2007

    •105 Brazilian & American missionaries supervised across 20 cities in Minas Gerais, Brazil.•24 months in door-to-door sales environment, training new missionaries, motivational speaking, humanitarian efforts, religious teaching, family relationship counseling, communication skills, work integrity, literacy, and the English language.•20 months collecting/analyzing weekly performance summaries from missionaries, followed up with trainings tailored to meet needs.