Experience

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  Boy Scouts of America, Muir District, Mt. Diablo Silverado Council

  • Concord, CA

  • Event Coordinator, Muir District Annual Recognition Dinner

    • May 2012 - Present
    • Concord, CA

    In 2013, successfully revamped traditional awards dinner to feature a "Scout-centric" interactive skit format and more inclusive participation, recruited and directed planning committee, partnered with local vendors to receive special pricing and donations, wrote program script and printed program, coordinated publicity and ticket sales increasing attendance by 150% over prior years.Currently dreaming up more fun for the 2014 event.

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  Jockey Person to Person

  • Fashion Consultant

    • Jul 2008 - Jun 2014

    I provide fashion consulting, sales and business training for Jockey Person to Person, a division of the internationally recognized company, Jockey. Nothing beats shopping at home in the company of friends, and Jockey P2P provides the very best in easy to wear, and easy to care for, fashions and business opportunity for today's busy, stylish and entrepreneurial women.

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  Northgate Instrumental Music Boosters, Northgate High School

  • Walnut Creek

  • Coordinator, Spring Concert at the Lesher Center

    • Dec 2012 - May 2014
    • Walnut Creek

    Coordinate year-end concert for highly acclaimed Northgate High School instrumental music program under the direction of Mr. Greg Brown. Approximately 150 students participate in Concert, Symphonic, Wind Ensemble and Orchestra performances at the Lesher Center for theArts in Walnut Creek. Concert broadcast yearly by Walnut Creek-TV.Create and distribute publicity flyers, work with students to coordinate ticket sales and distribution and promote the event to the greater community.Share responsibility with the Chaperone Coordinator to manage and direct adult volunteers.Coordinate logistics of equipment delivery and removal, stage set up, security and complimentary tickets lists with Lesher Center for the Arts and liaison with Walnut Creek-TV staff.

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  Boys Scout Troop 317

  • King's Valley Christian School, Concord, CA

  • Eagle Court of Honor Event Specialist

    • Jan 2010 - Jan 2014
    • King's Valley Christian School, Concord, CA

    Special event coordinator for National Eagle Courts of Honor for Boy Scout Troop 317. Only 4% of Boy Scouts in the United States earn the BSA's highest rank of Eagle Scout, and this very special honor is conferred at an impressive National Eagle Court of Honor. Since 2010, I have helped coordinate these special occasions to celebrate the unique achievements of our most accomplished scouts. I create a special keepsake scrapbook compiled of recognition letters from national, state and city public office holders, business leaders and public personalities, as well as an attractive display of their scouting memorabilia, and send a press release to local newspapers.Care and attention is taken to compile the scout's history for a professionally printed program, and I help develop personalized ceremony segments and write an accompanying script. I help coordinate ceremony staging and rehearsals, and oversee or assist with room set up and dinner service for audience of 80 - 100+ guests.

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  Boy Scouts of America, Pleasant Hill Scout Shop

  • Pleasant Hill, CA

  • Retail Sales Associate

    • Sep 2011 - Jun 2013
    • Pleasant Hill, CA

    This opportunity allowed me to often be the first "face of scouting" for scouts, families, leaders and the public serving our large community encompassing Napa to Brentwood to Lafayette to San Ramon. In one of the smallest but busiest retail stores in the country, I was most recently responsible for 2012 annual sales of $169,700.My biggest personal accomplishment was adding a dimension of fun (Boys' Life jokes, anyone?), sharing program knowledge, and my passion for the scouting program with store visitors while providing excellent customer service and increasing sales. I maximized thematic merchandising displays to take advantage of, and enhance, the small footprint of the retail space, and enthusiastically promoted new BSA program initiatives and provided program support to inspire scouts, parents, volunteers and staff to greater achievements. Having a "can do" attitude helped resolved customer concerns, and brought greater responsibility as I was tasked to coordinate special community outreach activities, open the store for business and prepare cash registers, in addition to the basic store responsibilities.

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  Central Sierra Arts Council (now Tuolumne County Arts Alliance)

  • Sonora, CA

  • Assistant Curator

    • Aug 2011 - Sep 2011
    • Sonora, CA

    Provided administrative and curatorial support for the "Yosemite and the California Trails of Jacinto "Jo" Mora 1876-1947" exhibition. Assisted with exhibition space preparation and artwork display, created descriptor cards for individual artifacts and general catalog information for gallery guests, and created system to track art sales.

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  Ygnacio Valley Community Action Group, Ygnacio Valley High School, Mt Diablo Unified School District

  • Concord, CA

  • Founder and Program Manager

    • Jun 2007 - Sep 2010
    • Concord, CA

    Spearheaded organization to improve curb appeal and boost community pride at an aging 55-acre high school campus serving a diverse socio-economic student body. Identified and connected stakeholders and decision makers at all levels to spur capital improvements, support volunteer projects and develop community partnerships.Collaborative accomplishments with school district include:*Installation of electronic marquee on major city thoroughfare after five-year delay; collaborated directly with MDUSD and Pacific Gas & Electric.* Installation of new fencing and windscreens for four tennis courts.* Interior painting of Multi-Use room.*One-time City of Concord street sweeping service to remove 15 years of accumulated broken glass from school parking lot.*Reconnection of water lines severed in 2005 during construction of the football stadium to allow for renewed campus irrigation and landscaping efforts.Personal achievements:*Over three-year period managed nearly 1,000 volunteers representing 6,000 hours of service.*Coordinated Comcast Cares largest one-day campus give-back: enrolled 350 volunteers (students and adults); coordinated with professional landscape architect planting 25 mature trees and upgrading parking lot medians with decomposed granite.*Over two-week period removed 20 years of accumulated graffitti and stickers, then washed, 1,600 campus lockers with support from student volunteers and Concord Rotary Club members.*Coordinated volunteer support for site preparation and construction of raised beds for Campus Community Garden.*Coordinated multiple volunteer campus cleanup events each year drawing students, staff and administration, parents, alumni, local church, community and athletic groups.*Repaired torn and threadbare theatre curtains on Multi-Use Room performance stage.*Developed recognition program for donated student service hours.*Inspired similar ongoing volunteer efforts at four other local high schools.

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  Ygnacio Valley High School, Mt. Diablo Unified School District

  • Concord, CA

  • Executive Board Member and Co-Chair, Multi-School Safe and Sober Grad Night

    • Jul 2009 - Jun 2010
    • Concord, CA

    The Mt. Diablo Unified School District is the only school district in the state of California that has a collaborative multi-school/multi-night Grad Night event. The Executive Board oversees the high-level planning of this event coordinated by five individual high schools and executed during five consecutive nights-- serving approximately 1,400 students and coordinating approximately 600 parent volunteers:*Researched vendors, solicited and evaluated RFPs. *Coordinated with City of Concord Park and Recreation, Police and Fire Departments. *Monitored budget and authorized payments.*Wrote press releases and coordinated outreach to local media.As Event Co-Chair for Ygnacio Valley High School, I directly managed coordination of our school's participation in the overall event, oversaw the $29,000 event budget, recruited volunteers and increased attendance by 85% over the previous years :*Initiated multi-lingual outreach to diverse ethnic communities to boost parent and student participation . *Developed and coordinated new sources of funding to support student attendance: letter campaign for student ticket scholarships, holiday craft and vendor faire, custom-branded coffee sales, bowling night event.*Partnered with local business to receive donated goods and services.*Scheduled committee meetings, developed agendas and information packets.*Communicated via telephone, mail, email, school website postings.

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  Giving Campaign, Mt. Diablo Unified School District

  • Founder

    • 2009 - 2009

    *Initiated novel grass-roots campaign to inspire $99 charitable donations to school district in support of local schools immediately following 2009 Measure D Parcel Tax defeat. http://www.mdusd.org/NewsRoom/Pages/whatyoucandotohelp.aspxThis was the first time such an effort was undertaken in the face of a failed parcel tax campaign, catching the attention of local print and television news media:Harrington, Teresa. "No Parcel Tax, So School Cuts Deepen." Contra Costa Times, 7 June 2009: pp A1 & A11Hartlove, Denisen. "School District Tries to Recover from Measure D's Defeat with Fund Drive." Clayton Valley Pioneer, 10 June 2009, p. 13ABC-7 News "Beyond the Headlines" interview with Cheryl Jennings, June 7, 2009CBS-5 News interview with Ann Notarangelo, June 9, 2009.

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  Weekenders

  • Fashion Consultant, Team Leader and Sales Manager

    • Sep 1998 - Jun 2008

    Managed all facets of home-based direct sales womens' fashion business including customer lead development, fun interactive fashion demonstrations, sales and order delivery, development of business leadership teams, skills training and creating seasonal fashion show launch events.

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  Oak Grove Middle School, Mt. Diablo Unified School District

  • Concord, CA

  • Planning Committee and Project Coordinator, 50th Anniversary & Community Room Makeover

    • Oct 2007 - Apr 2008
    • Concord, CA

    To add a special dimension and exciting focus to the school's 50th Anniversary celebration, I proposed a complete renovation of the original Home Economics classroom to create a new Campus Community Room featuring school and alumni memorabilia. This space was designed to be the new "heart" of the campus, and a gathering place to connect current and future middle school students with the past, with the intention of adding additional memorabilia to represent the current student body through the years.I was responsible for creating the project proposal and obtaining permissions, recruiting and coordinating volunteers, and obtaining and displaying memorabilia.As a member of planning committee, I also designed layout and images for the event invitation and printed program, compiled Excel database of alumni students and staff, and coordinated printing and mailing.

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  Bancroft Elementary School, Mt. Diablo Unified School District

  • Walnut Creek, CA

  • Event Chair and Procurement Specialist, Annual School Auction

    • Jun 2003 - Mar 2004
    • Walnut Creek, CA

    Taking leadership of this major fundraising event, I created a more formal event theme and contracted with a professional auctioneer increasing attendance and raising net proceeds of $36,000, reflecting 100% increase over previous years.General responsibilities included recruitment and management of auction subcommittees and volunteers, coordination of the event venue and local vendors. For the first time, I utilized internet research to expand acquisition of targeted donated goods and services.Administrative tasks included production of the auction catalog, creating item descriptions, proofreading and editing of the final print proof.

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  University of California San Diego, Department of Medicine

  • Veterans Hospital, La Jolla, CA

  • Executive Administrative Assistant

    • Jun 1986 - Mar 1992
    • Veterans Hospital, La Jolla, CA

    Provided high-level one-to-one executive support to internationally-recognized medical research and education pioneer, Helen M. Ranney, M.D., Past Chair and Professor Emeritus, Department of Medicine UCSD and Distinguished Physician for the Department of Veterans Affairs (Veterans Affairs Hospital) in La Jolla, CA.In addition to customary office administration duties including: telephone, correspondence and word processing with special emphasis on medical terminology, scheduling, travel coordination and reimbursements, filing, etc.:*Maintained confidential correspondence and financial statements associated with employer's position on Board of Directors, Squibb Pharmaceutical Corporation.*Processed sensitive nomination and election materials for the National Academy of Sciences and American Association of Physicians.*Prepared and submitted multi-million dollar research grants.*Helped to coordinate, and participated in, special events for visiting dignitaries.

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  Revelle College, University of California San Diego

  • La Jolla, CA

  • Resident Advisor

    • Aug 1983 - Jun 1986
    • La Jolla, CA

    Acted as on-campus residential advisor providing supervision and security, event planning and first contact counseling to undergraduates in dormitory and apartment living environments during sophomore-senior years. Held position year-round (academic year and summer sessions).

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  Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Television Show)

  • Murphys, CA

  • Fun Fact: Background Actor

    • Feb 1979 - Oct 1979
    • Murphys, CA

    Worked as an "extra" actor filling in background shots for the modern television remake of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." Production was filmed in the small foothill community of Murphys in Stanislaus County. I appeared in three episodes.