Harpers Magazine is one of America's oldest (est. 1850) and most respected liberal magazines. I am currently working as a freelance translator and researcher for Harpers Magazine. I am responsible for finding and verifying statistics for the Harpers Index, as well as tracking down and translating materials for the "translations" section.
Fodor's is America's largest travel publisher, with over 5,000,000 books sold every year. I wrote the Side Trips and Neighborhoods chapters for the first edition of the Fodor's Beijing Travel Guide. Writing involved traveling to all of Beijing's neighborhoods and out-of-town tourist destinations, including a few off-the-beaten track sites.
Global Web Security (gWebs) is a Singaporean web-services security start-up based in Beijing. gWebs makes encryption and authentication software for consumers, small businesses, and the enterprise.
Our products bring public-key encryption to webmail.
When I arrived at gWebs we were a very young start-up and I was hired as a translator for our software's localization pack. Chinese is the only language spoken at our office, so I quickly learned a lot of technical Chinese and established a strong relationship with our CEO and CTO. I was promoted to Marketing Supervisor within weeks and then 6 months later I was promoted again to Marketing Director. During that time, I redrafted our business plan, wrote our website and all of our marketing materials, setup our web infrastructure, blog, stats, SEO and a small suite of systems to enhance our productivity. When our LAN and web systems were mostly in place, I hired and (now) manage a system administrator to take care of them full time. I also manage our 8 person marketing team which develops the materials you see here, as well as a Chinese blog (http://blogcn.gwebs.com) a Chinese website (http://www.microdone.cn) and a number of other things.
In my capacity as Business Development Associate, I work on strategizing, planning and securing corporate partnerships, which have, to date, resulted in the addition of 3.5 million users to our user base.
In addition, I have been and am still involved in a substantial portion of our project management. I am responsable for some of the major innovations and technological developments at gWebs, including our switching to an open source encryption model and development of a Firefox plug-in.
National Geographic Traveler Magazine is a subsidiary of the National Geographic Society and is considered one of America's foremost travel magazines. I was recruited as an editorial intern, but during my time there I wrote three published articles and assisted with research for much of the editorial and photo staff.
I started out volunteering for Democrats abroad this summer when I realized how difficult it was to register to vote abroad and noticed how very few people had contacted me about registering to vote. So I contacted them, started a facebook group, organized a half dozen voter registration, phone banking and fundraising events, and raising $4000 in 3 months. I also went to Ohio and worked in the Elyria office, training and recruiting other volunteers, knocking on doors, phone banking, and registering more then 150 people to vote in 3 days.
KuaiBBS was my Chinese web startup. KuaiBBS is a China-centric Bulletin Board System (BBS) built from the ground up using Perl, JavaScript, XHTML and CSS connecting to a MySQL database on a UNIX platform. I was the sole programmer, designer, system administrator, project manager, investor and marketer.
I have a total of 4 years teaching and training experiance at various training centers in Beijing, including Modern English, New Oriental and Mandarin Renaissance. I have also taught specialized business English for corporate clients including Microsoft, Cisco, Lenovo, Volvo and SanDisk.