MY RESUME

CAREER FOCUS:
Free lance contracts as a writer/editor/ graphics artist responsibilities
A results-oriented team player who can work alone in an efficient & organized manner.

EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
13 years experience in public relations working with corporate, and non-government organizations with a strong technical command of the English language, familiar with virtually all writing styles. Such as conceptualization of & writing/editing of the following:

• Annual reports, brochures, posters, seminar & tour materials;
• Campaign materials and process documentation
• Advocacy directed feature articles, commentaries, speeches and press releases.
• Public relations directed materials
• Press kits

Events organizer for various audiences:
Advocacy campaigns, press conferences & familiarization tours.
Board meetings & cocktail parties

Experienced speaker & host for televised events, seminars & board meetings
Layout artist for creative print/radio ad copy (develops concepts & contents)
Photographer (Sony DVD, 8mm & digital camera)

WEB EXPERIENCE:

Keyword content writer for online content providers such as www.justarticles.com, Ms. Hetu, and articlesauthor.net, since 09/04.

2002-2003 Content writer & photographer for www.cometomati.com,
official website of the municipality.
2000-2002 Content writer for the Philippine Eagle Foundation, Inc. official website.
1999-2002 Content writer for www.davaocity.com and co-partner for this domain.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
“Adopting an Eaglet - Serendipity” Philippine Daily Inquirer (Sept. 14, 2001)
“Davao’s Eagle Man TOYM Awardee” Manila Times (Jan. 27, 2001)
“Eagles’ Surrogate mates” National Enquirer USA Edition (Feb.9, 2002)

“WomenTalk” opinion writer from 1996-2003 for Mindanao Daily Mirror, a multi-awarded community newspaper in the Philippines.

Feature writer for Manila Times (January 2000-2002)
“Deep Breasted”
“Boss of the Year Award”
“Hatching an Eagle”
“Back To The Wild”

Project Assistant Writer & Translator (English to the vernacular)
“ Their War, Our Struggle” information primer 09/20/04-02/15/05
Commissioned by: Save The Children Project UK thru Guava Consultancy, Inc.
For: National Government & Local Government Units, Non-government Organizations

FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT WORK:
IEC - Project Management Assistant
A DENR (foreign funded project) Southern Mindanao Integrated Coastal Zone Management Project (SMICZMP) 09/03 - 08/04

Conceptualized, co-authored & edited four (4) central themes for DENR-SMICZMP
quarterly newsletters.
Designed & executed lay-outs of four (4) DENR-SMICZMP quarterly newsletters.
Authored new format and contents for the Project Director speeches & presentations
for DBM – central Office, NEDA, FASPO; Region XI & XII .
Conceptualized and led organized press tour for Region XII press
Created and authored new materials & content for exhibits:
Province of Sarangani Anniversary
PEF Annual Eagle Week June 2004.

Communications Officer
The Philippine Eagle Foundation
Communications Officer — The Philippine Eagle Foundation 12/2000 - 02/2002

Foundations’ counterpart producer & guide/translator for the National Geographic – Asia team. This collaboration resulted in the first footages taken of the hatching of an incubated eaglet and rare sighting of a week old eaglet in the wild.

Interviewed on National Geographic-Asia on work done for the foundation.

Designed & packaged a new look for the Eagle Center’s tour guides
including new uniforms, tickets & guide speeches geared for different audiences.

Raised Davao city grant from Php 250,000.00 to Php 1,000,000.00 for the year 2001.

FREELANCE WORK

CUES – USAid organization
Script writer for the seminar framework & tours set for Region XII, XI & IX
"South east Asian Cooperatives Summit ", December 17-19,2002.
Audience: 300 participants from the Philippines & other Southeast Asian Countries
USAid officials

Lecturer : “Basics for News writing & campaigns” February 2003
Audience: CUES partner/donor organizations & office personnel on the basics
of public relations

ECO-GOVERNANCE USAid organization February 5-12, 2003
Documentor & photographer: 5 Day seminar on the crucial module of the Solid Waste Management Plan of 6 municipalities from Region XII.


PUBLICIST WORK

Municipality of Mati
Created media plan & coordinated the press coverage for the municipality’s first festival: SAMBUOKAN 2001.
RESULTED: Festivities were fully covered by three Mindanaonan Dailies and one news agency, two (2) teams of both features & news teams of GMA and ABS-CBN broadcast networks, earning Mati its’ first extensive publicity in two decades.

Kadayawan Foundation, Inc.
Davao City’s private sector tourism promotional board
member of a 3-person team commissioned to make a road show presentation for the Philippine Association of National Advertisers (PANA) this February 19th, 2002.
Accomplishments:
scriptwriter for the multimedia presentation
editor for the audio-video presentation
authored the speeches for the following
Davao city Mayor's speech for the audio-video presentation
Kadayawan President’s speech to PANA

RESULTED IN: Audio-video presentation cited for excellence by and requested by the Aboitiz Shipping, Inc. corporate communications officer, for viewing on their ships.

SKYCABLE PUBLICIST
Work resulted in creating rapport between media publications, the city officials, subscribers; general public and the company.