Intern, March 1999 - present

• As an intern at the Digilab of the National Museum of American History, I help to process internal work orders. This involves scanning photos or negatives, resizing, polishing up, digitizing and printing them for internal clients. We use Photoshop 5.0 most of the time to process these jobs. Lately, I have also begun to help the webmaster on a web design project.

Administrative Assistant, September 1997 - present

• CAPEC gave me the opportunity to sharpen skills I acquired from my previous work experience. I organize and coordinate workshops, seminars, courses and special events. I use my interpersonal skills to foster good working relations with university, community and vendor contacts.
• I continue to develop my creative and writing
  skills as I produce and design, flyers, brochures, journals, and other promotional materials for the center..

Associate Consultant, March - July 1997

• I had great experiences here. I Organized and coordinated training seminars and acted as facilitator for training workshops.
• I enjoyed developing materials with my principal consultant. There were grave deadlines but my interest kept me going and we were happy with
  our efforts.
• Usually after a training session, I would analyze
  the evaluation data, compile the results and generate reports for our clients. Client support
  was always a priority in our work.

Assistant Manager, October - December 1996

• Working in Focus Pocus was a lot of fun. Apart from assisting the store manager in all operations; I also helped to promote sales and trained new photographers. Training included learning to use both conventional and digital cameras. We had to submit five different portraits (groups and individuals) to our head office for approval.
• I learned to relate with clients and make them
  feel at ease (important, if I wanted to get a good picture). I also picked up skills on picture composition, color balance, lighting and creative portraiture.

Marketing Executive, 1989 - 1992

• What they did not teach me in school, I learned them in ManuLife. I wrote business plans to market the company's employee benefits products. Helped develop promotional literature and managed client/broker relations. I also prepared the operations manual for my department.
• My creativity is at its best when I organized new product launches and marketing campaigns. I coordinated, scheduled and monitored campaign activities.
• Training is an important activity in ManuLife. Every month, I conducted product training for agents and brokers. I also provided on-the-job training for agency support secretaries.