St. Anthony High School

Whittier Law School

California State University-Long Beach

Deputy Chief of Staff/Metro Board Deputy - Office of Mayor Robert Garcia at City of Long Beach

Long Beach, California, United States

- Develop, write and manage legislation and policy.-Board Deputy for LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.-Staff Mayor at Metro Board and Committee Meetings-Staff Mayor for Gateway Cities Council of Governments.-Lead policy areas include: Sustainability, Transportation and Long Beach Airport.-Lead meetings with Council chiefs-of-staff.-Representative on Joint Port Sustainable Supply Chain Advisory Committee.

City of Long Beach

Deputy Chief of Staff/Metro Board Deputy - Office of Mayor Robert Garcia

- Develop, write and manage legislation and policy.-Staff Mayor as he chairs Council meetings.-Lead policy areas include: Sustainability and Long Beach Airport.-Lead meetings with Council chiefs-of-staff.-Representative on Joint Port Sustainable Supply Chain Advisory Committee-Maintain and update official office website.-Draft press-releases.-Manage legislative budget process.

Deputy Chief of Staff- Office of Mayor Robert Garcia

Legislative Director- Office of Mayor Robert Garcia

- Recruited, trained and deployed @2000 attorney-volunteers throughout Nevada to provide voter protection on behalf of Hillary for America and the Democratic National Committee's Victory Counsel- Developed talking points on voting rights.- Wrote internal guidance memos on voting rights issues and laws.- Communicated to different campaigns and candidates about voting protection priorities.- Advised state-wide campaign and national HQ on voting issues.- Drafted and edited press releases and media advisories.- Helped secure 3 extra days of voter registration.- Co-ran Southern Nevada Boiler Room during 14 days of Early Voting and on Election Day- Nevada was the ONLY state that flipped both chambers of legislature to Democratic control, while picking up Congressional seats and holding a Senate seat, while delivering 6 electoral votes to Secretary Clinton.

Nevada State Democratic Party

Deputy Director, Voter Protection

Performed document review on FCPA litigation.

Hire Counsel

Contract Attorney

Consulting for public and private projects, assisting clients on outreach and strategy for working with the community and elected officials.  Lead on business development, finding opportunities to pursue and driving proposal writing process for the firm.  Roles include:• Event Planning• Research• Government Relations• Media Relations• Press Releases• Policy Analysis• Proposal Writing• Contract Drafting/Administration• Communication with Primes and Sub-consultants • Client RelationsClients Include:• Manufacturers• City Governments• State Agencies• DevelopersProjects include:• Long Beach New Civic Center Community Outreach• BYD Motors Public and Government Affairs• California High Speed Rail in Fresno (CP1) Community Outreach• Century Housing Governmental Affairs and Community Outreach

Lee Andrews Group

Public Affairs Specialist/Business Development

Helped Elect Vice Mayor Robert Garcia the Mayor of Long Beach (CA).• Recruit/Train/Manage student and community volunteers• Give class presentations on behalf of the campaign• Organize events to motivate volunteers• Compose campaign statements and press releases• Staff candidate at fundraisers, forums, and other events• Participate in strategy meetings • Coordinating whipping of votes for endorsements from organizations• Draft/create email blasts for campaign• Perform data work in both PDI and NationBuilder• Advised on voter protection/election law

Robert Garcia for Mayor of Long Beach

Deputy Campaign Manager

- Long term assignment continued from Crowell for Kaiser Permanente.•  Provide support to associates and partners with E-Discovery, depositions, filings, memorandum, research, etc.•  Focusing on emergency medicine, billing, contracting, and health care law compliance issues.• Conduct Early Case Appraisals (ECA's) on large groups of documents, develop key words, exclusionary terms, test terms, and write summaries and recommendations.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Project attorney

Poll watcher and voter protection adviser during early voting in battleground state Nevada.

Obama for America

Volunteer Attorney

- Long term assignment for Kaiser Permanente.•  Provide support to associates and partners with E-Discovery, depositions, filings, memorandum, research, etc.• Conduct Early Case Appraisals (ECA's) on large groups of documents, develop key words, exclusionary terms, test terms, and write summaries and recommendations.

Crowell & Moring LLP

Project Attorney

Performed document review in an anti-trust case involving pharmaceutical client.

E Discovery Attorney

- Performing document review on biotechnology case in Silicon Valley.•  Trained on biology and chemistry of patent case.

Essential Discovery

E-Discovery Attorney

- Conducted research and writing for legal memos.•  Performed analytical and privilege reviews for online ad litigation for Google on campus.•  Assisted in the review and management of documents during the E Discovery process.•  Assisted with quality control reviews.

Google

Google E Discovery Attorney via Addeco

- Performed document review for high-tech case in front of Federal Trade Commission.•	Reviewed documents for privilege, responsiveness, confidentiality, work product, non-disclosure agreements and other relevant information.•	Performed document review for patent case in front the US ITC.•	Reviewed documents for privilege, responsiveness, confidentiality, patent defenses, un-announced product details and other relevant information.

Black Letter Discovery

- Served as advisor to campaign on issues of election law.•  Visited pollilng places to answer questions of voters and protect their rights.

Campaign to Elect Robert Garcia - Special Election for Long Beach City Council-

Election Law Advisor

- Directed a staff of academic, admission, and career advisors, including an ESL program.  •  Managed a budget from the District and from application fees.•  Created an international marketing plan to recruit students in various regions.  Increased number of international students on campus.  Built strong brand name for LBCC to recruit with.•  Communicated with embassies, consolates, and the US State Department for various issues.•  Advised current and prospective students on US immigration, F-1 visa issues, and employment authorization process.•  Filled out immigration forms including SEVIS and I-90 paperworks.•  Assisted students through appeals process for re-instatement.

Long Beach City College

Interim-Director/Immigration Counselor International Student Program

- Provided voters with legal aid during the voting process.  •  Answered calls on the voter hotline, cataloging voter issues.•  Assisted voters cast their ballots.•  Helped voters in person on election day at polling places.

Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights

Volunteer Legal Staff

- Conducted legal research and drafted memoranda on a range of issues including stock options and business mergers.  •  Prepared pre-trial brief in a property takings case.  •  Prepared deposition digests in several cases.   •  Reviewed documents produced by opposing counsel to develop fact records.  •  Conferred with client to identify documents potentially responsive to discovery requests.  •  Reviewed client documents for reliance and privilege.

SPACH, CAPALDI

Law Clerk

- Taught classroom server training program that included 2.5 full days of in class training, 2.5 days of floor training, and examination at the end.•  Assisted in the editing of training materials for new servers.•  Trained floor trainers on how to work with new servers.Served 1.5 years as crew supervisor/assistant manager.•  Managed breakfast, lunch, and dinner shifts.•  Served one year as a Safari Guide working lunch and dinner shifts both weekdays and weekends at 5-6 table stations.

Rainforest Cafe

Food Server/Server Trainer/Crew Supervisor

- Trained in all things Disneyland to assist guests on their visit to the resort.•  Served in a 4-table station.•  Worked banquet events and other special occasions in wine cellar.•  Trained on wine menu and food pairings.

Disneyland Resort

Food Server - Hook's Pointe

Youth Education and Development Volunteer   	          	              	         		           	 2002-2004		  Taught high school English as a foreign language.  Allocated and administered $150,000 in grants annually through USAID.  Wrote grants for funding for educational projects and to target the improvement of the Roma community.  Directed 2 national youth leadership camps.  Trained over 100 new Peace Corp Volunteers in Bulgarian language and job skills .

Peace Corps

Volunteer

- Recruited new orientation leaders.•  Designed training program for orientation leaders.•  Planned orientation events for incoming freshman and transfers.•  Tracked past participants of orientation program.•  Trained orientation staff.

California State University, Long Beach

Program Coordinator - Office of Student Retention and Orientation

CSULB Lois J Swanson Leadership Center

Board Member

- Assisted in the leadership instruction and oversee the daily life of the student participants.•  PC serves as a “big brother” or “big sister” to the student participants to motivate them, reinforce the program’s lesson objectives, provide guidance and camaraderie, and help determine and enforce the program’s rules of student conduct.

Justin Ramirez

Justin Ramirez