Project Coordinator & Marketer

Virginia R. Graham

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EXPERIENCE

Redemption San Francisco

Communications Coordinator (contract) June 2024 – present

• Handle internal & external communications, engaging 550+ visitors/members weekly.

• Coordinate announcements, order of events, guest speakers, vendors, and 40 volunteers.

Unusual Ventures – venture capital firm

Events & Community Manager Apr 2022 – Jun 2023

• Ran events: sourced vendors & handled contracts, scheduling, catering, staffing, event feedback for 100 person events, remaining within budget.

• Ordered, distributed swag between vendors and recipient teams for bi-coastal offices.

• Expanded audience of 8.4k by 18% via writing firm’s monthly newsletter; 32% open rate.

Silicon Valley Bank

Project Manager for Internal Communications Sep 2021 – Mar 2022

• Led 85+ corporate video projects: recorded C-suite execs, Board’s Chairman, clients.

• Drove production schedule of weekly broadcasts w/3.6k attendees to provide bank updates.

• Saved IC team ~5 hrs/week: trained department leads to run <500-person virtual events.

• Ran meetings for multimedia & comms teams.

• Helped hire a video editor.

• Oversaw 3 direct reports.

Founder Institute – startup accelerator

Marketing Associate Jan – Sep 2020

• Launched video production process during pivot to virtual programs: 3x’d YouTube views.

• Executed 45 webinars for top-of-funnel marketing.

• Created “Featured Founders” resource to inspire underrepresented entrepreneurs. Trader Joe’s Palo Alto, CA

Store manager, promoted in 90 days Jun 2018 – Aug 2019

• Managed inventory planning for ~4,000 products with orders 1-3 days out; compared previous year’s orders + holidays + current trends to manage inventory levels.

• Coordinated with drivers on arrival times and prepped recipient teams accordingly.

• Managed and cross-trained team of 80; improved operational efficiency.

• Designed managerial 20-page training guide to free up senior manager’s time.

EDUCATION

UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA

• B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies – “Health and Development”

• Groups: analyst at Capital Investments at Berkeley; interpreter with Volunteer Health Interpreter Org.

SKILLS and TOOLS

Project management, budget management Event planning Resource allocation ChatGPT, Microsoft Teams, Wrike, Jira, Asana, Notion, Google Suite Zoom, Luma, Hubspot, Outlook, MailChimp, Gmail ChatGPT.

LEADERSHIP and SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

VC Platform: Global Summit Speaker ’23 CMX Summit ’22: Moderator Dance: Finance manager for 6 teams

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