VICTORIA G. SMITH

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360-***-****

SKILLS & ATTRIBUTES SUMMARY

• Communications: communicator keen on crafting a message to enable the target audience to be most receptive to hearing it; versatile and exceptional writing and editing (creative, content and academic); experienced speech writer and public speaker; media-savvy personality comfortable with being interviewed on TV, radio, podcasts, and newspapers and magazines; politically-nuanced, people-centered communication style

• Management: autonomous and proactive ability to advance and manage time-sensitive multiple projects; strategy development, planning and implementation skills; transformational process management skills; intuitive yet data-informed judgment; ability to persist in purpose-driven work dedicated to excellence even in the small things, while remaining practical

• Leadership: ability to inspire and manage leadership collaboration inside and outside the organization to achieve organizational goals; critical and creative thinker; ability to maintain meticulous attention to detail while remaining grounded in the bigger picture

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

• Consistent career, academic and leadership excellence, including Magna Cum Laude honors

• 20+ years managing/ advancing time-sensitive multiple projects, including communications strategy/planning

• 20+ years research, writing (creative and academic), editing and publishing, including 8+ years content writing

(website, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs and email newsletters)

• Award-winning author traditionally published in all creative writing genres (nonfiction, fiction and poetry)

• Former practicing corporate, business and litigation lawyer who represented both Fortune 500 companies and pro-bono, indigent clients

• Highly experienced and inspiring webinar lecturer on leadership, advocacy, writing and the Humanities

• Highly-rated college instructor in International Business and Introduction to Business courses

• Initiated and ran a poetry program for homeless and at-risk youth at the Iowa Homeless Youth Shelters

• Inspired and planted the seed for a coalition of minority-led non-profit organizations

• Assisted Secretariat of Philippine Delegation to the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) in formulating and drafting UNCLOS provisions, among others, on the archipelagic doctrine, territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, and the continental shelf, which became the basis for the International Court of Justice in 2016 to decide in favor of the Philippines vs. China case

• Named 2017 Notable "Filipinos Around the World” by the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs

• 2016 Woman of the Year Award, Chicago Filipino Asian American Hall of Fame

• 2013 Chicago Filipino Asian American Hall of Fame Award for Outstanding Writer and Community Volunteer WORK EXPERIENCE

2010 - Present Manager and Communications Consultant, Pilgrim International Consulting Services (PICS), LLC

• ProvideS writing and editing services

• ProvideS communication strategies & technology solutions to enhance organizational effectiveness and efficiency

• Proposes and/or educates about corporate and organizational communications strategies and plans, manage communications and outreach projects and provide content writing and editing services

• On invitation by the Central Luzon State University, created and delivered two webinar presentations (total of eight hours) on Philippine political and economic history (March and April, 2022)

• On invitation by the University of the Philippines (UP) Academic Leadership Council, created and delivered presentation to 400+ college professors and other academic professionals on how to make the Philippines more globally competitive (2015)

Aug. 2008 - May 2010 Adjunct Instructor, International Business and Introduction to Business, Des Moines Area Community Colleges (DMACC), West Des Moines, IA, U.S.A.

• Brought innovative pedagogic style and technology to the classroom

• Developed course programs and selected student textbooks

• Achieved consistent high marks and praise in student surveys & evaluations Page 1 of 2

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May 1992 - June 1994 Associate Legal Counsel, San Miguel Corporation, Pasig City, Philippines

• SMC is the largest food, beverage and packaging corporation in Southeast Asia

• Assisted and counseled Corporate Communications division and reviewed documents regarding strategy and plans for communicating highly-sensitive transformational change process information through both internal and external communications channels

• Practiced Corporate Law: assisted in domestic and international contractual negotiations; prepared and reviewed domestic and international contractual agreements and other legal and technical documents; provided legal counsel, including the preparation of legal opinions on joint venture syndications; developed, proposed and headed an automated legal management system project

• Practiced Labor-Management Relations Law: counseled management panel in collective bargaining negotiations; prepared and reviewed collective bargaining agreements Jan. 1987 - March 1992 Associate Attorney, Sycip, Salazar, Hernandez & Gatmaitan, Makati City, Philippines

• One of the largest & most prestigious law firms in the Philippines

• Practiced Corporate, Banking & Finance, Patents & Copyrights, Labor-Management Relations, and Litigation (civil, criminal, and administrative) Law

• Counseled and represented Fortune 500 and other world-class companies, including pro-bono indigent clients June 1984 - Nov. 1986 Graduate Assistant, The International Studies Institute of the Philippines, University of the Philippines Law Center, Quezon City, Philippines

• Researched International Law and the legal implications of socio-political and economic problems

• Wrote and published articles through the Institute’s journal, World Bulletin (circulated worldwide) April - May 1982 Project Associate, Secretariat to the Philippine Delegation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), Development Academy of the Philippines, Makati City, Philippines

• Researched International Law of the Sea

• Assisted Philippine Delegation to the United Nations Law of the Sea Convention (UNCLOS) in formulating and drafting UNCLOS provisions, among others, on the archipelagic doctrine, territorial sea, exclusive economic zone, and the continental shelf

Nov. 1981- March 1982 Project Assistant to Professor A. Daguit, Department of Philosophy, College of Arts & Science, University of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines

• Research and project analysis

• Developed teaching and learning program modules for the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports Project on Filipino Identity and Consciousness

EDUCATION

May 1997 Master of Laws, University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Special focus on Public and Private International Law, Legal Theory and Philosophy, International Organizations, International Trade, International Relations and Contracts

• Judge and Advisor to the Michigan Law Team for the Jessup Moot Court Competition in International Law

• LLM Representative to the University of Michigan Law School Faculty Committee on International Legal Studies and Graduate Program

March 1986 Bachelor of Laws, University of the Philippines College of Law, Quezon City, Philippines

• Rank #6, Law Class of 1986 (Valedictorian, School Years 1982-1984)

• Justice Alex Reyes Scholar (full academic scholarship)

• Vice-Chair/Assistant Editor, Philippine Law Journal, 1985-1986; 2nd Place,1985 PLJ Board Examinations

• Law Student Government, 1982-1983

• Finalist, U.P. College of Law Jessup Moot Court Competition in International Law, 1985

• Chair, Diamond Jubilee Sub-Committee on the Institutional Directions of Legal Education, 1985-1986

• Order of the Purple Feather Law Honors Society, 1982-1986

• Taught labor and agricultural law to workers and farmers as a law student paralegal volunteer, 1982-1986 Nov. 1981 Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, University of the Philippines College of Arts & Sciences, Quezon City, Philippines

• Magna Cum Laude, Rank # 2, Class of 1981 (graduated in 3 years)

• University of the Philippines Government Scholar (full academic scholarship)

• Officer, College of Arts & Sciences Student Council Page 2 of 2

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