WENDY OCHOA, Ph.D | Tel: 858.361.9515 | email: wendy@ayayaydesign.com

Resume

WENDY F. OCHOA

wendy@ayayaydesign.com

Tel. 858 3619515 (Cell)

4781 Felton St, San Diego CA 92116


Creative, motivated, bilingual and experienced publications coordinator. Well-developed interpersonal skills, marketing, print and web design experience, social media expert, outstanding team leadership, behavioral management, business administration expertise, and science background.

Core Competencies


• Creative Art Director
• Print and Web Design
• Branding, Community Outreach and Social Networking
• Events Marketing and Promotions
• Project and Operation Management
• Team Leadership & Training
• Science Research
• Sponsorship and Public Relationships.

Professional Experience


Marketing and Creative Art Director

FlawLes and FlawLes Magazine. http://www.FlawLes.com

·  Responsible for the creation, design and branding of FlawLes and its different branches such as FlawLes Events, FlawLes Magazine and FlawLes TV.

·  Layout and design of FlawLes Magazine, an entertainment and lifestyle publication.

·  Production and coordination of all print and marketing material for FlawLes such as: Brochures, fliers, media kit, books, reports, posters, video, ads, DVDs, etc…

·  Coordinate social networking, internal and external publications and communications, marketing campaigns, fundraising, events promotions, customer service, advertising sales

·  Manage and led a team of 8 members of promoters, writers and event producers as well asfreelancers and vendors.

·  Managed relationships with third-parties and media outlets including printers, developers and public relationship associates.

·  Active participation in the marketing campaigns and fundraising organization for several non-profit organizations such as San Diego Human Dignity Foundation, Equality California, Victory Fund, Human Rights Campaign, LGBT Center, Susan G Komen among others.

Publications coordinator
FilmOut (Film Festival)

·  Responsible for production and coordination of all the marketing and branding material for the annual festival. This includes: Concept creation, Programs, posters, fliers, brochures and ads campaigns for local and national publications.

·  Web design and web project manager for the festival website.  Responsible for the developing, management, maintenance and content editing. Enhanced site interactivity; articles, photo galleries, video, blogs, mobile applications, social networking, feedback, calendars, news releases, podcasts.

 

AyAyAy Design Studio

Founder, Owner and Freelance Web/Graphic designer

Recent Projects;

AWIS. Association of Women in Science (San Diego Chapter)

http://www.awissd.org

WIST conference.  Women in Science and Technology

http://www.awissd.org

TIDES. Transformative Inquiry Design for Effective Schools and Systems

http://tideseducation.org/

·  Responsible for coordinating and producing of a variety of graphics products and services: Magazines, ads, newsletters, report covers, annual reports, brochures, exhibit displays, maps, slide shows, corporative images, branding.

·  Web design and development: Content Management System Joomla. HTML/XHTML, PHP/MySQL, Flash.

·  Events and studio photography.

·  Design and create online and print material for events and organizations such as: Victory Fund, LGBT center, San Diego Human Dignity Foundation, Susan G Komen, FilmOut Festival and Wigfest

 

Manager of The Electron Microscopy Facilities

Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute

Department of Infectious Diseases

May 2007-Present

·  Responsible for lab instrumentation; including contracts, maintenance, calibration, troubleshooting and software.

·  Develop methods of laboratory experimentation, protocols and manuals.

·  Training and technical support. Presentation

·  Responsible for the coordination, monitoring and communications with engineers, contractors and vendors and member of scientific community

·  In charge of budgeting, data analysis, facility reports, scheduling, research projects management, documentation search.

·  Manuscripts and grants writing and submission.

 

Academic History


• Certificate on High Speed Project Management
12-10
San Diego State University

• Interactive Media Certificate
1-05 – 1/06
San Diego Continuing Education, North City Campus, San Diego
SDCCD Centers for Education and Technology

• Postdoc Fellow
2-06 – 5/07
University of California San Diego
Department of cryo Electron Microscopy

• Postdoc Fellow
9-02 – 2/06
Scripps Institute Research
Department of Structural Virology

• Ph.D., Biochemistry
9/96 - 2/01
Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Biochemistry
Instituto de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona (CSIC),
Barcelona, Spain

• B.S., Chemistry-Biochemistry
8/92 - 6/96
Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Biochemistry,
Barcelona, Spain

Languages


Bilingual Spanish/English

Awards


·   Achievement in Innovation Award. Association of Women in Science (2010)

·   2009 Nicky Award for Outstanding New Business.

·   First Prize for presentation at the 2004 SUMMER RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM

·   Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia of Spain fellowship (1997-2000)

Software and Computer Skills


Competent with both MACs and PCs:

·  Adobe Photoshop

·  Adobe Illustrator

·  Adobe Indesign

·  Adobe After Effects

·  Adobe ImageReady

·  Macromedia Flash

·  Dreamweaver

·  FinalCut

·  Adobe Acrobat Pro

·  Microsoft Powerpoint

·  Microsoft Word

·  Microsoft Excel

·  CMS Joomla

·  HTML

·  Reasonable understanding of PHP & MySQL integration

·  Flash/ActionScript

 

Latest Science Publications


·   Tang, J., J. Pan, W. M. Havens, W. F. Ochoa, T. S. Y. Guu, S. A. Ghabrial, M. L. Nibert, Y. J. Tao, and T. S. Baker (2010). Backbone trace of partitivirus capsid protein from electron cryomicroscopy and homology modeling.  Biophys. J. 99:685-694.

·   Structure of Fusarium poae virus 1 shows conserved and variable elements of partitivirus capsids and evolutionary relationships to picobirnavirus.Tang J, Ochoa WF, Li H, Havens WM, Nibert ML, Ghabrial SA, Baker TS. J Struct Biol. 2010 Jul 3

·   Pan J, Dong L, Lin L, Ochoa WF, Sinkovits RS, Havens WM, Nibert ML, Baker TS, Ghabrial SA, Tao YJ. Atomic structure reveals the unique capsid organization of a dsRNA virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2009 Mar

·   Kumar S, Ochoa W, Singh P, Hsu C, Schneemann A, Manchester M, Olson M, Reddy V. Tomato bushy stunt virus (TBSV), a versatile platform for polyvalent display of antigenic epitopes and vaccine design. Virology 2009;388(1):185-190

A complete list of all the scientific publications can be found on this link:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&cmd=DetailsSearch&term=wendy+Ochoa

 
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