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Office: Pacific Development and Technology, LLC

                        999 Commercial Street, Suite 205, Palo Alto, Ca 94303

Email:             sliu@pacdel.com

Telephone:     +1-650-320-8841

Professional business developer with experience in international relations, business development, project management and client relations management. Serves PACDEL in:

  • Project Management
  • Program Planning
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • International Relations and Business Development  

Director of Business Development—January 2005 - present
Pacific Development and Technology, Palo Alto, California

  • Planning, negotiations and successful closing of new contracts with client companies.
  • Research grant information gathering, planning, and writing.
  • Established an international partnership with Tsinghua University (Beijing)
  • Managed customer relations and expanded existing client base.
  • Served as effective liaison with sponsors, contractors and vendors.

Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor, California State University, Hayward. Competitively awarded and funded by the China Scholarship Council for pursuing research on Human Resource Management in the US, Dec. 2003 – Dec. 2004.

Professor, Tianjin Foreign Studies University. Giving the following English and business management courses: Marketing, Communication Skills in Business, English speaking, listening, writing, and translation. 1988 – 2005.

Translation Supervisor and Translator, Sino-American Joint Certificate Program on Public Administration, California State University, Hayward, Oct. 16, 2004 – Nov. 16, 2004. Held responsibility for bi/multilateral academic exchange programs administration at governmental level. Successfully interacted with universities, local education authorities, community and international agencies. Administered correspondence, reports, legal documents and travel arrangements.

Corporate Training Instructor, Motorola University, Tianjin, China, Apr. 1996 – 2005. Corporate Training, including Effective Presentation, Training the Trainers, Coaching and Counseling, Communication Skills: Listening and Feedback, Successful Observer, Writing for Results, Leading Effective Meeting, Time Management, Team Building, and Essentials of Management. Clients have included: Motorola, Legend, Eastcom, ZTE, Glaxo Smith Kline, China Offshore Oil Research Center, ABB.

Interpreter and Program Coordinator, Training Program in Consumer Science & Retailing for Tianjin Commercial Committee, P.R.C. and Purdue University, Feb. 1, 2003 – Feb. 28, 2003; Oct,7,2003 – Nov,7,2003. Held responsibility for bi/multilateral academic exchange programs administration at governmental level. Successfully interacted with universities, local education authorities, community and international agencies.  Administered correspondence, reports, legal documents and travel arrangements.

Translator and Assistant Professor, Human Resource Management, Sino-American Joint agricultural MBA Program, Iowa State University and Chinese Agricultural Academy of Sciences, P.R.C., Jan. 2003 – Mar. 2003. . Held responsibility for bi/multilateral academic exchange programs administration at governmental level.

Chinese-English Translator, Tianjin Television (TJTV), Tianjin, China, Jan. 2000 – Sep. 2000.

M.A., Major in translation, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, 1995 – 1998. Research thesis: Styles and Translation Criteria

M.B.A., Joint program of Oklahoma City University and Tianjin Commerce University, 1987 – 1989. Courses included: International Finance, Information Management Systems, International Marketing, Business Policy, Business Environment, Seminar in Asian Business, Organizational Behavior, Economics in Business Environment

B.A., American and British Literature, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, 1982- 1986.

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

·        Certificate in Project Management (Foothill-De Anza College, 2006).

·        Business Development, including facilitation and negotiation of international cooperation and joint ventures.

·        Interpretation, including business training or development and academic programs.

·        Translation, including literary, business, and contractual.

Languages: English and Mandarin fluent.

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