Resume Template by Alaina G. Levine, Quantum Success Solutions, www.alainalevine.com
Name
Address • City, State (if in US) • ZIP or country code • Country (if not in US)
Phone
Email address
Website (if you have one for professional reasons)
Your LinkedIn profile (customized URL)
STRATEGIC PLANNING • CAREER CONSULTING • TEAM BUILDING •
ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT
Award-winning organizational management and career consultant with experience in successful
relationship building with customers, employees, business partners, economic development
agencies, media, and governmental and industrial organizations. Creative, diplomatic, resultsdriven leader and professional speaker with talents in strategic and project planning,
management, branding and marketing, and customer relations. Named Tucson Leader of the
Year (previously bestowed upon former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona) and Rising Star
Entrepreneur of the Year. Qualifications include the following:
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Public speaking, training, and
speechwriting
Outstanding written and oral
communications
Team building and leadership
Public relations, branding, and
marketing
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Large-scale event design and
execution
Sales and fundraising
Conflict resolution
Research and analysis
Computing skills: Include software packages, computer languages, and other programs that are
relevant to your field
Languages: Chinese (near-native fluency), Arabic (native fluency), Spanish (proficient in reading
and speaking)
EDUCATION
Date
University Name Location
PhD in subject
Certificate/minor in subject
Dissertation: “Title” (subtopics)
Advisor: Dr. X Y
Repeat in reverse chronological order for all degrees
Date
Any special certificates
EXPERIENCE
2004 – Present
Title
Company, Location
• Founded a public-speaking, leadership development, and corporate
comedy company designed to provide strategic training seminars,
workshops, and keynotes to corporate, educational, and nonprofit
clients. Have given more than 400 presentations in the US and
Europe.
• Direct all aspects of the company, including business development,
sales, marketing, public relations, contract negotiations,
procurement, and customer service.
• Research, write, and perform award-winning professional
development workshops and training experiences with a customized
comedic element that relates to each audience’s industry; seminar
topics encompass career development, organizational management,
employment and staffing issues, leadership development, PR and
branding, business etiquette, team building, diversity, and
entrepreneurship and innovation.
• Added a division dedicated to planning and managing large-scale
events; in 2010, organized a seven-month campaign to celebrate the
100th anniversary of the University of Arizona’s Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department, which included a celebrity
speaker series, a PR stunt with marching Mars rovers, and a gala.
Results included raising $100K for scholarships and extensive press
coverage.
11/2000 – 6/2009
Title
Company, Location
• Directed, initiated, and oversaw all aspects of the multidisciplinary
graduate program: advising and career planning, internship and job
placement, alumni relations and development, curriculum
development, recruitment and retention of students, corporate
relations, marketing, and administration and recruitment of the
planning committee and Industry Advisory Board.
• Created and coordinated national public and media relations and a
marketing campaign, which resulted in extensive and regular media
exposure; have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA
Today, the Chronicle of Higher Education, the Arizona Daily Star,
and the Cincinnati Enquirer.
• Designed, planned, and executed dozens of industry-related and
alumni-centered events each year, which solidified business
partnerships and increased the dedicated alumni base.
• Presented outreach programs, colloquia, and workshops on
professionalism, communication, business etiquette, career planning,
networking, and general business skills. Advised more than 75
students per year.
• Wrote grant proposals and initiated an annual fund campaign,
resulting in extensive financial gifts and in-kind support.
• Created, secured funding for, and taught a popular graduate course
in Entrepreneurship for Scientists, which is the only such course
headquartered in a physics department in the US – Named Eller
Entrepreneurial Scholar; arranged for industry speakers, mentors for
students, and financial sponsors of a gala event, in which pupils
presented their own early-stage business plans.
• Successfully branded the University of Arizona as the national
leader in the development and management of professional science
master’s programs; created an innovative model driven by superior
promotion and customer service; and advised other universities on
how to launch their own programs.
AWARDS
• Name of Award, who gave it, year
• Name of Award, who gave it, year
• Name of Award, who gave it, year
• Name of Award, who gave it, year
SERVICE/LEADERSHIP President, Society of Physics Students, University of Arizona
Chapter, 2010–12
• Planned, organized and presented a conference for 50 students
from 6 chapters from 3 states; developed strategic plan and oversaw
execution; successfully negotiated with sponsors to arrange for
financial support of the event; arranged for speakers, and directed
logistics and scheduling.
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
• National Association of Science Writers, 2010-Present.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2010 –
Present.
• SPIE – The International Society for Optics and Photonics, 2010 –
Present.
PUBLICATIONS
Present in either format below
Summarize your papers:
Published five papers in peer-reviewed journals such as X and Y.
Served as first author for a paper on A and second author on a paper
on B.
OR
List your papers:
Author, author, author, YOU, author, Title, Publication, pub info,
date
PRESENTATIONS/
Present in either format below
TALKS
Summarize your talks:
Over 350 speeches, presentations, and workshops for universities,
academic conferences, companies, industry groups and conferences,
community organizations, school groups, students, teachers,
advisors, parents, and the general public on a variety of topics
related to physics, public relations, entrepreneurship, workforce
development, science, college life, success in college and life,
professionalism, and alternative and traditional careers in science.
OR
List out your talks and state which is a poster or invited talk
• Levine, A., Smith, J., Feynman, R., “Title,”
Organization/Conference, Location, Date
 Levine, A., “Title”, The University of X, Location, Date (invited
speaker)
 Levine, A., Smith, J., Feynman, R., “Title,”
Organization/Conference, Location, Date
(Poster)
 “The Physics of Star Wars,” Presentation to West WindsorPlainsboro High School, Princeton Junction, NJ,
November 2013