Resume

• 2009

  Board member charged with oversight of governance

  strategy

  policy

  operations and budgeting

  MBBC

  Research

  Strategic Communications

  Grant Writing

  Proofreading

  Corporate Social Responsibility

  Copywriting

  Sponsorship

  Speech Writing

  Marketing Communications

  Philanthropy

  Customer Relations

  Proposal Writing

  Program Development

  Public Relations

  Business Development

  Business Strategy

  Non-profits

  Writing

  Stewardship

  Social Media

  Painless

  \"Painless\" is a poem crystallizing one perspective on insecurity in relationships.\n\nIt won an Editor's Choice Award for 2000 from the International Library of Poetry

  Painless

  A poem exploring the relationship between signs and meaning in Japanese

  as seen through the lens of translation into English. The poem also parallels the journey

  as seen through the limited perspective of an Anglophone reader

  of the immigrant's quest to find meaning in their country of origin.

  In Translation

  So

  Where's Your Thesis?

  There are many books that try to teach people how to write better essays

  but after 10 years of teaching in various English programs

  I realized that not one of those books appeals to students based on what they care most about: their grades. \n\n\"So

  Where's Your Thesis?\" teaches how to get better results from your writing by harnessing the elements of writing to communicate your ideas with confidence and persuasive power. The book incorporates a behind-the-scenes look at how papers are graded and takes a pragmatic

  down-to-earth approach to improving key writing skills such as paragraphing

  organization and

  of course

  making a good argument. \n\nWhile the book was designed primarily to help students understand how to get better grades on essays

  its real strength is in how it focuses on the essentials of strong persuasive writing and provides easy-to-apply tips on how anyone can write more clearly

  professionally and persuasively.\n\n\"So

  Where's Your Thesis\" was co-authored with Dr. Derek Irwin and Dr. Viktoria Jovanovic-Krstic.

  So

  Where's Your Thesis?

  Bruce

  Watson

  University of Toronto

  Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

  The Arthritis Society

  York University

  World Vision Canada

  University of Toronto

• 1996

  ELI Korea

  Led team of 20-30 people

  responsible for motivating and equipping them to raise revenue while upholding the highest standards of professionalism in donor relations. In this capacity

  I was responsible for building a high-performing donor relations and telefundraising team.\n\n•\tUtilized a fun but competitive team atmosphere\n•\tRaised approximately $500

  000 in pledges and cash gifts

  University of Toronto

  I designed and taught courses in English language fluency for Korean students of all ages and levels of ability. Topics I taught ranged from grammar and composition through to phonetics

  English media literacy and conversational English.

  ELI Korea

  Contract Faculty

  I taught in the Departments of English and Professional Writing within the faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies since beginning my Ph.D studies at York in 1999. I was Contract Faculty between 2005 and 2010.

  York University

  Contract Faculty

  Taught and designed communications courses in the Writing and Rhetoric department.

  University of Toronto

  Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

  Position Summary: Led development and implementation of organizational stewardship and donor relations strategy while supporting the Chief Philanthropy Officer in building a sustainable fundraising program and establishing a donor-centred culture at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.\n• Oversaw organizational Recognition and Stewardship program while building cross-functional strategies and processes to enable effective stewardship and build high-engagement relationships with 1.5 million donors.\n• Product development lead for Major Gifts program\n• Project lead on national Case for Support \n•\tLed Strategic Writing team in supporting advancement communications for national Major\n Gifts and Corporate Partnerships programs.\n•\tProject lead for \"Culture of Philanthropy\" organizational change initiative with objective of \n increasing employee engagement in driving improved supporter satisfaction. \n•\tPromoted to Manager

  Recognition and Stewardship

  Ontario in 2011\n•\tPromoted to Manager

  Recognition and Stewardship

  Canada in 2012\n•\tPromoted to Senior Manager

  Recognition

  Stewardship and Strategic Writing

  Canada in 2014

  Senior Manager

  Recognition

  Stewardship and Strategic Writing

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  Mississauga

  Ontario

  Canada

  - Leading revenue growth strategy and plan on private foundations\n- Ensuring World Vision's most urgent funding needs have a compelling and clearly-articulated value proposition to donors\n- Leading development of innovative

  effective and donor-centric proposals and impact reporting for World Vision's most generous donors

  partners and funders.\n

  Proposal and Impact Reporting Lead

  World Vision Canada

  Toronto

  Canada Area

  - Oversee national corporate partnerships and foundation engagement.\n- Translating strategic objectives into opportunities for partners

  donors and funders to advance impact by funding tangible projects and programs that achieve measurable impacts.\n- Supporting provincial and regional teams in driving increased revenues through corporate sponsorship and foundations funding.

  Director

  Business and Foundation Development

  The Arthritis Society

  Lead writer for donor communications. with an emphasis on Major Gifts

  while also providing executive communications for the CEO and Chief Philanthropy Officer. \n•\tPersonally responsible for proposal development to support fundraising goals of $2M-$3M \n annually.\n•\tImplemented improvements to stewardship processes and tools that resulted in lapsed donors \n and pledge payments being restored to donor pipeline (total value: approx. $500

  000).\n•\tSupported development of the Ontario Case for Support. Also led development of a \n subsequent companion Case for a key fundraising priority area.\n•\tProvided extensive communications support to Major Gifts fundraising efforts by writing \n suite of templated materials to support all stages of the donor cycle.\n•\tFrom 2010-2012

  led development of stewardship brochures and Legacy giving newsletters.\n• Key contributor on Leadership Giving Project (Recognition

  Stewardship

  Product \n Development

  Foundations and Donor Migration Workstreams)

  Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

  Association of Fundraising Professionals

  French (continuous learning)

  Japanese

  2014 Bob Luba Award for employee excellence

  The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada's national employee excellence award.

  Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada

  Marty Rothstein Award for Innovation

  Heart and Stroke Foundation (2012)

  \"The Marty Rothstein Award for Innovation recognizes volunteers or staff who develop or implement an innovative idea that shows long-term potential for success as it increases the Foundation's profile in the community and furthers the Foundation's mission.\"

  Heart and Stroke Foundation

  M.A.

  I completed my Masters studies in English while working evenings at the Development and University Relations office. My studies were broadly focused on contemporary poetry

  Canadian Literature

  Chaucer

  Critical Theory and 17th Century literature.

  English

  - Writing Club\n- Film Club\n- Submissions editor

  Pan del Muerto literary magazine.

  University of Toronto

  Wilfrid Laurier University

  Honours B.A.

  Wilfrid Laurier University provided an excellent and flexible environment for me to pursue a complete

  well-rounded university education. This pursuit involved 2 years of moving from Business Administration through Physics and Computing to English

  where I eventually settled

  albeit as the only Honours English major taking electives in Mathematics

  Physics and Economics while minoring in Religion and Culture.

  English Language and Literature & Religion and Culture

  The Cord (Contributing writer)

  A

  Ph.D (ABD)

  My PhD focused initially on Canadian Literature

  then broadened into studies on Critical Theory

  Post-Colonial Literatures and research into composition

  Functional Grammar and semiotics (especially metaphor). I completed my Comprehensive Exams in Canadian Literature and Contemporary Literature and fulfilled my language requirement in French.

  English (Canadian Literature and Applied Linguistics)

  - Hiring Committee\n- Curriculum Committee\n- Developed database for YUELI \n- Teaching skills development program

  York University

  Cultural diversity workplace training

  Leadership Development workshop

  Competitive Strategy

  Project Management

  AFP-certified seminars in Fundraising

  Six Sigma Yellow Belt

  Best Career Leap

  Foundations of Business Strategy

  Coursera

  Supervisor Health and Safety Awareness

  Health and Safety Ontario

  Competitive Strategy

  Coursera