Wendy Kawakami

Dedicated, resourceful, and detail-oriented marketing professional who brings project management and strategy expertise within the engineering, planning, and architecture industry. Skills include proposal strategy and writing, document management, template generation, interview prep, and graphic and win theme development. Demonstrates strong organizational skills and the ability to foster collaboration during high-stress projects faced with aggressive timelines. Additional experience includes conference planning, brochure and one-sheet development and preparation, and database management. - Proposal/Project Management. Offers excellent management skills for proposal development and interview preparation. Proficient at building and maintaining planning tools and documents, developing and implementing communication protocols, scheduling and task management, and obtaining additional resources to ensure completion of materials for the proposal and/or interview. Unique ability to foster collaboration between various levels of technical staff and build positive energy among team. - Proposal Strategy and Writing. Collaborates with technical staff to develop win themes, key messages, and discriminators for use in proposals, statement of qualifications, and interviews. Experienced in moderating strategy meetings to promote meaningful discussions with technical team. - Template Generation and Graphics. Ability to integrate innovative and creative designs into proposal materials (e.g., templates, graphics, and visual aids) that are tailored to each opportunity and incorporate the win themes. Proficient in Adobe InDesign and PhotoShop and MS Office suite. - Document Management. Implements various techniques to maintain versions between sections of proposal documents for projects involving numerous authors. Responsible for developing the layout of the document and ensuring the preparation of an aesthetically-pleasing proposal that is clear, clean, and well-organized.