CHINARUT RUANGCHOTVIT
+1 (310) 751-0412 (GMT-7)
chinarut@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
http://www.chinarut.com
CITIZENSHIP: U.S. and Thai citizen (eligible to work in both the US and Thailand)
SUMMARY
- 18 years of experience in United States and Asia at multi-nationals, startups, and nonprofits
- Entrepreneur, innovator, and early adopter of grassroots and startup development tools
- Organizer of people, processes, and information that bring business, technology, and the arts together
- Ability to teach technology and practices to people with little to no experience in fun and engaging ways
KEY STRENGTHS
- Influential leader delivers results by listening to the needs and commitment of others
- Focus on performance and excellence yields amazing end-user experiences
- Creates social team structure in non-traditional circles, networks, and communities
- Direct and reliable communicator with excellent group presentation skills
- Adapts quickly to the unexpected and helps others deal with change
ENTREPRENEURIAL EXPERIENCE
Community Builder, Team Minutemen, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Apr. 2009 - present
- Bootstrap communities, startups, foundations, and families to implement team collaboration structures
- Educate clients to leverage community support and develop self-reliance
Acting Executive Director, Dance Labs Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Dec. 2001 - present
- Steward a community to build all aspects of a grassroots organization committed people experience the joy, freedom, and love of life through dance
- Coordinate community vision, design, documentation, program management, volunteers, promotion, event production, communication, technology, training, and fund development
- Oversee structures including our website, community business model, launch page, fan page, microblog, blog, community wiki, program wiki, email, and file sharing
CORPORATE EXPERIENCE
- Mac Specialist, Apple Computer, Cupertino, CA, USA, Sept. 2008 - Nov. 2009
- Created “Apple promoters” by educating customers through personal shopping, leading workshops, and delivering personalized 1-on-1 training
- Software Engineering Specialist, Rational Software (IBM), Cupertino, CA, USA, Nov. 1998 - May 2001
- Taught software engineering best practices to audiences through consultative sales and training
- Release Engineer, TenFold Corporation, San Francisco, CA, USA, Nov. 1996 - Sept. 1998
- Automated the integration, quality assurance, and distribution of releases by coding a 100,000 line software development environment modeled after Rational ClearCase in PERL
- CAD Engineer, Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, June 1995 - Nov. 1996
- Extended off-the-shelf CAD software to more thoroughly validate the Pentium II design model before manufacture resulting in a savings of US$5M per tester hardware previously lost
PRO BONO AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
- Landmark Worldwide - coach, community leader, communicator
- Thai Community Development Center - CRM consultant
- Thai Association of Southern California - communicator: community outreach
- Squid & Squash Foundation - technology advisor: transition schools from PCs to Macs
- Asian Resource Foundation - capacity builder: media website
- Burning Man Project - volunteer coordinator
- King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi - process consultant, guest lecturer
- Freedom Enterprises - production assistant
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
- Meeting the Moment, movinground, Feb 2015
- Partnership Explorations, Landmark Worldwide, Apr. 2013
- Wisdom Course, Landmark Worldwide, Jan. 2011
- Fundamentals of Public Relations, UCLA Extension, Dec. 2009
- Mission Control, Mission Control Productivity, July 2007
- Introduction to CMMI, Software Engineering Institute, Feb. 2004
- Managing Workflow and Priorities (GTD), David Allen Co., Feb. 2003
- Curriculum for Living, Landmark Worldwide, Dec. 2001
- B.S Electrical/Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, May 1995
CERTIFICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
AWARDS AND MENTIONS
- What’s Art Got To Do With It?, team scored 4.93 of 5 based on 32 responses, May 2013
- Peace Through Service Award, Rotary Club of Thai Town, Nov. 12, 2012
- Thai-American Identity, Panel Speaker, Thai-American Conference, Sept. 15, 2012
- Youth Outreach, Thai American Strategic Planning. Jul. 5, 2012
- Dance Like Nobody’s Watching, team scored 4.71 of 5 based on 52 responses, May 2012
- Engineer Turned Dancer, Thai-American Stories, Jan. 17, 2011
- "Working Your Net", collaboration educating people on the value of social networking, Apr. 25, 2006
- A Major Social Shift, Bangkok Post, Apr. 5, 2006
- Thailand: BlogconThai 2006, Global Voices, Mar. 21, 2006
AREAS OF SERVICE
- Personal, Company, and Community Documentation
- All aspects specializing in loosely structured, actionable knowledge stores
- Program Design, Management and Delivery
- Playshop designer, producer, and leader specializing in the area of mindfulness
- Evaluation, Prototyping and QA
- Propose areas for enhancement for a wide range of products (software to education) at all customer touchpoints. Produce proof-of-concept prototypes demonstrating usability gaps
- Physical and Digital Organization
- Organize and index physical and digital assets of individuals, teams, and communities
TECHNICAL SKILLS
- collaboration: Google Apps, wikispaces, Apple Wiki, Dropbox
- knowledge engineering: Evernote, Rizzoma, TheBrain, Mindjet Desktop, TiddlySpace
- sales, marketing, and customer support: salesforce.com, MailChimp, desk.com
- social networks: Quora, Yammer, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+
- task management: Mindjet Tasks, Asana, OmniFocus
- presentation: YouTube, Google Slides, Keynote, Powerpoint
- page/web layout: about.me, Pages, Wix, Postach.io
- internet telephony: Google Voice, Skype, Google+ Hangouts
- operating systems: iOS, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux, UN*X, ChromeOS
- hardware: entire Apple ecosystem (iPhone specialist)
- streaming: Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku
- business model design: Business Model You, bmfiddle.com
OTHER INTERESTS: landscape photography, organizational management, programming, nomadic travel