Sam Kwei

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Volunteer Experience

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    MIT Educational Council (South Bay) - Admissions Interviewer

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    - Present 6 years 11 months

    Education

    The MIT Educational Council, composed of a network of alumni members called Educational Counselors (ECs) and an on-campus staff, works with the Office of Admissions to recruit the best and brightest students for MIT's freshman class.

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    The MIT Connection Bay Area - Committee Member

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    - Present 9 years

    Education

    A regionally based fundraising volunteer program that focuses on MIT peers from classes 11-24 years out (1992 through 2005) with a goal of connecting them back to the Institute while encouraging participation in annual giving.

    With guidance from the Annual Fund staff, the committee will conduct personal outreach to invite members of the 11-24 classes to attend regional cultivation events and solicit peers to increase participation in the Annual Fund at all donor levels from August 2015…

    A regionally based fundraising volunteer program that focuses on MIT peers from classes 11-24 years out (1992 through 2005) with a goal of connecting them back to the Institute while encouraging participation in annual giving.

    With guidance from the Annual Fund staff, the committee will conduct personal outreach to invite members of the 11-24 classes to attend regional cultivation events and solicit peers to increase participation in the Annual Fund at all donor levels from August 2015 through June 2016.

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    Rutgers Big Data San Francisco Advisory Board - Board Member

    Rutgers University

    - Present 5 years 10 months

    Education

    This Board advises Rutgers University's Big Data Certificate Program in San Francisco. Membership on the Board is by invitation only and is based on personal and professional accomplishments. The Board is comprised of a diverse, innovative, and extremely well-connected network of top-flight executives.

    Board members make a number of contributions to the School. These include:
    1. Preserving and enhancing the reputation and quality of the School through strategic review of
    our credit…

    This Board advises Rutgers University's Big Data Certificate Program in San Francisco. Membership on the Board is by invitation only and is based on personal and professional accomplishments. The Board is comprised of a diverse, innovative, and extremely well-connected network of top-flight executives.

    Board members make a number of contributions to the School. These include:
    1. Preserving and enhancing the reputation and quality of the School through strategic review of
    our credit and noncredit offerings to the community, as well as helping to build our value to
    the business community;

    2. Offering the benefits of your experience to our faculty and students through occasional
    classroom visits, forums and conferences, input on our programs; and

    3. Promoting the School’s goal of linking industry with academia to help ensure our work is
    relevant and benefits the business community.

  • San Francisco Golden Gate Park/Presidio Hill Restoration - Volunteer

    OneBrick.Org

    - Present 15 years 7 months

    Environment

    • Revitalized the Golden Gate Park and the Legion of Honor through planting new vegetation and trees annually
    • Gentrified neighborhoods in San Francisco through neighborhood watch and maintaining community safety

  • Treasurer/Secretary

    1045 South Van Ness HOA Board

    - Present 17 years 1 month

    Social Services

    • Maintained neighborly relationships for all units and helped resolve any conflict
    • Managed the overall HOA finance, including annual budget, bank account management, and house expenses
    • Regulated and enforced HOA monthly assessments for all units

Honors & Awards

  • Intel Division Recognition Award (DRA)

    Intel Corporation

    Recognized by Steve Long, Global Vice President Sales & Marketing of Client Computing Group, for an outstanding job launching Google Pixel Slate on Intel's Amber Lake CPU product lines

  • Intel Group Recognition Award (GRA)

    Intel Corporation

    Recognized by Gregory Bryant, Senior VP and GM of Client Computing Group, and Sam Gau, VP and GM of Ecosystem Development, for an outstanding job creating a new WWAN business opportunity in Chrome despite competition stronghold, and launching Chrome's 1st IA WWAN/LTE design, the Acer Astronaut Chromebook

  • Intel Division Recognition Award (DRA): Results Award

    Intel Corporation

    Recognized by Ken Lau, Managing Director of Chromebook Partner Engineering, and James Johnson, Vice President & General Manager at Intel Corporation, for exceptional risk taking on establishing a disruptive Chrome reference ODM selection process and allowing for a healthy Chrome ecosystem where ODMs compete for Chrome business

  • Intel Division Recognition Award (DRA): Results Award

    Intel Corporation

    Recognized by Greg Baur, Vice President of Compute & Embedded Sales, and Stephen Thorne, Global Sales Director of Compute & Embedded Sales, for being the CESG Division All Hands Q2 2016 Award Winner, driving Cloud Day Broadwell-EP Launch with Supermicro/Hyve

    Customer Orientation
    • Delivering innovative and competitive products and services.
    Results Orientation
    • Executing flawlessly.
    Level: 1,500 points Excellent Achievement (significant business unit impact)

  • Intel Division Recognition Award (DRA): Results Award

    Intel Corporation

    Recognized by Megh Gopinath, Intel Business Line Director, and Wolfgang Hofmann, Senior Director of Marketing at Intel Mobile Communications, for driving “One Voice” and defining and implementing a coherent planning process for value add capabilities and differentiation themes for SoFIA-based products across stakeholder organizations

    Business Imperatives
    • Collaborating across organizational boundaries.
    Customer Orientation
    • Delivering innovative and competitive products and…

    Recognized by Megh Gopinath, Intel Business Line Director, and Wolfgang Hofmann, Senior Director of Marketing at Intel Mobile Communications, for driving “One Voice” and defining and implementing a coherent planning process for value add capabilities and differentiation themes for SoFIA-based products across stakeholder organizations

    Business Imperatives
    • Collaborating across organizational boundaries.
    Customer Orientation
    • Delivering innovative and competitive products and services.
    Results Orientation
    • Constructively confronting and solving problems.
    Level: 2,500 points Exceptional Achievement (DRA Results, major division impact)

  • Intel Recognition Award

    Intel Corporation

    Recognized by Patrick Ng, APJ SMG Product Marketing Manager, for supporting arrangement of key ODM meetings and participating in the discussion to drive fruitful compute stick collaborations among Intel sales group, MNC, and ODMs

    Business Imperatives
    • Removing unnecessary process (bureaucracy busting).
    Customer Orientation
    • Making it easy to work with us.
    Great Place To Work
    • Being open and direct.

  • PRC Intel Recognition Award

    Intel Corporation

    Recognized by Benny Ni, Strategic Business Development Manager, for addressing PRC resource constraint issues and taking concrete steps to help management understand the opportunities and challenges to make right future growth decisions

    Business Imperatives
    • Collaborating across organizational boundaries.
    • Embracing possibility thinking.
    Results Orientation
    • Constructively confronting and solving problems.

  • Chicago Booth Ambassador Award Scholarship

    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    This award was created to recognize those full-time students with superior academic performance whose efforts around job opportunities and recruitment translated into new and/or more robust relations between Chicago Booth and one or more employers.

  • New Venture Challenge - Finalist

    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    The Chicago Booth New Venture Challenge (NVC) spans the full academic year and helps students launch and run new businesses. In the fall, more than 100 teams applied to the program, which culminated in the day-long finals competition on May 30. Ten finalist teams presented their start-ups to a panel of distinguished judges, comprising established entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists, each vying for their share of over $200,000 in cash and in-kind prizes, the largest award…

    The Chicago Booth New Venture Challenge (NVC) spans the full academic year and helps students launch and run new businesses. In the fall, more than 100 teams applied to the program, which culminated in the day-long finals competition on May 30. Ten finalist teams presented their start-ups to a panel of distinguished judges, comprising established entrepreneurs, angel investors, and venture capitalists, each vying for their share of over $200,000 in cash and in-kind prizes, the largest award package in NVC program history.

  • Dean's Honor List

    The University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    Consecutive quarter Dean's Honor List recipient for Autumn Quarter 2012, Winter Quarter 2013, Spring Quarter 2013, Autumn Quarter 2013

Languages

  • English

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  • Chinese

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Japanese

    Professional working proficiency

  • Spanish

    Limited working proficiency

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