Candidate for
Council Member; City of Saratoga

Personal:

• I am married with my husband for 31 years and our son just graduated from college.
• I was born and raised in Taiwan. I came to the United States in 1976 for Graduate School and I became a proud US citizen in 1988. . I have a Bachelor degree in Pharmacy and was a licensed pharmacist in Taiwan and have a Master degree in Medicinal Chemistry from the University of Rhode Island.
• We lived in a few states before we moved to California in 1996 and chose Saratoga to make our home in 1996.
• I love music, dance and bicycling in my spare time.

• BASF Corporation, a West Germany Chemical company (New Jersey)
• Sterling Winthrop, a pharmaceutical company and a division of Eastman Kodak (Manhattan, N.Y.)
• Bell Atlantic Corporation, a regional Bell company (Maryland)
• interWAVE Communications, a wireless telecom company (California)
• Cisco Systems (California)
• Currently at a start-up company for multi-media content security technology since 2004 (California)

• Boy Scout Troop 488, assistant scout master, "Family" merit badge counselor (1996 - 2003)
• Saratoga High School Site Council, member (2002 - 2004)
• Saratoga Music Boosters, member for 8 years and Board member (2003 - 2005)
• League of Women Voters, member (2004 + present)
• OCAW (Organization of Chinese American Women) Silicon Valley chapter, member (2004 + present), vice president (2004) . Chi Am Circle Club (2005 - present)
• American Cancer Society + Relay for Life of Saratoga (2005)
• Hakone Foundation board member (2006 + 2007)
• Friends of Saratoga Libraries (life member)
• SASCC member (Saratoga Area Senior Coordinating Council, 2005 + present)
• Saratoga Historical Foundation member (2006 + present)
• Saratoga-Muko sister city member (current)
• Trained member of Saratoga Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)