Current

• Chief Evangelist/Honcho at Indian-American Org - Special Projects
  
• Marketing-Business Development@ VajraSoft Inc -Product $ Projects - Cloud SaaS- Mobile Apps and Business Intelligence
  
• Editor/ Bureau In-Charge West Coast at The Indian Express North America / CineMaya Media
• Journalist at WRITER Freelance and Contributor Several Media outlets
• Adviser/Consultant Community Outreach, Media Matters, Events
  
• Adviser/Consultant NonProfit Development,Grant Writing,  SEO

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Past

• Executive Director and Board Member at India Community Center/ India Community Service Center- SF Bay Area
• Applications Engineer at FAE Electronics/LMD/ Q-Troniz USA

Education

• Adv Research Studies
• Speed Scientific School Engineering- U of L
• Physics & Electronics
  
• University of Louisville

SHAMBHU "SAM"  RAO

 Education & Technical Training

• Advanced Graduate Degree Studies in Physics-Electronics (USA)

• Advanced Graduate Degree Studies in Electrical engineering (USA)

• Worked in advanced research projects in Laser Spectroscopy; Thin Films &
      other Special projects  (USA)

• Worked in Semiconductor Industry- Apps Engg. area for over a decade.

•  Management+ Executive Director/CEO of community oriented non-profit for 5+ years.

• Lecturer and Grad Assistant in Physics and Electrical Engg, at the University level (USA).

CURRENT INTERESTS:    Developing :-0

•  Newspaper
•  Magazines
•  Webzines and General WW
•  Press Releases   &

Communication:(Training received)

 • United Way-Silicon Valley-Speakers Bureau (Trained) 1998-2000

 • Media Training- Asian American law Caucus 2000, 

• CENSUS 2000- Speaker-Media training

Design and  Desktop Publications :
• Over 2 dozen brochures, booklets and Annual reports and
• Newsletters and Announcements/Invitation 
• Fliers, Product Brochures  and Collaterals

TV/VIDEO PRODUCTION:

I have worked as Production asst., Technical Crew 
and Advisor on a few recent shoots: 

• Corporate TV/VIDEO: I have Tech crew setup/wire/shoot/direct tutorial sessions for TV broadcast and DVD generation for corporate TV studio 2001-2003
• <>  Production Assistant: "9/11- Documentary"-Event- Making of Memorial @SF-Outdoors-(in post production) 2002
• Production Assistant- My Lovelife- Indie Movie 2003
  

• Casting & Advisor:"ALS" feature film-studio-(current)

• Casting/producer: Arth-Drama 1999;

• Casting/producer Ashore-Drama 2000-2001

• Production Assistant-Cable Access Shoot-SF-Metreon-Indoors-(aired 2002);

• Production Assistant: Cable Commercial Shoot- Bookstore (aired 2002)

• Volunteer Film Art foundation-Int'l Film Fest SF 2002/2003

• Volunteer "She Creates"-Film Festival- Mills College-2002

• Volunteer NAATA- SF Asian American Int'l Film Festival 2002/2003

EVENT MANAGEMENT / PRODUCTION: 
A partial Listing :-)) More will be added

Mar 1998- Host/Producer-Late Astronaut Kalpana Chawla
-The only Indo-American event hosting Dr Chawla
@ Louis Meyer Theater-Santa Clara Univ.

Summer 1999- Arth (drama) - Exec producer
@ Louis Meyer Theater-Santa Clara Univ.

Sept 1999-Exec producer-Concert Indian Classical Music
- Grammy winners Zakir Hussain/L. Shankar
@ Herbst Theater-SF

Summer 2000-Ashore-(Drama)-Exec producer- SF

Oct 2001- Exec prod.- Odissi Classical Dance Concert
 Padma Vibhushan Kellucharan Mahapatra-Odissi
@ Smithwicke Theater-Los Altos

 May 2002- Asian American Heritage festival  Co-Coordinator
@-Great America Theme Pk.-Santa Clara-

Summer 2002-Volunteer Coord-Concert-
Flutist Pandit Chaurasia + Vocalist Pandit Jasraj-Hayward

Summer 2002- UN Assoc. Walk/Run- Co-Coordinator
@Berkeley Marina

2002 Volunteer- Red Cross CPR sat (Great America);

2001-2002  Disaster Training Red Cross 

Volunteer for several Non profits + events:   
Walks/Run- Concerts- Plays-Seminars-Trips etc 
Events ( upto 2006)