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Santa Clara County, CA November 4, 2008 Election
Smart Voter Full Biography for Aileen Kao

Candidate for
Council Member; City of Saratoga

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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.

Work experience: I worked at the following companies as software engineer and in program management team:
  • 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)

Community Services (in California): Elected Saratoga City Council (2004 + present) Elected Saratoga Union School District Governing Board member (1998 + 2002) Others:
  • 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)

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