Candice Lee
Manager, Communications, PR, And Media Relations - Southern California Region
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCandice Lee is a strategic communications leader with nine years of experience shaping external and internal brand narratives across healthcare, utilities, and consumer food industries, now managing Communications, PR, and Media Relations for Kaiser Permanente’s Southern California region. She has a track record of designing creative campaigns, events, and messaging that measurably improve reputation and employee engagement, informed by roles at SoCalGas and Ajinomoto Foods. Comfortable in corporate environments, she blends traditional media relations with digital-first tactics and employee communications to align complex stakeholder needs. Uncommonly for a communications manager, she contributes code and DevOps work to open-source projects—having modified telemetry and Azure CLI integrations for the popular Microsoft Azure Data Studio—bringing a pragmatic technical literacy to cross-functional initiatives. A UC Berkeley communications graduate, she leverages both storytelling craft and data-driven implementation to drive strategic outcomes. Based in Los Angeles, she thrives at the intersection of narrative, operations, and technology.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Communication and Media Studies, Bachelor’s Degree, Communication and Media Studies at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
telemetry9
azure-data-studio9
electron8
sql7
devops7
powershell6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/azuredatastudio
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Azure Data Studio is a data management and development tool with connectivity to popular cloud and on-premises databases. Azure Data Studio supports Windows, macOS, and Linux, with immediate capability to connect to Azure SQL and SQL Server. Browse the extension library for more database support options including MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:56 reviews, 99 commits, 175 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Candice's primary contributions involved modifying telemetry events and integrating them into the Azure Data Studio application, focusing on the extension recommendation prompts and actions within the results panel. This involved changes to TypeScript files, including the extension tips service and actions within the query results panel. Additionally, the user implemented updates to the Azure CLI (az) extension within the repository, including changes to the az.ts file. This involved updating command parameters and integrating necessary SDK versions for successful operation.
sqlserverazure-sql-databasemicrosoftmanagement-tooldata-management
benisgold/Virindly
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:27 pushes in 16 days
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