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Los Angeles Five Star award winner

PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

AWARDS

  • Five Star Real Estate Agent award winner 2014-2021, 2023-2024
  • 2019 Forbes Magazine, February, Five Star Real Estate Agent award listed
  • 2018 Forbes Magazine, August, Five Star Real Estate Agent award listed
  • 100% Club 2017
  • Top 100 Agents (of over 700) January through June 2017
  • Executive Club 2016
  • 100% Club 2015
  • Executive Club 2014
  • 100% Club 2013
  • Top Agent #1 Malaga Cove, April 2013
  • Top Agent #2 Malaga Cove, October 2013
  • Top 100 Agents - RE/MAX Estate Properties, 2013 Year End Top 100
  • Executive Club 2012
  • National Association of Professional Woman--VIP Woman of the Year 2014.
  • Continental Who's Who 2014 Pinnacle Professional Member--Outstanding Leadership and Achievement
  • REAL ESTATE INVOLVEMENT since 2009
  • Association of Realtors Global Committee, Public Relations Committee, Grievance Committee, Installation Committee, Realtor Advisor for Nonprofit .

SPECIALTIES

  • Areas of Focus: South Bay: Palos Verdes Estates, Rancho Palos Verdes, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, Torrance, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach.  Diane works with buyers and sellers of single family (homes, condos, town homes) and 2-4 unit properties.  

DESIGNATIONS

 

·        CLHMS  Certified Luxury Home Specialist Since 2014

·        SRES    Senior Real Estate Specialist

·        PVS      Palos Verdes Specialist

·        CNE      Certified Negotiation Expert

·        PSA       Pricing Strategy Advisor

·        RENE     Negotiation Expert

EDUCATION

 

·         UCLA, BA, UCLA, Magna Cum Laude

·         USC, Pharm.D., Doctor of Pharmacy, Pharmacist

 

REAL ESTATE INVOLVEMENT since 2009

·              Education Committee 2023-2024

·             Panel Moderator for Association of Realtors Global Committee 2017-2018

·             Grievance Committee  2015 -2016, 2016-2017

·             Tree, View, Point of Sale Committee 2014-2015

·             Public Relations Committee 2011-2012

·             Installation Committee 2010-2011, 2011-2012

·             Realtor Advisor for Nonprofit CNT.

COMMUNITY

·         Las Candalistas Fundraising for South Bay children and environment.

·         Cub Scout Leader

·         Girl Scout mother/Leader

·         Patroness of the Palos Verdes Assembly

·         Point Vicente Lighthouse Service Award

·         PTA Room Mom

·         AAYF Art At Your Fingertips Docent

·         Nature Walk Docent

 

WASHINGTON D.C. GOVERNMENT INTERN 1981 D.C. Lung Association

·         Legislative Political Lobbying, Negotiation, Writing, Research

 

PROGRAM DIRECTOR, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR at Be-Con Day Camp for children 4 to 14 years

 

PHARMACIST – as a clinical pharmacist:                                                        

                                                                                                                       

 

Diane's ability to work with various personalities allowed her to be a valued resource to patients, doctors, nurses, faculty and students.

·         Taught attending physicians, residents, interns and nurses at UCLA Medical Center

·         Provided continuing education to nurses at local hospital

·         Consulting, hospital rounds with physicians, codes, inpatient, outpatient.

·         Published editorial in Drug Intelligence and Clinical Pharmacy on new treatments in newborns.

·         Presented editorial at state- wide pharmacist convention.

·         Published in a pharmacy newsletter.

·         Served on Board of California Hospital Pharmacists, Membership, Student Pharmacists Association, Women’s Professional Association, Little Sister to Pharmacist Fraternity

 

 

DRUG ABUSE PREVENTION PROGRAM and POISON PREVENTION PROGRAM

CREATOR:  S.T.O.P. Program - Straight Talk On Prevention 1981

  Substance abuse/poison prevention program

·         Spoke to 15,000 children over 22 years created visuals and drug abuse prevention rap song

·         Obtained aerospace and other corporate and government grants, wrote grant proposals

·         Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Manhattan Beach jointly requested S.T.O.P. and obtained government grants earmarked for S.T.O.P.

·         Established nonprofit corporation through pro bono work awarded by International Law Firm, Latham & Watkins: Selected S.T.O.P. as pro bono recipient to set up S.T.O.P. Nonprofit Corporation

·         Expert Witness for California State Attorney General John Van De Kamp’s Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention 1986

·         Featured in two articles in the Daily Breeze

·         Guest Appearance: Television Show Mid Morning L.A two Segments: Interview and Live Call-in Question and Answer

 

 

Diane and her husband raised their three children in the South Bay.

 

Diane enjoys music, dance, singing, theater, movies, architecture, design, fashion, reading, and various sports, especially finals playoffs of NBA, baseball, football.

 

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