Takako Whilden

 Recent Experience related to translation

*Website of an international food organization
* Documentary movies
* Websites of an military related training
* Procurement document for a major company
* World and American history
* Oriental medicine (acupuncture)
* How to do business with the U.S Government and the U.S military
* The U.S military web sites
* DESC (Defense Energy Service Center) acquisition manuals for local
contractors of Okinawa Japan
* and more

Work Experience
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Military Contracting Information Center, Japan
Research Analyst (Aug 2003-Feb 2004)
Researched the U.S Government and Military contracting rules and regulations, and reported the result to a local gorvernment in the period of 6 months.
* Stimulated job creation, generated employment opportunities, and in general, improved the local economy.
* Provided information and technical assistance to local businesses interested in selling their products or services to the U.S Military and other U.S Government agencies in Japan.
* Translated contracting manuals in English to Japanese.
* Provide information to U.S Military contracting officials about the local business community

Interpreter (Dec 2002-May 2003)
* Interpreted English to Japanese at the conferences between the Army Corps of Engineer, Japanese Defense Bureau and a company which is based in US.
* Assisted organizations who don't use the same language in order to understand each other in construction regulations and specifications in English and Japanese.
 
Citibank telephone banker (Jun 2000-Nov 2002)
Assisted customers to bank and maintained their account with Citibank, Japan over the phone in English and Japanese
* Dealt in 12 foreign currencies up to equivalent to $500,000.00.
* Executed overseas and domestic fund transferring
* Handled and resolved customer's complaints.

A Moral,Welfare and Recrection Organization, the US military CA USA
Accounting Specialist (Feb 1998-Mar 2000)
Accounts Receivable - billing and collection
* Prepared and reconciled invoices and billing statements.
* Handled data entry and updated customer's accounts.
* Resolved invoices and statements discrepancies.

A Moral,Welfare and Recrection Organization, the US military, Japan
Accounting Supervisor (Jun 1994-Dec 1996)
Supervised accounting staff to handle bookkeeping and data entry operated accounting system for the organization.
* Prepared sales, inventory and financial reports.
* Analyzed accounting data
* Oversaw flow of daily inventory, revenue and accounting system.
* 2 years experienced as accounting specialist at this organization previous to accounting supervisor
* Translated Accounting System Manual of the organization for Local (Japanese) employees in English to Japanese
 
Education
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Okinawa Christian College- Okinawa Japan
BA in English (Apr 1990-Aug 1993)
Studied English in general
 
Skills
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1. Computer Skills:  Excel, Word, Lotus 1-2-3, Access, Power Point, Wordfast, Trados 6.5, Acrobat   2.Language: Fluent in English (native language: Japanese)  Score 895 (percentile rate 96.5) in TOEIC (Test of English for International Communication) 

• Adobe Acrobat
• PowerPoint
• TRADOS
• Wordfast
• Office XP(Excel,Word,Access,PowerPoint, FrontPage), Wordfast, Trados, Acrobat, MS Works