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Düzeltmek, Öğretim, Çeviri

Ekonomi, İş Genel, Maliye

EDUCATION

 

Masters of English, Teaching English as a Second Language                                                                                  August, 2008

Kent State University, Kent, OH

Graduated Cum Laude, 3.86 GPA

Selectively chosen for Graduate Assistantship/Academic Scholarship

 

Additional 13 credit hours earned toward Masters in Japanese Translation

Significant coursework:

Translation Theory, Practice in Japanese Translation, Literature Translation, Commercial, Legal, and Diplomatic Translation, Corpus Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition, Pragmatics of Conversation, Linguistics, Methodology of Teaching English as a Second Language, Sociolinguistics, Multimedia in Second Language Teaching, Curriculum and Testing, Descriptive Grammar

 

Certification of Japanese Teaching                                                                                                                         March, 2004

Human Academy, Hiroshima, Japan

Significant coursework:

Methodology of Teaching Japanese as a Second Language, Japanese grammar, Curriculum and Assessment, History of Japanese Language, Japanese Phonology, Cross-cultural Studies of Japanese

 

Bachelor of Arts, Accounting and Finance concentration                                                                                  September, 2002

Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Significant coursework:

Management and Accounting, International Accounting, Introduction to Business, Cost accounting, Financial Accounting, Corporate Accounting, Taxation, Auditing

 

 

WORK EXPERIENCE

 

Visteon Japan, Ltd, (Automotive Industry) Hiroshima, Japan                                                 November 2010 - December 2010

Japanese Interpreter/Translator

• Interpreted weekly meetings and conversations between Japanese personnel and foreign IT teams during restructuring of the company’s IT system
• Translated required business correspondence, in-company reports, and proposal reports

 

Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, Ltd, (Aviation Industry) Hiroshima, Japan                                   December 2009 - July 2010

Japanese Interpreter/Translator

• Interpreted and translated for Japanese operators and Indian interns from Tata Advanced systems
• Quickly promoted to lead translator and given a 10% raise due to positive feedback received from both Mitsubishi and Tata
• Facilitated transition and training of Tata employees, bridging cultural and communication gaps between Japanese operators and Indian interns
• Interpreted daily technical instructions, lectures, and meetings for Indian interns from Tata
• Translated specifications from English to Japanese, and lecture materials from Japanese to English
• Assisted Indian interns in acculturating to Japanese culture

 

Kent State University, Kent, OH                                                                                                 September 2006 - August 2008

Graduate Assistant/Instructor           

• Instructed undergraduate ESL courses (English Grammar, Listening, Reading and Writing)
• Served as Co-Director and Technical Assistant for an international online pilot project, (ECO), later adopted as a course in several countries which facilitated distance learning involving 5 initial countries
• Translated research projects used for large grants between Kent State and Japanese sister universities
• Acted as liaison for Japanese sister schools and visiting Japanese professors
• Interpreted medical information during emergency visits to hospitals for Japanese students

 

Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan                                                                          April 2004 - March 2006

English – Japanese Translator (Full-time)

• Developed a computer assisted English-learning software program, used by many national universities
• Translated English passages/essays into Japanese while focusing on specific linguistic features
• Proofread contracted translators’ work on the daily basis
• Applied Dynamic Translation and Formal Translation approaches to assess reliability and validity of questions corresponding to each passage
• Time-managed projects to meet quarterly and yearly deadlines
• Developed test questions for listening and comprehension materials

 

FREELANCE TRANSLATION EXPERIENCE

 

Okayama University                                                                                                                January 2011 - Present                        

        Japanese-English general and survey translation

Intac, Co. Ltd., Tokyo, Japan                                                                                                 February 2009 - Present

        English-Japanese financial and report translation

Nishihara Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Hiroshima Japan                                                         February 2009

        Japanese-English manual translation

OnTheGoSystems Inc., Nevada, US                                                                                     November 2008 - January 2009

English-Japanese general, medical, and insurance translation

Erklaren Inc., Tokyo, Japan                                                                                                  September 2008 - Present

Japanese-English financial translation

 

 

POSITIONS HELD WHILE IN SCHOOL                                                                                 September 2002 - April 2004

 

Private English and Japanese Tutor

• Developed materials and lessons to meet the needs of individual students (Engineers, Teachers, Businessmen, etc)
• Developed online resources for Teaching Japanese as a Second Language

 

Web Designer

• Designed and created websites for several Japanese companies, with the use of Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, Dreamweaver and Flash
• Developed and incorporated CGI programs into websites, using Perl programming tools

 

Community Center, Hiroshima Japan

Japanese Instructor

• Taught Japanese to non-native speaking professionals
• Organized and supervised out-of-class activities that encouraged acculturation and learning
• Developed curriculum and Japanese materials for classes of 10-15 students

 

 

SKILLS

 

• Advanced proficiency in English, TOEFL CBT 270 (2006), TOEIC 930 (2004)
• Native speaker of Japanese
• Formal Japanese translation experience, MA in English
• Working knowledge of various technologies: Macromedia Fireworks, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point, Photoshop, CGI, Perl, HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash and various CALL materials