Editror, Writer, ESL Educator and Manager

Lary Bremner

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North Vancouver, BC

V7L 2B9 Canada

Home: 604-***-****

Cell: 778-***-****

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Most Recent Work Experience

Technical Editor at Special Technical Publishing (STP), 306 - 267 West Esplanade,

North. Vancouver, BC, V7M 1A5. Tel: 604-***-**** Fax: 604-***-****.

focused and dedicated... enormously

Term of employment: March 2012 to September 2013.

productive, conscientious about Responsible for quarterly editing and updating of a wide variety of Canadian

and American technical manuals and checklists (ISO, EPA, Director’s

procedures and careful to ensure the Liability, Site Auditing, Hazardous Materials, etc.) at the leading publisher of

compliance materials.

quality of the finished product.”

Produced quarterly industry-update STP Newsletters, using InDesign, for

both web and print release.

Gisela Temmel

Made regular blog contributions to STP’s various ‘new and noteworthy’ sites,

Director of Editing,

as well as compiled “flipping book” summarizations of major publications

Specialty Technical Publishers

for online marketing purposes.

Previous Work Experience

1. Co-owner and head teacher at Access English Center, Koriyama, Fukushima,

Japan. Term of employment: March 2003 to September 2011. Duties included:

Addressing conversational and special English needs for adults and

conducting children’s English classes (elementary school to high school),

company classes, private lessons for managerial level businessmen preparing

for postings overseas, etc.

Proof-reading and professional rewriting of essays, research papers,

advertising, operating manuals, and generally converting a wide variety of

written materials (which had been inadequately translated from Japanese) into

natural and effective English.

Creation and recording of audio storybooks, in mp3 format with narration,

original music and sound effects, for ESL teaching purposes for companies

such as Matsuka Phonics.

Teaching students how to make and use blogging sites for language

acquisition purposes, Facebook and other social media, as well as how to

create basic podcast material for language listening and exchange.

Community involvement as judge of many annual speech and recitation

contests within the local private language school system.

Dependable reference person for local Japanese speaking teachers of English

within the local school system, teachers of juuku/cram schools, and NPO

groups needing validation of their English output.

I have also worked as a full-time ESL teacher at Pacific Gateway College, and part-

time at West Coast Language Center, both located in Vancouver, B.C.

2. Management Coordinator at James English School, Koriyama, Fukushima,

Japan for a term of 8 years. Duties included:

Training, supporting and evaluating resident teachers from a variety of

provided me with around the clock

countries.

service… immediate and easily Interviewing teaching candidates and recommending contract renewal, as

well as providing community orientation for newly-hired teachers.

comprehensible responses to the many

Conducting teachers’ meetings and teaching strategy workshops.

General supervision of 16 – 20 teachers across 3 cities in Fukushima

difficult questions of grammar usage

Prefecture.

that my high school and university-prep

3. Founder, editor and original publisher of Tsunami Editions, a series of poetry

books most often associated with the Kootenay School of Writing, and

students would inevitably pose….”

recognized as culturally significant by writers and such institutions as Special

Collections at Simon Fraser University.

Yasuharu Sato

Sato Juuku,

Koriyama, Fukushima

Educational Background

Certificate in Multimedia Studies, Continuing Studies Department,

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (HTML, Photoshop, video

and sound editing, web content.)

Certificate of Japanese Language Proficiency, Level 3, as issued by the

Association of International Education, Tokyo, Japan.

TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) Certification from

Vancouver Community College.

British Columbia Teaching Certificate (Senior Secondary) from the

Professional Development Program, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C.

Bachelor of Arts degree, English Literature major and a strong linguistics

minor; specializing in modern Canadian and American poetry.

Skills and Abilities

Excellent editorial and text revision skills to suit a variety of media from

dramatic scripts to advertising, web copy to literary works, and technical

materials to academic publications.

Proficiency at video editing (principally Vegas Video) and sound editing

(various software including Sound Forge, Acid Pro), as well as Photoshop

image processing, and InDesign CS4 desktop publishing. (See Multimedia

certification above.)

Capable basic web-page design, (Justice for Girls, Access English Center)

and familiarity with current forms and advantages of social media.

Strong interpersonal communication skills and a cooperative nature,

particularly as developed in the team-oriented culture of Japan over the past

20 years.

Exceptional understanding of, and an active writer’s interest in, the workings

of the English language, from phonology and morphology, to syntax and

grammar.

*Letters of reference and contact information can be supplied upon request.

Publications

Allowable Cuts, (Or Gallery) 1985, catalog essay photography.

Jump/Cut, (Tsunami Editions) 1986.

East of Main (Pulp Press) 1989 (contributor).

Writing Class (New Star) 1999 (contributor).

West Coast Line, 24/Number One, New Vancouver Writing, guest editor.

posthumous spectacle nodes, obvious epiphanies press, 2009, Japan.

The Ontology of Silence, catalog essay for artist Pierre Coupey’s Cutting Out

the Tongue: Selected Work 1976-2012 (West Vancouver Art Museum & Art

Gallery at Evergreen) 2013.

Parsing the Tropes of Authenticity: Lorraine Gilbert’s Le Patrimoine (essay).

Various work published in periodicals such as The Capilano Review, Writing,

Motel, bridgend, Rampike, B.C. Monthly, raddle moon, West Coast Line,

Verse USA, Paris Voices, etc.

Offshore, a sequential poem written following the Fukushima earthquake and

nuclear disaster, as read by poets Fred Wah, Roy Miki, and Daphne Marlatt

for the Japanese Quake Relief Benefit at the Queen Elizabeth Theater, 2011.

Pas d’affiches, (obvious epiphanies press) 2011, Japan.

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