Saeri Kiritani

Email: ad4a8w@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 917-***-****

Professional Summary

I am a Japanese/English translator. I have extensive experience in document review, including both hard copy and online reviews. I have experience working with various e-discovery technologies for online review projects. My experience includes document review and collection in financial instruments and exchange law litigation, contract disputes, patent litigation, merger reduction, and antitrust litigation. Previously, I completed reviewing over 2 million documents for a large second request as part of an FTC antitrust investigation. I conducted extensive Japanese language review and was selected for second and third level quality control as well as privilege review.

·Over 20 years experience in Japanese document review field

Experience Highlights

May 2015 to Present

The Nippon Club Webinar Guest Lecturer (in Japanese)

Kasowitz Benson Torres & Freidman LLP (Coding and Summarizing English/ Japanese documents using Relativity search engine)

May 2013 to February 2015

Hogan Lovells US LLP (translating Japanese documents into English; coding English/ Japanese documents; discovering related documents using Kroll Ontrack search engine)

2000-2002, 2009

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP (performed flagging and translating the Japanese documents for approx. 2.5 years from year of 2000~2002; and in 2009)

2005 to present

Jan Peterson Production (as a Japanese translator and project coordinator for film production/ advertising)

2008

Constantine & Cannon LLP (16-month document review project/ over 2.5 millions Japanese documents by using Concordance)

Shougakukan INC. Japan (worked as a translator for the graphic novel artist, Hideo Yamamoto; translating the book, Shakespeare the ‘lost years’ by E.A.J. Honigmann into Japanese)

June 2006 to December 2006

Contract position: Financial Analyst at Governance Metrics International, helping in the preparation of governance profiles and writing analyses for companies.

2005

Real Estate Sales Agent

Sold $545,000 exclusive one bedroom apartment & rented several apartments in New York

Other Short-Term Projects

FTI (Transaction Reduction Document Review for Pharmaceutical using Ringtail 8)

Ropes & Gray LLP (preparing documents for the pharmaceutical patent litigation)

Multi Language Center Facil for Fukushima Disaster

Linguistic Systems, Inc.

Jay Deitz Reporting Service (interpreter for the vehicular accident lawsuits)

Argot Pictures (promote independent films to the public)

Davis Polk & Wardwell

District Attorney Office in New York

Mori Art Museum and Cheim & Read gallery

David Zwirner Gallery

Education

·Master of Fine Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 1997

·Bachelor of Art, San Francisco State University, San Francisco

Technical Skills

Coding and Flagging English/ Japanese Documents; Discovering Related Documents by Using Search Engines

·Ringtail 8

·Kroll Ontrack

·Concordance

·Caterpillar

·Relativity

Teaching Skills

I am a native Japanese and have 5 years experience teaching Japanese language at Berlitz Language School (mainly taught Japanese conversation, reading and writing to business people); and I was a docent at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, (taught students and visitors about modern art).

Awards

Sony Erectronics, Inc, 2022

St. Dalfour International, 2019

Goldman Sachs, Gives 2018

University of Pennsylvania, Student Scholarship, Philadelphia, 1995 - 1997

The Japan Foundation, Center for Global Partnership, Exchanged Student and Instructor Scholarship, San Francisco, 1994

San Francisco Art Institute, Student Scholarship, San Francisco, 1993

San Francisco State University, Student Scholarship, San Francisco, 1990-92

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