Translator, teacher, customers service, sales assistant in Japanese

Keiko Higuchi-Evans

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EDUCATION

California State University Dominguez Hills, CA

Master of Arts in the Humanities, May 1999

Major Academic Courses Highlights: The principles of Buddhism and the concept of the Edo culture through art forms; the comparative study of the East Asian and the Western culture.

The Ohio State University

Bachelor of Science in Education, March 1994

Major Academic Courses Highlights: Foreign language education; Japanese linguistics; Japanese literature.

Ashland University, OH, August 1989-December 1990

Tokyo Seitoku Jr. College, Tokyo, Japan

Associate in English in March 1984

Administrative Assistant Experience

Nippon Light Metal, North America, Dublin, OH 9/2018 – Present.

Assisting Japanese speaking associates by providing human resource and administrative supports.

Customer Service Experience

K Line Logistics U.S.A., Columbus, OH 11/2014 – 9/2018.

Worked as a customer service assistant by tracking shipments, providing quotes to customers, sending billing and shipping instructions to the operations department and translating documents mainly from Japanese to English.

Translator-Interpreter Experience

T.S.Trim Industries, Canal Winchester, OH 4/1994 -8/1994.

Worked as a translator and interpreter in English and

Japanese.

Tokyo Seitoku Jr. College, English Department, Tokyo, Japan. 4/1984 – 3/1989.

Worked as a bilingual secretary by assisting professors in the department.

Teaching Experience

Columbus Japanese Language School, Columbus, OH 4/2013-3/2015.

Taught Japanese and Math to 4th graders whose native language is Japanese in totally authentic setting.

The Japanese Language School of Greater Boston, Medford, MA

8/2003-9/2003. 6/2010 - 12/2011.

Taught Japanese language to students who primarily spoke English as their native language.

Bowsher High School, Toledo, OH, 9/1998-3/1999

Taught Japanese and its culture from beginners to level 4 students.

International Studies Center, Toledo, OH, 3/1995-8/1998

Taught Japanese and its culture from primary to adult.

The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 9/1993-1/1994

Taught Richard Boyd, PhD. in Japanese.

Miles McClellan Construction Company, Columbus, OH, 8/1993-8/1994

Taught businessmen in Japanese.

AWARDS

Scholarship for Excellent International Students of Ashland University. 8/1989

Competencies & Interests

Skills in Microsoft Office, Outlook, Excel and Power Point.

*A native speaker of Japanese

*Obtained the Ohio State Teaching Certificates (K-12), 1993.

*Experiences of teaching Japanese to various age and level groups.

*Teaching Kanji providing the pictographic effects or suggestions for memorizing it in meaningful ways.

*The communicative approach in my language classroom.

*Applying students’ interests into my teaching.

Note

I have no restrictions on working in the U.S. I am a Green Card holder.

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