Project Manager High School

EXPERIENCE FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SUNY), Academic Skills and Tutoring Center, New York (February 2009 – Present and April 2004 – June 2005)

Tutor for Japanese language and architectural subjects

• Leveraging my teaching training at Columbia University, I identify, develop, or implement intervention strategies, tutoring plans, or individualized education plans according to students’ needs and goals.

Teach students study skills and test-taking strategies to improve their academic performance.

Maintain calm, positive attitude during tutoring sessions.

Develop tutoring system for students with learning disabilities.

Communicate with instructors through students’ progress report.

CARTUS, Language Training Services, New York (September 2010 – Present)

Japanese Language Trainer for beginning, intermediate and advanced students who plan to move to Japan. Clients: MetLife and Citicorp.

PRIVATE ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAINER, New York (August 2011 – Present)

Teach Japanese English learners using original methods developed through my own English learning experience living in New York City for 20 years.

TEACHERS COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, New York (July – August 2011) ESL Instructor in the Community English Program

Taught and managed a classroom of adult learners from diverse language backgrounds.

Created intermediate-level, theme-based lesson plans to develop reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.

Developed activities using authentic materials from a variety of media; incorporated assigned textbooks.

Collaborated with teaching cohort to set and achieve course goals.

Rated written sections of program’s standardized placement test.

92ND STREET Y, New York (February – April 2011)

Japanese Language Instructor

Prepare course materials such as syllabi, handouts, homework assignments, and audio-visual materials.

Explain Japanese grammar to students in English.

Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.

Teach students strategy for studying Japanese language.

Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.

Evaluate and revise curriculum, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.

Prepare and deliver lectures to students on topics such as how to speak and write Japanese and how the language is related to its culture.

Select textbooks and explain how to utilize them.

Read articles and blogs about current Japanese language studies, talk with colleagues to exchange information, and actively involved in cultural organizations and events.

BARUCH COLLEGE (CUNY), the Center for Modern Languages at CAPS, New York

(July – August 2010) Japanese Instructor. Taught Japanese using audio and visual media.

PRIVATE JAPANESE TEACHER, New York (1996 – Present)

Teach adult learners such as college students and corporate professionals. Also, taught Columbia University Preparatory High School students.

MANAGEMENT VINCENT TROCCHIA ARCHITECT, New York.

EXPERIENCE Managed the Social Security Administration East New York Office Renovation Project.

HIGHLIGHT

BUTLER ROGERS BASKETT, commercial architecture firm, New York.

Project Manager for multiple projects.

GHK ASSOCIATES, INC., corporate interior architecture firm, New York.

On behalf of the United Nations, managed the renovations of the Department of Economic & Social Affairs (DESA) and the Department of General Assembly Affairs & Conference Services (DGAACS).

EDUCATION JAPAN SOCIETY, New York

Successfully completed Japanese Language Teacher Training Program

POPENOE METHOD – THE ART OF PRONUNCIATION Attended an English pronunciation course that addresses the specific physical and linguistic challenges that Japanese speakers face when trying to improve their English pronunciation.

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TEACHERS COLLEGE TESOL CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

Post - Baccalaureate Certificate in TESOL

HB STUDIO, Acting School, New York

Acting, Improvisation and Foreign and Japanese Accent Correction

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York Real Estate Institute, M.S. in Construction Management.

THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY, Graduate Overseas Program Mallorca, Spain Studies included “Second Language Acquisition” and “Theory and Practice of Teaching English as Second Language”.

FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SUNY), New York. B.F.A. in Interior Design

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York.

M.F.A. Program, Theater Design

SKILLS ENGLISH & JAPANESE BILINGUAL. MICROSOFT OFFICE PROGRAMS, including Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Window’s Movie Maker.

AFFILIATIONS THE NEW YORK JAPANESE LANGUAGE MEET UP GROUP, ORGANIZER AND FACILITATOR

Built and maintain a network of over 2,000 members, organizing monthly meetings in which members discuss, in Japanese and English, a variety of subjects related to Japan.

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