Resume
Mariko Nakanishi
Resume
Mariko Nakanishi
5420 West 122nd Street, Hawthorne, CA 90250, U.S.A.
Phone: (310) 643-9414, Fax: (310) 643-8016, Cell: (310) 349-9601
zzcat@pacbell.net, info@zzcat.com
Introduction
Providing superior English-to-Japanese and Japanese-to-English translation and editing services
backed by more than 15 years of experience as a translator, translation editor, and translation
project manager. Emphasis on achieving the most appropriate and effective communication of the
intention of the original information.
Professional Expertise
 Translation (English-to-Japanese, Japanese-to-English)
Subject areas: Management, software engineering, software development methodology,
networking, security, programming, and other topics
Types of media: Training course materials, magazine articles, books, book excerpts, Web
sites, intranet sites, scripts, and other types of documentation. Some examples of training
courses are “Project Management: Skills for Success,” “Identifying and Confirming User
Requirements,” “System and Network Security,” “Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
Using UML,” “Programming Windows Applications with .NET.”
 Translation project management
 Terminology management
 Documentation project management
 Software localization
 Desktop publishing
Computer Skills
 Advanced knowledge of installing, configuring, troubleshooting and maintaining
Windows operating systems and application programs
 Advanced skills of application programs: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Microsoft
Access, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, ColdFusion, DreamWeaver, Deneba
Canvas, Adobe InDesign, QuarkXpress, Trados Freelance
 Also familiar with Macintosh
Professional Experience
1990 – Present (freelance): Translator (English-to-Japanese, Japanese-to-English)
June 2001 – April 2005: Operations Manager, Japan Operations, Learning Tree International, Los
Angeles (http://www.learningtree.com/).
 Managed translation projects consisting of Japanese publications team of editors,
production coordinators, freelance translators, and subject matter experts to produce
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high-quality instructional materials in Japanese for advanced information technology
training courses.
 Directed the development and publishing of customized training courses for Japanese
market..
 Developed, translated, and maintained company’s Asian region Web pages
(http://www.learningtree.co.jp/).
1992 – June 2001: Senior Editor, Pacific Rim Operations, Learning Tree International
 Managed outside translators for translation projects of training course materials.
 Translated, edited, and proofread training course materials and marketing materials as an
in-house translator/editor.
 Developed and produced localized version of training course software environment.
 Developed, implemented, and maintained Japanese publications procedures manual and
style guide.
1982 – 1992: Instructional Manager/Linguist, Bravice International, Tokyo, Japan
 Wrote and designed educational materials for the end-users of machine translation
systems.
 Researched and developed syntactic parser and pre-editing modules for
Japanese-to-English machine translation system.
1976 – 1982: Instructor, Instructor Trainer, Nissait International, Tokyo, Japan
 Developed and implemented curriculum for English education for Japanese school
children.
1974 – 1975: Instructor of Japanese Language, DePaw University, Greencastle, Indiana
 Taught beginning and intermediate Japanese language courses to undergraduate students.
Education
MS in Technical Communication Management, Mercer University, GA
(http://www.mercer.edu/mstco/)
BA in Linguistics with concentration in Japanese, International Christian University, Tokyo
(http://www.icu.ac.jp/)
Professional Affiliations
Society for Technical Communication (http://www.stc.org/)
American Translators Association (http://www.atanet.org/)
Southern California Area Translators and Interpreters Association (http://www.scatia.org/)
Japan Association of Translators (http://www.jat.org/)
References
References available upon request.
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