Marika Joyce Hashimoto

Experience

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  Amherst College

  Sept 2002 - May 2006

  Librarian Assistant at The Robert Frost Library
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  Urban Connections

  Jun 2003 - Jan 2008

  Translator

  Translations for clients include: Nissan; Ministry of Foreign Affairs; former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and his Cabinet; Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry; Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science & Technology. Partnered with Digital Meme, the company’s film translation division, to promote marketing campaigns.

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  Duty Free Shop USA, Waikiki Galleria

  May 2005 - Aug 2005

  Customer Service Representative
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  Clear Channel Communications

  Jul 2006 - Aug 2006

  Music Researcher
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  Doshisha University

  Sept 2006 - Aug 2007

  Amherst Doshisha Fellow
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  Japan International Education Center, Tokyo International School Afterschool

  Dec 2009 - Mar 2016

  Educator and Curriculum Developer

  Managed curriculum development and staff training; diversified use of educational apps; successfully implemented teaching solutions for the company and 5 franchise schools regarding 21st Century skills and Multiple Intelligences. Taught classes for students aged 3-18, including children with special needs.

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  Refugees International Japan

  Dec 2009 - Dec 2010

  Project Manager and Fundraiser

  Presented CSR opportunities to Japanese businesses and donors; raised funds and tracked expenses with budget of ¥3,000,000 JPY (Japanese Yen).Partnered with sponsors for open architectural contest by APL for installation design of shipping containers.Organized awards ceremony at British Embassy in Tokyo featuring Princess Akishino as honored guest.Organized media coverage, recruited volunteers/performers, acquired city licenses for publicity tours.

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  Kyoto University, Institute for Research in Humanities, International Center

  Apr 2010 - May 2016

  Program Manager

  Redesigned official academic English website using HTML and CSS.Oversaw transcriptions for interviews re: Okinawa-US military, Auschwitz, gender studies, trauma research.

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  Diaspora Links Library

  Mar 2013 - May 2016

  Founder and Director

  Established a library and language school serving bilingual/multilingual youth to raise awareness of diaspora cultures. Hired and recruited rotating staff of 14 part-time workers and volunteers to run programs.Cataloged over 1500+ donated books and successfully grew a membership base of 200+ library patrons. Established partnerships with international non-profit groups, including Tohoku Ehon Bus and 1000 Black Girl Books, and donated requested titles to areas with reduced access to cultural reading materials.Completed translations for Starfighter, a text-based RPG (role-playing game) from English to Japanese involving 37,000+ words in a 2-month time-frame. Show less

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  New York University, Division of Libraries

  Sept 2016 - Oct 2018

  Graduate Reference Assistant at The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

  Supervised digitization processes for reproductions and operated InterLibrary Loan (ILL).Facilitated department's transition to AEON, an automated request and workflow management software. Improved user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) by linking transaction data, enforcing best practices for archival descriptions, and customizing query tools.Supervised the rehousing of the entire collection of the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs (227 linear feet, 754 boxes). Supervised rehousing of National Guardian Photographs collection (54.6 linear feet, 110 boxes). Recorded rehousing status and updated Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids.Worked with subject matter experts to curate collection in Africana Studies for NYU Libraries. Arranged all domestic/international book purchases with partnered vendors such as GOBI, YBP and AMALIVRE. Show less

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  Marvel Entertainment

  Jan 2017 - now

  Supervised production and maintenance of Marvel.com’s digital encyclopedia of 8000+ character profile pages, reconciling with legacy crowd-sourced wiki. Defined and developed content tags and taxonomy terms for movies, TV shows, games and podcasts. Audited URLs, metadata and social media assets.Built and maintained web pages for movies, TV shows, games and podcasts on Marvel.com. Created custom marketing pages for San Diego Comic-Con, New York Comic Con, Marvel Multiverse Role-Playing Game, Marvel Unlimited comic reader app and Marvel Comics publishing events. Coordinated with stakeholders to successfully launch Disney+ in 2019 with Marvel’s slate of content. Provided Disney+ tracking links to integrate across landing pages, articles and the Marvel.com homepage.Collected reference and resources to create databases for history, trivia and DE&I heritage month content.Provided lead editorial coverage for Marvel Games. In Fiscal Year 2022, grew Games article page views by 62% (2.2M page views) through top-performing articles and Games title page views by 25%.Executed editorial for Consumer Products, Home Entertainment, Marvel Studios, Sales and Publishing.Established systems for strategic SEO metadata and mapping of page redirections from legacy site.Trained Design, Development and Quality Assurance teams on clarifying definitions for placement, layout and site functions. Completed User Acceptability Testing for Content Management System (CMS) upgrades. Communicated with consultants to outsource data migration and dynamically populate records in CMS migration. Regularly performed site diagnostics and repaired known issues and bugs. Show less Created and merged library of text and image assets for new Marvel.com digital platform. Coordinated approval of on-screen character content with Marvel Studios and television partners (ABC, Fox, FX, Hulu, Netflix, Disney XD). Oversaw production of 700+ pages for 160 comic character and group entities, per an established business priority list. Produced 80 landing pages for Marvel movies, TV, games, digital series and live events. Compiled and formatted data for migration of 800+ videos from YouTube to Brightcove and 2000+ articles from WordPress to Drupal.Updated Brand, Editorial and Legal teams to approve licensing and content. Created access points to purchasing features on 20 Marvel Studios film pages for Home Entertainment products.Beta-tested features and site functionality for Marvel Insider loyalty program. Show less Maintained a growing in-house library of the company’s comic serial publications dating back to 1939.Cataloged 40-80 new weekly titles using SharePoint. Uploaded standardized metadata to improve findability for staff in Special Projects, Digital Publishing, and Editorial divisions.Compiled data for circulation statistics, user analytics, inventory size and location management between 6 storage locations. Served library loan requests and returns between different divisions and intern teams; navigated in-house databases to locate first appearances, variant editions, special or one-shot publications. Coordinated move of 3,500+ trade paperbacks and 60,000+ comics to solve storage and shelving problems.Expedited back cataloging and data cleanup for 8 years of circulation records for print publications. Show less

  • Senior Production Manager, Marvel.com

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Associate Editor, Digital Media

    Oct 2018 - Apr 2024

  • Digital Production Coordinator

    Dec 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Library Intern

    Jan 2017 - Dec 2017