Erica Jane Nishimura

Experience

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  Freelance

  Aug 2009 - Oct 2011

  Language Tutor

  While studying undergraduate degree I worked as a freelance language tutor on an hourly basis.Teaching Japanese to foreign students.Teaching English to Japanese students and professional (doctors) and business people in Tokyo.

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  Sanshin Electronics

  Mar 2011 - Sept 2013

  International Sales

  Sanshin Electronics supplies electrical components to leading manufacturers such as Sony, Sharp, Nintendo and other major companies throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. Sanshin also provides environment-appropriate system design, establishment, construction and maintenance for clients including governmental offices.International Sales Div. ・Manage delivery to various customers(EMSs) from overseas, mainly Asia, partly Japan and South America, for Apple. ・Weekly purchasing to maintain smooth delivery and control stock level. ・Monthly reports of Sales monitor and budget control. ・Project leader of Hong Kong Logistics Center Start-up project. After smoothly opening Hong Kong Logistics Center, my role shifted to overseeing all weekly / monthly stock level and budget control. ・Holding weekly meetings with the supplier in order to stable production, control sales and meet all client requirements. ・Global support for overseas branches.(total 11 branches) ・Translating both English to Japanese and Japanese to English. Show less

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  Robert Walters

  Oct 2013 - May 2014

  Associate Consultant

  Operating across five continents, with 53 offices in 24 countries, Robert Walters is one of the worlds leading global specialist recruitment businesses. The Robert Walters brand stands for innovation, vision and leadership in the global recruitment market. In Japan, Robert Walters K.K. has two branches in Tokyo and Osaka.Operating at all levels of seniority Robert Walters manage the careers of the best professionals in the areas of finance, sales & marketing, technology, human resources & legal, supply chain & manufacturing, as well as professional healthcare fields.Key Responsibilities : ・Headhunt successful healthcare professionals ・Create advertisements for job positions and post in proper locations. ・Maintaining strong relationship with clients. Consult them with their hiring needs, helping and advising them with hiring process. Frequently communicating with multiple people involved in recruitment to assist and advise. ・Maintaining strong relationship with candidates. Helping them for job search, advising and consulting, fully supporting them through each of the hiring process. ・Placing candidates to their desired jobs and support them before, during and after placements. ・Weekly reports to my team, manager and director. ・Weekly presentations with department about industry updates, recruiting movement, and possible customer development. ・Hold quarterly events to strengthen both client and candidate relationship and strengthen professional network. Show less

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  Freelance

  Dec 2014 - Apr 2017

  Freelance Translator / Interpreter / Language Tutor

  English to Japanese / Japanese to English translating interpreting service. Translating various types of video/audio, along with business, marketing, advertising and technical documents. Tutoring Japanese to English speaking students and English to Japanese speaking students both in person and by Skype.

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  D&D Pictures Inc.

  Jan 2016 - Oct 2019

  Assistant Manager

  D&D Pictures Inc., is a Film Distribution company located in Tokyo, Japan, specialized in Giant Screen Films, IMAX and Planetariums. I am the Regional Manager for North Americas including Canada and some European companies. Key Responsibilities:- Liaising with Film Makers, Productions and International Film Distributors. - Finding films that will sell well in Japan and communicate/negotiate between Japan HQ and clients to distribute the film to the Japanese market.- Translate all documents and scripts for the film including, trailers, educational packages and marketing material. Translate various types of video/audio.- When scripts were not provided by client, I would transcribe the film first and provide translation based on my transcription. - Meet with clients to maintain good relationship. - Attend annual film festivals. Show less

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  Total Management Services America Inc.

  Mar 2017 - Jan 2018

  Recruitment / Business Development Consultant
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  GumGum

  Apr 2017 - Aug 2022

  As part of GumGum's AI team, I work closely with NLP and CV data scientists to provide them with high quality labelled data as fast as possible to speed up the model training and testing process. I have good understanding in Machine Learning. Key Responsibilities- Work closely with 3rd party vendors to set up, run, and optimize their annotation tools. - Hire data annotators and organize in-house annotation tasks when needed. - Work with other teams to develop and improve in-house annotation tool.- Provide documentation for annotation tools and other data-related efforts.- Evaluate new annotation tools and annotation companies to optimize resources. - Aid the Japanese office whenever support is needed from HQ. - Provide Japanese-English translation when needed. Show less GumGum is an artificial intelligence company, with deep expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision(CV) technology. Its mission is to unlock the value of texts, images and videos produced everyday across the web, social media and broadcast television. Since 2008, the company has applied its patented capabilities to serve a variety of industries from advertising to professional sports.GumGum is based in Santa Monica, California, with eight additional offices in the US, the UK and Australia. My main role was to provide data mapping on GumGum's content categorization and threat classification models and also to collect valuable data for these models in both English and Japanese. I also completed many data annotation tasks for these languages. Since I joined GumGum when the business first expanded to the Japanese market, I provided translation on documentation including, but not limited to business documents, websites, dashboards, design documents, reporting documents, and task manuals. In addition to translation I also performed interpretation when needed. Show less

  • Product Manager

    Sept 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Data Curator II

    Aug 2019 - Sept 2021

  • Data Curator

    Feb 2018 - Aug 2019

  • JP/Eng Bilingual Researcher

    Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
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  Infillion

  Aug 2022 - now

  Product Manager