Academic Background and Previous Careers

Ayako Saida

Languages: Japanese – native, English – fluent 

Nationality: Japanese

Resides: 29-11-6 Tama, Tamano City, Okayama (Prefecture) , Japan 706-0012

Mobile Phone Number: 08019039094

Home Phone Number: 0863-21-5589（My home phone is broken right now）

Email:  ayakosaida2005@yahoo.co.jp

Education:

University of Reading(in the UK)

Oct.1999-Dec.2000

MA of TEFL(Teaching English as a Foreign Language

 Kitakyushu University

Apr.1980-Mar.1985 (I took one year leave to stay in Australia for 10 months with working holiday visa

Bachelor of English Linguistics

 Qualifications:

· Grade 1 of Step Test (1997)

· Grade 2 of Interpreter’s Test

· Grade 2 of Technical English

· Grade 3 of CS Test(Excel）

Technical Skills:

· Word, Excel, PowerPoint (advanced), touch type　Zoom, Meet

Career History

Organization performing step tests(Eiken tests)

Apr.2017-present　Examiner　I’ve been working as an examiner for Step Test,

Omron

May 13-10,2019

Translator

I translated Japanese manuals and contracts into English.

Okayama University

Apr.2001-Mar.2017

English Lecturer

I taught Oral Communication Class, Advanced English Class using news such as BBC and CNN, and TOEIC class for students majoring in Medicine, Nursing, law, engineering, literature, education, environmental science, etc.

Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare

Apr. 2005-Mar.2017

English Lecturer

I taught Medical English conversation class to students who will work at a hospital or clinic.

Nouryouku Kaihatsu College(Engineering College)

Apr.2011-May 2017

English Lecturer

I taught Basic English class and TOEIC class.

Sanzo Business Creative

Apr. 2013-Mar.2017

English teacher(TOEIC instructor)

I taught TOEIC class to employees at Mitsui Shipbuilding Company and its affiliated companies.

Elementary School attached to the Faculty of Education at Okayama University

Apr. 2001-May 2017

ALT(Assistant Language Teacher)

I worked as an ALT and coordinated English classes with Japanese homeroom teachers and a Japanese teacher in charge of English classes and taught English to elementary school students.

 Panasonic in Tsuyama City in Okayama

May 2001-Dec.2002

English teacher(TOEIC instructor)

I taught TOEIC class to employees at Panasonic in Tsuyama City.

IMA(Language school run by Britanica)

Nov. 1996-Sep.1999

English teacher

I taught English conversation class and TOEIC class to university/college students and adults.

 Tamano City Hall

Oct.1995-Oct. 1996

Interpreter and translator

I worked as an interpreter and a translator between English landscape architect and civil servants at International Exchange Department and City Planning Department in Tamano City Hall and Japanese landscape architects at a consulting firm.

I worked as an interpreter when they had meetings to design an English garden at Miyama Park, Okayama Prefecture, Japan.  I interpreted when the English landscape architect explained English gardens in the UK to assembly members. I also worked as an interpreter when they held a seminar about English gardens introducing English gardens by the English landscape architect for Tamano citizens.  I showered him around Okayama with the members at Tamaco City Hall.

 Modec(affiliated consulting firm of Mitsui Shipbuilding Company)

Sep. 1994-Sep. 1995　Bilingual secretary for a project

I attended on an American shipbuilding architect from American Petroleum Company. I typed up what he handwrote, filed documents, arranged accommodations, answered telephone calls, served tea when visitors came, sent packages, etc. I was also asked to translate Japanese specifications and contracts into English.

Mitsubishi Motor Vehicle Company in Mizushima City, Okayama

Apr. 1991-Aug. 1994 Interpreter and translator

I worked as an interpreter between engineers from many different countries and Japanese engineers at Mitsubishi Motor Vehicle Company in Mizushima. I was an interpreter for many kinds of meetings including wrap up meeting at Body building Department, Painting Department, Assembly Department, Inspection Department, Logistic Department, etc.  When they had trainees from Asian countries, I interpreted conversations between the trainees and Japanese engineers.  and I also showed them around Okayama with Japanese engineers.  As a translator, I translated minutes at various meetings, manuals, contracts, invoices, e-mail, etc.

Seishi Junior High School in Kurashiki City in Okayama

Apr. 1988-Mar.1991

English teacher

I taught English conversation classes to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades in corporation with American teachers for two years and taught English to 1st graders for one year.  I also worked as an assistant homeroom teacher for 1st graders.  I couched  my students and took them to Takamado Tropht All Japan Inter-Middle School English Oratorical Contest and other speech contests. 

Amity(called Ambikku Language School in the past)

English teacher

I taught English to infants, students in Elementary School, Junior High School and High School.

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