Professional Experience and Achievements

Shimpei Shimizu

Toronto, Ontario

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Professional Experience And Achievements

Freelance Technical Translator 2006 - 2010

Freelance Japanese-English technical translator focusing on on-time, quality translation that reads as if it was originally written in English. Able to read and understand research papers from variety of fields. Recent translation work includes:

Academic Articles

·  Report on Innovations in Distillation – Heat Integrated Distillation Column (J to E)

·  High Temperature Fatigue Properties of Advanced Steels (J to E)

·  Report on Maneuverability of POD Equipped Ships (J to E)

·  Wind Characteristics in Japan – Consideration for Wind Turbine Design (J to E)

·  Essay on intelligent industrial machines (J to E)

·  Research on Teleoperation of Construction Robots (J to E)

·  Ecosystems and Ecosystem Services in Hokkaido, Japan (J to E)

·  Use of Scenarios in Environmental Assessments in Japan (J to E)

·  Bioethanol Production from Oil Palm Sap – Presentation (J to E)

·  Global climate change sociological experiment – survey, academic research papers, and newspaper articles (E to J)

Websites

·  Gender equality website contents (J to E)

·  Policy declaration speech by a faculty dean for University of Tsukuba, Japan (J to E)

·  Event information for a faculty in University of Tsukuba, Japan (J to E)

·  Partial localization of www.vive.com (as of October 21, 2009, client has not uploaded the contents yet) (E to J)

Business and Technical Documents

·  Engineering change request documents for communications between Honda Manufacturing and Magna (J to E to J)

·  Business e-mails related to product sales, marketing, and product placement strategies of batteries designed for use in hybrid electric vehicles exchanged between Sanyo and other involved parties (J to E)

·  Sanyo’s product development and manufacturing planning documentation for batteries designed for hybrid electric vehicles (J to E)

·  Marketcircle Inc. business productivity software localization project for Mac and iPhone (E to J)

·  Western Digital portable hard drive product description and marketing material (E to J)

·  Opinion of Value and Marketing proposal – report on a commercial building in New York (E to J)

General Documents

·  In-flight announcements of a major airline (E to J)

·  CV’s, resumes, and certificates for snowboarding/skiing instructors (E to J)

·  Various personal letters (E to J)

·  Musician biography (E to J)

·  Vehicle Inspection Certificate (J to E)

General Motors of Canada Ltd 2002 - 2009

Presented engineering issues and recommended solutions to non-technical program managements for budget approval. Managed multiple vehicle programs simultaneously to meet extremely tight product development timelines. Facilitated understanding from all team members who had their own, conflicting objectives, and achieved win-win solutions through constructive communication.

Designing Engineer – Body Structures Group (2006 – 2009)

·  Designed and engineered new vehicle components for two vehicle programs simultaneously, using Unigraphics CAD software. The parts achieved highest initial quality in the corporation, and they are currently being reviewed by technical executives for purpose of inclusion in the global engineering Best Practice Database.

·  Received special recognition from management for taking ownership of a project that was outside the core engineering responsibility and driving it to a swift resolution by coordinating cross-functional team comprised of engineers, buyers, manufacturing, and multiple suppliers.

·  Contributed to the advancement of Frontal Offset Deformable Barrier performance through open dialogue with CAE safety engineers, buyers, suppliers, test coordinators, manufacturing engineers, and product engineers, and managing appropriate engineering design changes to achieve 5-star safety rating.

Prototype Build Support and Launch Support (2003 – 2006)

·  Coordinated required engineering changes that were identified through prototype build and validation process.

·  Identified and resolved product related engineering issues to support launch of a vehicle.

·  Recommended engineering solutions to program engineering management team for change and budget approval.

Liaison Engineer – Suzuki-GM Engineering Project Transition (2002 – 2003)

·  Coordinated smooth transition of engineering design projects from Suzuki to General Motors capitalizing on fluency in Japanese.

Intier Automotive (A division of Magna International) 2000 - 2001

Translator & Designer, Advanced Engineering Group

·  Translated engineering change management sheets used for communication with Honda Manufacturing of Canada for Honda Civic Program from Japanese to English and English to Japanese.

Education

Bachelor of Applied Science, Mechanical Engineering (2002&PEY), University of Toronto