Welcome to Brazen Careerist!

About Me

Former intercultural liaison and educator with demonstrated strengths in creative problem-solving, territory development, account management and sales strategy development.

Work History

• Better World Books
• Campus Account Executive
• July 2011 to Present

• Seek out new book sources and maintain existing relationships in the American West (a 15 state territory, including Hawaii and Alaska). Establish and maintain long-lasting book re-use / recycling partnerships with college campuses within my region. Assist to develop Sustainability programming which will make collegiate book re-use efforts more impactful for administration and students. Project lead on initiative to build more effective partnerships with student housing developments (both on and off campus) as well as on-campus

• Better World Books
• Account Representative

• Acting as a matchmaker I connect academic libraries, textbook sellers, recyclers and student groups seeking an outlet for their unwanted / surplus books with my company. I seek out new book sources and maintain existing book sources on college campuses in New York and New Jersey. Through careful account management I maximize profitability among book sources by acquiring high quality used books at a low cost.

• Mitsui Soko USA
• Inventory Control Agent & Accounting Assistant
• September 2008 to July 2010

• Joined as an inventory control agent, maintaining orderly records for 20 corporate clients with goods stored both on-site and off-site. Executed billing for an international client, accurately entering product weights / descriptions into the inventory database. Promoted to processing international freight for the Container Freight Station at MSU-Atlanta as well as the handling of various accounting tasks.

• JET Programme: Himeji Nishi Senior High School
• English Teacher
• July 2005 to July 2008

• Created original English lesson plans & team teach with Japanese peer to deliver 14 lessons per week to freshmen and sophomores

  Developed and implemented games and practice modules which tested the students' listening and speaking abilities

  Run a weekly student English club encouraging cross-cultural communication through conversation, social events and working together to prepare a play for the yearly culture festival at school

  Serve as the only non-Japanese member on a 9-person team to evaluate & reorganize English program; developed more than 100 new text and audio assets

Education

• University of Georgia
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, Japanese Language and Literature
• - 2004