Experience

InsideJapan Tours

• Senior Tour Leader

  • Jun 2014 - Present

  Responsible for leading small groups of visitors around Japan for weeks at a time.· Accountable for ensuring the satisfaction and safety of groups of individuals, managing crisis situations, and keeping a budget· Create and develop new products and tours· Named Tour Leader of the Year at the 2019 Wanderlust World Guide Awards· Created one of the country’s best-selling videogame tours· Wrote, produced, and appeared in dozens of PR vlogs… Responsible for leading small groups of visitors around Japan for weeks at a time.· Accountable for ensuring the satisfaction and safety of groups of individuals, managing crisis situations, and keeping a budget· Create and develop new products and tours· Named Tour Leader of the Year at the 2019 Wanderlust World Guide Awards· Created one of the country’s best-selling videogame tours· Wrote, produced, and appeared in dozens of PR vlogs for the company· Wrote, edited, and helped generate ideas for the company’s external and internal blogs· Oversee the training and subsequent performance of new employees Show more Show less



G4S Technology

• Marketing Specialist

  • Feb 2013 - Dec 2013

• Proposal Editor

  • Sep 2010 - Feb 2013



Japan Exchange and Teaching Program(me) (JET)

• Assistant Language Teacher

  • Jul 2006 - Aug 2009

  Selected to participate as only non-Japanese English teacher at a public senior high school as a member of one of Japan's largest cultural exchange programs, run by Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with local governments Created original English lesson plans & exams; team taught with Japanese peer to deliver 22 lessons per week to freshmen, sophomores, & juniors · Served as only non-Japanese member on an 8-person team to evaluate & reorganize English language… Selected to participate as only non-Japanese English teacher at a public senior high school as a member of one of Japan's largest cultural exchange programs, run by Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with local governments Created original English lesson plans & exams; team taught with Japanese peer to deliver 22 lessons per week to freshmen, sophomores, & juniors · Served as only non-Japanese member on an 8-person team to evaluate & reorganize English language program at selected Super English Language High School (SELHi); developed and edited more than 300 new text and audio assets · Developed & implemented weekly interview tests with senior high school students · Spearheaded and led a three-day English camp for high school students held in the summers of 2006-2009, bringing together native speakers and over 200 Japanese students and teachers· Organized and ran a twice-weekly student English club encouraging cross-cultural communication with other countries; initiated and implemented a 50-student pen pal exchange program with a school in England Show more Show less



Sibley-Ocheyedan Gazette Tribune

• Editor

  • Jun 2005 - Jun 2006

  Wrote, edited, and formatted stories for a weekly newspaper · Supervised personnel engaged in the selecting, gathering and editing of news and news photographs · Executed daily operations of a weekly publication, including conducting interviews, writing and editing 8 stories per week