Experience

Honolulu Community College

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Instructor of Hawaiian Language

  • Aug 2019 - Present

• Culture & Place-Based Learning Coordinator

  • Mar 2017 - Aug 2019

  • Design/implement Hawaiian culture and place-based training programs for faculty, staff, and administrators. • Utilize current, research-based, indigenous Hawaiian educational strategies to impact faculty, staff and administration development, curriculum creation and alignment, instructional strategies, standards and benchmarks, and assessment implementation, and general campus operations. • Incorporate Hawaiian Language and Culture practices to design, implement, and… Show more • Design/implement Hawaiian culture and place-based training programs for faculty, staff, and administrators. • Utilize current, research-based, indigenous Hawaiian educational strategies to impact faculty, staff and administration development, curriculum creation and alignment, instructional strategies, standards and benchmarks, and assessment implementation, and general campus operations. • Incorporate Hawaiian Language and Culture practices to design, implement, and conduct professional development activities both on- and off-campus for faculty, staff, and administrators and students • Assist in program monitoring and evaluation to support long- and short-term program planning and implementation efforts.



Jacob H. Elarco

• Freelance Translator & Editor

  • Jan 2013 - Present

  • Freelance translating services for clients that include Bilingva, a California-based translation company. Managed a large translation project consisting over 119,000 words. These translations are used to teach translation software programs how to translate segments of text/phrases/words/sentences when entered in the search for translating from English into Hawaiian, for electronic translation tool services. • Edit books for self-published authors specifically for Hawaiian language and… Show more • Freelance translating services for clients that include Bilingva, a California-based translation company. Managed a large translation project consisting over 119,000 words. These translations are used to teach translation software programs how to translate segments of text/phrases/words/sentences when entered in the search for translating from English into Hawaiian, for electronic translation tool services. • Edit books for self-published authors specifically for Hawaiian language and cultural content. Show less • Freelance translating services for clients that include Bilingva, a California-based translation company. Managed a large translation project consisting over 119,000 words. These translations are used to teach translation software programs how to translate segments of text/phrases/words/sentences when entered in the search for translating from English into Hawaiian, for electronic translation tool services. • Edit books for self-published authors specifically for Hawaiian language and… Show more • Freelance translating services for clients that include Bilingva, a California-based translation company. Managed a large translation project consisting over 119,000 words. These translations are used to teach translation software programs how to translate segments of text/phrases/words/sentences when entered in the search for translating from English into Hawaiian, for electronic translation tool services. • Edit books for self-published authors specifically for Hawaiian language and cultural content. Show less



Hoomaikai LLC

• Manager

  • Oct 2014 - Mar 2017

  • Manages operations and various projects of Native Books to promote and market Hawaiian knowledge and Hawaiʻi-based products such as artistry, clothing, material culture and books. • Curating old, rare, and out-of-print material, evaluate selling potential of new books, inventory and employee management, data entry, and website and database system maintenance. • Manager and editor of Short Stack book publishing subset. Duties included acquisitions, contract negotiation… Show more • Manages operations and various projects of Native Books to promote and market Hawaiian knowledge and Hawaiʻi-based products such as artistry, clothing, material culture and books. • Curating old, rare, and out-of-print material, evaluate selling potential of new books, inventory and employee management, data entry, and website and database system maintenance. • Manager and editor of Short Stack book publishing subset. Duties included acquisitions, contract negotiation, production assistance, marketing, and sales management. Show less • Manages operations and various projects of Native Books to promote and market Hawaiian knowledge and Hawaiʻi-based products such as artistry, clothing, material culture and books. • Curating old, rare, and out-of-print material, evaluate selling potential of new books, inventory and employee management, data entry, and website and database system maintenance. • Manager and editor of Short Stack book publishing subset. Duties included acquisitions, contract negotiation… Show more • Manages operations and various projects of Native Books to promote and market Hawaiian knowledge and Hawaiʻi-based products such as artistry, clothing, material culture and books. • Curating old, rare, and out-of-print material, evaluate selling potential of new books, inventory and employee management, data entry, and website and database system maintenance. • Manager and editor of Short Stack book publishing subset. Duties included acquisitions, contract negotiation, production assistance, marketing, and sales management. Show less



Hawaiʻinuiākea, School of Hawaiian Knowledge

• Administrative Assistant

  • Oct 2011 - Dec 2014

  • Fiscal, clerical, and administrative duties including accounting financial statements, updating ledgers, preparing the dean’s agenda, website maintenance, professional and academic report writing. • Event and fundrasing planing planning. • Publishing and editorial assistance. • Fiscal, clerical, and administrative duties including accounting financial statements, updating ledgers, preparing the dean’s agenda, website maintenance, professional and academic report writing. • Event and fundrasing planing planning. • Publishing and editorial assistance.



Pūnana Leo o Waimea & Alo Kēhau o ka ʻĀina Mauna/Ke Kula ʻO Nawahīokalaniʻōpuʻu

• Kumu Huʻeaʻo (Intern)

  • May 2013 - Sep 2013

  • Taught 3rd and 4th grade mathematics in Hawaiian. • Taught cultural material to children to foster a new generation of Hawaiian language speakers. • Taught 3rd and 4th grade mathematics in Hawaiian. • Taught cultural material to children to foster a new generation of Hawaiian language speakers.



Five Mountains Hawaii

• United States
• Medical Practices

• Management Trainee

  • May 2013 - Sep 2013

  • Mentored/managed high school student interns to prepare them for higher education. • Managed Hawaiian culture and ʻāina-based engagement programs for youth and adults to enforce drug resistance, and promote higher education. • Mentored/managed high school student interns to prepare them for higher education. • Managed Hawaiian culture and ʻāina-based engagement programs for youth and adults to enforce drug resistance, and promote higher education.