Jenny Adams

Current

ALT at CEC Gaigo

Past

Intern at Innovative Language Learning, LLC
English tutor at 7Act
ALT at Interac

Accounting clerk at Kroger
student at Tennessee Foreign Language Institute
Accounting clerk at Kelly Financial Services
bookkeeper at Music City Record Distributors (Sole Proprietorship)
cashier/sales associate at The Home Depot
Accounting clerk at Randstad
accounts payable clerk at Fintech Group Inc.

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Education

TN Foreign Language Institute
Middle Tennessee State University
Athens State University

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Primary/Secondary Education

Websites

Mixi
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Jenny Adams’s Summary

Goals include passing the JLPT (日本語能力試験) level 1 so I can be hired as translator/interpreter.

Jenny Adams’s Specialties:

Accountant, Excel, Digital Performer, copyright, publishing, studio, administration, JD Edwards, QuickBooks

Native in English * Beginner in Japanese

Jenny Adams’s Experience

ALT

CEC Gaigo

(Education Management industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Worked as a part-time ALT at a junior high school. Assisted the first grade teacher with planning and helping the slower students in class. Also helped find new ways to get the students to pronounce words without relying on katakana. Gave hints concerning singular and plural, which position an English verb is in a sentence, and corrected mistakes concerning the letters b, d, v, p, l, and r.

Assisted the special needs teacher with fun, easy to do activities, joined them during their cooking class, and ate lunch with the students. It was also an ongoing learning experience as the students were free to ask questions in either English or Japanese.

The second and third grade teachers were assisted in whatever they needed such as reading to the students or grading their papers. Also gave students a mock Eiken test so they could practice for the real one. Students were told that everything had to be in English, and they needed to respond quickly using their own words. When time permitted the students were asked personal questions such as how many are in their family, what hobbies they have, and what they want to be when they grow up. Students were also tested to see if they could respond correctly to questions they weren’t prepared for.
Intern

Innovative Language Learning, LLC

(Translation and Localization industry)

April 2009 — October 2009 (7 months)

Hired as a customer service intern for a six month contract. Duties included answering people's questions on the user forum, creating new forums about life in Japan or learning Japanese, and assisted in filling language CD orders for either Japanese, Korean, English, Chinese, Italian and Spanish. Was in charge of planning an efficient way to prepare these CDs from burning, printing labels, to the final packaging with a souvenir included for some languages.

Ongoing projects from these ideas now include a weekly "everyday kanji" video lesson so everyone can benefit from kanji being used in real life.
English tutor

7Act

(Education Management industry)

February 2009 — March 2009 (2 months)

Meet students at a cafe to work on their homework or other items to improve their English. Students are given homework to do at home, and then are required to speak about it at the next meeting. Emphasis is placed on more listening and speaking.
ALT

Interac

(Privately Held; Education Management industry)

April 2008 — March 2009 (1 year )

Worked at four high schools in the Yokohama, Japan area. Team teaching high school students ages 15 - 18 English as a second language. Main duties include reading, asking questions, and helping with their pronunciation.
Accounting clerk

Kroger

(Public Company; Supermarkets industry)

August 2005 — March 2008 (2 years 8 months)

Balance sales & cash accounts weekly for 100+ stores
Reconcile 40 G/L accounts monthly: Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee Lottery; money orders, money transfers, gift certificates, pay advances, promotions, sales & customer accounts
General ledger entries as needed
Setup and maintain numerous excel spreadsheets
Research all out of balance conditions
Setup payment for vendors
student

Tennessee Foreign Language Institute

(Educational Institution; Education Management industry)

June 2007 — October 2007 (5 months)
Accounting clerk

Kelly Financial Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

June 2005 — August 2005 (3 months)

Currently working at Kroger in their accounting department

Balance sales & cash accounts weekly for 100+ stores
Reconcile 40 G/L accounts monthly: Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois and Tennessee Lottery; money orders, money transfers, gift certificates, pay advances, promotions, sales & customer accounts
General ledger entries as needed
Setup and maintain numerous excel spreadsheets
Research all out of balance conditions
Setup payment for vendors
bookkeeper
Music City Record Distributors (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 51-200 employees; Music industry)

February 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Responsible for seven, out of 24 Cat’s/Poptunes stores owned by MCRD. Audited daily reports, bills, and credit card receipts. Compiled data from weekly reports for all 24 stores into a master sales report spreadsheet. Reconciled bank statements for all 24 stores. All work was done by hand, and then entered into M2000 as general journal entries.
cashier/sales associate

The Home Depot

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; hd; Retail industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year )

Hardware Associate
Transferred to the hardware department to better help the customers in making sure they have everything they need to complete their project. Helped the other cashiers with their customers to keep the lines moving.
Cashier
Primary responsibilities were to rapidly and accurately scan the customer’s items, enter any form of payment the customer had, and stock items near the registers.
Accounting clerk

Randstad

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

April 2003 — September 2003 (6 months)

Entered invoices, bank deposits, payroll entries, and other journal entries into QuickBooks Premier. Researched both the accounts receivable, and accounts payable getting past due invoices/payments to a current status. Printed checks, matched them to invoices for them to be signed and mailed. Transferred raw Unix data to QuickBooks concerning customers’ payments.
accounts payable clerk

Fintech Group Inc.

(Real Estate industry)

January 2000 — February 2003 (3 years 2 months)

In charge of entering all bills, journal entries, and bank deposits for the Mortgage Investors Group, Capitol Towers Condominiums, Customs House, and Relm, Inc. Printed checks, matched them to invoices for them to be signed and mailed. Assisted in the preparation of bills and invoices for Warren Rogers Association, Inc.

Jenny Adams’s Education

TN Foreign Language Institute

TESL certification , Teaching English as a Second language , 2007 — 2007

Received a TESL certification in October 2007 from the Tennessee Foreign Language Institute. This was a 130-hour class which included a 10-hour internship. For my internship, I had to teach Sudanese refugee women of various English speaking skills. I found this to be very rewarding.
Middle Tennessee State University

BS , Music Business , September 1999 — August 2002

Have used the Studer 9000, Otari 54, and SSL 4000 consoles to do class projects. Favorite classes include copyright law, publishing, and studio administration.
Athens State University

BS , Accounting , September 1991 — March 1996

Additional Information

Jenny Adams’s Websites:

Mixi
Flickr

Jenny Adams’s Interests:

Frisbee golf, photography, Japanese culture and language, Apple Macintosh, fishing, bicycling, walking, Haruki Murakami, Douglas Adams, Stephen King, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, HG Wells, Ray Bradbury, George Orwell