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.
Education
  • TN Foreign Language Institute
  • Middle Tennessee State University
  • Athens State University
Connections
51 connections
Industry
Primary/Secondary Education
Websites

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 2009Present (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 2009October 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 2009March 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 2008March 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 2005March 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 2007October 2007 (5 months)

  • Accounting clerk

    Kelly Financial Services

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

    June 2005August 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 2004June 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)

    20032004 (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 2003September 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 2000February 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 , 20072007

    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 1999August 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 1991March 1996


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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

Jenny Adams’s Groups:

Middle Tennessee Japan Society - Member since 2006

  •    Apple Professionals
  •    Gmail Users
  •    Microsoft Excel Users
  •    MTSU Alumni
  •    Mac Users
  •    Business in Japan
  •    Expats in Japan
  •    Tokyo Metropolis, Japan, Local Network
  •    Bilingual Workforce in Japan
  •    MTSU Recording Industry Management Alumni Group
  •    Canon EOS Digital Photography
  •    Apple Aperture Users
  •    MTSU (Middle TN State University) Alumni
  •    smart.fm Users

Jenny Adams’s Honors:

Microsoft Excel 2000 Specialist certification

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