Fumiko Kurose-Bretzke

Current

• Japanese home-style cooking instructor at fumikob in Seattle

Past

• Software engineer at bSquare Corporation
• Contract employee at MS at Rhotech (Comforce)

Education

• University of Washington
• Fukuoka University
• Fukuoka University

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Connections

26 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Blog

Fumiko Kurose-Bretzke’s Summary

Software engineer in Test. Managed software test engineers consisting of 4-6 member teams
Coordinated works with other testing teams, development teams, and program manager. Support team members and lead to complete projects. Tested US and Japanese version of programming tools for Windows CE.

Software localization engineer and localization specialist. Localized User Interfaces and dialogs using localization tools. Fixed localization bugs. Localized US version tools to Japanese version. Translated user’s guides for programming tools from English to Japanese.
Coordinate work between US team and Japanese team for Japanese localization of online document. Translated procedures and document from US team for Japanese team. Converted authorization tools to use on Japanese Word. Created tools upon requests from Japanese team.

Online documentation builder. Build large online document using internal tools. Reported bugs. Created document about how to use the tools to build the document for localization vendors.
Assisted writing electrical engineering research and teaching electrical engineering students.

Fumiko Kurose-Bretzke’s Specialties:

Software testing, Software/Medical device research assistant, Japan/US coordination assisitance, Japanese language assistant, Japanese marketing research.

Fumiko Kurose-Bretzke’s Experience

• Japanese home-style cooking instructor

  fumikob in Seattle

  (Entertainment industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  +Shopping assistant at Japanese groceries such as Uwajimaya +Japanese home-style cooking instruction

• Software engineer

  bSquare Corporation

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 1997 — September 2001 (4 years 8 months)

  I tested Japanese and English version of programming tools for Windows CE. Mainly I tested User interface and debugger.

• Contract employee at MS

  Rhotech (Comforce)

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

  September 1993 — January 1997 (3 years 5 months)

  Online documentation builder.
  Localization specialist coordinating between Japanese company and American company
  Localizer of documentation tools
  Tester.

Fumiko Kurose-Bretzke’s Education

• University of Washington

  MME , Medical engineering , 2003 — 2007

• Fukuoka University

  MS , Applied Mathematics , 1982 — 1984

• Fukuoka University

  BS , Applied Mathematics , 1978 — 1982

Additional Information

Fumiko Kurose-Bretzke’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Blog

Fumiko Kurose-Bretzke’s Interests:

Cooking, Photos, blogging, and YouTubing

Fumiko Kurose-Bretzke’s Contact Settings

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