Yuri Tanaka

Vendor Manager @ Capcom

About

• 15+ years of experience as an English–Japanese translator/interpreter in professional communities. • 10 years of experience supervising translation teams. • Solid skills as a liaison to facilitate effective communications between production teams in the U.S. and Japan. • A quick learner who can absorb new ideas and master new tools. • Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines. • Adept communicator who can articulate technical, business, and creative insights to a broad range of stakeholders. • Willing to travel nationally and internationally for work projects and assignments.

Country

Japan

City

Osaka

Industry

Computer Games

Skill

Video Games, Interactive Entertainment, Game Development, Translation, Social Games, Xbox 360, Computer Games, Japanese, English, Microsoft Office, Proofreading, Editing, Project Management, Management, Localization, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Leadership

Experience

Vendor Manager

Capcom

2019-4 - Present · 7 yrs 6 mos

Osaka, Japan

Translation Manager

Visual Concepts

2013-2 - 2019-2 · 6 yrs 1 mo

Novato, CA

• Supervise and manage an internal translation team of 4 members to provide quick and accurate written and oral translations between English and Japanese for an internal production team in the U.S. and an external software developer in Japan. • Hire 5-8 external contract translators during the debug periods, and schedule and monitor their activities to ensure 300+ bugs are accurately translated in a daily basis for an external developer in Japan. • Work cross-functionally with the game design, art, tech, and QA teams to improve translation work flows on several databases. • Train and mentor translators by proving feedback on their translations and teaching techniques to improve their translation skills so that frequent proofreading and corrections are not required. • Translate daily emails and the game design, art, and technical documents from English to Japanese and vice versa to facilitate smooth communications. • Interpret at weekly video conferences between the production teams in the U.S. and Japan. • Plan and manage regular trips to Japan for the production team, acting as an interpreter during key meetings.

Translation Manager / Technical Translator

THQ

2002-11 - 2013-1 · 10 yrs 3 mos

Agoura Hills, CA

• Received a promotion to a translation manager in June 2008. • Managed an internal translation team of 5 members in the production department and several external translators to provide the accurate translations and interpretations in a timely manner. • Acted as a liaison to help build and maintain solid relationships between the internal production teams and the external developers in Japan. • Allocated translation assignments to the translation team members and monitored translation processes, while making adjustments whenever required. • Translated game design documents, legal documents, technical specifications, and bug reports between English and Japanese. • Provided oral translations between the internal production teams and the Japanese software developers in video conferences. • Made frequent trips to Japan as an interpreter in project management, game design, and technical meetings with developers in Japan.