Document Reviewer Quality Control

Saeri Kiritani

Email: ad8dth@r.postjobfree.com

Mobile: 917-***-****

Professional Summary

Experienced Japanese/English translator with over 20 years in document review and translation. Proficient in both hard copy and online reviews, utilizing various e-discovery technologies. Extensive experience in financial instruments and exchange law litigation, contract disputes, patent litigation, merger reduction, and antitrust litigation. Notably, I reviewed over 2 million documents for an FTC antitrust investigation, specializing in Japanese language review, quality control, and privilege review.

Experience Highlights

May 2015 – Present

The Nippon Club

Webinar Guest Lecturer (in Japanese)

Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP

Role: Document Reviewer

• Coded and summarized English/Japanese documents using the Relativity search engine.

May 2013 – February 2015

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Role: Translator & Document Reviewer

• Translated Japanese documents into English.

• Coded English/Japanese documents and discovered related documents using the Kroll Ontrack search engine.

2000 – 2002, 2009

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Role: Translator & Document Reviewer

• Flagged and translated Japanese documents for approximately 2.5 years.

2005 – Present

Jan Peterson Production

Role: Japanese Translator & Project Coordinator

• Provided translation and project coordination services for film production and advertising.

2008

Constantine & Cannon LLP

Role: Document Reviewer

• Participated in a 16-month project reviewing over 2.5 million Japanese documents using Concordance.

Shougakukan INC. Japan

Role: Translator

• Translated the graphic novel artist Hideo Yamamoto’s work.

• Translated the book “Shakespeare the ‘Lost Years’” by E.A.J. Honigmann into Japanese.

June 2006 – December 2006

Governance Metrics International

Role: Financial Analyst (Contract Position)

• Assisted in preparing governance profiles and writing analyses for companies.

2005

Real Estate Sales Agent

• Successfully sold a $545,000 one-bedroom apartment and rented several apartments in New York.

Other Short-Term Projects

• FTI: Transaction Reduction Document Review for Pharmaceutical using Ringtail 8

• Ropes & Gray LLP: Prepared documents for pharmaceutical patent litigation

• Multi Language Center Facil: Document translation for Fukushima Disaster

• Linguistic Systems, Inc.

• Jay Deitz Reporting Service: Interpreter for vehicular accident lawsuits

• Argot Pictures: Promoted independent films to the public

• Davis Polk & Wardwell

• District Attorney’s Office in New York

• Mori Art Museum and Cheim & Read Gallery

• David Zwirner Gallery

Education

• Master of Fine Arts

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1997

• Bachelor of Arts

San Francisco State University, San Francisco

Technical Skills

• Coding and flagging English/Japanese documents

• Document discovery using search engines

• Proficiency in Ringtail 8, Kroll Ontrack, Concordance, Caterpillar, and Relativity

Teaching Experience

• Native Japanese speaker with 5 years of teaching experience at Berlitz Language School, specializing in Japanese conversation, reading, and writing for business professionals.

• Former docent at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where I educated students and visitors about modern art.

Awards

• Sony Electronics, Inc. (2022)

• St. Dalfour International (2019)

• Goldman Sachs Gives (2018)

• University of Pennsylvania: Student Scholarship (Philadelphia, 1995-1997)

• The Japan Foundation, Center for Global Partnership: Exchange Student and Instructor Scholarship (San Francisco, 1994)

• San Francisco Art Institute: Student Scholarship (San Francisco, 1993)

• San Francisco State University: Student Scholarship (San Francisco, 1990-1992)

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