Yuki Okada, MASc(EE)

Engineering Translator

Summary

Translator and interpreter between English and Japanese with 5 years experience, with an MASc (Electrical Engineering) and 16 years experience as an engineer both in Canada and Japan. I understand your technical documents.

• Fluent in English and Japanese with 5 years experience as translator and interpreter.
• Japanese native worked in Canada for the last 20 years.
• Worked as an engineer both in Canada and in Japan for 16 years.
• Specialties include semiconductor devices and electronic circuit.
• Highly experienced in problem-solving both in research and production environment.
• Logical and analytical thinker with attention to details backed by solid foundation on circuit and device physics theory.
• Team leading and training skills.

Career History

• Instruction manuals for electrical and mechanical equipment
• Software protocol manuals and programming guides
• Applications for research grants
• Publicity materials and journal articles on scientific and engineering research
• Research papers
• Telecommunications equipment requests for proposals and information
• License agreement
• Technical reports for electrical equipment manufacturers
• Web sites (mostly academic in physics and electrical engineering)
• Health and Safety regulations

• Transferred the reliability test facilities and procedures from the R&D group successfully to the production group.
• Identified and solved problems with reliability test facilities, increasing the reliability in the final products.
• Led and trained a group of technicians.

• Redesigned the accelerated ageing and testing facilities to produce a high degree of repeatability to support a sharp increase in the production volume of telecommunication equipment.
• Introduced a statistical process control (SPC) for a reliable operation. This gave our reliability assessment program industry strength, as compared to a research tool.
• Trained a group of up to 12 technicians who were hired during the production ramp.

• Invented a novel method of using pulses in semiconductor laser testing where d.c. was conventionally used. This drastically reduced the heating and characteristic changes due to the heat.
• Performed tests and effectively reported the results to enhance the design cycle.
• Oversaw testing activities.

• Realized a low-noise, wide bandwidth, and high gain simultaneously in an image detecting system, using detailed calculations.
• Reduced the cost of lens drive circuitry for SEM while achieving a 1E-6 level of stability by clever power consumption management, in order to increase the competitive edge of the product.

Education

Publications
1) Y. Okada, J.M. Xu, H.C. Liu, D. Landheer, M. Buchanan and D.C. Houghton, "Noise characteristics of a Si/SiGe resonant tunneling diode," Solid-State Elect. 32, 797 (1987)
2) Y. Okada, "Low-Frequency Noise in Resonant Tunneling Diodes," Thesis submitted for MASc, Dept of Electrical Engineering, U of Toronto (1991)

Languages
English (TOEIC score 985 out of 990)
Japanese (Native)
French (Intermediate)

Selected Community Contributions