Jon Pontius Email & Phone Number

Shibuya

J&F Plaza is a real-estate company located in Japan, Shibuya that caters to foreigners in helping them find affordable and accepting accommodation. They also specialize in some IT recruiting and companies. Head Recruiter (It Section) Duties:*Built IT Recruiting department from the ground up*In charge of acquiring new leads and clients. *Responsible for building the recruiting database and adding new companies/Partners to J&F. *Direct Recruitment from several job boards. *Recruiting from Linkedin with a pool of over 3800+ IT professionals*Headhunting from various local and international sites. Outside the box recruiting.*Account management of several accounts as the point of contact.* All Direct Recruitment Jinzai Shoukai at 30% margins per placement.Creating English material for the company and assisting in editing. Secondary Responsibilities: *Proofing website material in English*Conducting English interviews

Tokyo

Intersoft KK is an international provider of Technology resources. Intersoft K.K. provides multiple services including placement of IT resources (Engineers, SAP, ERP, Programmers, PM, etc.) and services (KYC/AML). With over 200 employees worldwide (India, Singapore, Japan, USA, Taiwan, Hong Kong) Intersoft K.K. is a truly multi-national company. The Sales and Delivery Executive is responsible for (January 2015-December 2015): • Maintaining and managing 15 accounts in several industry sectors (Finance, Pharmaceuticals, Manufacturing, Telecommunications).• Management of 27 employees at various accounts.• Client relationship management.• Sales and Marketing of products and service in the North Asian Region.• Recruitment of business partners to procure local resources.• Project Management and coordination for dispatch service projects in Japan. • Creation and submission of RFI, RFP, RFQ, SOW, and other business documentation.• Maintenance of ARIBA. Responsible for all PO's and RC numbers and payments. • Responsible for formulation of budgets, business plans, Strategies for Japan and North Asia. • Taking charge of business development, contact with new clients for widening company’s market, network.• Arranging and attending all interviews and meetings between clients and potential employees.The Sales and Delivery Manager is responsible for (January 2016 - June 2016:• Same duties as above.• Responsible for leading all Sales meetings.• Responsible for monthly budget numbers, statistics, and presentation with Japanese team and American Team. • Responsible for building team work in sales team (3 people) as well as coordinating. • Responsible for training new Sales team members. The Recruiting Executive is responsible for (January 2015 - March 2016): • Responsible for conducting pre-interviews, interviews, mock interviews with potential candidates for positions.• Knowledge of all recruiting tools: Job boards, internal programs, LinkedIn.

Kudanshita, Tokyo, Japan.

Disk Union is a Medium sized Japanese music producer and supplier owning 48 stores in the Tokyo Metropolitan area and supplying hundreds of other stores in Japan with unique music. Disk Union has recently entered into the world of social media.The Social Media Manager at Disk Union is responsible for: • Managing and maintaining all social media sites (Twitter, Facebook, SoundCloud, Instagram, etc) for each division of the company (Over 30 labels). • Grow brand image of the company through digital marketing through SMS. • Connect to customers around the world through SMS. • Make music and products available internationally. • Translate material from Japanese to English. • Create new opportunities for sales through changing online options (Itunes, Spotify, etc.). • Bring the company into the 21st century technologically. As production manger my responsibilities are: • Find new and interesting artist in the world to produce at Disk Union. This includes making projected sales sheets, costs sheets, and decisions that qualify if the artist can be signed. • Promotion of existing and new artist through multiple platforms including: SMS, Pamphlets, Magazines, radio, television, etc. • Promoting to stores through sample packages, meetings, and unified events for each artist. • Creation of packing material including: Jacket, OBI, Content, and extras. • Booking of live performances and live plans/events. • Production aspects such as recording, mixing, mastering, etc. • Working directly with artist.

Honolulu Hawaii

GIBI Technologies is a small technology company from Honolulu with a simple vision of protecting famlilies loved dogs and cats from getting lost! GIBI technologies is the creator of a small GPS device that can keep track of pets. • Worked in a team of Five in order to perform a wide scale price survey for Gibi Technologies before launch. • Responsible for creation and testing of surveys for GIBI technologies. • Responsible for consultation with survey experts, participants, etc. • Responsible for analysis and compilation of survey information. • Responsible for presentation of information to key groups.

Honolulu, Hawaii

An internship designed to learn the skills necessary for: Event Planning, music festivals, design, and event management. In charge of handling details in order to allow large events to take place. • Responsible for distribution of goods to individual booths. • Responsible for the removal of un-used goods. • Responsible for updating of banners and marketing. • Responsible for informing participants of guidelines and rules. • Involved in all back stage details.

New York, Ny

In charge of creating and implementing lessons for Japanese language and culture for beginnerstudents• In charge of creating unique materials for the classroom• In charge of assessment of students, providing individual assistance to students, andcommunication with parents• In charge of parent and student relationships in the classroom. • In charge of planning of field trips and extracurricular events.• Remained in the classroom until 8PM each evening to provide additional tutoring services.

New York, Ny

JonPon Translation was a small company based on Japanese to English translation founded in New York City 2010 by Jon Pontius. Ahodomo/JonPon focused on translation for the local population. It merged with AhoDomo in 2011 and began focusing on webpage translation including: Manga, Anime. As the founder I was in charge of: • management• sales • HR• Finance• Accounting• Responsible for translation company merger with Ahodomo in 2011• Translated multiple personal projects at a rate of 10 cents a word. I was in charge of all activities until 2011 in this self-ran company.

• Oversaw maintenance of three facilities with security codes • Trained in the use of both roving technology and facility-bound technology • Maintained work logs of employees • Received two raises in a period of one year based on outstanding performance • Responsible for new method of data entry that helped reduce paper work time waste. • Responsible for training of new employees.• Responsible for safety of several facilities.

Itami, Japan

Taught students of varying ages (14-78), skill levels (beginner-advanced), and backgrounds(students, businesspersons, retirees, etc.).• Developed a series of grammar lessons and starter sentences that were both challenging andhelpful to the students.• Tailored the learning experience for each student based on needs and ability.• Responsible for management and advertisement for Hyogo Prefecture school regions.• Managed advertisement teams in three locations: Tsukaguchi, Itami, and Nishinomiya.• Hired and trained new employees in the advertisement team.• Created location advertising strategies training manual.• Company record for most hours in the field as well as bringing over 80 students in two monthswith the summer 2009 advertisement campaign.

Taught a class of 20 beginner to advanced Japanese students who had an interest in the Englishlanguage• Collaborated with several teachers in order to make lesson plans and unique learningopportunities

Japanese Level 1-2 Proficiency, Business Japanese, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Graduate Business Student Association: Vice-President, Secretary.JAIMS will educate you in the core qualities.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Japanese Focused Business, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Graduate Business Student Association: Vice-President and Secretary. (Briefly President) Basketball Sundays..

Master'S Degree, Dual Degree- Tesol -Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages/Japanese Elementary (Grades 1-6), 3.85

Activities and Societies: Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society. Outstanding student award in foreign languages STEINHARDT NYU 2012Graduated.

Bachelor'S Degree, Japanese Studies (Translation/Language/Culture), 3.89

Activities and Societies: Japanese SocietyBachelor’s degree in Japanese studies (Translation/Language/Culture) - 3.89/4.00 GPA - Major.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Business; Business Management; Micro/Macro Economics

Activities and Societies: Worked Full-Time as an English Conversation Teacher.Bachelor’s degree in international business - Major academic.

Bachelor'S Degree, Japanese/Business, 4.0

Activities and Societies: Honorary Pi Kappa Pi member Shiga Prefecture Scholarship, 2007-2008 Japanese Businessman Society Scholarship.

Certificate Of Japanese, Japanese Language And Literature

Activities and Societies: 2007 Eikiden Visiting teacherStudied Intensively the Japanese language for 1 year. Three hours of classes.