Company Information

Xperience LLC is a Delaware corporation and consulting company with an emphasis in business and technology, located in San Francisco, California. Miki Heitzman and Cynthia Tsuchimoto are the principal partners.

 

Miki Heitzman, Director
Miki has a Bachelor's Degree in English Literature and is a certified paralegal from Georgetown University in Washington DC. She has served as administrator and financial director for international technology companies. She is fully bilingual in both English and Japanese and has first hand knowledge of Japanese culture (she was born and raised in Japan). She was a Project Director for the 3 year Federal grant, the Japanese Language Integration Project (JLIP) at the Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program West (JBBP West) until summer of 2004, in the San Francisco Unified School District. The JLIP was a federally funded program. Her team has successfully developed and deployed the original Japanese language software program "Adventures in Nihongo" for K to 5. The JLIP was invited to present their software at the National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE) 2003 conference. She was also the creator and director of the JBBP Choir and the After School English Tutoring program (for ELL Japanese students).

"I believe in technology, and I believe that if students have access to technology, they can learn the skills that will make life and learning easier for them."

Cynthia Tsuchimoto , Administrator
Cynthia Tsuchimoto has a degree in Small Business Management from San Francisco State University. She has over 25 years experience in accounting, finance and technology and has served as Controller for a newspaper publisher and a property management company. Cynthia is a native San Franciscan and grew up in the Japanese American community.

"There is so much satisfaction in seeing the increase in self-esteem when the students realize how much they have learned."
Joyce Hata, Administrative Assistant
Joyce has a Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition from the University of Washington. She has spent the last 20 years as the parent liaison for the Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program, a public elementary school in the San Francisco Unified School District. Joyce's responsibilities include bridging the communication gap between English and non-English speaking families, in addition to being the program contact to the District offices. Her organizational, communication and time management skills are important assets to this project.

"I see this opportunity as a vehicle to create an unique program to which I feel I can contribute to help become a successful project."
Kaori Waki, Japanese Instructor
Kaori Waki is a native of Shimane, Japan. She and her husband move to the US in 2000. Kaori is a credentialed elementary school teacher and librarian in Japan. She has been a teacher at Saturday Nihongo Hoshuko (weekend Japanese school) and is currently working as a sensei at Rosa Parks JBBP Elementary School.
Yoshiko Ohashi , Japanese Instructor
Yoshiko Ohashi is anative of Saga, Japan and graduated with a BA in education from Sophia University. She has 3 years experience teaching K-12 students at Waseda Ikusei supplementary school in Japan. After relocating to Seattle to study business and English at Bellevue Community College, she moved to the Bay Area to work for the Japanese online shopping website fujisan.com in Berkeley. Yoshiko-sensei joined Xperience! Japanese in November of 2009 to teach our Saturday beginning Japanese classes.