Summary
Adam Rice is a veteran Japanese→English translator and technical writer with over three decades of freelance experience and a decade focused on technical documentation, currently serving as Technical Writer & Translator at Tokyo Electron America and Chairman of Burn After Meeting Ltd. He specializes in marketing, telecoms, computing, semiconductor fabrication, and automotive engineering, and has translated and edited materials for clients such as Sony, Sematech, and Motorola. Adam pairs deep subject-matter familiarity with practical documentation workflows—organizing developer notes into public manuals and aligning English materials with evolving software releases. Beyond translation, he brings event leadership and nonprofit arts festival governance experience, having directed large volunteer-driven productions and developed long-running online resources for translators. Based in Austin, he combines meticulous language work with systems-minded process design and archival practice, evidenced by decades of curated documentation and handbook development.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Asian Studies, BA, Asian Studies at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Japanese