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  <h1><a href="http://krm.fyi">krm.fyi</a></h1>

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  <p>
    I'm Kieran Maynard.
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    You can reach me at kieranmaynard[at]gmail[dot]com.
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  <h1>about me</h1>

  <p>
    I am a linguist turned tech program manager with a passion for developing data-driven,
    scalable solutions for thorny legal and regulatory compliance problems.
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  <ul>
    <li>10+ years working on program management and regulatory compliance at Google</li>
    <li>6+ years experience writing complex SQL queries on billions of rows to drive analysis and insights</li>
    <li>1+ years experience coding in JavaScript/TypeScript & Python to automate workflows and manipulate data at scale (e.g.,
      node.js, Chrome extensions)</li>
    <li>Fluent in Mandarin Chinese & Japanese, and conversant in Korean and Cantonese</li>
    <li>BA in Linguistics</li>
    <li>Father of two</li>
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  <h1>find me online</h1>
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    <li>LinkedIn: <a href="https://LinkedIn.com/in/KieranMaynard">Kieran Maynard</a></li>
    <li>GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/krmaynard/">github.com/krmaynard/</a></li>
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  <h1>data tools</h1>
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    <li><a href="2md.html">Convert spreadsheet data to Markdown</a></li>
    <li><a href="chars.html">Count characters & words in text</a></li>
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  <h1>publications & awards</h1>
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    <li><a
        href="https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/schools-and-colleges/college-of-liberal-arts-and-social-sciences/maynard_lost-chapters-wind-up-bird.pdf">University
        of Guam - 'Lost Chapters in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle: A Translation and Commentary'</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://www.atlanta.us.emb-japan.go.jp/nihongo/speechc2012.html">Grand prize, Japanese original speech
        competition</a></li>
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  <h1>literary translations</h1>
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  <ul>
    <li><a href="https://kieranmaynard.com/murakami/">Murakami Haruki - Lost Chapters in <em>The Wind-Up Bird
          Chronicle</em> (Japanese)</a></li>
    <li><a href="kim-un-su.html">Kim Un-Su "Terribly Easy Writing Lessons" (digest version, Korean)</a></li>
    <li><a href="zhang-jiajia.html">Zhang Jiajia 张嘉佳 "The Old Love Letter" (Chinese)</a></li>
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      Click here to <a href="translation.html">request translation services.</a>
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  <h1>research</h1>

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    <li><a href="yang.html">
        沈从文的《丈夫》与戴乃迭的英译 (2013, Fudan University)
      </a></li>

    <li><a href="chang.html">
        张爱玲《倾城之恋》里的时间观 (2012, Fudan)
      </a></li>

    <li><a href="moyan.html">
        Cross-media Study of Mo Yan's
        <em>Red Sorghum</em> in Film & Translation (2012, University of Georgia)
      </a></li>

    <li><a href="rashomon.html">
        Animals in Akutagawa Ryūnosuke's “Rashōmon”「羅生門」の動物 (2012, UGA)
      </a></li>

    <li><a href="jasei.html">
        Japan's Legend of the White Snake: Comparative analysis of "Bainiangzi" and "Jasei no In"(2011)
      </a></li>

    <li><a href="bccwj.html">
        Toward a Japanese “linguistics of speech”: Collocation in the BCCWJ (2010)
      </a></li>

    <li><a href="bacchus.html">
        Analysis of Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse's "The Drunkenness of Bacchus" (2009)
      </a></li>

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  <h2>same name but different</h2>
  <p><em>Recently, news articles have appeared about other people named "Kieran Maynard" in England. I've never lived in
      England, so suffice to say, he is not me, and I am not he, and never the twain shall meet.</em></p>