Work Experience

Corporate Officer, TypePad, Six Apart KK, February 2009 - June 2010

Led a team which planned, designed, implemented, tested and shipped a blog-CMS web service. Report lines include Product Management, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Operations and a part of Customer Support. I also contributed directly to the product by playing a role of an engineer too.

Coordinated software development project from the start to shipping and support, which include planning, writing specification, writing code, arrange and coordinate quality assurance, and daily operations of hosted services - just about every aspect of the product.

Director of engineering, Six Apart KK, May 2006, February 2009

Engineering Manager, Six Apart KK, December 2005 - April 2006

Launched its US version of the blog service in Japan. I was the project lead.

Acted as an engineer working remotely for its US version of the service. I had primarily been assigned to fixing bugs and implementing features escalated from Japanese customers. I had also been the translator responsible for ja locale. Director of Operations of the service had also been in my title for which I had been responsible for escalation from Japanese customers and customer support team.

Co-led internationally distributed engineering team which implemented the world's most sophisticated blog-CMS software by using Perl, PHP, JavaScript and a few markup languages. I also worked for the team as the primary engineer of its Enterprise portion of code and other core features such as in-app search, revision control and OpenID.

Shipped all versions of Movable Type since version 3.3 until version 5.0 as engineering manager.

Worked as a bridge between Japan office and the U.S. office.

Gave a talk at YAPC::Asia 2008.

Amazon Web Services Technical Evangelist, Amazon.co.jp, February 2004, August 2005

Was the one-stop contact point for Japanese Amazon Web Services developers on the online forum and emails, to provide technical support.

Spoke at conferences about "Real World Web Services" in general and Amazon Web Services. Some include IDG Web Services Conference, Shoeisha's Developers Summit, and NikkeiBP's Technology Forums and more. The theme sometimes is not only Amazon Web Services but general Amazon.com stance on technology.

Worked as an "ambassador" of Amazon.com technology for Amazon Japan office.

Created sample applications using various programming languages including Perl, PHP, C#, VB.NET, Java, JavaScript and C++.

Helped designing new APIs for Amazon Web Services development team.

Independent Consultant, Systems Engineer, Speaker and Trainer, May 2003 - January 2004

Spoke Microsoft technologies in the technology conferences.

Wrote articles about Microsoft .NET Framework, XML and Web Services. Examples can be found online:

Wrote two books about C# and VB.NET programming and translated two key Microsoft .NET books.

Helped as a consultant design and implementation of its first Microsoft ASP.NET based solution for a system integrator.

Trained more than 100 systems engineers of Hewlett Packard's about C# and .NET programming.

Trained customers of Microsoft Developer Marketing division and Microsoft Partner Marketing division about C# and .NET programming. The whole 100 pages of material for the course were also written by myself.

Trainer, Consultant and Systems Engineer, INFOTERIA (INFOTERIA NETWORKS), April 2001 - May 2003

Ran the XML training and certification program. Wrote more than five training materials of XML technologies including XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, XML Security, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. I also gave "train the trainer" courses for each material.

Designed and implemented reverse auctioning system for supply chain of a large company, using Java, JSP/Servlet and SQL Server.

Led the team to implement the company's own software for XML-based EAI system.

Helped as a consultant a joint experimental project by Microsoft and Unisys about XML Web Services.

Spoke XML technologies in the technology conferences. Examples can be found online:

Wrote articles for web and paper magazines about XML related technical details. Examples:

Trainer, Consultant and Systems Engineer, ASCII NT INC, April 1997 - March 2001

As a Microsoft Certified Trainer, trained more than 1,000 students various Microsoft products. I was specialized in Visual Studio development software which included Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual InterDev, Visual J++, and COM/DCOM/MTS/COM+ in general.

Implemented systems for demonstration in Microsoft technology conferences. The biggest system among them was implemented using Microsoft BizTalk Server 2000 which incorporated XML-based messaging that communicates mobile phones and IBM AS/400.

Designed and implemented custom authentication in Windows 2000 Active Directory for elementary schools for Microsoft.

Wrote articles for web and paper magazines. Examples can be found by the following query:

Spoke Microsoft technologies in the technology conferences such as Microsoft TechEd Japan (from 1998 to 2004), Micrsoft Developer Days and Microsoft Professional Developers Conference. Examples can be found online:

Programmer, Researcher and Trainer, INTEC, inc, April 1994 - March 1997

Implemented, tested and helped designing the company's own (then new) human resource management system. It manages more than 3,000 employees from hiring and promotion to transfer and resignaion. The system is written using Microsoft Access 2.0.

Researched and introduced new software development environments to engineers and managers. My responsibility was focused on software development environments including Microsoft Visual Studio, Borland and Oracle development products and Java software development kit. The monthly technical newsletter published internally within the company had my column in which I wrote about these products ranging from introduction to the new version to answers to frequently asked questions from engineers.

Trainged the company's engineers how to use these software development products. I was specialized in Microsoft Visual Basic, Oracle PL/SQL and Microsoft T-SQL. The training course was designed by myself with help from senior colleagues.

Personal Projects

Education

Bachelor of Liberal Arts, International Christian University Tokyo, 1994
Major: Communication/Journalism

Languages

Japanese and English (TOEIC 935, 2002)

Had worked for a team based in Seattle, WA where I was the only member worked remotely.

Had worked for software engineering team distributed among San Francisco, New York, Paris and Tokyo. I was reporting to the CTO in the San Francisco office remotely.

Computer Languages

Native
Perl, PHP, JavaScript, SQL
Fair
C#, Java, Visual Basic and Visual C++
Have used before
Python, C, Pascal

Certifications

Awards