Dan Carew

Current

Owner/IT Consultant/Filmmaker at Kanda River Limited

Past

Director of Business Systems at adidas (Asia)
e-Business Department Mngr + Senior IT Business Consultant, Retail/Marketing at adidas Japan
Business Analyst (Contract) at NikkoCiti Trust

Product Development Mgr/Broker Support Mgr at Thomson Financial, Japan

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Education

Cornell University

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Dan Carew’s Summary

Dan's lived 22 years in Asia, is fluent in Japanese and runs a Hong Kong-based boutique IT consultancy. Dan is

• An IT Project Management Pro: Proven track record at large international companies for getting IT projects back on track-–and on-time, on-budget delivery. Strengths are straight talk, out-of-the box creative thinking and team leadership, combined with best-practice PMBOK program management skills.

• A Software Development & Product Management Expert: Led teams building large complex software solutions from scratch (e.g., Japanese-language version of broker research database, bespoke products for web portals) and customizations of large software packages (from, e.g., Yahoo!, Fujitsu, TEC Toshiba, SAP, Microsoft Navision). Deep knowledge of development cycle and product life cycle. Advocate of agile development, SOA and SaaS.

• A CIO-at-large: A business person who speaks IT and a technologist who understands business. Led large multi-cultural teams, and managed big budgets. Facile writer and diplomatic communicator. Deep technical knowledge: expert in Asian-language localization; web site and ASP design and development; Web 2.0, enterprise wikis, intranets and KM; banking systems and financial databases; retail back office, e-commerce, POS, merchandising, supply chain and CRM/loyalty; ERP systems and system integration; business process mapping and development; data warehousing and business intelligence; and workflow automation. Extensive experience building business cases with ROIs, business development, doing large deals, vendor/client management, IT governance, and ITIL.

• A Technology Branding and Strategy Guru: Right brain creativity for left brain technologists. Has developed IT strategy for start-ups, and strategic business plans at large companies.

Dan is also an independent film maker with his own production company (Kanda River Productions), a small high-def post-production studio, and owner of Red One camera #1304.

Dan Carew’s Specialties:

Large-scale IT project management, retail IT, financial information systems, ASP/SaaS development, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0

Dan Carew’s Experience

Owner/IT Consultant/Filmmaker

Kanda River Limited

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)

IT project consultancy. See www.kandariver.com for full details.
Independent Professional (IP) at a-connect (Zurich; www.a-connect.com).
Gerson Lehrman Tech, Media & Telecom Council Member.
Filmmaking. Red camera (www.red.com) rental & post-production expertise, from Spring 2008 (Reservation #1304).
Director of Business Systems

adidas (Asia)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ADS; Sporting Goods industry)

April 2005 — April 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Top accomplishments:

1. Concieved and led design, development and implementation of adidas' first real CRM/Loyalty card system--piloted in Korea, as adiClub
(http://www.adi-club.com/about/adiclubis.jsp). Innovative system with Loyalty card on mobile phone and ASP backend.

2. Developed and drove implementation of data warehouse strategy.

3. Led customization and implementation Asian-version of retail back office system, piloted in Hong Kong. Perpetual inventory system with auto-allocation & replenishment.
e-Business Department Mngr + Senior IT Business Consultant, Retail/Marketing

adidas Japan

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ADS; Sporting Goods industry)

June 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 10 months)

Top accomplishements:

1. Ran www.adidas.co.jp (including mobile site) and B2B websites during World Cup 2002.

2. Developed, implemented and ran adidas Japan intranet on Yahoo! Enterprise Portal platform--still heavily used after 5 years.

3. Led 20-man team with several million dollar budget to roll-out TEC Toshiba RetailWorks for 60+ adidas retail stores across Japan. On-time, on-budget.
Business Analyst (Contract)

NikkoCiti Trust

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; C; Banking industry)

January 2002 — May 2002 (5 months)

Top accomplishment: Translated from Japanese all fields in all of the banks regulatory reports--and led buidling of new automated reports in Business Objects.
Product Development Mgr/Broker Support Mgr

Thomson Financial, Japan

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1991 — 2001 (10 years)

Top accomplishments

1. Led development of Japanese version of First Call.

2. Developed innovative content packages from Thomson data for MSN, Yahoo!, Nikko Cordial web portals.