Open Source Web Developer
Japan
- Past
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- Senior Java Analyst at Hartford Life Insurance KK
- associate software engineer at ticketmaster.com
- systems analyst at nikko citigroup
- Software Engineer at Way Internet Ads
- software engineer at new.net
- web consultant at ussearch.com
- senior web developer at racesearch.com
- web designer at iyou.com
- Education
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- University of California, Irvine
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
Keith Watanabe’s Summary
Focus on web systems with primary interest in open source software. Many projects using LAMP projects as well as Java development. Want to work in fun environment with great leadership, smart and creative people on large scale web systems. Hope to also train the next generation of web developers.
I have many years of experience in numerous business types and going through all types of organizations from the smallest to some of the largest and best in this world. While many people are wary of so-called job hoppers like myself, I consider myself extremely privileged, perhaps even more privileged than those who never have been able to change jobs once in their life because I have gained an incredible amount of experience in so many different areas.
I am very practical and business oriented as a developer. I make things work is my motto. If you ask a lot of my past acquaintances, people will commonly tell you that I'm the go-to person for fixing things (I have excellent debugging and analytical skills in this regard). I am NOT a theoretical person/test taker. In other words, I fail in areas where I do not see application or practicality involved. For instance, interview processes where trivial questions on college tests algorithms are not things I do especially well on. But if you ask me how to create a multi-tiered web application system and make it scale, I can give you that because I draw upon my recent experience for handling these situations.
My current objective is to become a hybrid of Dogbert and Catberg.
Keith Watanabe’s Specialties:
Hard Skills: Perl, PHP, Java, Apache, Tomcat, XML, architecture, Linux, Mysql, Postgres, Oracle, Sybase, AJAX, Subversion/CVS, web frameworks
Industry Knowledge/System Development Experience: eCommerce, Domain Name sales, Ticketing, Banner Ad Serving, Back Office systems, SNS, infrastructure management, inventory management, log analysis, blogs, Japanese/American markets
Keith Watanabe’s Experience
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Senior Java Analyst
Hartford Life Insurance KK
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Insurance industry)
December 2005 — September 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Develop front end ecommerce web application for B2C and B2B
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associate software engineer
ticketmaster.com
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Entertainment industry)
February 2005 — October 2005 (9 months)
Developed backend financial reporting transaction management system for the TicketExchange project. Learned about how to build a massively scaling web site. Worked with some of the best web programmers around. One of my favorite positions of all time.
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systems analyst
nikko citigroup
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Investment Banking industry)
April 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 7 months)
Initially started out as a developer for the UNIX Data group in creating tools for helping to manage the 1000 UNIX servers as well as building and managing the Autosys servers. Moved to 2nd level Fixed Income Systems Administrator, responsible for building servers, performing OS migrations, installing packages, mirroring disks, and working closely with developers to ensure 24/7 uptime. Lastly worked as UNIX Security Administrator responsible for entitlements of 1000 UNIX servers and developing reporting tool for showing that information for audit purposes.
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Software Engineer
Way Internet Ads
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
We were selling traffic and ads using Goto.com/Overture (now Yahoo Search Marketing) and FindWhat. Helped design and build an engine for doing what later would become more contextual advertisement. Company had tons of mismanagement, one of the founders left and we were pulling 80 hours a week on average. I split just after one of the founders left, knowing my paycheck would be split too.
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software engineer
new.net
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)
2001 — 2001 (less than a year)
Company sold 3rd level domain names and acted both as a registry and registrar. My main focus was to work on the multilingual domain name project, focusing on the website aspect and getting encoded domains to display. Great people, awful business idea.
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web consultant
ussearch.com
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Services industry)
September 2000 — December 2000 (4 months)
Worked on mod_perl system, fixing bugs, and developing internal tools for marketing. Was a contractor. Purpose was to put out fires.
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senior web developer
racesearch.com
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Automotive industry)
October 1999 — August 2000 (11 months)
Developed numerous tools for our sales team as well as working on the front end system. Environment (perl, Solaris, Oracle, CVS). Learned a lot of my chops here.
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web designer
iyou.com
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
1999 — 1999 (less than a year)
Crude company attempting to sell discounted clothing, perfume and vitamins online. Management didn't understand IT and the company eventually folded. Fortunately, I had tons of sense to get out. I didn't even have an appropriate W-2 or I-90 to demonstrate how shoddy (shady?) this company was run.
Keith Watanabe’s Education
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University of California, Irvine
BA, English, 1993 — 1998
Also, possess a minor in Information and Computer Systems and 3 years of Japanese course work
- Activities and Societies:
- Tomo no Kai, Tutor for ICS, Japanese-English conversation partner with the ESL program.
