Software Engineer - Twitter @ CGM Marketing at Digital Garage
Japan
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- Software Engineer - Twitter @ CGM Marketing at Digital Garage
- Japan Technology Correspondent - Ciberpais at El Pais
- Asia-Japan Technology Scout at Telefonica
- Past
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- Consulting at Softonic
- Chief Technology Officer at Mirai Inc
- Software engineer at Technorati Japan
- Speech Recognition Researcher at Asahi Kasei
- Search engineer at CERN
- Information retrieval researcher at Alicante University
- Education
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- Waseda University
- Kai School
- CERN
- Universitat d'Alacant
- Universitat d'Alacant
- University of Toronto
- Institut de Calp
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Hector Garcia’s Summary
28 years old cultural broker, working between Europe, Asia and USA. Speaks fluently five languages, has excellent software engineering skills and a deep understanding on what's going on right now on the Internet. Ready to conquer the world!
Hector Garcia’s Specialties:
Internet industry in Tokyo
E-commerce
Search Engineering
Information Retrieval
Software Engineering
Scaling websites
Professional blogging
Artificial Intelligence
Speech recognition
Hector Garcia’s Experience
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Software Engineer - Twitter @ CGM Marketing
Digital Garage
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Developing and introducing Twitter in Japan.
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Japan Technology Correspondent - Ciberpais
El Pais
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
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Asia-Japan Technology Scout
Telefonica
(Privately Held; TEF; Telecommunications industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
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Consulting
Softonic
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2008 — July 2009 (10 months)
Market research, finding a JV partner for Softonic and planning its strategy to enter the Japanese market.
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Chief Technology Officer
Mirai Inc
(Internet industry)
March 2008 — June 2009 (1 year 4 months)
Developed a LAMP Ecommerce-SNS solution for Japanese businesses
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Software engineer
Technorati Japan
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
January 2006 — March 2008 (2 years 3 months)
Software engineer responsible for localization software development in Japan.
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Speech Recognition Researcher
Asahi Kasei
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 2005 — October 2005 (10 months)
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Search engineer
CERN
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)
May 2004 — September 2004 (5 months)
Worked with the team developing the first search engine that would use GRID technology for clustering purposes. I developed algorithms for results parsing from other search engines and gather everything together for the clustering process. Presented my work in a conference.
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Information retrieval researcher
Alicante University
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)
September 2003 — May 2004 (9 months)
Hector Garcia’s Education
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Waseda University
English TOEFL , Languages , 2005 — 2005
TOEFL 273 (Computer Based)
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Kai School
Japanese Language, Business and Culture , 2004 — 2005
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CERN
Particle physics and supercomputing , 2004 — 2004
Lectures from Nobel Prize laureates.
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Universitat d'Alacant
Specialization , Server application development , 2003 — 2004
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Universitat d'Alacant
MSc , Computer science engineer , 1999 — 2004
Best student from 2004 graduation (193 students)
Award from Spanish Ministry of Education for my Master's Thesis. -
University of Toronto
English course , Languages , 2002 — 2002
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Institut de Calp
High School , 1995 — 1999
Best student from 1995 until 1999
Additional Information
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Hector Garcia’s Interests:
Japan, Internet, finance, photography, programming, Asia, entrepreneurship, science, astronomy, photography, physics, programming, astronomy, video games, philosophy, internet, writing, reading, blogging, manga, traveling, new technologies/innovation/ideas.
Hector Garcia’s Groups:
www.tokyo2point0.net, youtubemix
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JoiIto -
Vulcanus Alumni -
Silicon Valley comes to Japan -
EU-Japan Cooperation
Hector Garcia’s Honors:
-Internship(Vulcanus) for 20 engineers selected from more than 1000 application from all Europe
-Internship(CERN summer school) for 160 engineers selected from more than 2500 applications from all Europe
-2004 Best spanish written blog.
-2005 Best spanish written blog finalist.
-Selected one of the best 100 High School students from Valencia region(Spain) - 1999
Hector Garcia’s Contact Settings
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