Hector Garcia

Hector Garcia

Software Engineer - Twitter @ CGM Marketing at Digital Garage

Japan

Current
  • Software Engineer - Twitter @ CGM Marketing at Digital Garage
  • Japan Technology Correspondent - Ciberpais at El Pais
  • Asia-Japan Technology Scout at Telefonica
Past
  • Speech Recognition Researcher at Asahi Kasei
  • Search engineer at CERN
  • Information retrieval researcher at Alicante University
Education
  • Waseda University
  • Kai School
  • CERN
  • Universitat d'Alacant
  • Universitat d'Alacant
  • University of Toronto
  • Institut de Calp
Connections
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Industry
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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

  • Software Engineer - Twitter @ CGM Marketing

    Digital Garage

    (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

    July 2009Present (5 months)

    Developing and introducing Twitter in Japan.

  • Japan Technology Correspondent - Ciberpais

    El Pais

    (Privately Held; Newspapers industry)

    February 2009Present (10 months)

  • Asia-Japan Technology Scout

    Telefonica

    (Privately Held; TEF; Telecommunications industry)

    April 2008Present (1 year 8 months)

  • Consulting

    Softonic

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    October 2008July 2009 (10 months)

    Market research, finding a JV partner for Softonic and planning its strategy to enter the Japanese market.

  • Chief Technology Officer

    Mirai Inc

    (Internet industry)

    March 2008June 2009 (1 year 4 months)

    Developed a LAMP Ecommerce-SNS solution for Japanese businesses

  • Software engineer

    Technorati Japan

    (Privately Held; Internet industry)

    January 2006March 2008 (2 years 3 months)

    Software engineer responsible for localization software development in Japan.

  • Speech Recognition Researcher

    Asahi Kasei

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

    January 2005October 2005 (10 months)

  • Search engineer

    CERN

    (Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Internet industry)

    May 2004September 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.

  • Information retrieval researcher

    Alicante University

    (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

    September 2003May 2004 (9 months)


Hector Garcia’s Education

  • Waseda University

    English TOEFL , Languages , 20052005

    TOEFL 273 (Computer Based)

  • Kai School

    Japanese Language, Business and Culture , 20042005

  • CERN

    Particle physics and supercomputing , 20042004

    Lectures from Nobel Prize laureates.

  • Universitat d'Alacant

    Specialization , Server application development , 20032004

  • Universitat d'Alacant

    MSc , Computer science engineer , 19992004

    Best student from 2004 graduation (193 students)
    Award from Spanish Ministry of Education for my Master's Thesis.

  • University of Toronto

    English course , Languages , 20022002

  • Institut de Calp

    High School , 19951999

    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

  •    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


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