Masaru IKEDA

Current

Contributing Author at Asiajin
Contributing Writer at "IT Leaders" by Impress Business Media

Past

Lead of Outsourcing Jobs from EC and Card Payment Solutions at NTT Data
Co-Founder and Director at Skywill Inc.
Contributing Columnist at Sankei Express and Fuji Sankei Business-i

Developer, Cellphone Wallet System Development at NTT Data Corporation
Co-Founder and Director at Alea Co.,Ltd.
Founder and Representative Director at Comfish Co.,Ltd.
Network/System Engineer & Freelance Writer at Media Planets

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Education

Kansai University

Connections

228 connections

Industry

Internet

Masaru IKEDA’s Summary

Masaru started contributing for IT-related periodical publications at 12 years old. (His first contribution was for Basic Magazine, a popular magazine among the geeks.)

After entering a university, it was at the dawn of the Internet, in accordance with the request made by Kazuhiko Nishi who is the founder of ASCII and well-known as Bill Gates' Japanese partner, Masaru started surveys on IT industry in Asia and Silicon Valley. He has visited those regions for covering new technologies and services by interviewing many entrepreneurs.

Masaru has experiences as a system architect and an engineer. As some examples of his works, he led the team developing the entire platform for a nationwide ISP, and also he served as the Internet system consultant for a radio program of Nippon Broadcasting System.

Masaru has wide range of knowledge about cutting-edge technologies and innovative services using the Internet, he used to provide due-diligence on IT start-ups for an independent venture capital firm headquartered in Tokyo.

Masaru co-founded consulting firms, system integrators, and outsourcing agency specializing in system engineering.

As well as playing the managing director’s role at some companies, he's been contributing serial columns to nationwide newspapers and IT periodicals, and he's been teaching opensource-based system integration processes to students from Asia in Japan’s national aid program for developing countries.

Recently, he was involved in the project developing the cellphone-based wallet system being operated by Japan’s largest cellphone operator.

Publications ever contributed to:
Serial column: "IT Expert Tsushin" on Sankei Express (2006)
Serial column: "Scroll" on Sankei Shimbun Newspaper (2007)
Serial column: "Near Future that realized by Internet" on Sankei Express Newspaper(2007-2008)
Doors by Asahi Newspaper's Publishing Dept.
Internet Magazine by Impress
MacLife by BNN
Nikkei NetNavi by Nikkei BP

Masaru IKEDA’s Specialties:

Learn cutting-edge technologies using the Internet and run innovative and potential business.

Masaru IKEDA’s Experience

Contributing Author

Asiajin

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Japan's tech blog organized by Akky Akimoto and Shunichi Arai
Contributing Writer

"IT Leaders" by Impress Business Media

(Publishing industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Controlled-circulation Magazine for Enterprise IT Personnel.
Lead of Outsourcing Jobs from EC and Card Payment Solutions

NTT Data

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

July 2005 — December 2008 (3 years 6 months)

Developing e-commerce solutions and services
Arranging more outsourcing jobs for Skywill's employees
Leading the Team
Co-Founder and Director

Skywill Inc.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2002 — December 2008 (6 years 2 months)
Contributing Columnist

Sankei Express and Fuji Sankei Business-i

(Media Production industry)

September 2006 — May 2008 (1 year 9 months)
Developer, Cellphone Wallet System Development

NTT Data Corporation

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — March 2008 (1 year )

Designed a procedure and an interface of the cellphone wallet system installed on most of NTT DoCoMo's handsets for enhancing it to connect with many e-commerce sites.
Co-Founder and Director

Alea Co.,Ltd.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1999 — January 2002 (3 years 1 month)

Developing Internet Services
Business Process Reengineering
Founder and Representative Director

Comfish Co.,Ltd.

(Computer Software industry)

1995 — 1998 (3 years )
Network/System Engineer & Freelance Writer

Media Planets

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1993 — 1994 (1 year )