Taro Morimoto

Current

• CTO at Zipipop Ltd
• IT Consultant at Taro Morimoto Consulting

Past

• IT Consultant at Capgemini Finland
• Software Developer at TeliaSonera

Education

• Helsingin yliopisto
• Helsingin yliopisto
• Kauhavan Lukio

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Connections

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Taro Morimoto’s Summary

OBJECTIVE
To create services that embrace simplicity and good user experience.

SUMMARY
• Strong and innovative programmer with 7 years of professional experience
• Expert in creating web services
• A team player with positive and enthusiastic attitude

Taro Morimoto’s Specialties:

Excellent skills programming with
• Java, Python, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript 3, (X)HTML, CSS, JSP, JSTL, SQL

Experienced with following technologies
• Django, Flex 3, J2EE, RMI, JavaBeans, JDBC, SOA, UML, Java Midlets
• Google App Engine, Tomcat, WebSphere Application Server and Apache
• BigTable, MySQL, Oracle and DB2
• CVS, SVN and ClearCase

Knowledgeable with
• C/C++, ASP, PL/SQL, WML, XSLT, Unix shell script, and some others

Taro Morimoto’s Experience

• CTO

  Zipipop Ltd

  (Internet industry)

  June 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Concept, design and implement socially connected web services.

• IT Consultant

  Taro Morimoto Consulting

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  • Working as a private one-person company
  • Providing technology and programming consultation for Capgemini Finland

• IT Consultant

  Capgemini Finland

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2005 — May 2006 (1 year 2 months)

  • Worked as a member of Outsourcing Service unit’s Application Management team
  • Demonstrated high quality in improving software for client companies
  • Client companies where in Commerce and Telecommunication sectors
  
  Fixed and further developed a webshop that has a selection of 14,000 different products. The webshop is created using EJB, Servlet and JSP technologies, runs on IBM WebSphere Application Server and uses IBM DB2 database. Webshop also communicates in PCML with external AS400 database.
  
  Other projects: provided technical maintenance for commercial monetary system that handles credit and bonus card traffic, further developed a setting sending and service activation system for telecommunication industry.

• Software Developer

  TeliaSonera

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

  May 2001 — March 2005 (3 years 11 months)

  • Worked as a member of Mobile Services division of the leading Telecommunication company in Finland
  • Increased revenue and wireless customer base through creating customized software ranging from dating websites to business critical systems
  • Participated in all phases of software engineering projects including steering subcontractors
  • Project team size ranged from 1 to 10 members
  
  An architect and a lead programmer of a system that sends settings to mobile phones and activates CMS services. Our project team received 2nd place in a biyearly company wide award (27,000 employees).
  
  Other projects: a time and quality critical phone-to-phone discount text messaging service, a mobile internet community site for youth consumers with WAP enabled mobile phones, a MMS sending web application for business and consumer use, an adaptive MMS/SMS mass sending system for marketing purposes, a fully functional dating site and some other smaller projects/assignments.

Additional Information

Taro Morimoto’s Interests:

Web 2.0, Kendo, art

Taro Morimoto’s Honors:

Our project team at TeliaSonera received 2nd place in a biyearly company wide award (27,000 employees). I was the lead programmer and the architect of the system.

Taro Morimoto’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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