Founder/Director, Netwise
Japan
Founder/Director, Netwise
Japan
Netwise helps our clients do business and achieve their objectives online. In addition to high-end, professional interface and web design, we work closely with our clients to create positive online user experiences for their employees, customers and partners. We also provide a wide variety of marketing and promotion services designed to maximize the potential of the systems we design and build.
About Michael:
Ten-year Tokyoite with a deep understanding of Japanese language, culture and business practices. Key skills in the Internet space include strategy and execution, project planning and management, online marketing/advertising, branding, ecommerce and user experience (UX) design.
Internet strategy, branding, marketing, information architecture, interaction/experience design, multilingual system design, SEO, SEM, Business Process Reengineering (BPR), performance measurement, website analysis and optimization, web analytics, technical research and reporting, Japanese (JLPT Level 1), Japanese business practices.
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
October 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 2 months)
Technical Consultant responsible for the design, implementation and support of web-based streaming financial and market data systems.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 5 months)
Responsible for leadership and management of technical consulting services staff providing software development, network engineering and Internet solutions to customers in Japan and elsewhere in Asia.
(Public Company; Internet industry)
May 1998 — July 1999 (1 year 3 months)
BA , Japanese Language and Literature , April 1994 — August 1998
Foreign Exchange Scholar August 1996 — June 1997
Wine, food and dining, Japanese, economics, film, Internet and web technologies.
Japanese Proficiency Test Level 1, MCSE