
CEO, Firewatching Media
Japan

CEO, Firewatching Media
Japan
Founder & CEO of Firewatching Media, a startup that provides digital marketing solutions to Fortune 500 / Topix 100 / Nikkei 225 companies in Japan.
Marketing Executive and Entrepreneur. Innovator in automated technology to promote global brand presence through search, social media and mobile channels.
Interactive marketing automation and optimization, Japan, Enterprise SEM / SEO, web analytics, custom search, text & rich media analytics technology, product strategy and development.
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Firewatching Media provides technology and consulting solutions to agencies and large brands who are interested in managing large marketing campaigns across multiple channels, online and offline. Clients and partners are primarily global firms with large operations in Japan and Asia. Key areas of expertise are search marketing (SEM / SEO at massive scale), mobile, and social media with a focus on brand promotion.
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — February 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Head of Product Development and QA operations. Built engineering group from the ground up to a team of 20 architects and engineers. Authored 2 patents: 1) link classification to derive competitive intelligence and 2) an automated SEO analysis and optimization score. Designed and built the original automated SEO / SaaS platform, still in production today.
(Entertainment industry)
February 2005 — January 2006 (1 year)
Traveled around the world for almost a year. Visited Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Thailand, Cambodia, Dubai, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, and France.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; DOCX; Computer Software industry)
February 2003 — February 2005 (2 years 1 month)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 8 months)
Designed and led the development of a J2EE-based web portal that integrated with enterprise groupware solutions and secure instant messaging systems. Created a rapid application development framework for instant messaging bots for use within enterprises to accelerate delivery of corporate intelligence to real time speeds.
Marketing, Data Mining, Finance, Photography, Spanish 2003 — 2007
B.S. , Computer Science , 1999 — 2001
B.A. , Japanese , 1994 — 1999
Japanese 1997 — 1998
travel, startups, investing, outdoors, music, politics