Stuart Woodward

Current

Solution Architect, Back Office Solution Delivery in Tokyo at AXA

Past

Senior Technical Architect at NTT Communications
Development Manager at Digital Garage
Senior Software Engineer at Vanguard, KK

Software Engineer to Product Manager at Lotus Development Japan
Software Engineer to Product Manager at Lotus Japan

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Education

City University

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Industry

Insurance

Websites

My Website

Stuart Woodward’s Summary

An IT professional and permanent resident of Japan with experience of working in Japan since 1988. Initially focused on software development and internationalization.

Recent experience includes OSS design and implementation for an ITIL based Enterprise Internet Hosting Service in Otemachi, Tokyo.

Currently working as a Solution Architect supporting, designing and integrating Enterprise systems to support the Customer Service Departments in an international Insurance company in Tokyo.

Stuart Woodward’s Specialties:

Opsware, Microsoft Windows Media Rights Manager, Java, J2SE, Servlets, JDBC, IDEA; CVS, Git, SVN, Test Driven Development, Junit, XML, XHTML, CSS 2, SQL-92, PostgreSQL, Python, Python, C#, Micromuse, SNMP, Japanese Language, ITIL, Netcool, Precision, Agile Development, NOC Operations

Stuart Woodward’s Experience

Solution Architect, Back Office Solution Delivery in Tokyo

AXA

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AXA; Financial Services industry)

February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Senior Technical Architect

NTT Communications

(Public Company; NTT; Computer & Network Security industry)

October 2003 — January 2008 (4 years 4 months)

Japanese speaking manager in the Tools group supporting the operation of an advanced Internet hosting service based on Opsware for provisioning and Micromuse Netcool products for server and network monitoring integrated with .NET Web Services to provide portals which integrate monitoring information with trouble tickets from Siebel and Master Data Mangement of Data Center assets.
Development Manager

Digital Garage

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

January 2002 — September 2003 (1 year 9 months)

Software Developement Manager in the Professional Services department of the Technical Division specializing in the design of Web based E-Commerce and Microsoft DRM based content delivery solutions in Java.
Senior Software Engineer

Vanguard, KK

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

December 1999 — January 2002 (2 years 2 months)

Senior Software Engineer in a fast growing Internet start up which created a multilingual Internet ECommerce platform in Java which supports Japanese payment methods including Convenience Store payment and credit card.
Software Engineer to Product Manager

Lotus Development Japan

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

August 1991 — August 1999 (8 years 1 month)

Development team member on Lotus 1-2-3 for Japanese DOS versions in Tokyo and developer on later Windows SmartSuite products involved in Japanese localization and Asian feature development.
Software Engineer to Product Manager

Lotus Japan

(Internet industry)

1991 — 1999 (8 years )

(This is the same position as Lotus Development Japan)

Stuart Woodward’s Education

City University

B.Eng , Computer Engineering , July 1985 — June 1988

Additional Information

Stuart Woodward’s Websites:

My Website

Stuart Woodward’s Interests:

archeology, augmented reality, bioinfomatics, blue cheese, boddhidharma, buddhism, capercaille, car talk, clannad,coffee,computing,cosmology, cryptography, culloden, curry, cyberpunk, dada, django, daniel lanois, donal lunny, earthquakes, erlang, edinburgh, england, etymology, existentialism, fuzzing, gandhi, git, gurps, japan, japanese food, jizo, joseph campbell, kanagawa, kina shoukichi, kotobuki, kraftwerk, levellers, margaritas, martin luther king, matthew fox, mlk, mysticism, naha, nonfiction, nonviolence, okinawa, patterns, people watching, physics, post-modernism, postmodern, postmodernism, programming, punk, python, queen, royal leamington spa, rss, ruby, salvador dali, sanshin, scotland, shima uta, socialism, sony, sony vaio, soul flower union, spirituality, starbucks, stilton, surrealism, tokyo, virtual communities, wap, warwick, warwickshire, blogging, what if, whitnash, yaeyama, yokohama, zen, zippy, zippy the pinhead, 三線, 喜納昌吉, 横浜, 沖縄

Stuart Woodward’s Groups:

Founder of the Japan Bloggers Group,
Former President of the Tokyo PC Users Group,
Python Community,
Speaker at the First International Moblogging Conference on the "Earliest Adopters" panel