Solution Architect, Back Office Solution Delivery in Tokyo at AXA
Japan
Solution Architect, Back Office Solution Delivery in Tokyo at AXA
Japan
An IT professional with experience of working in Japan since 1988. Initially focused on software development and internationalization and more recently working on OSS design and implementation for an ITIL based Enterprise Internet Hosting Service in Otemachi, Tokyo.
Opsware, Microsoft Windows Media Rights Manager, Java, J2SE, Servlets, JDBC, IDEA; CVS, Test Driven Development, Junit, XML, XHTML, CSS 2, SQL-92, PostgreSQL, Python, C#, Micromuse, SNMP, Japanese Language, ITIL, Netcool, Precision, Agile Development, NOC Operations
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AXA; Financial Services industry)
February 2008 — Present (6 months)
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; NTT; Internet 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.
(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.
(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.
(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.
(Internet industry)
1991 — 1999 (8 years)
(This is the same position as Lotus Development Japan)
B.Eng, Computer Engineering, July 1985 — June 1988
archeology, augmented reality, bioinfomatics, blue cheese, boddhidharma, buddhism, capercaille, car talk, clannad,coffee,computing,cosmology, creation spirituality, cryptography, culloden, curry, cyberpunk, dada, django, daniel lanois, donal lunny, earthquakes, erlang, edinburgh, england, etymology, existentialism, fuzzing, gandhi, 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, radio userland, 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
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