Co-founder, Software Engineer
Japan
- Current
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- Manager at source majeure
- Researcher at Keio University Advanced Research Center
- Co-founder, Software Engineer at dotswitch inc
- Past
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- Co-founder at Surroundings Co., Ltd.
- Education
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- Keio University
- Keio University
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Yoshimasa Niwa’s Summary
A software engineer with a special interest in graphic design, media art and computer science. I found and run a professional software and web design company dotswitch inc in Tokyo. My objective is designing and distributing amazing services or products using computing and network
technologies with great innovations and ideas to make our daily life more fun.
Yoshimasa Niwa’s Specialties:
Rich Web Applications
- XHTML with CSS design, JavaScript includes AJAX, Flash/Flex with motion graphic design and ActionScript, Ruby and Ruby on Rails, Java with J2EE for web services, SQL with MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite
Mobile and Desktop
- Flash Lite, C/C++ for embedded computing, C# for Windows applications, Objective-C/Cocoa for MacOS X and iPhone applications
Micro-computer based Applications
- Atmel AVR series, H8 series for designing circuits and applications
Yoshimasa Niwa’s Experience
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Manager
source majeure
(Computer Software industry)
May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
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Researcher
Keio University Advanced Research Center
(Research industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)
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Co-founder, Software Engineer
dotswitch inc
(Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)
A software development and web design company.
I founded and run this company from 2006.
"TakePart": a user-generated content site for social working (2009)
- The front end engineering and scripting for Participant Media, LLC.
An experimentation of the next generation user interface of music player for mobile phone (2006-2008)
- Consulting and designing, implementing applications.
"Tamatore!": an official entertainment contents for japanese mobile phone (2008)
- Implementing CMS and back end system.
A reservation system for restraints (2007)
- Implementing back end system.
An experimentation to estimate when the railroad crossing placed in high frequent train traffic opens (2007)
- Designing and Implementing back end software and mobile application.
"Kashiwa-no-ha Civic Network": a community web service using map interface (2007)
- Implementing CMS and back end system
"Ubiquitous Museum Project": a CMS system using map and timeline interface specialized for presenting the location based histories and knowledges (2006)
- Designing and implementing user interfaces, CMS and back end system, and map rendering server. -
Co-founder
Surroundings Co., Ltd.
(Design industry)
January 2005 — February 2006 (1 year 2 months)
Yoshimasa Niwa’s Education
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Keio University
Master , Fine Art(Media Design), Computer Science , 2005 — 2007
"Talktic - Contents Development for Pervasive Computing, 2007": a middle ware for ubiquitous computing using virtual machine and ECMA script (2007)
- Presenting at Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, ACE 2008
"Takashi’s Seasons": a media art performance using computer graphics and paper pupets (2006-2008)
- Performing at ARS ELECTRONICA 2006, SIGGRAPH 2007 and Sonar 2008.
"OTOTONARI": a “pergame” (pervasive game) to compose music using mobile device by walking around the city or place and meeting and communicating with players (2005-2006)
- Presenting at Aichi EXPO 2005, FuturePlay 2006 -
Keio University
BA , Fine Art(Media Design), Computer Science , 2001 — 2005
"The Re:living Map - an Effective Experience with GPS Tracking and Photographs": a project related a new type of media using mobile phone, GPS and digital camera (2004-2005)
- Presenting at Proceedings of Memory and Sharing of Experiences, Pervasive 2004 and Used at TOMATO WORKSHOP “Giants Walked Here” Powered by RELM, a workshop directed by TOMATO and sponsored by KDDI.
Additional Information
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Yoshimasa Niwa’s Interests:
media art, graphic design, web design, programming, snowboarding
Yoshimasa Niwa’s Groups:
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KEIO UNIVERSITY ALUMNI -
SFC Keio University Shonan Fujisawa Campus Alumni
Yoshimasa Niwa’s Honors:
"Takashi's Seasons" - Invitation from Ars Electronica 2006, Art Gallery of Siggraph 2007 and Sonar 2008
Yoshimasa Niwa’s Contact Settings
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