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Experience
Graduate Student Researcher, University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, 2007 to present.
Demonstrating how auxiliary resources can be made more readily available with tools for finding, adding, and aggregating contextually relevant links. Principal investigator: Michael Buckland.
Visiting Researcher, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Amsterdam, Summer 2008.
Examined the state of the art in RDFS+OWL data models for representing information about events and developed a new model that attempts to address the deficiencies found.
Research Intern, Yahoo! Research Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, July 2005 to August 2007.
Explored and invented social media technology and applications that enabled people to create, describe, find, share, and remix media on the web.
Researcher, Garage Cinema Research, UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA, December 2003 to May 2006.
Designed and developed digital systems for creating and using metadata to automate media production and reuse.
Technical Intern, Multimedia Search, Yahoo! Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA, June 2004 to August 2004.
Worked on Yahoo!’s audio search engine. Investigated approaches for identifying multimedia objects on the web and associating these objects with descriptive metadata, and developed a framework for relating metadata from heterogeneous sources.
Senior Developer, Vanten Open Source Solutions K.K.
Tokyo, Japan, November 2002 to July 2003.
Led a team of seven engineers developing custom enterprise software in Java. Met with clients to develop specifications, designed system architecture, implemented and deployed systems, and trained junior programmers.
Independent Consultant.
Tokyo, Japan, June 2002 to November 2002.
Helped to develop J2EE inventory management software for the health care industry. Refined customer specifications, refactored system architecture, trained contract programmers, and coded.
Director of R&D, Silver Egg Technology Co., Ltd.
Tokyo, Japan, March 2000 to April 2002.
Promoted from Principal Engineer to Director of R&D, September 2001. Successfully brought to market a shrinkwrapped system for real-time personalization of content. Supervised a team of three Java developers. Investigated new technologies, developed prototypes, and defined direction of company’s development efforts. Communicated with partners and clients regularly.
Software Developer, LINC Media Inc.
Tokyo, Japan, November 1998 to March 2000.
Designed, developed and launched DaiJob.com, Japan’s first online recruiting site, with a team of five developers.
Engineer, CAPS Logistics Inc. (now SSA Global)
Atlanta, GA August 1998 to October 1998.
Developed prototypes for a real-time distributed transportation planning system.
Education
UC Berkeley School of Information, Berkeley, CA.
Ph.D. expected 2010. Advisor: Michael Buckland.
UC Berkeley School of Information Management & Systems, Berkeley, CA.
Master of Information Management and Systems, May 2005. Advisor: Marc Davis.
Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Bachelors of Science in Symbolic Systems, Rationality concentration, June 1998. Minor in Japanese. Research assistant to Professor Daphne Koller.
Programming Languages and Tools
Django, Amazon Web Services, OpenCalais, Java, Python, PHP, Javascript, Actionscript, Flash/Flex, Bash, SQL, SPARQL, XML, XSLT, Linux, FreeBSD, GNU Emacs, vi, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Max/MSP/Jitter, etc.
Other Background
Advanced Japanese skills (fluent conversation, basic business dialog, reading and writing emails).
Passions
All kinds of music, onsen, snowboarding, 20th century U.S. fiction, mabo dofu, and my lovely wife.
