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- interesting - 2014 Chevy Spark EV will retail for $27,495 before incentives, hits West Coast freeways in mid-June http://t.co/mvVoqBnnAv
- running late (@ saniku gakuin) http://t.co/23ZwAouodM
- interesting - Kim Dotcom Claims He Invented Two-Factor Authentication, Has A Patent To Prove It http://t.co/0skAa0c4FK via @techcrunch
- Japa-curry at our SF office @ Sony Network Entertainment http://t.co/x7TKklk9mq
- nice - EAT Club Goes Mobile, Bringing A Food Truck With Mobile Ordering And Payment To San Francisco http://t.co/37wg1Xfp8Q via @techcrunch
- running late (@ Sony Network Entertainment) http://t.co/p7VQVxSFpM
- the comments are really interesting - Xbox One vs Xbox 360 vs PS4: fight! http://t.co/UECu2vP7Mz via @engadget
- will he stay?? Moyes will know... - Wayne Rooney second child Klay is born http://t.co/qcpamLWshI via @MailOnline #MUFC
- quick lunch @ Chipotle Mexican Grill http://t.co/KxsBz6OZbC
- running an errand @ The Home Depot http://t.co/1eHiJyBCvT
- since when is Yusuf Medhi leading the Xbox team? thought he was leading the Online Service Division
- Xbox ONE?
- curious to see what Xbox will be announcing today!
- installing - ParkMe's Android app officially launched, does everything but the maneuver http://t.co/yuOBWMSOlj via @engadget
- beautiful day @ Sony Network Entertainment http://t.co/00YJkH2UvT
- Kagawa replacing Scholes? http://t.co/8MjyhuiPlf #MUFC
- am crying again - ‘My love has always been for the game and not what goes with it’ http://t.co/onHQrbREou #MUFC
- oh how sad - the day after your birthday
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- Senior Product Planner at Sony Network Entertainment Int'l (SNEI)Internet | San Francisco Bay Area, USSummary
Internet exec with 10+ years of experience on consumer/enterprise internet products. Extremely strong background on product management/planning, especially around mobile and i18n/l10n.
Passionate about beautiful UI/UX, translating product visions into features which helps in making people's lives easier, faster, and better.
Specialties: Product Management, Product Planning, International Business Development
Experience- Feb 2013 - PresentSenior Product Planner / Sony Network Entertainment Int'l (SNEI)
Product planning for Sony's digital entertainment products. (games, music, video, etc)
- Apr 2012 - Jan 2013Chief Operating Officer / ChatWork, Inc.
- Everything except CEO
- Running the entire US & International operations
- Lead the team on the entire UI/UX redesign for ChatWork, a communication platform designed to simplify business communications and helps in making faster decisions at work
- Apr 2011 - Mar 2012Director of International Business Development (Japan Country Manager) / Catch.com
- Primary focus on Catch.com business development, also responsible for all Catch.com operations in Japan, including product management, business development, marketing, and user support.
- Lead the team to establish the entire i18n/l10n process from scratch.
- Mar 2008 - Mar 2011Product Manager, MSN Japan / Microsoft
- Responsible for MSN Japan homepage product management – turned around the page view downtrend that has been negatively impacting the overall performance since FY07, and grew 105% YoY in FY10.
- Proactively involved in MSN Japan homepage related business development deals, was able to close deals with mixi (Japan’s #1 social network with more than 20M users), and added mixi module on MSN Japan homepage prior to the MSN US homepage adding Twitter and Facebook.
- Started the first ever Twitter account for MSN Japan (@msnjapan) – tweeting the latest news & content from various MSN Japan channels, rapidly increasing the number of followers, now with 3.7K followers.
- Responsible for most of the global engineering MSN products (Bing/MSN Toolbar, MSN Optimized IEs, MSN Today) – MSNOIE8 was a tremendous success in FY10, doubled the number of installs compared to MSNOIE7.
- Responsible for MSN Japan mobile product management – launched MSN Sankei News for iPhone in Jul 2010, our first ever MSN-branded iPhone app, hit #1 in Japan App Store with more than 200K downloads in the first 2 months.
-Named as the SEO Champ for MSN Japan, improved the network-wide SEO performance 148% YoY in FY10.
- May 2005 - Feb 2008Senior Manager / Viacom International Japan
- Responsible for all digital content activities for MTV Japan – both in building content strategy and running operation.
- Deeply invested in TV-Online digital synergy – started “backstage live blogging” in 2007, performing more than 500K video streams on the day of MTV Video Music Awards event.
- Launched MTV-branded mobile social network – managed relations with record labels and artist managements to bring Japanese artists on board, and have them blog and tweet exclusive content on MTV digital platform.
- Apr 2003 - May 2005Product Manager / Digital Media Group / Sony Music Entertainment Japan
- Responsible for Chaku-uta (mastertones) service – started with KDDI, one of the major mobile carriers in Japan, offering 30-40 sec real piece of music download directly to cell phones. 2 other major mobile carriers eventually picked it up and supported the service as well, becoming a national phenomenon with billions of monthly downloads each month.
- Started the first ever mobile video services – in partner with mobile carriers, defining the business model from scratch.
- Creative director for artist official websites – acting as a product manager as well, managing the overall performance of Sony Music artist official websites.
- 1999 - 2003Product Manager, Mobile Computing Business Dept. / NTT DoCoMo, Inc
- Product Manager for the first ever wireless music download service – started a brand new business for mobile carriers, partnering with content owners. Also partnering with IBM, Sony, Panasonic, and SHARP, discussed and defined the hardware/software specs for the brand new service.
- Worked as a member of the OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) for NTT DoCoMo
Education-
1995 - 1999Tokyo Science UniversityBS in Mathematics
Activities: Ordinary Differential Equation - Reido Kobayashi Lab
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- Sony Network Entertainment2215 Bridgepointe Pkwy
- Chipotle Mexican Grill2019 Chess Dr
- The Home Depot2001 Chess Dr
- Sony Network Entertainment2215 Bridgepointe Pkwy
- Sweet Basil Thai1457 Beach Park Blvd
- Costco Gasoline150 Lawrence Station Rd
- Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk400 Beach St
- Gilbert's Firefish Grill25 Municipal Wharf
- Swanton Berry Farm25 Swanton Rd
- Sports Authority125 E El Camino Real
- Starbucks1003 E El Camino Real
- Creekside Park10445 Miller Ave
- Jamba Juice797 E El Camino Real
- Creekside Park10445 Miller Ave
- US Post Office1050 Shell Blvd
- Sony Network Entertainment2215 Bridgepointe Pkwy
- Yu-Raku104 S El Camino Real
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