09/1995 University of
M.Phil in Computer Speech and
Language Processing
Master Thesis :
Mapping vocal tract
geometry to distinctive features, conducted in conjunction with Canon Research Centre Europe.
09/1992
University of
M.A. in
Linguistics and Information Processing
Master
Thesis : Automatic
Recognition of Japanese sub-word units with Hidden Markov Models.
06/1991
OTHER TRAINING
03/2006 Re-Opened own company,
Wistyhill, Ltd. (~present)
【Dell
Japan】Specialist
recruiter
Responsibilities: Support the hiring managers to hire
mid-career specialists, managers (Engineering and Sales positions).
The responsibilities include;
- JD (job descriptions)
preparation
- Sourcing candidates
- Resume screening (handling 600 ~ 800 resumes per quarter
(13weeks))
- HR screening (60 ~ 80 interview meetings per
quarter)
- Offer terms negotiation
- Closing meetings w/candidates (filling
20~30 positions per quarter)
- Various coordination, negotiation and consulting w/candidates and/or
hiring managers, regarding the hiring
- Holding various seminars for candidates or recruiting
agencies
- Attending various job fairs, to represent Dell
05/2002 Started own company, Lycee,
Ltd.
(~present)
- 06/2002 Opened a private tutorial school
~ present
- 10/2002
Opened an English conversation
school
02/2006
Closed the school
- 01/2003 Opened an English
school
06/2006
Closed the school
Responsibilities: CEO, Manager, Instructor
Number of students: ~150 (total, max.)
Number of part-time instructors: ~ 40 (max.)
05/1996 Started own company,
Wistyhill, Ltd.
Worked on projects using Oracle Workgroup
Server, Oracle Power Objects, and Oracle Web Server, Windows NT , UNIX,
LINUX
Responsibilities: Sales/Pre-sales and Project Management, System Design and Development, System/Database Maintenance, etc.
Clients: Flex Net K.K., Business Objects Asia Pacific Pte, Ltd., Neways Japan, co., etc.
【Neways Japan co.】05/2000 to 02/2002
Responsibilities: IT Manager.
The responsibilities include;
- Setting up IT infrastructure
- Implementing/Localizing Order taking and Inventory Control application software
- Developing local application software for the client’s call center and the back office
- Setting up the IT department, hiring and training the IT staff, and the users.
- UNIX and PC Network administration, PBX administration
- Vendor management
- Staff management
12/2003 Closed Wistyhill, Ltd.
12/1995 to 04/1996 Business Objects Asia
Pacific Pte, Ltd
Responsibilities :Technical Consultant
The responsibilities include;
- Pre-sales activities
- Problem diagnostic and escalation
- Product localization
11/1992 to 09/1994 Nu Skin Japan.
Inc.
Responsibilities: M.I.S. Manager (Management Information
Systems Dept.)
The responsibilities include;
- Helped setting up the first Japanese office.
- Setting up IT infrastructure
- Implementing/Localizing Order taking and Inventory Control application software
- Developing local application software for the client’s call center and the back office
- Setting up the IT department, hiring and training the IT staff, and the users.
- UNIX and PC Network administration, PBX administration
- ORACLE Database administration and local application software development.
- Database migration
- Vendor management
- Staff management
04/1986 to 12/1988 Hitachi Software Engineering Ltd.
Responsibilities: Senior Software Engineer,
The responsibilities include;
- Pre-Sales activities
- Designing user application software
- Project Management
- Programming
Programming languages: COBOL, FORTRAN, C
Programming languages : C, SQL, PL/SQL, AWK, Perl, COBOL, FORTRAN, etc.
Operating
system : UNIX, Windows NT, LINUX
Oracle Database : Oracle 7,
Oracle 8i, Oracle 9i, Oracle 9iAS, Oracle WebServer, Pro*C, PL/SQL,
etc.
Others：PostgreSQL, ODBC database connectivity, Client Server,
Knowledge of finance (P/L, B/S, C/F, etc. )
MS Office Products：Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Project, Visio