<Job Description>

“DX is about changing company culture, not just using digital technology.”

25 years of experience in web-based business field. 10+ years of work experience in a bilingual work environment in English and Japanese. Established web production and SEO business company and managed it for 10 years as founder, Representative Director & President. Implemented SEO measures, one of the digital marketing methods, and managed his company for 10 years. Delivered in-house web content such as B2B, B2C, and EC sites to about 300 companies in 10 years. Provided Internet services to each company, from website creation to website design, website updates, maintenance management services, web server maintenance, and SEO measures. In addition, experience managing global digital projects at foreign-affiliated companies in Japan. Experienced managing multiple projects simultaneously as a program manager.

Industries include Life Sciences, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, IT, Manufacturing, etc. (Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals manufacturer company project leads global website integration project as Japan manager)
10+ years of work experience in a Japanese-English bilingual work environment, as well as extensive communication and reporting experience with the United States, Hong Kong, Europe, etc.
Digital project management and staff management of up to 10 people in Japanese foreign-affiliated companies
Extensive project management experience in web-based projects (User Experience, Graphic Design, Content Strategy, Online Media and Marketing Techniques, etc.)

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20+ years experiences in IT fields and have strong background in Web and Digital Marketing. 10+ years working experience in English and Japanese Bilingual working environment. Founded own Web Production Company in 2003, and had run own company for 10 years by implementing SEO measures which is one of Digital Marketing methodology on my company’s website without doing Sales Activities over the phone.

Extensive Project Management experience in global companies. Communication ability with staff of all levels. Communicator and negotiator with the ability to build excellent partnerships with offshore IT vendors. Management experience of 10 staff. Inter-departmental communication, comprehensive knowledge of UI / UX, web design, Content Strategy, Internet and extensive project management experience.

Participated in projects such as Infrastructure Migration, CMS Integration, Migration, Migration from MS-Office to Office 365 cloud, Website Development, AEM Cloud Integration, SAP Hybris, SAP ERP. Experienced in both Agile and Waterfall Development.

In 2003, Established own web production company with Web Design, Produce and Digital Marketing as two pillar of core business, and ran for 10 years until the end of 2012. Delivered in-house produced website content to about 300 companies in 10 years. Analyzed the issues and competition of customers’ websites, proposed the optimal use of websites to each company, and contributed to the improvement of business performance. 10+ years of web management and SEO / SEM experience. Head of Web Development. Provided website production including SEO measures. It was not the way to mere increase inbound links. In advance, designed the structure of the entire website, content, title, source code, etc. were all optimized for the major Search Engines. Pay-per-success model SEO achieved 100% as top ranking on Search Engine Result Page. Client’s eCommerce site of a brand watch import and sales company, it was ranked first among 87 million cases by SEO measures.

Understanding Operations such as Securities, Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, IT, and Manufacturing.

Bilingual Digital Commerce Solutions Manager at Foreign-affiliated Bio Technology Company in Japan
e-Business (e-Procurement / e-Commerce) As the head of core delivery team, promotes the e-business of the Japanese branch office with ownership. Primarily working closely with both the e-procurement and e-commerce teams at the US headquarters. Collaboration with members of the Product Marketing Team, Consumables Sales Manager, and Logistics Manager at the Marketing Headquarters in Japan. External IT vendor control. Business analysis and new e-Business development proposals for the Japanese market, presentations to US headquarters management, overall digital project management between US headquarters and Japan branch.🇺🇸(2021 to Present)

Bilingual IT Project Manager Japan (Infrastructure & Cloud) at Foreign-affiliated Securities and Bank.
Coordination and management of migration projects on Japan and APAC Digital Workspace projects, including migration from MS-Office to Office 365 public cloud and OS migration from Windows 7 to 10.
Supporting detection, tracking and resolution of migration project issues, risks and dependencies.
Communication with IT Directors, Executive Directors, Managing Directors APAC and Japanese IT Directors and Executive Directors within the IT Infrastructure Team in Asia Pacific and Japan. Participated in daily high level web meeting in English for Windows OS deployment, Office 365 deployment, and IT Infrastructure meeting. Reporting directly to IT Executive Director Japan.

IT Project Manager, COE at Foreign-affiliated Pharmaceuticals Company.
In-house IT Project Manager for web development.
Liaison between business unit / team members to proceed with developing website. Vendor control for CMS implementation.

Bilingual Digital Project Manager, Digital Marketing & Website Integration at Foreign-affiliated Medical Devices Company.
Website Integration Projects using Adobe Experience Manager Managed Services. Managed projects of Japanese website integration as Head of Project Management Japan. Directed up to 10 team members each on 2 projects simultaneously like Program Manager. Communicated with managers in global and each business unit in Japan daily. Management of project progress, costs, risk analysis and management, contingency planning, overseeing quality and budget. Requirements definition, scope definition, management and schedule, tasks and issues management. Relationships management, identify and engaged US and Out of US stakeholders. Collaborated with other global project managers to assure implementation of the Abbott applications, infrastructure and project management disciplines and methodologies.

J/E Bilingual – Consulting / Pre-Sales Support for SAP Hybris Project
Worked as outsourcing contract at TATA Consultancy Services Limited. Collaboration project with SAP Japan.
Supported creation of proposal based on Request for Proposal (RFP) received from customer. Participated in teleconference between global team / Japanese team. Participated in business meetings with SAP Japan.

J/E Bilingual Sr. Consultant / Sr. Business Analyst for SAP Hybris Commerce Project
Worked as outsourcing contract at Amway Japan G.K.
Participated in meeting with customer / vendor about UI/UX for e-commerce site / smartphone site. Gathered requirements of business and functional. Transferred knowledge to offshore and coordinate with development team at offshore of India. Liaison between Technology department / other business units.

Product Manager/Product Lead at Global Media Company
COSMOPOLITAN Online Website Migration Project – Agile Methodology
Migration from eZ Publish CMS to Media OS CMS.
Analyzed UI gaps between website / smartphone site.
Gathered requirement of each business unit in the company.
Specification adjustment with UK development team.
Document translation, Progress management with Gantt chart,
Management and confirmation of WBS.

General Manager, Business Development
Planning and execution of conference room rentals, trade with Australia, investment and business promotion centered on the Queensland Business Centre. Development business partners that make effective use of connections between people. Participation in business matching projects, planning, introduction of acquaintances. Managed 4 subordinate team members.

Promotion business invitation activities to Australia, create business plans, and develop imported wine business from Queensland Australia. Introduce wine tasting party preparation and tasting party recruitment activities, companies and private business owners managed by my acquaintances to CEO of Global Sky Group. Introduction of potential Australian wine customers (restaurants, etc.). Investigation on wine import business and liquor sales license. Meetings with M&A companies, NDA exchanges, etc.

Business Development, Sales and Marketing of state-of-the-art high technology products. Development and build sales distribution channels for products. Collaborate with other in-house IT and Marketing teams around the world and work closely with external IT business partners. Smooth communication with internal team.

Former Entrepreneur, Owner, Founder, President & CEO, Digital Marketing Officer at Internet Services Company.
Specializing in digital marketing. Launched a proprietary web production company in 2003 focusing on web design, production, and digital marketing, managing it for 10 years and providing web site content to approximately 300 companies.

With over 10 years of practical experience in project management, website design, and production, I have developed over 300 B2B and B2C websites, including small to large e-commerce sites. Each project involved requirement definition, site planning (structure/screen), coding, system implementation, server and domain acquisition, operation checks, and launch. As a senior SEO/SEM consultant, I have accrued extensive hands-on experience.

I also work as a web business consultant for SMEs and major corporations, analyzing web challenges and competition for each company, proposing optimal web utilization, and contributing to performance improvement. Major clients include Emergent Strategy Center of The Japan Research Institute, Limited.(JRI), IHI Corporation,
Australian Government, U.S. Soybean Export Council., Iwatani Camborough Co, ltd., PEFC Asia Promotions, The Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva, Nippankyo, PIO(Ota-City)and many others.

Main Clients:
Emergent Strategy Center of The Japan Research Institute, Limited.(JRI), IHI Corporation, Australian Government,
U.S. Soybean Export Council., Iwatani Camborough Co, ltd., PEFC Asia Promotions, The Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Geneva, Nippankyo, PIO(Ota-City)and many others.

Webmaster of The Australian Embassy Tokyo / Australia-Japan Foundation.
Australia WEB: http://www.asutralia.or.jp/(Old Domain Name)

Other Australian Government websites that were hosted.
・Australia Japan Foundation
https://japan.embassy.gov.au/tkyojapanese/ajf.html

・Australian Education International Japan
https://www.studyinaustralia.gov.au/japanese

・Australia Trade Commission(Austrade)
https://www.austrade.gov.au/local-sites/japan

・Queensland Government Tokyo Office
http://www.qld.or.jp/

・Meat and Livestock Australia
https://www.aussiebeef.jp/

Managed and monitoring of Australia Web, official website in Japan of the Australian Embassy.
Rose page views on the Australia Web from 500,000 monthly to 5 times, 2.5 million monthly. 30 Million page views annually.
Edited / delivered the e-newsletter for 24,000 subscribers. Hosting websites. Majordomo – Great Circle Associates Delivery of oz-ezine by mailing list management software.

▶️Recent Experienced Industry: Securities & Bank | Pharmaceuticals | Medical Devices | Biopharma | Healthcare | Internet | Information Technology | Foreign government agency | Nonferrous Metals | Manufacturing | Printing, etc.

▶️My Specialties: IT Project Management | SEO/SEM | E-commerce | Corporate Strategy Formulation & Implementation | Cross-functional Team Leadership | Digital Transformation | web | UI/UX | Business Development | Online Community Organize

▶️Technical Background

<TECHNICAL EXPERTISE>
OS: MS-Windows 95, 97,98, 2000, NT, XP, Vista, 7/8/10, Office 365(SaaS) / macOS, iOS, Vine Linux OS
Application Software: Offic365, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS-Office, Adobe Experience Cloud, Creative Cloud, Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Pagemaker, QuarkXpress etc.
Mobile App test tool: TestFlight App
Digital Workspace Software Platform: Citrix Workspace(Work From Home)
Languages: HTML, XHTML, Dynamic HTML, CHTML, CSS, Perl Script, Java Script
DB: MySQL, Using with phpMyAdmin
CMS: Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Cloud (Managed Services) and SDL Translation Connector for AEM, WordPress etc.
ERP & CRM: SAP Hybris Commerce, SAP ERP, Zoho CRM, SalesForce.com(Community Moderator).
e-Commerce Platform: Colormeshop, OsCommerce, EC-CUBE
e-Procurement(EDI:Electronic Data Interchange) Platfome: TradeCentric Portal(Formerly PunchOut2Go)
E-mail Marketing Tool: Inxmail Professional
Agile Project Management Software: Atlassian JIRA, Confluence, Nulab Backlog, Clarity PPM, Cacoo, Asana, Google Spreadsheet
Web Meeting Tool: Cisco WebEX Meeting, Cisco Jabber, Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Hangouts
Web Analytics Tools: Google Analytics, analog, Web Trend Enterprise
SNS: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, LINE, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube
FTP: FFFTP, FileZilla Client / Telnet Command Client: NCSA Telnet, Tera Term

▶️CERTIFICATION

TRAINING (LinkedIn):
Completion of Introduction to Prompt Engineering for Generative AI May 2023
Completion of AI for Project Manager May 2023
Completion of Digital Transformation Jun 2021
Completion of Business Analysis for Project Managers Jun 2021
Completion of Basics of business analysis Jun 2021
Completion of Rock Your LinkedIn Profile Jun 2021
Completion of Creating a Culture of Change Certificate Feb 2021
Completion of LinkedIn Recruiter Practical course Dec 2020
Completion of SAP ERP Essential Training Nov 2020
Completion of Office 365 Excel Sep 2020
Completion of Microsoft Teams Basic Course Aug 2020
Completion of Microsoft Azure Course Nov 2020
Completion of Office365 Introduction Course Aug 2020
Completion of Software Project Management Foundations Course Nov 2020
Completion of Adobe Experience Manager For Marketers Sep 2019
Completion of Getting Started with git for web designers Aug 2018
Completion of Project Management Foundations Course May 2018
Completion of Create A Brand Strategy May 2018
Completion of Learning Microsoft Project May 2018
Completion of Transitioning from Waterfall to Agile Project Management May 2018
Completion of Agile Project Management Foundations Mar 2018
Completion of Agile at Work: Reporting with Agile Charts and Boards Mar 2018
Completion of Agile at Work: Planning with Agile User Stories Mar 2018
Completion of Agile at Work: Building Your Agile Team Mar 2018
Completion of Product Management First Steps Feb 2017
Completion of UX Foundations: Prototyping Nov 2016
Completion of Programming Foundations: Software Oct 2016
Completion of Performance-Based Hiring Oct 2016

TRAINING (openSAP):
Completion of Transform Your CRM with SAP C/4HANA Movement May 2020
Completion of SAP – Basics of Design Testing (Edition Q2/2018) May 2018
Completion of openSAP course, SAP Hybris Solutions Mar 2018

Certificate of Advanced Search Engine Marketing Specialist at Search Engine Workshops at Sep 2008
Mental Psychology Counselor qualification at Japanese Ability Development Promotion Association? Mar 2012
NOVA ICI ENGLISH SCHOOL – English Conversation, Grammar, Writing, Debate, Others. – Feb 1994 – Oct 1997
PLADY HOUSE ENGLISH SCHOOL – English Conversation, Grammar, Writing, Debate, Others. – Apr 1989 – Nov 1993

*PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Bilingual IT Infrastructure / Cloud Project Manager and Business Analyst for Migration of Office 365 and Migration of Windows 7 to 10.
IT Project Manager COE for New Medicine Website development by Drupal CMS.
Project Manager, Digital Marketing & Website Integration using AEM(Adobe Experience Manager Cloud) .
Sr. Business Analyst,  J/E Bilingual Sr. Consultant, Business Solutions
E-Business Manager
Product Manager/Product Lead for COSMOPOLITAN ONLINE CMS Migration
Translation Japanese to English and English to Japanese
General Manager, Business Development
Project Manager of Wine Business between Australia and Japan
Business Matching, E-Commerce Manager, Sales Promotion
Owner, Founder, President and CEO(Managing Director) of Website Production and Web Marketing(SEO/SEM) Company.
SEO Consultant, Certified Advanced SEM Specialist
Web Director, Marketing Consultant, Project Manager, Administrator, Webmaster, Public Relations of the Australian Embassy in Tokyo Japan, Web Designer, Front-end-engineer, UX / UI Designer,
DTP Manager, Operator, IT External Adviser,
Lecturer of Web Produce for Vocational school students at Chuo College of Technology (Part Time) , Lecturer of SEO(Search Engine Optimization) for customer and stakeholder.

WEB-BASED WORK EXPERIENCES:

■Project Management
– Website Production
– Website Development
– Website Renewal
– CMS Integration
– CMS Migration
– eCommerce

■Web Production
– Website Design
– HTML coding

■Marketing
– Digital Marketing
– Web Marketing
– SEO/SEM

■EC
– EC Management
– EC site Production
– SEO/SEM
– Omni Channel
– Multi Channel
– Sales Support

■Company Management
– Web Production
– SEO/SEM

■Website Management
– Webmaster
– Web Content Management

▶️Industries: Securities, Pharmaceuticals, Medical devices, Life sciences, Consulting, Web Industry, Australian Government, Manufacture, etc.

Part-Time Job(It’s called arubaito in Japanese)Experience:
When Mike was in twenties, Mike was interested in clothing and design, and experienced a part-time job in product management and delivery of men’s clothing in the easy order production department of Onward Kashiyama. Also, experienced a part-time job in product management at the gim of Fashion Creators House Harajuku.

SKILLS of Mike Tokyo Japan

+ DIGITAL MARKETING
Internet Marketing ? How to attract customer via internet, Online Marketing ? SEO, SEM, LPO, EFO, SMO, Content Marketing, Event Management, eCommerce, Management, Emotional Marketing, email Marketing.

+ WEBSITE PRODUCTION
Web Produce, Web Direction, Web Design. Content Management System, Consulting about Website etc.

+ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Business Development, Sales Promotion, Management, Public Relations, Business Matching, Business Plan, Start-up company, etc.

+ COMMUNITY
Organizer and management of community on the internet.

HOBBY