Experience
Happy Elements
Project Manager
May '10 - Present
  • Responsible for operations of the company's social games in the Japanese PC market
  • Managed communications between the Japanese and Chinese teams
  • Advised development teams in regards to cultural strategy and game design
  • Held position for 2nd and 3rd most popular games on Mixi for roughly one year
  • Published and operated a total of 5 games on 3 platforms
Samasource
VP of Engineering
April '09 - April '10
  • Led the development of numerous tech initiatives and online services
  • Built a platform allowing refugees to sell personalized online greeting cards
  • Conducted on-site computer skills training for new workers
Demigo
Founding Engineer
July '08 - December '08
  • Took part in the management of an early-stage company
  • Processed and analyzed large amounts of social data to show interesting trends
  • Practiced a rapid iteration cycle to improve viral tuning
Send Hotness (Facebook app)
Co-developer
October '07 - March '08
  • Grew the application to 5 million users in 5 weeks
  • The app was the fastest growing Facebook application in November 2007
  • Created for Stanford's course "Creating Engaging Facebook Apps"
  • Focused on viral tuning, deep metric analysis, and fast iteration
Graffiti (Facebook app)
Co-developer
June '07 - March '08
  • Released the application the week after Facebook's app platform launched
  • Responsible for product innovation and development on all parts of the stack
  • Focus on data analysis and community management for user-experience improvements
Education
Stanford University
B.S. Symbolic Systems
June '09

Focus in Human-Computer Interaction

Skills

Fluent in English and Japanese

Strong international experience and communication ability

Experience managing teams of up to 20 people

Proficient in CSS, Javascript, JQuery, and PHP