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•Act as Sales Manager (Feb., 2013~), General Manager (Jan. 2016~) and Board of Director (Apr., 2020~) to exploit new customers of cloud computing based HRM software and outsourcing service as well as retaining existing customers with high customer satisfaction•Responsible for attaining annual revenue budget target.

•Acted as Sales Director from June 2009 to January 2011 to exploit new customers of auto-industry-specific ERP called “Autoline” as well as retaining existing customers with high customer satisfaction•Responsible for attaining annual budget target from both revenue and profit point of view.•Concurrently acted as Daimler Account Manager – Japan from September 2010 till January 2011.•Newly assigned as Country Account Director as from February 2011 in order to serve existing customers.

•Worked as COO of Kreuz , which was established in Oct. 2008 as IT venture firm, together with another co-representative directors.•Prepared marketing materials, e.g. the Internet homepage, brochures, price lists, contracts etc., and the action plan to start new IT businesses.

•Acted as a lead of Project Management Office (PMO) of Dealer Integration Project which aimed to replace existing local Fuso Dealer Management Systems with the single Daimler standard DMS (“Autoline” with Daimler specific customization) in nation-wide.•Participated in the Dealer Integration Task Force Team, which was organized by Fuso CIO, to find any breakthrough to overcome the difficulties faced in the project.•Acted as a member of the project Steering Committee with the involvement… Show more •Acted as a lead of Project Management Office (PMO) of Dealer Integration Project which aimed to replace existing local Fuso Dealer Management Systems with the single Daimler standard DMS (“Autoline” with Daimler specific customization) in nation-wide.•Participated in the Dealer Integration Task Force Team, which was organized by Fuso CIO, to find any breakthrough to overcome the difficulties faced in the project.•Acted as a member of the project Steering Committee with the involvement of Fuso CEO, Fuso CIO and Daimler CV division CIO, to discuss the status and the issues.•The project was originally planned to start pilot rollout in 3Q 2008, whereas it deferred. Show less

•Responsible for IT and Logistics division including FJ HQ, Logistics warehouse and retail network in Japan.•Joined Ferragamo international IT project as a representative of Japan region which aimed to replace the current local IT applications by the globally standardized systems (SAP based).•Managed internal staff of 8 (4 for IT and 4 for Logistics) and external partners.•Responsible for the stable operation of IBM i5 (AS/400) based applications for SFA, Logistics, FI/CO etc.… Show more •Responsible for IT and Logistics division including FJ HQ, Logistics warehouse and retail network in Japan.•Joined Ferragamo international IT project as a representative of Japan region which aimed to replace the current local IT applications by the globally standardized systems (SAP based).•Managed internal staff of 8 (4 for IT and 4 for Logistics) and external partners.•Responsible for the stable operation of IBM i5 (AS/400) based applications for SFA, Logistics, FI/CO etc., Win2k based applications for Data warehouse (Business Intelligence), Budget control system, Lotus-Notes etc. Infrastructure and network were also within the coverage of the responsibility. Show less

•Apr. 2005-Mar. 2006 Senior Manager, IT Management dept. - Responsible for Retail Process group (responsible for IT applications for Retail channels).•Jul. 2004-Mar. 2005 Senior Manager, Retail Management Solutions dept. - Acted as a senior manager of PM office of the next Dealer Management System project (DC International project to rollout DC Standard DMS (“Autoline” with DC specific customization) into all the DC dealers).•Apr. 2002-Jun. 2004 Senior Manager, IT Management… Show more •Apr. 2005-Mar. 2006 Senior Manager, IT Management dept. - Responsible for Retail Process group (responsible for IT applications for Retail channels).•Jul. 2004-Mar. 2005 Senior Manager, Retail Management Solutions dept. - Acted as a senior manager of PM office of the next Dealer Management System project (DC International project to rollout DC Standard DMS (“Autoline” with DC specific customization) into all the DC dealers).•Apr. 2002-Jun. 2004 Senior Manager, IT Management dept. - Responsible for Retail Process group and Finance & Accounting/HR/Service Process group.•Jul. 1999-Mar. 2002 Manager, IT Management dept.•Apr. 1993- Jun.1999 Manager, Information Systems dept.•Apr. 1991-Mar. 1993 Assistant manager, Information Systems dept. Show less

•1990 - 1991 Senior engineer, Cost control office, Nissan, Atsugi Technical Center•1982 - 1990 Application systems engineer, IS dept., Nissan Sagamihara Parts Center (SPC)•1980 - 1982 Programmer, IS dept., Nissan, Tokyo