Mutaz Arif Email & Phone Number

Riyadh, Sa

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Leading the creation of new businesses in the gaming and entertainment sector.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Tokyo, Japan

My laser focus at Toridoll (TYO 3397) is to find passionate franchisees for our flagship brand, Marugame Udon, all around the globe. It's a relatively new department, so I got to exercise my startup experience in building internal processes, connecting between departments, overseeing research, and constantly finding new ways to innovate and attract potential candidates.Marugame Udon is the #1 largest noodles brand in the world with over 1,000+ outlets worldwide. Our noodles are handmade… Show more My laser focus at Toridoll (TYO 3397) is to find passionate franchisees for our flagship brand, Marugame Udon, all around the globe. It's a relatively new department, so I got to exercise my startup experience in building internal processes, connecting between departments, overseeing research, and constantly finding new ways to innovate and attract potential candidates.Marugame Udon is the #1 largest noodles brand in the world with over 1,000+ outlets worldwide. Our noodles are handmade in-store and freshly served at a reasonable value.Responsibilities include:- Signing potential franchisees.- Contracts negotiations.- Presenting to board members for approvals.- Creating sales funnels and building international networks to find potential franchisees.- Researching potential markets & building a research team.- Visiting and evaluating new markets (EU, Central Europe, MENA, and Central & South America).- Presenting Marugame’s concept worldwide.- Liaison work with existing franchisees and subsidiaries. Show less

Tokyo, Japan

Achievements- Acquisition, growing, then selling of the Arabic media about Japan "Sakurabia"- Manga cultural bridge project "Japanese spirit - Behind the high quality technology"- Managing of in-house product (kickstarter campaign) "Tenthium"- Coordinating and training Saudi teachers in the Japanese education-related field "Tokkatsu"- Writing copy for a full 100+ pages brand guideline for a supercars rental company.Roles & Responsibilities- Contracts negotiation… Show more Achievements- Acquisition, growing, then selling of the Arabic media about Japan "Sakurabia"- Manga cultural bridge project "Japanese spirit - Behind the high quality technology"- Managing of in-house product (kickstarter campaign) "Tenthium"- Coordinating and training Saudi teachers in the Japanese education-related field "Tokkatsu"- Writing copy for a full 100+ pages brand guideline for a supercars rental company.Roles & Responsibilities- Contracts negotiation (in and outside of Japan).- Developing sales lead and building strategic relationships.- Setting up the website and overall marketing.- Copywriting.- Managing products and projects.- Back office (company finances, salaries, hiring, government administrative tasks...etc).About the journeyThe 10th Floor is a design startup privately owned and co-founded by myself and a friend. We worked on a wide range of design projects including UI/UX, web design, branding, print, photography, and videography. The firm created for Uber, Panasonic, and the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tokyo. We were also fortunate to collaborate with different artists. Since then, we shifted our focus to help organizations navigate through cross-cultural complexities between Saudi & Japan. We did some incredible work with JETRO, Saudi universities, and Saudi semi-gov entities. Together with our diverse partners, our team of experts provides curated solutions suitable for each client's needs. Show less

Tokyo, Japan

Achievements- Signing more than 5 international software automation tools. (the shortest was after a 30min phone call)- Building and completing the fresh graduates' program as the training was going. - Extracurricular: creating videos that showcase the work done for fresh graduates training, and a video introducing the office.Roles & Responsibilities - Head of localizing test automation tools in Japan. Including promotion, marketing, selling, pricing, and… Show more Achievements- Signing more than 5 international software automation tools. (the shortest was after a 30min phone call)- Building and completing the fresh graduates' program as the training was going. - Extracurricular: creating videos that showcase the work done for fresh graduates training, and a video introducing the office.Roles & Responsibilities - Head of localizing test automation tools in Japan. Including promotion, marketing, selling, pricing, and contracting.- Head of new grads training. (April-May)- Head of selling and promoting automation tools that SHIFT is an authorized reseller for.About The JourneyAfter coming back from Draper University, I assumed different roles for my second year at the company. I was supposed to only work on selling a new automation tool. But I was also asked suddenly to work on the yet-incomplete fresh graduate training program, which started the next day. Our team pulled through great. Show less

日本 東京都 23 区内

Achievements - Introduced an internal Wiki system that replaced the usage of MS Office/Open Office files which was slowing down overall project speed. It reduced the time per exchange from 5-10 minutes to a few seconds.- Took over a troubled project in which the test manager quit suddenly. We were able to finish the project without delay.- For a testing project in an unfamiliar industry, I managed to build a framework for the team to share and build knowledge in a short time and… Show more Achievements - Introduced an internal Wiki system that replaced the usage of MS Office/Open Office files which was slowing down overall project speed. It reduced the time per exchange from 5-10 minutes to a few seconds.- Took over a troubled project in which the test manager quit suddenly. We were able to finish the project without delay.- For a testing project in an unfamiliar industry, I managed to build a framework for the team to share and build knowledge in a short time and finished the project a day earlier than the deadline. The client liked the work and gave us a follow-up project.- Tested in multiple languages, our team managed to find language bugs in Korean and other languages that none of the team spoke.- Managed summer interns.- Prepping and presenting in the JaSST software testing competition.- Extracurricular: Video creation for upcoming fresh graduated, handling of Ekiden event.- First English presentation to a client in company history. They became royal customer afterward. Roles & Responsibilities - Managing testing teams of 3-10 people for short term projects (1-3 weeks).Specialized in testing web/smartphone industry.- Planning projects and drawing cost estimates.- Reporting and presenting to clients.About The JourneySHIFT (TYO 3697) is a 3rd party software testing service. I joined them as a fresh graduate (first batch) during their growth period as a venture (pre-IPO) in 2013, there were only 120 employees at the time. Show less

日本 東京都

Learned the basics of Shift's software testing. Included full interaction with real customers, and involvement in real projects.

Tokyo, Japan

Worked on iPhone app development (コピペぴーこん). started programming from scratch, and submitted an app using Appcelerator's Titanium Studio (HTML, CSS & Javascript).

Tokyo, Japan

Admitted as the first intern from outside the Aramco sphere. done basic research about the industry and visited a couple of manufacturers.

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Engineering

Activities and Societies: Tokyo Tech International Student Association (TISA) (president 2009~2010), Tokyo Tech Kyokushin Karate.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Team TORNADOS, survival week, video editing. Winter 2014 Program. Draper University is the leading program.

Diploma, Japanese Language

Orientation Year, 3.89

Activities and Societies: Track&Field - Short Distance Running Spent half a year between graduating from high school and going to Japan

High School

Activities and Societies: Morning Announcements Club

High School

Activities and Societies: Freshman Soccer Team, Freshman Basketball Team I attended 9th grade in Shorewood (probably the youngest student.