Hiroshi Tanaka is a Manager (Americas), Localization Shared Services at Apple. He possess expertise in localization, video games, translation, internationalization, product management and 22 more skills. He is proficient in Spanish. Colleagues describe him as "I worked closely with Hiroshi regarding aspects of developing the community and content components of Blue Mars. He has excellent rapport with both the technical and support staffs as well as with the community members. He not only has a wonderful grasp of the relevant technical issues, but he is masterful at explaining the complicated concepts to the members. While working as a liason between community and technical staff, I found Hiroshi receptive and supportive of new ideas, thorough in explaining concepts and principles important to the inner staff, and understanding of issues that were important to community members. I found him a masterful communicator in one-on-one encounters with our community as well as in the forums and in other communiques. He is current on all aspects of social networking and has the knowledge needed to use these channels to attract customers. At Avatar-Reality, he had the additional communication challenge of working with our very-talented Japanese-speaking staff and our largely non-Japanese speaking public members. He proved himself a master of this challenge at every step. It was my great pleasure to get to know and to work with Hiroshi. He has my highest regard and my most sincere recommendation." and "It was a pleasure to work with Hiroshi while he was managing projects for many of my accounts. I respect him in his dedication, hard work, and positive attitude. He provided leadership and mentorship to me and the sales team although he was on the production side - always willing to address any technical related questions to assist in business development efforts. He is a natural leader and team player."