Embedded full-time at Google as a senior UX engineer, I help develop, maintain and manage the front-end of the Google Store. I also help develop various Google websites including Google AI, Google Shopping, Photos, Search, Domains, Niantic, Chronicle, Waymo, x.company and many others.Some recent projects:https://store.google.comhttps://ai.google/ai-milestoneshttps://sites.research.google/relate/https://shopping.google.com/m/bestthings/https://www.google.com/photos/about/https://www.google.com/search/howsearchworks/https://x.company/http://waymo.comhttps://pokemongolive.com/en/https://nianticlabs.com/

UX Engineer and APAC technical lead for Google’s Brand Studio Interactive - an internal interactive group responsible for developing, maintaining and deploying Google's external facing product websites and digital campaigns. - TL for 4 full-time and 3 contract UX Engineers within Google Brand Studio APAC. Remove technical roadblocks for the team, code reviews sites / design docs, mentor members and build developer community in region. - Work with ux/visual designers, information architects, product marketing managers and other stakeholders to prototype, develop, test and maintain Google’s digital marketing initiatives and websites to company coding standards and best practices. - Core member of global Javascript library for the team and author of key library components including a portions of the MVC framework and other large UI components in Google Closure and AngularJS.- APAC technical lead for Adwords product site (google.com/adwords). Helped oversee technical operations of the website.- Developer and contributor to many high traffic websites global and regional websites/campaigns including Google Now, Nexus, Google Chrome, Google Glass, Adwords and as well as launches for Google Japan’s Search campaigns and India’s hwgo.com.

Oversaw a small team and managed the user experience and front-end development for desktop, web and mobile software developed by the company in US and Japanese markets. Worked on a wide range of applications from traditional websites, Hollywood movie sites, enterprise financial trading applications, educational social networks, kiosks to mobile applications.Clients/Projects include: Sony, Wells Fargo, Nomura Securities, PIMCO, Cimarron Group, University of Hawaii, City and County of Honolulu, ValueCommerce, Army Core of Engineers and many others.

As a freelance frontend developer, I consulted businesses and individuals with user experience services and technical development. Highlights included a project for Watabe Wedding Corporation (largest wedding coordination company in the world) and developing next generation ESL applications used by Komazawa and Meiji Universities in Japan.

Responsible for the successful redesign and restructuring of Hawaii’s largest Japanese informational site, hawaii-arukikata.com while overseeing day to day management of the website. The redesign process included a complete overhaul to the visual design, restructuring of information architecture and improvement to end user experience while increasing site advertising conversion rates.