Initial onsite assignment in the UK supporting the development of a cutting edge virtualisation hosting platform based on VMware. Acting as a bridge between the Tokyo Testing and Project Management team & the developers in the UK. Support involved triaging defects, multicultural meeting facilitation, server side troubleshooting & investigation.Second assignment is based in Tokyo supporting the Japanese Operations Team: Source code level debugging and investigation & push toward resolution of problems with a high impact to customers. * Creating tools to analyse logs & report who are the affected customers. * Follow up on issues with the off-site PMs & Devs to resolve & bring them to a rapid closure. * Investigation of usage & performance issues relating to VMware VCD (vCloud Director) API. Log analysis of 3 million lines to indentify 143 unique patterns. Investigation of the route cause of OVA upload failures.* Investigation of VM hangs due to Linux kernel problems. Route cause analysis of kernel panics & remediation strategy planning. * Automation of Cisco ASA firewall configuration validation using Python, Postgres and Selenium.* Facilitation of teleconferences between Japan & Europe involving interpretation & cross cultural translation. Crisis management liaison between Japanese & European Engineers.* Creation of documentation in Confluence including automation using the Confluence API. e.g automated reporting on the commits between tags in a Git release branch.* Automated performance testing of API calls in the Production environment to identify bottlenecks.* Investigation of database issues related to firewalls and resolution of the problem at the TPC/IP level.* Software development using Python & Django.* Management & planning of Production Changes. Investigating & explaining the risks and impact of the change to the stakeholders & parties concerned.* Defect management with the emphasis on route cause analysis.* Server automation using Ansible.

2020 - Proofreading and rewriting of football related material.2019 - Participated in a two part round table discussion on Japanese football by the J.League with resulting video featured on the J.League's official YouTube account.2019 - Frequent participant in the JTalk Podcast 2019 season talking about Yokohama F. Marinos and ground-hopping. JTalk is syndicated on the Football Nation Radio.2016 - Invited to present at an Ideathon organised by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport & Tourism, NTT Data and Keio University to consider how to utilise precise location information services for sporting events. Recognised as knowledgeable about football stadium venues across Japan after having visited every J1 stadium.

This area is for my own projects which don't fall into the category of work but are areas of research and development that I have pursued myself.E-Mail FilteringI'm currently writing scripts using Google Apps Script to manage my email in Gmail. I.e. * automatically manage the labels of folders that mistakenly created using a script.* automatically archive mail from certain senders after a certain amount of time in order to automatically tidy newsletters and sales emails keeping only the most recent copy in the mail box.* using a Python script to scan the spam box for mails which look legitimate based my own heruristics and to flag mails which have already been identified as SPAM by other SPAM scanning tools which have information in the headers.Twitter Bots* I run a Twitter bot which screen scrapes a local government page and posts to Twitter the radiation reading an graph of the recent radiation figures for the area that I live in.

A Manager in the team which a established a new Data Integration Group.

Solution Architect in the team that introduced a Master Data Management solution for Customer Data responsibilities included:prioritising defects, point of contact for business enquiries. Management of vendors supporting the solution. Acting as the first tier of support for the system. Technology: IBM Master Data Management. Oracle 10g. ETL Software including PowerCenter and IBM DataStage/Quality Stage. Linux Servers.Introduction of an Actuarial calculation and designer package, EDS ProductXpress. Mapping of Business Requirements to System requirements. Successful server hardware & software introduction involving network level troubleshooting and performance problem resolution with the software vendor.IT department technical contact responsible for an office relocation of several hundred seats between multiple sites. System Requirements gathering and careful tracking of all IT issues up to the relocation date. Preparation of escalation plans and on-site technical support on the day.

Japanese speaking manager in the Tools group supporting the operation of an advanced Internet hosting service based on Opsware for provisioning and Micromuse Netcool products for server and network monitoring integrated with .NET Web Services to provide portals which integrate monitoring information with trouble tickets from Siebel and Master Data Mangement of Data Center assets.

Software Developement Manager in the Professional Services department of the Technical Division specializing in the design of Web based E-Commerce and Microsoft DRM based content delivery solutions in Java.

Senior Software Engineer in a fast growing Internet start up which created the Mojo multilingual Internet ECommerce platform. A hosted Web based Java application which supported multilingual online stores with including secure Japanense Convenience Store and credit card payment methods.

Development team member on Lotus 1-2-3 for Japanese DOS versions in Tokyo and developer on later Windows SmartSuite products involved in Japanese localization and Asian feature development.

(This is the same position as Lotus Development Japan)

Software and Hardware development relating to the development and support of Clone/IBM Compatible keyboard controller chips.

Anglican charity concerned for the welfare of seafarers and providing support and facilities for them in ports around the world.