Taka Yamada Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Chiba, Japan

Chiba, Japan

Designed, developed and successfully launched Forqua.com http://www.forqua.com/ online market place for curated design items.

Chiba, Japan

– Acted key role of development ZOZOSUIT working with the companies in New Zealand and launched 2017 (ZOZOSUIT 1) and 2018 (ZOZOSUIT 2).– Successfully launched private brand apparel e-commerce site (https://zozo.com/) working with global marketing/customer support team in Berlin, LA and Singapore.

Tokyo, Japan

– Business operation and management including budget planning, HR and product development.– Successfully launched Premium Japanʼs multilingual (English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese) features and implemented translation management process and system.– Launched Premium Japan Online Shop by successful partnerships with several e- commerce service.

– Acted key role in Rakuten USA’s strategic acquisitions (FreeCause and CauseLoyalty, LLC.)– Successfully established new tech team of 8 from hiring in Boston to integrate and migrate the systems that CauseLoyalty had (Schoolpop – service helps to raise fund for schools http://www.schoolpop.com/ and Onecause – service helps to raise fund for NPOs.

New York, NY And Tokyo, Japan

– Co-led team integration initiatives at Linkshare, ltd. acquired by Rakuten in 2005.– Designed technology and product strategy for Rakuten’s international expansion.

Tokyo, Japan

– Led all product development and engineering projects of all the e-commerce services at Rakuten.

Tokyo, Japan

– Managed various e-commerce services and application development projects, including Rakuten Ichiba, Rakuten Furima (online auction service) and Rakuten GORA (online golf reservation service).– Successfully managed the development schedule and budget of the team with 50+ members.

Tokyo, Japan

– Managed and successfully launched Rakuten Ichiba’s various core application platform migration (WebDatblade and Perl to Java) projects, including shopping cart and user authentication/management applications.

Tokyo, Japan

– Developed various features on Rakuten Ichiba, including MyRakuten (consumer service application) and shopping cart at Rakuten Ichiba in Perl and WebDatablade.– Acted quality management role in Rakuten Ichiba’s core database migration project.

Tokyo, Japan

– Designed and developed web-based management application for Linux and provided on- site installation and support.– Developed RedHat Linux Server Edition (Japanese) and edited the application document.– Edited educational contents for Linux and launched on-site training class forengineers of the large companies including Fujitsu and NEC.