Experience

EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY

• Japan
• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Innovation Strategy Manager, Los Angeles Office

  • Apr 2022 - Present

• New Business Development Specialist

  • Dec 2021 - Apr 2022

• Senior Manager and Business Strategist, London Office

  • Sep 2019 - Dec 2021

  London Office holds its mission as the facade for UK Rail and associated businesses. While working in conjunction with the Paris Office and the Tokyo HQ, aim is to seek any opportunities to engage with the UK/EU Railway, Tech and Retail/Rail-Associated Business sector. Whilst just finished off my secondment from #WestMidlandsTrains, my current role is to search in depth mainly in Rail Rolling Stock business, MaaS (Mobility as a Service, or linked mobility) and Smart City business… Show more London Office holds its mission as the facade for UK Rail and associated businesses. While working in conjunction with the Paris Office and the Tokyo HQ, aim is to seek any opportunities to engage with the UK/EU Railway, Tech and Retail/Rail-Associated Business sector. Whilst just finished off my secondment from #WestMidlandsTrains, my current role is to search in depth mainly in Rail Rolling Stock business, MaaS (Mobility as a Service, or linked mobility) and Smart City business, where my focal point from the former role before coming to the UK. Open for conversations under current keywords: #CBM, rolling stock #maintenance, #sensing techs, #automatedoperation, #ATO, #digitaltwin, #CPS #MaaS, #mobilityplatform business, station development, #SmartCity

• Open Innovation Solution Strategist, Technology Innovation HQ

  • Jun 2018 - Sep 2019

  Alongside with the Mobility Innovation Consortium role, worked closely with intra-inter organization partners to incubate new technologies and ideas to our business vice versa. Main partners were PARC (Palo Alto Research Institute), MIT and GAFA companies to name a few. Major Accomplishments - Project Lead, Joint Research Programme with MIT on consensus reach methodologies for multiple stakeholder projects - Co-Project Lead, ALFA-X (Prototype Shinkansen), Interior Comfort… Show more Alongside with the Mobility Innovation Consortium role, worked closely with intra-inter organization partners to incubate new technologies and ideas to our business vice versa. Main partners were PARC (Palo Alto Research Institute), MIT and GAFA companies to name a few. Major Accomplishments - Project Lead, Joint Research Programme with MIT on consensus reach methodologies for multiple stakeholder projects - Co-Project Lead, ALFA-X (Prototype Shinkansen), Interior Comfort sub committee Given the next Shinkansen extending to Sapporo will run for 5hrs, where the superiority border line between aviation is about 4hrs, the question is how to make its space more valuable, worth spending the cluster of time. Set a proposal on how the interior has to be designed out, some of the outputs will be incorporated to next draft. Also giving number of presentations as a presenter and guest lecturer to demonstrate JRE's challenges and accomplishments from the technology perspectives, where includes the following: - Gakushuin University - Georgia Tech University - the University of Tokyo - Rail Live 2019 (presenter and moderator for round tables, outstanding award) - International Cyber Security Symposium, Panelist

• Programme Manager and Organser, Smart City WG, Mobility Innovation Consortium

  • Dec 2017 - Sep 2019

  Logo Designer, Organiser and Programme Manager for MIC. Established in Dec 2017, main mission of Mobility Innovation Consortium, which currently holds 150+ company members from various industries is to tackle the myriads of social challenges this country is facing, including population decline and labor force, urabinisation and inequalities amonst urban and rural areas. As a Programme Manager to lead and organise ' Smart City Working Groups (WGs)' with 70+ member companies have… Show more Logo Designer, Organiser and Programme Manager for MIC. Established in Dec 2017, main mission of Mobility Innovation Consortium, which currently holds 150+ company members from various industries is to tackle the myriads of social challenges this country is facing, including population decline and labor force, urabinisation and inequalities amonst urban and rural areas. As a Programme Manager to lead and organise ' Smart City Working Groups (WGs)' with 70+ member companies have set up a 3 focal pillars, Mobilised and Livable City, Green City and Safe and Secure City, at the 'Station as a Core' concept. could be adaptable to integrating mobility with smart city concept. From Yr1, the group have successfully launched 10 PoCs in various areas within JR-EAST, engaging with unique partners such as professional baseball clubs and bicycle vendors to make the city more playable, comfortable and moreover, livable. For any interest to current activities, please visit the following website (in Japanese) http://www.jreast.co.jp/jremic/ Awarded from ”Japan Reseilience Award" (Mar. 2020) for its contribution to bring forward how train station, typical gathering place for Japanese could be the landmark during the disaster https://www.resilience-jp.biz/award/

• Programme Coordinator, Technical Cooperation with Deutsche Bahn, RATP

  • Jun 2014 - Sep 2019

  Technology Planning Dept serves as the managing branch for R&D in the HQ. 1) Programme Coordinator for Technical Cooperation bet. Deutsche Bahn Started from 1992, this 30 years of cooperation has evolved the tech business for both organisations through multiple channels of the working groups, including rolling stocks, infrastructure, signaling, Digitalisation, marketing, station development and safety. This once a year event brings all tech execs from both table, held once… Show more Technology Planning Dept serves as the managing branch for R&D in the HQ. 1) Programme Coordinator for Technical Cooperation bet. Deutsche Bahn Started from 1992, this 30 years of cooperation has evolved the tech business for both organisations through multiple channels of the working groups, including rolling stocks, infrastructure, signaling, Digitalisation, marketing, station development and safety. This once a year event brings all tech execs from both table, held once every two years in both countries. this annual mtg consists 4days of Technical Mtg, General Mtg to report to both representatives on the last day, and sometimes includes branched execs mtgs to discuss about futuristic topics - Role 1. coordinator - all logistics for all parties, scheduling, coordinating its progress for all working groups 2. Ghost writer for all execs, on their presentations during the General Mtg. This includes ViExecutive Director/CTO, Dept. Director 3. Group lead, Digitalisation working group- this newest group which myself took the lead with the DB partner to setup the main topics included topics such as info apps, robotics and data analyses to name a few, where attracted number of the management stakeholders. 4. Moderator, 2017 - celebrated the 25th anniversary of the cooperation held in Berlin, inviting various internal and external audience, which included Transport Secretary of Berlin and Ambassador of Japan. Alongside the routine work, co-moderated the event with the International Dept Director of DB. 2) Programme Coordinator for Technical Cooperation bet. RATP (Paris Metro) Similar structure with DB Tech Cooperation, also successfully set up new WGs including autonomous operation and Station development.

• R&D Strategist

  • Jun 2017 - Jun 2018

  Drafting Team for JR-EAST Innovation Vision a first long-term strategic plan for technology and R&D since privatisation in 1987. The 'vision' has been the bible for JRE's Technology Vision on - how to make full use of emerging technologies and methodolgies: IoT, AI, Data Analyses - Collaboration and Cooperation for Innovation to tackle myriads of societal challenges JRE and Japan as a whole will be facing. This output has accelerated on setting up our JRE Integrated Data… Show more Drafting Team for JR-EAST Innovation Vision a first long-term strategic plan for technology and R&D since privatisation in 1987. The 'vision' has been the bible for JRE's Technology Vision on - how to make full use of emerging technologies and methodolgies: IoT, AI, Data Analyses - Collaboration and Cooperation for Innovation to tackle myriads of societal challenges JRE and Japan as a whole will be facing. This output has accelerated on setting up our JRE Integrated Data Lake and Open Innovation Consortium.

• 'Innovation College' (Internal R&D Internship) Programme Cordinator

  • Jun 2014 - Jun 2017

  Innovation College was first set in 2013 to promote JRE employees to understand the basics of R&D and IPs. While necessity of Front Line or the 'Genba' based tech development allowed the local depots to contract and collaboratively with 3rd party vendors to develop new ideas and solutions for their local issues, deeper understanding about contracting, planning and IP management has been a major problem. This programme has been built to give opportunities especially for the younger… Show more Innovation College was first set in 2013 to promote JRE employees to understand the basics of R&D and IPs. While necessity of Front Line or the 'Genba' based tech development allowed the local depots to contract and collaboratively with 3rd party vendors to develop new ideas and solutions for their local issues, deeper understanding about contracting, planning and IP management has been a major problem. This programme has been built to give opportunities especially for the younger generations who is willing to understand the complex difficulties and take the lead in their locals for further enhancements of the Genba R&D opportunities, selected 15 employees throughout the company (normally selected among 200 candidates from 12 branches, which all were primarily qualified to go through the preliminary round) will be spending a dedicated 6 months time at our R&D as a researcher and be allocated an individual theme to learn the basics of how research and development scheme. The role was to organise the programme and consult among the R&d and the college students to safely go through this new environment and fully understand the complexity of R&D which they will now be the R&D Evangelist within their locals. Major Achievements - Successfully managed all candidates to fully 'graduate' the programme with all passing grade - 9/15 themes in average has been patented - all earned a chance attend national conference as a speaker for their themes - above all, set up Innovation College alum network to share and exchange their inter-department (not just within cylos) local ideas and concerns in a daily basis



West Midlands Trains

• United Kingdom
• Truck Transportation
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Fleet Improvement Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Sep 2021

  On secondment. Taking part of the parent company for West Midlands Trains, aiming to bring in fresh ideas in and out from the industry and across the borders for reliable and high quality service to the company. Current working on several projects including performance improvement, maintenance regime, remote censing techs for fleet performance management, cps intro to fleet production and operation especially focusing on visualization and user friendly interface for productivity… Show more On secondment. Taking part of the parent company for West Midlands Trains, aiming to bring in fresh ideas in and out from the industry and across the borders for reliable and high quality service to the company. Current working on several projects including performance improvement, maintenance regime, remote censing techs for fleet performance management, cps intro to fleet production and operation especially focusing on visualization and user friendly interface for productivity improvement, etc. Show less On secondment. Taking part of the parent company for West Midlands Trains, aiming to bring in fresh ideas in and out from the industry and across the borders for reliable and high quality service to the company. Current working on several projects including performance improvement, maintenance regime, remote censing techs for fleet performance management, cps intro to fleet production and operation especially focusing on visualization and user friendly interface for productivity… Show more On secondment. Taking part of the parent company for West Midlands Trains, aiming to bring in fresh ideas in and out from the industry and across the borders for reliable and high quality service to the company. Current working on several projects including performance improvement, maintenance regime, remote censing techs for fleet performance management, cps intro to fleet production and operation especially focusing on visualization and user friendly interface for productivity improvement, etc. Show less



EAST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY

• Japan
• Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Production Team Leader, Training Engineer and Ops Team Leader

  • Jun 2007 - Aug 2010

  Home Depot for Steam, Diesel and Electric Locos, DMUs, Passenger and Freight Cars [Aug 2007~Dec 2007 Leader Trainee for all production] Being one of the first 4 young employees to be allocated tot he depot since 1980s, the challenge was how to transfer the skillful knowledge/tech transfer down to our generations. Amongst the various learning, my role was to set up a course to effectively train the young generations where all the existing knowledge had its own vocabulary and rules due… Show more Home Depot for Steam, Diesel and Electric Locos, DMUs, Passenger and Freight Cars [Aug 2007~Dec 2007 Leader Trainee for all production] Being one of the first 4 young employees to be allocated tot he depot since 1980s, the challenge was how to transfer the skillful knowledge/tech transfer down to our generations. Amongst the various learning, my role was to set up a course to effectively train the young generations where all the existing knowledge had its own vocabulary and rules due to the complex history, where this depot has merged 4 different depots back in 1980s. By using the framework of ISO9000s, successfully aligned the training scheme and same-vocabulary-bible to train the new comers within a year (for 12 types of fleets in 5 vehicles). Also, the ISO9000 documents has been submitted and approved, where it has been the 1st of a kind to achieve the title for Steam and Diesel Locos in Japan. [Dec 2007~Aug 2008 Reliability Engineer and Tech Engineer for Steam and Diesel Locos, and Passenger Cars] -Operation Engineer of the Steam Locomotives (type D51 or Mikado style), to safely and reliably send the loco within JRE area for weekend events and reliability tech in accountable for major faults happening in/out operation. -Reliability and Tech Engineer in charge of DE10 and DD51 (DD51 only exists in Takasaki Branch) and all the passenger cars (Type 12, 36, 42, 46) - Mod Engineer bridging JRE design team and vendors to refurb interior of the Passenger Cars where they were all built more than 50 years ago but still was in frequent use for weekend events. [Major Publications] - Mathematical and Statistical Approach for Estimating the Interior Room Temperature of Kiha110 DMUs - application for automatic engine starter, R&M (Rolling Stock and Machinery, Industry wide magazine in Japan) - Proposal for Technical Training with generation gaps - Challenges for Takasaki Depot, Awarded, 4th place for JRE-Future Proposal Programme (/2000 contestants) Show less Home Depot for Steam, Diesel and Electric Locos, DMUs, Passenger and Freight Cars [Aug 2007~Dec 2007 Leader Trainee for all production] Being one of the first 4 young employees to be allocated tot he depot since 1980s, the challenge was how to transfer the skillful knowledge/tech transfer down to our generations. Amongst the various learning, my role was to set up a course to effectively train the young generations where all the existing knowledge had its own vocabulary and rules due… Show more Home Depot for Steam, Diesel and Electric Locos, DMUs, Passenger and Freight Cars [Aug 2007~Dec 2007 Leader Trainee for all production] Being one of the first 4 young employees to be allocated tot he depot since 1980s, the challenge was how to transfer the skillful knowledge/tech transfer down to our generations. Amongst the various learning, my role was to set up a course to effectively train the young generations where all the existing knowledge had its own vocabulary and rules due to the complex history, where this depot has merged 4 different depots back in 1980s. By using the framework of ISO9000s, successfully aligned the training scheme and same-vocabulary-bible to train the new comers within a year (for 12 types of fleets in 5 vehicles). Also, the ISO9000 documents has been submitted and approved, where it has been the 1st of a kind to achieve the title for Steam and Diesel Locos in Japan. [Dec 2007~Aug 2008 Reliability Engineer and Tech Engineer for Steam and Diesel Locos, and Passenger Cars] -Operation Engineer of the Steam Locomotives (type D51 or Mikado style), to safely and reliably send the loco within JRE area for weekend events and reliability tech in accountable for major faults happening in/out operation. -Reliability and Tech Engineer in charge of DE10 and DD51 (DD51 only exists in Takasaki Branch) and all the passenger cars (Type 12, 36, 42, 46) - Mod Engineer bridging JRE design team and vendors to refurb interior of the Passenger Cars where they were all built more than 50 years ago but still was in frequent use for weekend events. [Major Publications] - Mathematical and Statistical Approach for Estimating the Interior Room Temperature of Kiha110 DMUs - application for automatic engine starter, R&M (Rolling Stock and Machinery, Industry wide magazine in Japan) - Proposal for Technical Training with generation gaps - Challenges for Takasaki Depot, Awarded, 4th place for JRE-Future Proposal Programme (/2000 contestants) Show less