Shunsuke Mori

Seeking a executive position or director level position in Mobile, Internet, Interactive Media or East Asian related field.
Also, interested in joining or starting up new ventures in above field. Seeking smart partners to make big/fun things happen.

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Major: Signal and Image Processing, Minor: Communication
University of California, Santa Barbara, March 1995

Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with honors
University of California, Santa Barbara, July 1994

UIE Japan Inc, Tokyo, Japan, April 2006 - present

Director of Engineering, May 2007 - present
As director of engineering division (program management, development, test, and design), lead company to deliver great web services and cross-platform applications that enables pervasive experience via PC, mobile, TV, and other devices.
Key responsibility include Strategy planning, Business Development, Product Planning, Team Development, Establishing great engineering process, Brand development, Project/Program Management

Director of Application Division, April 2006 - April 2007
As Director of Application Division, lead company and division to drive the successful business and deliver application/web services that enables pervasive experiences via PC, mobile, and other devices.
Key responsibility include Strategy planning, Product Planning, Business Development, Program Management, Brand development, Team development

UIEvolution Inc, Bellevue, WA, February 2006 - March 2006

Program Manager, February 2006 - March 2006
To help prepare launching of UIE Japan office and deliver great web services using Web 2.0 and AJAX concept and technologies.

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, April 1998 - January 2006

Program Manager, May 2005 - Jan 2006
Working as Program Manager for Mobile and Embedded Device Experience team, managing browser and shell team for Windows Mobile and Windows CE platform, that ships on devices such as Smartphone, Pocket PC Phone, PDA,  Set-Top-Box, Internet Kiosk, VoIP phone, etc.
Key responsibilities include managing the team resources, defining Windows Mobile browser vision and experience, creating and managing specifications, creating and managing schedules, and drive team to deliver high quality product on time.
Software shipped: Windows Mobile 5.0

Program Manager, Jan 2001 - April 2005
Working as Program Manager for Windows CE operating system.
Key Responsibilities include managing browser, XML, shell, and GWES technology development team, understanding product technical requirements, strong interaction with other (corporate browser/xml/shell/gwes technology) teams, communicating and prioritizing the requirements to the product development team, work towards solutions that address the needs of the customer within the release schedules, communicating this effectively to our product group as well as to our customers, driving and owning the feature specifications and schedule and shipping high quality products on time.
Other key areas are driving Windows CE performance improvement effort. The work involves defining key user scenarios for the devices, driving development and execution of performance test cases, reporting results to wide audiences, and driving teams to achieve performance goal.
Area of technologies: browsers (Internet Explorer for Windows CE and Pocket IE), MSXML, Shell, Control Panel, Speech API (SAPI), GWES, Windows CE performance, SIM Toolkit, and Modem Link application.
Software shipped: MSN TV 2.0, Windows Mobile 2003, Windows CE 5.0, Windows CE .NET 4.2/4.1, Windows CE .NET, Internet Explorer 6.0 for Windows CE, Internet Explorer 5.5 for Windows CE, Pocket Internet Explorer, MSXML 3.0 for Windows CE

Software Localization Engineer, April 1998 - Dec 2000
Responsible for localizing Windows product.
Work involves creating project plans, creating localization specifications, identifying and resolving technical and User Interface issues. Also work closely with US team to coordinate new features and drive additional functionality required for internationalization of the application.
Software shipped: Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 Service Packs, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Outlook Express, Systems Management Server, NT Service for Unix 1.0 and 1.5, and Y2K PC Analyzer.

Network Computer Inc., Redwood Shores, CA, May 1997 - December 1997

Product Management, May 1997 - December 1997
Responsible for localizing and deploying Network Computer Server in Japan. Work involves managing specification and schedule, designing, and developing Japanese specific features for Network Computer Server management tools and other Server related components.

Oracle Corporation, Japan, May 1995 - March 1998

Design and Development, February 1997 - April 1997
Designed and developed web-based resource management system which will run on both Network Computer and PC. The effort involved extensive user interface designing and HTML, Java Script, and PL*SQL programming.

Design and Development, November 1996 - February 1997
Responsible for designing and maintaining web sites for Consulting Service Division which enables resource management and better team communication. The work involves extensive user interface design and HTML/PL*SQL programming as well as content management.

Consulting, August 1996 - November 1996
Consulted Yamanashi University on designing and developing Video on Demand (VOD) System using Oracle Software such as Oracle Video Server (OVS), Interactive Application Objects (IAO), Oracle Media Objects(OMO) and Oracle Database. Work includes developing Interactive T.V. demo application as well as training of OVS, IAO and OMO.

Consulting and development, April 1996 - December 1996
Consult and developed Video on Demand(VOD) system with Hitachi Ltd. for Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications which is being displayed at the observation deck at the Tokyo Waterfront Research Center (TAO). Work included Video Server and Database designing, and front-end application development.

Consulting, October 1995 - June 1996
Designed and developed specification of Interactive TV user interface for Hitachi Ltd.
Work involved understanding customer's requirements, collaboration with Oracle Corp. consulting team, and developing and managing specification documents.

Research Project, Electrical Engineering Department, October 1994 - March 1995
Worked on a "Motion Tracking" project. The objective was to develop a computer program which tracks a moving object based on visual feedback through a camera held by Microbot.

Teaching Assistant, Electrical Engineering Department, January 1994 - March 1994
Hold discussion session, organize the Lab session, and help students to design, analyze, and build multi-stage transistor circuits in upper division Electrical Engineering class.

• Gold Star Award, Microsoft 2002
• Honor upon graduation, University of California, June 1994
• Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, Recording Secretary, 1994
• Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor Society, Industrial Liaison, 1993-1994
• Member of Golden Key National Honor Society, 1993
• Dean's Honor List, University of California, 1992-1994
• Bank of America Achievement Award in the field of Mathematics, 1990
• Second place in Santa Cruz County Math Contest, 1989, 1990

"略歴" in Japanese
Speak and write fluent Japanese and English.
Do not mind intensive travel schedules including overseas.
Hobbies include gadgets, travel, playing soccer, skiing, connecting all devices, web/browser/mobile technologies.
Finished undergraduate (B.S.) and graduate (M.S.) degree in total of 4yrs and 2 qtr.
Participating soccer league and baseball league in Seattle.
Personal blog is hosted at http://forestone.spaces.live.com/ (Japanese)
Personal web site is hosted at http://www.forest-one.com/ (Japanese/English)

Contact Information

shun (at) msn.com

This page was last updated on June, 2007.
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