Hajime Furukawa
Work Experience:
Bottega8, Seattle, WA Co-Founder, Technical Lead
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September 2012 Present
Act as technical lead and business developer for our web development contracting business Lead the development of all contract jobs Perform business development and marketing for the company QuickRake.com, Seattle, WA Co-Founder, Technical Lead December 2011 Present
Developed and launched QuickRake , a service to help DJs collect song requests and market their business Led development of QuickRake and implemented development processes and standards for the team Designed and developed the core song request pages, user accounts, and billing system. Engaged in customer development and business development for the product Supervised a contractor for an update to the applications frontend UI and UX. Codeft Inc, Seattle, WA Co-Founder, President, Developer April 2009 July 2011
Acted as President of Codeft Inc Was the original organizer of the team and continued to organize and manage communication and planning among founders Managed all financial transactions and prepared quarterly budgets Deployed IT infrastructure for team including project management tools, source control, bug tracking, email, document depot, and wiki Developed the Windows Phone 7 application for Passport Unlimited, released June 2011 Led the specification, development and design of the application Acted as the main contact of communication with the client for ongoing discussing around bugs, design issues, and schedule Launched Urbandipity in April 2011, a site to match people based on common interests Facilitated and contributed to the overall strategy and design of the site Designed and developed an obfuscated email forwarding service Windows Phone Team, Microsoft, Seattle, WA Software Developer in Test August 2008 November 2010
Tested Windows Phone 7 and Windows Mobile 6.5 Designed and developed UI automation infrastructure and tools Directed a team of contract workers in manual test passes and reporting Cooperated on a test plan to fully test our application involving functional testing, device health, interoperability, and other areas
Education:
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduation Date: May 2008 GPA: 3.41; Major GPA: 3.59; Deans List Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008 Graduated with honors: Cum Laude Member of Phi Delta Theta Fraternity and Cornell Ski Team Programming Languages / Frameworks Current: Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, SQL, Javascript, JQuery, Backbone, Twitter Bootstrap, Wordpress Previous: C#, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7, Java, Groovy, Grails, C, C++
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