About

I'm originally from Vermont, where winters are reliably subzero. Moving to Japan was, among other things, a climate upgrade. These days I'm on a quest to summit the 100 Famous Mountains of Japan. My career has been focused on software, building on a two decade track record across product, engineering, technical sales, leadership, and strategic customer success inside of companies like Toyota, Bloomberg, OutSystems, Dassault Systèmes, and GitHub.

My passion for building worlds started early, inspired by Mortal Kombat and the QBASIC forums of Tsugumo's Lair. During high school in the Japanese countryside, I developed Aspereta—a 2D MMORPG built using VB6 and DirectX 7 that eventually evolved into Illutia. Today, I continue that creative legacy through "The Dream Forge" with Yugen Saga, a modern 2D MMORPG reimagined with a C# server and Phaser 3 client.

Experience

GitHub

Staff Customer Success Architect
January 2022 - Present • Tokyo

Lead strategic adoption of GitHub Copilot and AI-powered DevOps across APAC's largest enterprises. Partner with stakeholders to drive transformation and growth.

OutSystems

Senior Solutions Architect
February 2020 - January 2022 • Tokyo

Helped customers achieve digital transformation through low-code solutions and led value engineering activities.

Dassault Systèmes

January 2015 - February 2020 • Tokyo & Nagoya
Senior Manager, ENOVIA Sales Engineering
January 2019 - February 2020 • Tokyo

Led geo sales engineering team for ENOVIA and strategic partnership activities.

Senior Engineering Manager
April 2016 - December 2018 • Nagoya

Led team responsible for the definition and development of a new software product.

Senior Sales Engineer
March 2015 - March 2016 • Tokyo

Technical sales and solution architecture for enterprise clients.

Bloomberg LP

Product
March 2012 - March 2015 • Tokyo

Bloomberg data API product focused on the Japanese equities market.

Global Vision Technology

Developer
February 2008 - March 2012 • Tokyo & Nagoya

Worked as a developer inside of Toyota.

Education

University at Albany, SUNY

BA, Computer Science & Japanese
2003 - 2007
Phi Beta Kappa

JMEC

Certificate, Business
2010 - 2011

Middlebury College

Graduate Level Japanese
Summer 2006

Kansai Gaidai University

Japanese, International Business
2005 - 2006
Study abroad program through University at Albany

Certifications

🤖
GitHub Copilot
GitHub
Feb 2025 - Feb 2028
🎓
Leadership Essentials
Cornell University
Oct 2024
⚙️
GitHub Administration
GitHub
Jul 2024 - Jul 2027
📚
GitHub Foundations
GitHub
Jun 2024 - Jul 2027
🧠
Machine Learning
Coursera
2016