Robert John

Joined as a bilingual data analyst and technical liaison for a data alignment initiative with a prominent Japanese Fast Fashion brand. Key part in initiative focused on scraping digital shelves from over 250 retailers across US/UK markets, capturing categories, pricing, materials, and more to generate fashion trend predictions over a rolling 24-month period.
Ensured alignment of data with client-specific SLAs, emphasizing color, style, material, and other metrics. Addressed project delays stemming from communication barriers between the Japanese liaison and the client's engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:
- Managed project documents for communication with the Client's Japan Engineering team.

- Developed and modified scripts for conducting weekly data integrity checks.
- Implemented regular data quality assessments via Snowflake (SQL) to monitor SLA adherence, providing guidance to the data engineering team as needed.

- Conducted root cause analysis in the event of incidents or SLA discrepancies to distinguish between retailer and technical issues. - Leveraged technical and cultural translation skills to facilitate understanding of technical matters with the Client's Japan team. Led efforts to enhance client comprehension of image recognition in digital shelf scraping, particularly its application to fashion product attributes like style, material, and color accuracy.

- Collaborated with the client to establish new tracking metrics, notably in material identification, by deepening knowledge of image recognition methodologies employed by WGSN.

- Contributed to the creation of comprehensive documents outlining scraping methodology, QA procedures, and color accuracy assessment using image recognition.

- Advocated for project expansion to Asian retailers and integration of color accuracy measurements into historical data, resulting in a 50% increase in project scope.

Onboarded at the request of the founder and then CEO of iProspect Japan to help localize and oversee multinational Digital Ad campaigns for major brands.

Regular tasks include assisting the COO with responses to major overseas clients, organizing, and localizing various pitch decks, as well as writing the copy text for the annual Ad Age award.

Tasked with setting up the Japan branch of Spongecell inside of iProspect Japan, a US based Digital Ad solution with a focus on delivering personalized ads on display, mobile, and video, which was a first for its time in Japan.



Currently placed under the COO, and tasked with leading communications with overseas clients, localization projects, and negotiations.

Major projects include localization of websites for a multinational tobacco brand, assisting in streamlining SEO, Social Media strategy of a major fast-fashion retailer, as well as analyzing feasibility of tying together tools such as OneSearch together with data mining platforms such as Deep Crawl.

Co-founded Cirrus Medical alongside Mark Ishikawa, former CEO of BayTSP, during the onset of the 2020 pandemic. Pioneered the utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) devices to mitigate infection risks in medical facilities through advanced cloud monitoring of critical environmental factors.

Led the prototyping, development, deployment, and marketing of the world's inaugural cloud-based negative pressure, CO2, and airflow monitoring system.

Devised a comprehensive Digital Marketing Strategy integrating social media, search engine marketing, and traditional media channels.

Established strategic partnerships, including a key collaboration with a major medical supplier (DVX), facilitating Cirrus Medical's access to prominent medical institutions in Japan.

Directed a diverse team of offshore software engineers, website designers, and other professionals to create and launch the company website, develop the user interface for the cloud system, and design essential applications integral to the system's operation.

Contributed to patent filings by drafting technical specifications for pivotal inventions as a registered US Patent professional.

Brought on board by the former CEO of iProspect Japan, now the CEO of SPI Digital.

As Director of Business Development, responsibilities included identifying and approaching key offshore based tools which could be used to fast track the digital marketing auditing process, culminating in the successful offering of multiple US based social media metric tracking platforms in Japan to large clients.

Tasked with becoming proficient with the data science platform Exploratory and familiarizing self with data mining principles.

Successfully used knowledge of the data science platform Exploratory to work with engineers and design a custom media auditing database platform aimed at fast tracking media audits that were largely conducted via excel spreadsheets.

The proprietary system was then used to tie together traditional media (TV) data with social media metrics (mainly YouTube) to create insights that would guide future digital media campaigns for clients.

Contributed to addressing Office Actions issued by both the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the Japan Patent Office (JPO).

Drafted letters and technical documents for clients regarding ongoing patent matters.

Formatted and prepared US patent applications in accordance with USPTO practices and the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP), including certified translations from Japanese to English.

Prepared Japanese patent applications based on US patents following JPO guidelines.

Conducted review, collection, and analysis of technical literature in both Japanese and English, with a focus on computer graphics (3D and 2D), computer hardware (including multiple graphics processing units), software, graphical user interface, image processing, image analysis, and data compression.

Performed research for patent applications covering various technologies such as graphical user interfaces on tablets, multi-digit input methods, GPS driving direction interfaces, audio/video streaming apparatus incorporating data compression (e.g., MPEG2), and statistical and time division multiplexing/demultiplexing.

Conducted patent searches and generated patentability opinion letters.

Conducted tailored localization of SAP processes (Business Data Processing) and the ERP system, entailing comprehensive internationalization efforts to ensure compliance standards were met. This involved in-depth system breakdowns and analysis.

Offered support across all stages, from Implementation and Roll Out to Production Support and Enhancement.

Developed diverse software tools, such as index management software, designed to effectively manage dictionaries/glossaries of technical terms.