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Overview

68
68
years of professional experience
57
57
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications

Work History

IBM Japan & IBM Business Consulting Services
01.1987 - Current

Japan Practice Director

Teradata Japan
08.2016 - 12.2019
  • Analytics Practice
  • Supervised data science as well as software development projects, did business development activities, helped make IP, managed performance of people, recruited people
  • Detail>
  • Project supervision: Made proposal to an automotive, got contract, and structured project org
  • Helped resolve project issues found in automotive projects
  • Survival analysis
  • Business development: Spoke in big marketing event (500 participants) and wrote in publications
  • Performance management: Set annual goals of direct-reports according to skills / aspirations

Senior manager

SAS Institute Japan
11.2012 - 07.2016
  • Of solution consulting
  • Did business development of text mining
  • Articulated text mining value proposition, partnered with SI-vendors, developed demo, helped account executives sell and spoke in large marketing events
  • Articulated project plan, project long term roadmap, and future architecture
  • Discussed business analytics issues and identified opportunities
  • Built, managed, and executed analytics project
  • Projects>
  • Automotive: Quality assurance AI process (Text mining & risk predictive analytics)
  • Electronics: IoT analytics (Data mining utilising machine-generated data)
  • Printer maker: IoT analytics (revenue forecasting)
  • Pharmaceutical: Text analytics for AE (pharma firms & regulatory authority)
  • Apparel: Data science projects such as demand forecasting and markdown price optimization
  • E commerce: Next-Gen web analytics integrating web log with customer profile purchase data
  • Magazine article: MarkeZine (http://www.markezine.jp/author/863)

Managing consultant of Information

08.2010 - 10.2012
  • Agenda
  • Provided consultation to CxO and articulated long-term business roadmap / IT architecture
  • CRM analytics consulting that ranges from customer understanding (life-time value and propensity to buy) and response modelling, to strategic engagement such as wallet share growth contributed to customer success as well as IBM software licence revenue
  • Acted as an evangelist of the social analytics advanced tool, and experienced 21 projects
  • Foreign life insurer: Strategic planning activities (next-gen digital architecture)
  • Premier airlines: Planning activity of next-gen data science, BI, CRM and SOA
  • Foreign non-life insurer: provided consultation to CxO in terms of their digital strategy

Managing consultant

Consulting
05.2009 - 07.2010
  • BAO
  • Delivered consulting services of strategic use of customer-owned data
  • Practice areas were: CRM, database management, data mining, text mining, business intelligence, managerial accounting, web analytics, optimization and social analytics
  • Projects>
  • Auto: Marketing datawarehouse and portal
  • Consumer electronics: Social analytics project
  • Cosmetics: Managerial accounting, KPI, business intelligence

Manager & Managing

IBM
09.2000 - 04.2009
  • Of, marketing science practice
  • People-managed 2 regular employees and about 20 contractors across Asia Pacific
  • Supervised Asia-Pacific wide project to reallocate SMB sales force
  • Conducted statistical modelling of logistic regression/ regression and data mining
  • Evangelized business analytics
  • Used Siebel CRM, DB2, DWH, SAS Analytics, SPSS, etc

Project manager of Asia

SAP
07.1995 - 08.2000
  • Pacific fulfilment
  • Proprietary CRM package solution:
  • Project-managed development activities of Asia-version of US-origin CRM package solution, :
  • Project-managed SAP project that brought legacy Japan fulfilment customer master into SAP, and synchronized them
  • Well-managed and well-communicated with overseas development teams

System engineer & project manager of SMB

04.1987 - 06.1995
  • Undertook as system engineer and project manager those projects such as manufacturing system, CRM system, office systems

IBM
01.2003
  • Pacific award
  • Domain of expertise / Experience
  • Business development & Pre-sales
  • Made AI/Data Science consulting proposals to large enterprises (Automotive, electronics, telco, etc)
  • Done pre-sales activities in manufacturing, distribution, pharmaceutical, and media industries
  • Business development activities of Text Analytics in Japan market
  • Pre-sales activities as managing consultant of information agenda (BI/BA, DWH, MDM, CRM, etc.)
  • Spoke in many external seminar events
  • Data Science/Business Intelligence/DWH/Data management
  • Conducted business consulting of analytics-driven strategy making as well as leveraged analytics tools such as SAS, Python, R and SPSS
  • Insurance: Call center text analytics and cross-sell predictive model
  • Automotive predictive maintenance
  • Survival analysis
  • Customer models such as cosine similarity, customer purchase propensity, and response model
  • Made machine learning models (incl
  • Neural network) with Python/scikit-learn, R and SAS/SPSS
  • Profit simulation, BI managerial accounting
  • Text analytics, social analytics, web analytics
  • Analytics consulting in industries such as manufacturing, apparel, E commerce, and pharmaceutical
  • Experienced in building large scale DWH (Mostly DB2, SQL server too.)
  • Conducted IT consulting of master data management as well as BI solution IT (Cognos, SCM BI, etc.)
  • Industry domain knowledge ‐ Insurance: Experience of conducting internal projects in insurance company ‐ Automotive: Experience of conducting IoT projects for automotives as vendor-side data scientists ‐ Electronics: Experience of conducting forecasting, BI, and text analytics projects for electronics
  • CRM
  • Delivered CRM consulting services to insurance, automotive, airlines, and ad agencies
  • Managed CRM system development project (led Japan team and teamed with US/EU teams)
  • Deployed APAC-wide relationship management practice originated in IBM US
  • Delivered IT consulting to implement CRM solutions (Siebel, MSM, and Sales Force)
  • Delivered CRM analytics services
  • People Management / Project Management ‐ Now managing 2 teams (data science, data analysts) in MetLife Japan (7 regular employees) ‐ Managed 3 teams (data science, software development and BI) in Teradata (16 regular employees) ‐ Managed geography dispersed APAC team (2 regular and 20 contractors, 2 years) in IBM ‐ Project-managed external client projects of analytics and CRM (over 10 years) and internal projects
  • Career

Director of data

MetLife
01.2020
  • Science
  • Conduct and manage data science projects, and engage with insurance internal clients
  • Plan, organize, lead and supervise data science projects
  • Interview data scientist candidates
  • Projects>
  • Text analytics: Call center text log analytics: Morphological analysis, term weight /TF-IDF, word embedding, singular vector decomposition, text clustering, word2vec, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, text classification with logistic regression, SVM, neural networks (tensor-flow), etc
  • Used Python / Janome on Jupyter notebook IDE
  • Cross-sell predictive model: Insurance cross-purchase prediction of existing policyholders with light-GBM, logistic regression, random forest, etc
  • Supervised the team project for sales channels
  • Exploratory data analysis: Initial data analysis of existing policyholders in a category
  • Used SAS programming to process large data volumes, visualized using seaborn/excel, made power-point slides, and presented to insurance internal stakeholders.

Education

s University (Bachelor - law

St. Paul
01.1965 - 02.2022

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Takaharu TSUDA

Ph.D. - Management and information science

Tama University

Master’s degree - economics

Temple University

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Certification

TOEIC 945) Native in Japanese

Additional Information

  • Awards: , 1993 IBM Most excellent award 1995 IBM Most excellent award

Timeline

Director of data

MetLife
01.2020

Japan Practice Director

Teradata Japan
08.2016 - 12.2019

Senior manager

SAS Institute Japan
11.2012 - 07.2016

Managing consultant of Information

08.2010 - 10.2012

Managing consultant

Consulting
05.2009 - 07.2010

IBM
01.2003

Manager & Managing

IBM
09.2000 - 04.2009

Project manager of Asia

SAP
07.1995 - 08.2000

System engineer & project manager of SMB

04.1987 - 06.1995

IBM Japan & IBM Business Consulting Services
01.1987 - Current

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Takaharu TSUDA

Ph.D. - Management and information science

Tama University

Master’s degree - economics

Temple University

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s University (Bachelor - law

St. Paul
01.1965 - 02.2022