Experience

Dr. Sano joined OpenTech as a consultant specialized in Internet and software engineering in 1994. He has 26 years of experience in software engineering, research and development, system consultation, system and network administration, product planning and marketing in UNIX, micro-system, and application software. He also has over 16 years of experience on the Internet.

At OpenTech

• Is chiefly responsible on open source businesses, software engineering and education, and not-for-profit activities.
• Worked as a manager of open source business projects.
• Worked as a co manager of open source based software engineering projects.
• Worked as a consultant of object oriented software design.
• Worked as a supporter of ploratory Software Project (the MITOU project) (http://www.ipa.go.jp/english/humandev/third.html) by Information-Technology Promotion Agency, JAPAN.
• Worked as a consultant of communication, networking and UNIX system management and administration.
• Consulted and built web-based systems, firewalls/VPNs, electric commerce systems, and next generation cellular phone system.
• Worked as an OpenTech's delegate of the following associations; Object Management Group, Japan Linux Association, and IIOSS consortium.
• Worked as a member of ISO/SC32 working group.
• Worked as a member of programming committee, Software Symposium 2003.

Prior to joining OpenTech

• Was a product manager and a chief system engineer for the following products
• FLEXlm (FLEXible License Manger) of Macrovision, (U.S.A.)
• Purify of IBM, (U.S.A.)
• Was a visiting researcher of Software Engineering Research Lab., Information and Computer Science Dept., University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH-Manoa) from SRA, and researched the following fields:
  • modeling, modeling rule, meta model, rule based model editor
  • user interface prototyping tool
  • model simulation and animation

Publications

• Papers:
  • "Dynamic Semantic Checking for UML Models in the IIOSS System", M. Sano, T. Hikita, ISFST2004, 2004.
• Books:
  • "JXTA -P2P Java Programming-", Nikkei BP 2003. (Co-translator), in Japanese
  • "IIOSS -Everything you want for your design/development environment on UML-", ASCII Corp. 2001. (Co-author), in Japanese
• Magazines:
  • "IIOSS: An open source object oriented software designed tool", Linux Japan 2001 August, Linux Japan 2001. (Co-author), in Japanese

Membership

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society (IEEE/CS)
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Standards Association (IEEE/SA)
• Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE)
• Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
• Internet Society (ISOC)
• Software Engineers Association (SEA)

Education

• Holds a Ph.D. in software engineering from The school of Science and Technology, Meiji University, (Kanagawa, Japan).
• Graduated from International Christian University (Tokyo, Japan) with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in mathematics and economics.