Experience

Since OpenTech's inception, Dr. Suzuki has worked as a senior project manager responsible for supervising various development, integration and consultation projects. Also he has been working as a board director since April 1999.

He has over 10 years of experience in corporate level management, 22 years of experience in project management, 24 years of experience in software development, systems engineering and 29 years of programming experience with various computer systems ranging from 8-bit to 64-bit CPU machines including RISC architecture and mainframes.

He is a unique hybrid professional, has compound expertise IT, Mechanical Engineering, Environmental and Energy System.

At OpenTech

• Manage systems integration(SI) business unit as VP include HR.
• Business development for new clients and partners.
• Sales solutions, professional service and software products.
• Direct architecture design for SI and software development projects.
• Concept designed and directed an open-source project which is a Java based object oriented software modeling and prototyping environment, sponsored by The Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan (IPA).
• Managed, designed and developed many projects include: WWW-Java(JSP/Servlet)-DB 3tier systems, client/server systems, system softwares, Internet/intranet systems, multimedia systems, and embedded systems.
• Supervised and managed various types of systems integration.
• Researched and consulted about Open Source Software and related area.
• Worked as a consultant for technical marketing for open systems fishing new technologies and products.

Prior to joining OpenTech

• Worked as a consultant at AT&T Software Japan, Ltd.
• Was an internationalization project manager and a lead System Engineer at MIPS Computer Systems Japan (Tokyo, Japan).
• Was a member of an internationalization working group of UNIX International from MIPS.
• Was a research engineer and project leader at Information and Mathematical Science Laboratory (Tokyo, Japan).

Membership

• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• IEEE Computer Society (IEEE/CS)
• Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)
• Software Engineer's Association (SEA)
• Information Systems Society of Japan (ISSJ)
• Japan Society of Directories (JSD)
• Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (JSME)
• Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics (JSFM)
• Japan Institute of Energy (JIE)
• Japan Society for Safety Engineering (JSSE)
• Open Source Software Association Japan (OSSAJ)
• Free Software Initiative Japan (FSIJ)
• IIOSS Project
• OpenMDA Project
• UMEZAWA DB Project

Miscellaneous

• Has concurrently served as a lecturer at Shonan Institute of Technology (Kanagawa, Japan), a lecturrer at Kogakuin Univ. (Tokyo, Japan).
• Co-founded and has concurrently served as a senior advisor of InfoWAVE Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan).
• Co-founded and has concurrently served as a vice president of InfoWAVE AMERICA Corp. (NJ, U.S.A.).

Specializes and Research Fields

• Management of IT based business.
• Business development of IT services and products.
• Strategic and technical marketing of technology based business.
• Information system design.
• Informatics.
• Interdisciplinary research of informatics and other engineering fields.
• Software engineering and architecture.
• Opensource software.
• Software for computer aided engineering and design.
• Software for RISC architecture and high performance computing.
• UNIX operating system.
• Interdisciplinary research of mechanical, energy, environmental and Safety engineering.
• Computational fluid and thermal dynamics.

Publications and Lectures

• Original Papers
  • Effect of Idling Stop at Traffic Signals on Fuel Consumption of Gasoline Engine Vehicles - Period of Idling Stop and Amount of Saved Fuel -, Suzuki, Korematsu, Tanaka and Imagawa, 2004/1, Vol.83, No.1, p.64-71, Journal of the Japan Institute of Energy.(Japanese)
  • "Hybrid Gas Station" System with a Micro Gas Turbine Generator for the Spread of Electric Vehicles, Suzuki, Nishioka, Tanaka and Korematsu, Abstract of Recent Technical Papers, Bulletin of GTSJ 2003, Gas Turbine Society of Japan. (Abstract, English)
  • "Hybrid Gas Stand" System with Micro Gas Turbine Generator for the Spread of Electric Vehicles, Suzuki, Nishioka, Tanaka and Korematsu, 2002/5, Vol.30 No.3, Journal of the Gas Turbine Society of Japan. (Japanese)
• Proceedings Papers and Research Reports (Japanese) :
  • Study on the independent solar energy system, Suzuki, Yoshida, 2009/03/03, 2008 Conference, Kanto Branch, Society of Automotive Engineers of Japan.
  • The various problem of the software design -, A consideration due to the cultural comparison approach -, Suzuki, 2007/06/29, Symbiotic Information System society, Information Systems Society of Japan.
  • The contents management model to promote the second use, Hijikata, Fukazawa, Ashida, Sakayori, Sano and Suzuki, 2005/11/26, 1st Anual Confernece, Information Systems Society of Japan. (coauther)
  • "Hybrid Gas Stand" System for the Spread of Electric Vehicles, Nishioka, Suzuki, Tanaka and Korematsu, 2002 Thermal Engineering Conference (Okinawa), 2002/11, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. (coauthor)
  • Effect of Short Idling Stop on Fuel Consumption in Gasoline Vehicle and Diesel Vehicle, Imagawa, Suzuki, Tanaka, and Korematsu, The 80th Anniversary Symposium of The Japan Institute of Energy, 2002/8, Japan Institute of Energy. (coauthor)
  • Effect of Short Idling Stop on Fuel Consumption, Imagawa, Suzuki, Tanaka, and Korematsu, 8th Kanto Branch Conference (Funabashi), 2002/3, Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers. (coauthor)
  • "Hybrid Gas Stand" with micro gas turbine generator, Nishioka, Suzuki, Tanaka and Korematsu, 16th Gas Turbine Conference Fall (Akita), 2001/10, Gas Turbine Society of Japan. (coauthor)
  • IIOSS: Integrated Inter-exchangeable Object-modeling and Simulation System for Open Source Software Environment, Sano, Yamada, et al, 2000 Business Object Development Project Final Reports, 2001/2/14, Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. (Japanese)
  • A Numerical Simulation of The Spring Discharge - 1st report: Analysis by a single tank model -, Mizuno, Oyama and Suzuki, 1987/10, Kogakuin University Research Report Vol. 63. (coauthor)
• Books (Japanese)
  • "A Practical Guide to How to Learn UML through IIOSS", ASCII Corp. 2002. (co-supervisor)
  • "IIOSS -Everything you want for your design/development environment on UML-", ASCII Corp. 2001. (coauthor)
  • "FUSION-PC Complete Guide", Mainichi Communications Inc. 1999. (coauthor)
• Technical Magazines (Japanese)
  • "IIOSS: An open-source object oriented software designed tool", Linux Japan 2001 August, Linux Japan 2001. (coauthor)
  • "MIPS RISC Architecture - R4000/R4400 and family -", bit Vol.25 No.8, Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Ltd., 1993.
  • "Mach+BSD for Macintosh = MachTen", UNIX USER Vol.1 No.5, Softbank Publishing. 1992.
  • "Solaris 2.0 Impression Report", UNIX USER Vol.1 No.4, Softbank Publishing. 1992.
  • "The present of Workstation and Microprocessor", Computorol No.33, Corona Publishing Co., Ltd., 1991.
  • "MIPS RISC Architecture R3000", bit Vol23 No.4, Kyoritsu Shuppan Co., Ltd., 1991.
  • Wrote many technical articles for Japanese computer magazines such as bit, Super ASCII, THE COMPUTER, UNIX USER, Computrol and etc.
• Lectures
  • Lecture: "From Hybrid Vehicle to Hybrid Gas Stand" Kogakuin Univ. Lifelong Learning Center, Evening Seminar, Oct. 18th 2002. (Japanese handout, ppt)
  • Lecture: "IIOSS Project - A Open-source Object Oriented Software Design Development Environment-" CBOP: Consortium for Business Object Promotion, The 5th anniversary Lecture, May 20th 2002. (Japanese handout, pdf)
  • Lecture: "The present and trends of Embedded Linux", Embedded System Engineering Conference ESEC, July 14th 2000.(Japanese handout, ppt)
  • Panel Discussion: "Renewing Information Technology Map - Impact of The Latest Network Technology", SPARC/UNIX System Technology Forum'96, March 21th 1996.

Education

• Holds a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering on Traffic Systems and Clean Energy Systems from the "Tokyo Urban Tech" Kogakuin University. (Tokyo, Japan).
• Did research work for Numerical Simulation of hot spring at Fluid Engineering Lab. of Kogakuin University as a graduate research student.
• Did graduate work at Kogakuin University master course and holds an M.Eng. in mechanical engineering on Computational Fluid Dynamics.
• Graduated from Kogakuin University with a B.Eng. in mechanical engineering on Supersonic Fluid Dynamics.