Project Manager

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Saneaki “Sam” Oshikoji, MBA, PMP®, PMI-ACP®

Over 30 years in Sales, Marketing and Business Development experience in Manufacturing Industries

Bilingual in Japanese and English

U.S. Green Card holder (Japanese citizenship)

Email: ********@*****.***

Home: Los Altos, California

LinkedIn: Sam Oshikoji, MBA, PMP® LinkedIn

SUMMARY OF MANUFACTURING EXPERIENCES

Worked for SOC Corporation, Japanese fuse manufacture in the U.S. and turned around their North American sales operations from 2017 through 2020.

Worked for Vision, Inc (Soladigm) to set up its manufacturing facility for smart window in Mississippi using a Japanese vendor, ULVAC from 2011 through 2012

Worked for AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Tokyo, Japan which is one of the largest Research Institutes in Japan from 2007 through 2010. Marketed the EUPS (Extreme Ultraviolet Photoemission Spectroscopy) commercialization project which needs to be operated under ultra-high vacuum environment in magnitude of power of 10 over -10 which took about 2 hours to reach the operating vacuum environment using a vacuum sanction system.

Worked for Zilog, Inc and turned around their Japan operations from 1987 through 1992.

Worked for Western Digital Corporation, and established their Japan subsidiary, Became the first President, and opened their Korena operations from 1982 through 1987.

Worked for Nippon Benkan Kogyo Co., Ltd from 1976 through 1980. I was assigned for their international sales department. Opened their first European sales office in Germany, and opened the first East Coast sales office in the U.S.A. EDUCATION

MBA Stanford University, CA Strategic Sales and Marketing Research Santa Clara University, CA Data Communications, MSEE Prog BS Physics Sophia University, Tokyo Optics, Semiconductor Physics PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Program Manager Japan, Infrastructure Transformation 2024 - Present Dell Technologies Professional Services (Project base contract) Built Data Centers in Japan for the world largest life insurance company as a part of their worldwide project.

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Updated the Japan project status with the U.S. headquarters every week.

Synchronized the status update from the U.S. headquarters and from Japan to the customer.

Clarified the baseline schedule and started tracking the project progress.

Clarified the true cause of delay and identified which one was caused by the customer fault.

Supported the PCR Project Change Request generation. Senior Program /Project Manager PMO 2023 - 2024

Netone Systems Co., Ltd., the largest Cisco Reseller and System Integrator in Japan

ActiveLogic (Security Monitoring tool offered by Sandvine) deployment project for one of 3 largest telecommunication carriers in Japan.

Performed qualification, characterization POC tests for deployment. Hosted daily morning stand-up for all project team member, reviewed and developed strategy for any delinquency and technical issues.

Held the weekly partner meeting twice a week to update the progress, status, and issues. Held the weekly customer meeting to update the progress, status and any issues. Project ended successfully under the budget on time.

MS Azure Deployment Project for 120 schools and local government in Sagamihara District, Kanagawa Prefecture

Deployed MS Azure Cloud Infrastructure for 120 schools, Education Committee, and the local government.

Generated the project plan using MS Project with Baseline Dates Held the team meeting 3 times a week, and monitored the progress by task compared to the baseline dates.

Identified the critical path tasks, and developed the counter strategies. Finished the project on time at the budget.

Cisco Endpoint Security System Deployment project for the largest national railway company Identified the baseline and presented the delinquency and developed the strategy to recover the schedule.

Application installed at the same time CrowdStrike ServiceNow DigDag, etc. Lead PMO (Technical PM role) 2022 - 2023

ICE Consulting Company (SF Bay based Systems Integration and Security Consulting Company) The majority end-customers are bioscience companies in the Bay area.

● Managed the company’s all 40 projects.

● Tracked the resources, time, budget, and scope for all 40 projects successfully.

● Identified the few worst projects in the company, restructured them, and made them profitable.

● Successfully completed the projects, and satisfied the customers.

● Introduced Agile / Scrum methodologies for the first time in the company.

● Projects include AWS, VPC, Azure, MDM (Mobile Device Management), SSO Deployments. Agile Practitioner (Senior PM role) 2020 - 2022

eWave Commerce (Australian System Integrator – Salesforce Partner, acquired by Globant) 3 / 4

● Re-platformed a famous online shopping engine to the world largest toy reseller.

● Delivered the project for 7 Asian countries successfully.

● Used Agile methodology (Scrum Framework).

● Booked the largest project in Japan, and successfully executed. Senior Project/Program Manager 2015 – 2020

SOC Corporation (Japanese fuse manufacturer, 2017 – 2020) Turned around the North American operations.

Target customers include automotive companies and EV companies.

Rounds Corporation (Japanese construction company, 2015 – 2017) Established their operations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Booked order from Genting, the largest hotel in the world. Senior IT Project Manager, Infrastructure Operations 2011 - 2015 IBM Strategic Outsourcing Center, Columbia, MO, USA

Passed the PMP exam in 2012 and Senior PM in 2013 for the first trial.

Received the Top Contributor’s Award in 2014.

Servers and Infrastructure operations and management for Fortune 100 clients; 1. Major Railway Company (B): Managing a dozen projects concurrently from the beginning to the closure.

2. Major Energy Distributor (NS): Windows 7 Upgrade Project for over 10k employees. 3. U.S. Major Medical Insurance Company (K): Central security monitoring system implementation.

4. Major Auto Leasing Company (A): Transition and transformation project to take over all backend IT operations. Extracted the resource information using SAP and aggregated the cost for all engineers.

Technology Incubation Project Manager, Venture Development Center 2007 – 2010 AIST (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology), Tokyo, Japan One of the largest Research Institutes in Japan

Managed various seed technology commercialization programs, using the government technology incubation fund.

Developed the sales forecasting and business plan, and executed the projects successfully.

Managed the program to develop the prototype for technology evaluation, demonstration at various trade shows, presentation for fund raising, etc.

Managed VR/AR (Virtual Reality / Augmented Reality) projects. Demonstrated the prototypes in major technology and science shows. Visited Europe and the U.S. to introduce the state of art technologies.

Managed the EUPS (Extreme Ultraviolet Photoemission Spectroscopy) commercialization project which needs to be operated under ultra-high vacuum environment in magnitude of power of 10 over -10 which took about 2 hours to reach the operating vacuum environment using a vacuum 4 / 4

sanction system. The same optical theory applies to the "EUVL" – Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography

Developed High Performance Hydrogen Purification System for Semiconductor manufacturing.

Developed Mycoplasma medicine/vaccine, and validated the sales channel with pharmaceutical companies.

Enterprise Software Experience, Country Manager, Japan 2006 - 2007 Vitria Technology K.K., Tokyo and California (Business Process Management Software Provider)

Booked $1M with the largest cable TV company and received the best seller Award.

Managed over annum $10M, 30 people operations for various marketing programs.

The customer base includes the major telecommunication carriers; NTT, Softbank, etc. Security Experiences

AIG (American Insurance Group) – Applied online cancellation automatic refund systems, simplified the web application process, etc. as Project Manager. S/T Project contract in 2022

Manulife (Canadian Life Insurance Company) – Improved Server Vulnerability by applying GPO/Registry settings in IT Security Dept., and reached 100% compliance for over 300 Japan server with mix of different Oss: S/T Project based contract in 2020

Mistletoe Technologies (Firewall system and chip) – Japan Marketing Consultant 2006

Century Systems (Firewall / Router provider) – International Marketing Consultant 2005 – 2006

Citrix – Teros (Intrusion Detection and Protection System Provider) – Japan Marketing Consultant. 2005 – 2006

nCircle Network Security (Vulnerability assessment and management appliance Provider) – Japan Country Manager and Director Marketing in Asia Pacific 2004 –2005 Wireless Experiences

Sharp (Mobile Device Application software) – International Marketing Consultant 2003 - 2004

Proxim (Wifi Router Maker) – Japan Marketing Consultant 2002 - 2003

Wireless Access (2-Way Pager Maker) – Director Marketing 1993 - 1995

Teknekron Communications Systems (Voice Compression Engine provider for cellular phone) – Product Marketing Director 1992 - 1993

Credentials

● PMP: Valid through 10/11/2027 ● PMI-ACP: Valid through 10/05/2026

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