Eric Tachibana
5 Pasir Panjang Road #08-34
Singapore, 118494
65-9-822-3807 (M)
65-773-8551 (W)
selena@extropia.com

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

President and Founder, eXtropia Pte Ltd., Singapore (05/00 - present)

• At eXtropia, my duties include fund raising, community development and marketing, and technical research and development.

Associate Director, Barclays Capital, London (02/99 - 05/00)

• Developed front-to-back web-based automated foreign exchange (FX) trading system using Java 1.2 Servlets, JDK 1.02 Java clients and existing back office settlement systems. Application involved full life-cycle process from real-time price feeds out to the net to bank-to-bank FX trade settlement and reporting.
• Developed front-to-back web-based automated Gilt and Euro-Government Bonds trading system using Perl/CGI, JDK 1.02 Java clients and existing back office settlement systems.
• Developed Equity Finance Inventory, pricing and Ordering Interface for hedge fund clients. Technology used included Java, JDK 1.02, Perl CGI, Sybase, and existing back-office settlement systems.
• Developed Java-based, real-time chat application and interface for external clients.
• Developed groupware project management, calendaring, and compensation workflow applications using technologies including Perl/CGI, Java, Sybase/SQL, and ASP/COM.
• Managed a team of nine junior and senior web developers.
• Managed and taught semi-monthly bootcamps and weekly seminars on web technology.

Software Engineering Manager, Electric Eye, Singapore (09/97 - 02/99)

• Developed Particle Counting Management and Visualization software using Java to interface to METONE Particle Counters for cleanrooms.
• Developed Java-based air-conditioning system monitoring and control application that includes a dynamic CAD/CAM style floorplan builder.
• Designed and manage Web Site and four person web development team.

Software Engineering Manager, Microline Software, Mountain View, CA (01/97 - 09/97)

• Developed Java applications based on Advisor/J, Presenter/J, and the Microline Component Toolkit.
• Composed documentation and user tutorials for JDK 1.0x/1.1.x, AFC and IFC releases.
• Developed and managed custom CGI applications for inter and intra networks.
• Trained and managed the web development team.

Software Engineer, R.O.W. Sciences/National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. (07/95 - 12/96)

• Trained and managed web development team for the National Center for Human Genome Research.
• Developed SQL gateways and Java/CGI-based software/groupware applications for scientific research projects.
• Administrated NCSA httpd and Netscape Commerce servers.
• Maintained Web security for both inter and intranetworks.

Online Services Coordinator, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Washington D.C. (07/94 - present)

• Built and maintained EFF's award-winning On-Line Library and World Wide Web site.
• Prepared policy papers on telecommunications and information technology issues.
• Organized online fund raising and press relations and managed 9 interns.
• Though EFF relocated to San Francisco in July, I have continued working as virtual staff gaining valuable experience with the social, technical, and organizational aspects of the virtual office.

Extropia.com, Maryland (11/95 - present)

• Designed, customized and provided training for over 20 custom CGI applications for online companies.
• Experienced with Online Shopping Carts, Groupware Calendaring, flatfile and SQL Database Management, Real-time Chat, and Bulletin Board Systems.
• Won several net awards (including NCSA, The Well, AOL, Magellan) and recognition in such magazines as Web Week and /MSGS from the 40s for work with public domain CGI Applications.

PUBLICATIONS

• Instant Web Scripts, Edition 2, Oreilly and Assoc., 2000
• Java Programming with Microsoft's AFC, Wiley Press, 1997
• CGI For Commerce, MIS Press, 1997
• Perl 5 How To, WAITE Group Press, 1997
• How To: CGI, WAITE Group Press, 1996
• Instant Web Scripts with CGI/Perl, MIS Press, 1996
• Contributing Editor, ASP Cookbook, Mac Millan Publishing, Feb 2000 release date
• Contributing Consultant for CGI and SSI, Shuwa System Co. Ltd. 1997
• Contributing Editor for The Struggle Magazine
• Contributing Editor for Extropia Magazine
• Monthly columnist for JavaBoutique
• Contributing Editor and Columnist for Web Ware Monthly
• Serialized column "Web Ware" published in The Singapore Straits Times, The Malaysian Star, and Internet.com

Speaking and Teaching

• Training at Schroder Investment Management (23/8/2000)
• Training at Standard Chartered Bank (24/5/2000)
• Training at UOB Asset Management (April 2000)
• McGraw-Hill Osborne Community (10/11/2001)
• iSecurity 2001, KL (17/10/2001)
• SUN's Java Certification Day (2/10/2001)
• Malaysia's TV3 on the programme "Malaysia Hari Ini (Today)" (4/9/2001)
• Banking Technologies Asia 2002, KL (September 2002)
• 2nd E-Security Seminar, KL (4/9/2002)
• Malaysian Open Source Conference & Exhibition 2002, KL (7/8/2002)
• IandI talk on "The Application of Open Source Development & Business Methodologies to Enterprise Projects" (June 2002)
• Developed and currently teach several tutorials for web programming and design located at Web Ware - tutorials cover web programming, web design, Adobe Photoshop, web databases, UNIX, and more.
• Keynote speaker for "The State of Electronic Commerce Today '97" Conference
• Guest speaker at O'Reilley's First Annual Perl Conference '98- presentation entitled "Developing Large Scale Web Applications in Perl"
• Guest speaker at Web Design '98 - full day Perl tutorial
• Guest speaker at Web Design '99 - full day Perl tutorial
• Guest speaker at LINUX WORLD '99- presentation entitled, "Extropia.com: A Case Study in Open Source Software
• Guest speaker at O'Reilley's Third Annual Perl Conference '99 - presentation entitled "The use of Perl in the Financial Community"

EDUCATION

M.A., Science, Technology and Public Policy, 1996

The George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, Washington, D.C. Specializing in the Management of Information Systems and International Information Technology Policy

B.A./B.A., Political Theory/Cultural Anthropology, 1994

University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA Graduated with Latin Honors.

References available on request