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JANUARY 1997 TO PRESENT INITIAL POSITION: Senior Avatar Psychologist/Senior Software Engineer CURRENT POSITION: Director of Strategic Relations for the Asia-Pacific Region PLACE: OZ Interactive, San Francisco, California (http://www.oz.com/) ACTIVITIES: As a senior software engineer, played a key role in projects that combined advanced AI techniques using a multi-user VR platform and related technologies. As the director of strategic relations, was in charge of relations with Japanese and other Asian investors and partners. Was successful in finding new investors and managed all communication with existing ones. Did market research on several solutions based on multi-user technologies. Successfully established new partnerships, prepared budgets, planned, co-produced and managed entertainment, education, and business solutions based and real-time computer graphics and AI technologies. Was instrumental in negotiating and obtaining exclusive rights on the Internet of Kyoko Date, the first 100% virtual pop star and of Licca-chan, the Japanese equivalent of Barbie. In addition, recently became the product manager for language learning applications based on AI and multi-user technologies.