Yoshihiko Tojo

Experience

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  Akai Electric Co., Ltd.

  Apr 1981 - Jun 1996

  Manager/Engineer, R&D Department

  Management of the fundamental digital signal processing development for the multimedia products and the optical products.Digital audio/video signal processing engineer.Optical design engineer for optical pickups.

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  Tohken Co., Ltd

  Jul 1996 - Mar 1998

  Department Manager, R&D Department

  -Supervisor for R&D department-Manager and leader for NPD(new product development) team-Project manager for 2-Dimensional Barcode reader development.

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  Nippon Ericsson K.K.

  Apr 1998 - Oct 2002

  Project Manager, PMO, R&D/PDC Project

  UMTS project manager-Management of product development projects for mobile-phone accessories for NTT DoCoMo-Management of MSC (Mobile Switching Centre) installation projects-Management of IT projects for establishing networks among MSCs in Tokyo area

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  Bovis Lend Lease Japan

  Nov 2002 - Dec 2003

  Chief Project Manager, J-Phone project

  -Management of IMT-2000 RBS(Radio Base Station) installation project.-Supervising vendor coordinate team, communication team and 20 outsource companies.-Negotiation of facilities contract for RBS(Radio Base Station) and the antenna installation.

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  Tektronix Japan, Ltd

  Sept 2004 - Feb 2006

  Program Manager, PMO, Product Development

  -Management of NPD(New Product Development programs) team.-Create new product business plans.-Lead and coordinate the global Marketing, Development, QA and Manufacturing teams.-Track the program status until 6 months after the product launch.-Market research for future products.

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  Sato Corporation

  Sept 2007 - Mar 2024

  Manager, Technical Support, R&D
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  JAISA (Japan Automatic Identification System Association)

  Apr 2024 - now

  Senior Researcher

  ・Image Recognition Project Secretariat・Medical Automatic Recognition Project Secretariat