2017(reprinted 2022)

Walter Willenkin

ウィレンキン ・ ウォルター

Goal:

Implement World Class Business Practices to Meet Company Goals
As a bridge between cultures and as a catalyst for proactive change,
I will serve as valuable member of an international team in The Kansai Area.
photo of Walter Willenkin

Work Experience:

2005-2017 Warehouse Stock Room Worker, Konoe Co., Ltd. (株式会社コノエ) Osaka
  • Reduced inventory and labor costs by managing Mic Pack warehouse (4000 items)
  • Proposed and executed ideas to improve inventory management in our main distribution center
  • Assisted the production manager of our Mic Pack and OEM product lines
  • Responsible for pulling stock from our main inventory of over 30,000 items in a timely fashion
1997-2005 Programmer/Web Page Designer, Konoe Co., Ltd. (株式会社コノエ) Osaka
  • Learned the traditional Japanese distribution system as an insider of this wholesale company
  • Automated web maintenance by writing programs to build the company on-line catalog
  • Built the entire on-line catalog using Excel files and Excel VBA programs
  • Maintained 800 Excel tables for the on-line catalog's 20,000 products
  • Wrote programs to convert Excel data into web-standard HTML format
  • Technical skills and abilities include a working knowledge of the Japanese versions of
    • Web Development Software: Dreamweaver & MS-Office 95 ~ 2013
    • Web Development Languages: HTML, CSS and JavaScript
    • Programming Language: Visual Basic for Applications (Excel VBA)
      Wrote over 60,000 lines of working Excel VBA code (1997-2018)
1994-1997 Warehouse Stock Room Worker, Konoe Co., Ltd. (株式会社コノエ) Osaka
  • Prepared inventory data for management, packed boxes, picked stock, and replenished inventory

1986-1993 Store Manager, Radio Shack (ラジオシャック株式会社) San Francisco Bay Area, California
  • Managed a retail store with annual sales of US $600,000
  • Increased profits by focusing on sales, inventory control, customer service, and training
  • Optimized product inventory quantities to maximize customer satisfaction and company profits
  • Trained three managers, preparing them to run their own stores
  • "Manager of the Year" for Alameda District in 1990 (24 stores)
  • "Top Profit Turnaround Manager" for San Francisco Region in 1990 (125 stores)

Education:

2017/4/17-2017/9/15 Sozosha Recurrent School (創造社リカレントスクール大阪校) Osaka, Japan
Studied Database Programming using JAVA, SQL, JavaScript, JQuery, Eclipse, HTML & CSS
Javaプログラマー養成科: Syllabus for this 500-hour course available on-line at www.willenkin.com/cv/
1993-1994 Kansai International Students Institute (関西国際学友会日本語学校) Osaka, Japan
Studied Japanese full time; attained intermediate level of Japanese (N2)
1992 Dale Carnegie Leadership Course (デール・カーネギー、人格向上訓練) Oakland, California
Learned public speaking, leadership skills, and effective negotiating strategies
1981-1986 University of California, Berkeley (カリフォルニア大学バークレー校) degree in Chinese
Studied Business, Chinese and Computer Science (UNIX, Machine Language & PASCAL)
Lived and studied for one year in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China 1984-1985

Personal:

Visa Status: 1993-present American citizen with a "Spouse of Japanese National" visa
Hobbies: Magic, juggling, cycling, VBA coding, and listening ( www.willenkin.com/#audiobooks )
Japanese: Japanese-Language Proficiency Test: Level N2 (日本語能力試験 N2 合格)
Address: 〒 663-8006 兵庫県西宮市段上町2丁目19番14号
2-19-14 Danjo-cho, Nishinomiya-shi, Hyogo-ken 663-8006 Japan