Executives Hibino & Workman

President / C.E.O Hiroshi Hibino

BIOGRAPHY:

Originally from a small town outside of Nagoya, Hiroshi Hibino graduated from the Engineering department of Shizuoka University, after which he moved to Tokyo to pursue his goal to become both a first-rate guitarist and musician as well as an elite engineer. After achieving both in Japan, he decided it was time to move his base of operations to a more global level and moved to the U.S. in April of 2001.

Hiroshi founded and incorporated Artisan Crew Engineering using personal funds earned through his development of a packed software system commissioned by a major Japanese S.I. firm because he wanted to avoid the common pit-falls of investor based IT businesses.

In Japan, a country whose System Engineering sector is controlled by bloated, ineffective "Soft(ware) Houses", he was considered to be a revolutionary thinker for his vision and understanding of the fact that piece-meal architecture and farming out of coding to off-shore and contract 'programmers' invariably fails to create truly useful systems and results in massive losses of time and money for the business or enterprise needed the software.

Among his achievements are personally developing, creating and coding systems for pre-IPO companies on a scale that usually involve a team of up to 10 different people, in the same amount of time.

To date, his custom systems that include one for the American subsidiary of Sanyo semi-conductor, have had a 100% success and satisfaction rate in comparison to the 55% rate for the larger systems manufacturers.

Hiroshi's expertise includes System Engineering, Software Engineering and Database Design, all of which he carries out after a lengthy and through system consulting process which is one of the secrets of his system success. He has independently developed a software development tool he calls 'DBWriter' that not only speeds up his system development process, but makes it more cost-efficient as well.

In the past several years, along with continuing to develop value-added custom software applications and systems for clients, Hiroshi has turned his formidable logic and analytical powers towards business consulting services that help client's businesses grow at amazing rates.

ACE Inc. Quick Facts

Company Name
Artisan Crew Engineering, Inc.

Mission
To provide affordable custom IT solutions to businesses
looking to maximize their potential, increase productivity,
and expand their client base.

Head Office
1720 S. Catalina Ave.
Suite 210
Redondo Beach, CA 90277 USA

E-Business center
811 N. Catalina Ave.
Suite 3016
Redondo Beach, CA 90277 USA

Founded Feb.. 2001

President / C.E.O Hiroshi Hibino

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Included in these skills are developing and implementing branding, marketing, and American market entry strategies. Among his recent successes are the development of an E-commerce site that does over $100,000 in sales in one month and an S.E.O. / S.E.M. strategy and web marketing implementation that led to an annual increase in sales of over 200 million yen for a client company.

His Motto is "No failures" and accordingly strives for and achieves success in all marketing related matters that will help a company grow and succeed.

Read Hibino's "I.T. Samurai" Blog Here >> (In Japanese)

Hibino's Linkedin Page and Profile >>

Vice President & Head of Internet Covert Ops Leah Workman

VP Leah Workman Leah Workman has worked for Artisan Crew Engineering, Inc. since the inception in 2001.

Leah spent 10 years in Japan during which she matriculated in and then graduated from the prestigious Waseda University, after which she went to work for a Japanese Consulting firm in Tokyo where she participated in web projects for major Japanese companies such as NTT. Aside from her obvious language skills, her skills lie in web design and web marketing with a special focus on maximizing a company's website visibility through S.E.O. and S.E.M.

Leah's a bit of an internet Ninja.

In recent years, aside from just a focus on S.E.M., Leah has taken over the daily operations of a once failing e-commerce site and turned it into a high volume shop. She is concerned with Internet / online and off-line computer security and worries about things like PCI compliance and port scanning so you don't have to and is a little scary when she has access to logs. In a good way.

Leah's English Blog >>
(Never updated, has cobwebs.)
Leah's Japanese Blog >>
(Has some? most? Many? of the 55 articles she wrote in Japanese about Web Marketing / Internet Culture for US Frontline magazine, edited wonderfully by Mr. Hosoda.)

Leah Workman's Linkedin Page and Profile >>

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