Chris Mathison Author, Developer, Educator, Entrpreneur
Resides in Pearland, Texas, USA
Contact: chrismathison@att.net
Objective:
To be widely regarded as the second
(or at least third, forth or fifth)
most interesting man in the world.
21st Century Experience:
2022-Present--Author, Digital Creator, Software Developer
In 1988, co-authored a bilingual volume
entitled "English Business Letter Writing Handbook" published by Kenkyusha,
which ranks as one of Japan's premier and most historically significant academic
and reference publishers, specializing in dictionaries, language instruction,
and English studies. it has become the standard reference tool in Japan. Later in 1988, Kemkyu partnered with
ZA>COM released all the templates.
Now in its 5th edition, the volume is still selling on Amazon Japan and other sites.
In 2024, published first novel in Englidh,
which immediately drew high critical
praise from trade publications such as Kirkus Rebiews,
In 2024, the publisher's book cover won the Bronze Medal at the Independent Publiher's Awards.
2001-2021 Designing Success, Inc.(rebranded in 2025 as Social Bridge Technologies) Houston, Texas
In role of His Awesomeness: Full Stack developer at startup as a full-time
web applications developer, software architesct and database administrator.
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Deployed tracking application for public housing agencies at 100+ agencies in 35 states
Mouse over or tap to see installations in each state.
2020-Salt Lake County, Utah, USA
Assigned by Designing Success as the lead developer for the prototype version
of this project. "mySAMi" is a phone app for a Utah-based organization
that enables client beneficiaries to track their own progress
in education, employment and life goals.
2017-Generations Journey, Seattle, Washington, USA
Assigned by Designing Success as the lead developer for this client project,
a web app for a Seattle-based organization that enables institute members to
track the progress of tribal members ("Wayawa" in Lakota
Sioux) in education and employment.
20th Century Experience
1991-2000-lmagine21 KK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Founder and Managing Director -
designed interactive multimedia product demos, kiosks, courseware, Web
sites and DVD titles; .
In USA, from 1998 to 2000, built original versions of the following sites:
Jim Gwin Archtect, Houston, Texas;
Florida National College, Miami, Florida;
APS Training Centers, Miami, Florida;
The Pacific Institute, Seattle, Washington;
Designing Success Inc, Hollywood, Florida;
1981-1991 ZA>COM, Tokyo, Japan
Founder and Managing Director -- designed and programmed PC applications such as word processors, keyboarding tutorials,
business letter writing programs and board games, including the the electronic version of Othello (Osero in Japanese);
set up the first PC classrooms in Japanese vocational schools;
supervised and trained trainers.
1979-1980 Circus Vargus, Lakewood, California, USA
Marketing Director -- produced several venues of "America's Big Top Giant's" 1980 tour of Western USA,
Canada and Mexico. Responsible for site management,
permits, ticketing systems, suppliers, publicity, community relations and marketing for second-largest U.S. circus and
world's largest tented show.
1976-1979 Concert Associates of Hawaii, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, USA
Founder and General Manager -- produced
entertainment events such as live concerts, community
festivals, dance competitions, sport fishing tournaments and music
segments for Honolulu television; served as a design consultant (lighting and special effects)
for several island and mainland discotheques.
1969-1975
College of the Canyons, Valencia, California, USA
Instructor and Reference Librarian -- taught
classes on how to integrate media (slides, film, audio and music) into instructional programs and
large-group presentations; worked part-time as evening Reference Librarian;
catalogued the college library film and music collection.
1976-2000-Consultations
Companies for whom I worked as a part-time employee, independent contractor, franchisee, consultant or special contributor:
Tokyo Journal, The Japan Times, The Daily Yomiuri, Asahi Evening News, The Dallas Morning News,
West Hawaii Today, Apple (Japan, Australia, New Zealand), Macromedia,
RasterOps-TrueVision (USA, France),
SuperMac, Adobe Systems,
Pan Abode, All Nippon Aorways, Aloha Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines, Aeroflot Airlines, U.S. State Department,
Yamato Foundation (Japan), Bunsai Foundation (Japan), Sano Foundation (Japan), Japan Women's University,
AIT Foundation (New Zealand),
NEC (Japan), Toshiba (Australia),
IBM (Japan), Microsoft (USA, Japan,
Australia), Epson (USA),
NHK Television (Japan),
Florida National University (USA).
Early Career HighLights
1980s/90's-Contributed feature articles on
Japanese baseball-- foussing on the American players on Tokyo-area professional teams:
Yomiui Giants, Yakult Swallows and Seibu Lions--to
The Japan Times and other Japanese media.
Caused nationwide furor via an exclusive interview
with the Japanese
baseball commisioner, in which he expressed
a desire to rid the sport of foreign players within 5 years. The article later forced the commissioner to recant,
1982, 1989 Humor piece entiled "My Groovy Boy Heaven" reprised in Tokyo Journal's
"Best of Decade" issue.
1994-Premiered Apple's nascent voice recognition technology
at New Zealand's innaugural multimedia conference as
co-keynoter with Microsoft's Bill Gates.
1991-Premiered Apple's QuickTime® digital video technology
at Australia Macworld
1988-Profiled in the Asahi Shimbum, Japan's leading
daily newspaper, as one of two foreigners who had made significant technical
contributions (bilingual word processor) to Japanese society in the 1980s.
1984-Taught creative Writing classes at Japan Women's University. Developed innovative
curriculum in which students wrote short storry adaptations based on music videos
1983-1989-Served as special contributor to Blue Swan,
the inflight magazine of Soviet Aeroflot Airlines
at the height of the Cold War while simultaneously serving
as a special consultant to the US State
Department
1981-1984 Represented The Japan Times
in several public speaking engagements to Japanese corporations.
Education
1972-UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
Completed post-graduate courses.
1968-Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma, USA
MS, Library and Audio-Visual Sciences (awarded Title V fellowship)
1967-University of Central Oklahoma (formerly Central State College), Edmond, Oklahoma, USA
BA, English and History
Passions and Pastimes
2005-2018 Youth Soccer -- Coached girls teams in Geotgia and New York.
Designed team logos and fan sites. for my teams.Among the more memorable team names:
The Haunting, Ai Chihuahua!, Midnight Passion, Toxic Slimme,
Salsa Verde, KABOOM!, and of course the undefeated, untied, unforgettable Alien Butterflies .
Chris Mathison Author, Developer, Educator, Entrpreneur
In 1988, co-authored a bilingual volume
entitled "English Business Letter Writing Handbook" published by Kenkyusha,
which ranks as one of Japan's premier and most historically significant academic
and reference publishers, specializing in dictionaries, language instruction,
and English studies. it has become the standard reference tool in Japan. Later in 1988, Kemkyu partnered with
ZA>COM released all the templates.
Now in its 5th edition, the volume is still selling on Amazon Japan and other sites.
In 2024, published first novel in Englidh,
which immediately drew high critical
praise from trade publications such as Kirkus Rebiews,
In 2024, the publisher's book cover won the Bronze Medal at the Independent Publiher's Awards.
1980s/90's-Contributed feature articles on
Japanese baseball-- foussing on the American players on Tokyo-area professional teams:
Yomiui Giants, Yakult Swallows and Seibu Lions--to
The Japan Times and other Japanese media.
Caused nationwide furor via an exclusive interview
with the Japanese
baseball commisioner, in which he expressed
a desire to rid the sport of foreign players within 5 years. The article later forced the commissioner to recant,
