About
Matt Ketchum (MKUltraman)
Digital infrastructure and operations · Tokyo
I’m Matt Ketchum. I build websites, connect business tools and help organizations in Japan put new systems into use. I’ve worked here since 2009, across business development, technology, events and publishing.
For a Tokyo executive events network, I built and maintain its website, domains, email, event and ticketing systems, including onboarding a hotel venue for event-management and ticketing services. At CarterJMRN, my work has included both leading a startup initiative’s internal team and deploying VR hardware and software in a later engagement.
- Operating in Japan
- Since 2009
- Based in Japan
- Tokyo
- Planning, building and handoff
- Strategy + delivery
What I Do
I can build your website, connect it to bookings and payments, organize data, automate recurring work or improve the tools your staff use. I work on the implementation as well as helping you decide what to change.
My work spans digitalization and DX, IT systems, data and AI. The starting point is what you need the business to do, not a particular technology.
Where I work
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Businesses and professional networks
Websites, customer and member communications, booking and event systems
- 02
Media, events and publishing
Publishing tools, event production, archives and audience information
- 03
Property and regional research
Collecting and organizing scattered information for searches, reporting and local coordination
Career history
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2023 to present
Digital Infrastructure Advisor
Professional network · Tokyo
Website, domain, email, event, ticketing and member systems, plus continuing technical coordination.
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2020 to present
Independent Digital Strategy and Operations Consultant
MKUltraman
Digital strategy and delivery across websites, content systems, analytics, workflows and operational coordination.
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2013 to 2015, 2023 to 2024
Project Manager and IT Installation Technician
CarterJMRN
Team leadership, business development, websites, events, partnerships and technical delivery across separate engagements.
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2019 to 2020
Executive Director
Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan
Chamber operations, board and committee coordination, member communications, events, partnerships and public resources.
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2009 to present
Independent Media, Event Curation and Production
Japan and the United States
Events, publishing, archives, podcasts and cultural projects connecting artists, venues and audiences.
How I Work in Japan
I work with your leadership, team and vendors. The people who will use a new system help shape and test it, so the work fits their day rather than just the proposal.
We agree what success looks like, keep responsibilities clear, and test the result. The documentation should be useful to the next person looking after the system.
Selected business development work
Before founding Akiyaz, I co-founded Akiya & Inaka and spent three years helping build its rural-property consultancy. The work combined business development with property-data research, client searches, inspections, renovation planning, municipal and local-service coordination, publishing, and documentary production.
Akiyaz brings that experience to independent property research, due diligence and partnerships across Japan. My view of what makes a regional project last is in regional revitalization needs working businesses.
Other business-development work includes Wild Food Japan, Music in Japan, and the Habanebros and Pain Sauce collaboration. The project files set out my role and what I built for each of them, along with JaCamp and Yugawara Club.
Off the client clock
I am across Japan rather than tied to one base: running community projects in Yugawara, working with independent musicians through Music in Japan, and spending real time with Japanese hunters and wild game meat providers at Wild Food, plus a lot of fermentation with regional sea salts.
Tell me what you are trying to build or improve, what is getting in the way, and any deadline.
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