My name is Saren Sakurai and I have been working in the digital space for a long, long time. My first email was with The Well, back in the glory days of dial-up modems, and even before the first Mosaic - yes, in the command-line, text-only, pay-by-the-minute, internet infancy.
I’m currently living the Bay Area and working with a great Digital agency called AKQA - the worlds largest independent digital agency. My offical title is Management Supervisor (Client Service), and it’s a great channel for all my creative, strategic, and people skills.
If you are reading this page, you’ve probably already gotten a feeling for some of the subjects I think about during the course of a day. It probably comes off as an odd assortment of various trivia and asides, but deep down I think there are some basic themes here somewhere. I just couldn’t tell you exactly what they are.
Over the course of my handful of decades, I’ve lived all over the place. I started out in the Midwest, went to High School in Baltimore, college in New York, and have since lived all up and down the west coast. I spent a couple of years living in Japan right at the turn of the millenia, and I’ve been back at least once a year this century.
As for personal interests, I’m a big fan of The Wire, Lost, Snoop Dogg’s Fatherhood, and the Daily Show. I’m into modern Japanese Literature, live Sumo on TV Japan, and alternative J-Rock via the web. For better or worse I follow a lot of underdog sports teams: the Golden State Warriors, Seattle Mariners, and the Maryland Terps’ mens basketball team. I like the Orioles, Ravens, Cincinnati Reds, and the Japanese National Soccer team as well.
Other than that, catch up with me on LinkedIn, Facebook, or any of the other few hundred sites I wander through every week. Do a search for Saren and you’ll probably find me somewhere. Like I said, I’ve been into this digital thing for a while, and I’ve got pieces of myself spread far and wide. Anyway, catch you later. Peace.
Saren