Troy Fowler, Phd
Yokohama, Japan/Leavenworth, WA, USA. Phone: +81 80-4145-1061. Email: fowler.troy@gmail.com

PROFILEAn international sales and marketing professional specializing in business development,
energy commodities trading, and environmental science.

EDUCATION

YOKOHAMA NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Yokohama, Japan | 2004 - 2008
PhD in Environmental Systems researching urban micro-climatology (“Urban Heat Islands”)
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, HUMBOLDT
Arcata, CA | 2002 - 2004
Masters of Science in Environmental Systems, International Development Technology
Researched economics of small scale solar and wind power systemsUNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC,Bachelor of Arts, International and Regional Studies

Stockton, CA | 1995 - 1999

EXPERIENCE ITOCHU Corporation, Energy & Metals Division Company
Tokyo, Japan | 2007 - now
Leader, Marketing & Sales, Nuclear Fuel Group2010 - now* Directed sales, marketing and contract administration for nuclear fuel (uranium, conversion andenrichment) to Japanese utilities. Managed nearly €250 million in annual enrichment sales, andexecuted nearly $60 million per year in uranium trades.
* Designed sales strategies to increase market share for uranium enrichment services in a very
competitive market.
* Maintained close customer relations with all Japanese utilities while navigating cultural gaps
and orchestrating supplier actions to Japanese-specific customer needs.
* Coordinated a wide range of supplier and customer responses to distressed contracts (force
majeure declarations, delivery cancellations, alternative payment schemes) caused by theMarch 2011 Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster. Focused efforts on maintaining present andfuture income during widespread market contractions. Successfully retained approximately €80
million in sales in the 18 months after the 11 March disaster using a range of negotiation tactics.
* Coordinated winning responses against tight deadlines and across various teams (legal, risk,finance, commercial, management) to respond to uranium fuel purchase tenders.
* Organized and facilitated executive level exchanges between Western nuclear fuel suppliers andlocal utilities in Japan.
* Designed rapid yet covert sales, purchase and loan strategies for U3O8, UF6, and SWU that
required working within complex technical, commercial and legal limitations.
Marketing Manager, Crude & Fuel Oil Section
2008 - 2010
* Sales agent for term contract crude oil sales into Japan and South Korea.
* Managed market exposure and risk for a $230 million JV designed to adjust credit terms on
multiple crude oil cargoes using different pricing mechanisms.
* Six months in Singapore handling vessel operations, sales and marketing and contract
administration.
Analyst, Brazilian Sugarcane Bio-ethanol Section

2007 - 2008

New United Motor Mechanics Inc.
Fremont, CA | 2001 - 2002
Translator/Interpreter (JPN<>ENG)* Translator/interpreter. Paint and Assembly divisions of US-based Toyota auto plant.
* Familiar with Toyota Production System, manufacturing quality, Root Cause Analysis, process
standardization, robot installations and industrial machinery.
ProZ.com
Oakland, CA | 2000 - 2001
Community Manager* Cofounder for ProZ.com: the world’s leading online translation workplace and community.
* Started this profitable internet venture together with the president during the start-up phase.
* Secured nearly $80k in crucial advertising sales and established five marketing Joint Venturesduring the company’s first year. Contributed to membership tripling in less than 12 months.
Yokohama National University
Yokohama, Japan | 2004 - 2008
“Monbusho” (Japanese government fellowship) PhD Scholar* Analyzed relationships between morphology of urban districts (size, distribution andorientation of buildings, trees and roads) and inner-city ventilation / temperature profiles.
* Organized and executed four year's worth of wind and temperature measurements atvarying ranges of spatial and temporal resolutions (street level, city-block level, regional level;
24 hours to several months), and with varying types of data acquisition and output.
* Cooperated with nearly 30 private and public stakeholders (public middle schools, andrailway operators) in the planning and execution of temperature data acquisition.
* Research activities required processing large sets of wind and temperature data, spatial analysis
of urban morphology using GIS, processing 3D laser point data acquired through remote sensing,and georeferencing across multiple data sets.

SOFTWARE

GIS (ArcView 9.0); ArcMap; MATLAB; familiar with VBA, SQL, CFD and spatial analysis
applications.

AWARDS & QUALIFICATIONS
ProZ.com Hall of Fame: Honored by a former employer in the for exemplary service

2011(http://www.proz.com/hall-of-fame)Japan's Official Skill Test in Accounting, Level 3 (Boki-Kentei 3-kyu)

2009Japanese Language Proficiency Test, Level 1 (Nihongo Noryoku Shiken, Ikkyu)

2005

Citizen Panelist, Yokohama 20 Year Vision Project
Chosen out of 180 applicants to represent local citizen opinion to Yokohama’s municipal
government to draft the city’s 20 year general vision.

2005

PUBLICATIONSThe Affects of Downwind Roughness Element Morphology on Pedestrian Level Windand Thermal Environments in Urban Street canyons. Architectural Institute of Japan,
Journal of architecture and planning, Vol 73, No. 624, March, 2008Designing land use patterns to mitigate the urban heat island phenomenon inconsideration of ocean wind flow and open space voids. Architectural Institute of Japan,
Journal of architecture and planning, Vol 74, No. 644, October, 2009
PRESENTATIONSUrban Form and Temperature: Heat Island Research in Yokohama, Japan
2006 ESRI User Conference
San Diego, CA | 2006
The Urban Heat Island in Yokohama, Japan.
Kanagawa University, Architectural Institute of Japan annual conference proceedings
Yokohama, Japan | 2005

INTERESTS
Running. Tae Kwon Do. Languages: Japanese fluent written and spoken; limited knowledgeof Spanish and Italian.