Team Vision Virtual announces three hires

As Team Vision Virtual rolls out 3D travel destination websites in 10 more cities over the next 18 months –– starting with Las Vegas –– the Hawaii-based company is bringing aboard three key team members to develop new sites and continue to grow the pioneering 3DHawaii.com. Aloha and welcome to:

Cheryl Izuka

As Account Executive, Cheryl Izuka will assure quality control of listings and sites on TVV's 3D destination portals for clients and users.

Izuka has broad experience in client management and quality control, working in the Account Service and Broadcast Department of Laird Christianson Advertising for four years and most recently as an Advertising Account Executive for Team Vision for three years maintaining client/agency relationships.

Izuka graduated from the University of Hawaii at Manoa with a Bachelors of Business Administration (BBA) with an emphasis in Marketing, and a Certification of Achievement (minor degree) in French Language and Literature.

Arnold Paradeza

As Senior Designer, Arnold Paradeza will take the lead on the look of TVV's 3D destination portals. Paradeza brings 11 years of graphic design experience, including print, broadcast, signage and web design. He has worked for The Schiller Group, The AdWorks and The Harris Agency for clients such as Foodland, AT&T, Castle & Cooke, Burger King, Aloha United Way and Papa John's. He moved to Team Vision in 2006, where his clients included Paradise Cove, the Hawaii State Federal Credit Union and Hospice Hawaii, and he designed the user interface for the premiere 3D platform, 3DHawaii.com.

Paradeza holds an Associate in Graphic Design from Denver Business College.

Jussi Sipola

As Director of Engineering, Jussi Sipola will work closely with TVV CTO Paul Onnen to plan the future direction of the 3D technology platform, while collaborating with team members to assess and recommend technologies that support the company's needs.

Sipola brings extensive, versatile software development and project management skills and experience to TVV, with more than 20 years of building, developing and launching high quality software applications for organizations ranging from software start-ups to large organizations such as Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, Cendant and the City and County of Honolulu.

At Hawaii's early Internet pioneer WorldPoint, Sipola was elemental in designing and bringing to market the world's first on-demand human translation procurement application. Working for Fidelity National Financial, Sipola co-designed and co-implemented an innovative real estate and mortgage lead management application used by Bank of America, Prudential and RE/MAX. Sipola oversaw the growth of this Web-based application from 2,000 to more than 10,000 agents. Most recently, in his job at at CGI, Sipola led the development of the automation of the new payroll system for the City and County of Honolulu.

Sipola studied Philosophy in the University of Helsinki in Finland and he has a B.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Information Systems, both from Hawaii Pacific University.

About Team Vision Virtual

Honolulu-based Team Vision Virtual, Inc. specializes in the development of interactive destination portals where people can explore, discover and make purchases in a content-rich, 3D, virtual environment. Through an exclusive web publishing agreement with one of the largest contributors of 3D buildings on Google Earth™, TVV has published hundreds of high-quality 3D buildings throughout the Hawaiian Islands to create a virtual online destination, with additional structures in Las Vegas to launch soon. These 3D models appear on Google Earth™ as well as on TVV’s standalone web portals via the Google Earth™ API Plug-In, providing the opportunity for participants to be cost-effectively marketed to the world. This next generation online travel planning experience signals the virtual evolution of web business interactions.