"[4] Schwartz worked as a journalist and editor in Japan from 1988 through 1992 for U.S. News & World Report as well as The Asia Foundation's Op-Ed Division.

He was producer and anchor for TV Asahi and Japan's startup music channel "SpaceShower".

Subsequently, Schwartz worked with CTB/McGraw-Hill, Scholastic Corporation, UNICEF and the World Bank Group developing new media guidelines and programming.

In 2006, he founded the mobile committee for the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) in New York City.

[10] Schwartz worked with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission and Dell to launch the first North American implementation of Next Generation 9-1-1 emergency services.