1981-1986: Public School 276K Lewis Marshall School Activities: Astor Program for the gifted and talented, Band 1984-1986.
1986-1988: Mark Twain Junior High School for the Gifted and Talented Activities: Music Talent (Clarinet), Select Band, National Junior Honor Society.
1988-1992:
Stuyvesant Specialized Math and Science High School Activities: Arista Honor Society, Chorus FA'88-SP'90, Gospel Choir FA'90-SP'92, Reaction Force Tae Kwon Do Club, Seekers Christian Club, Hebrew Culture Club, SMSC Military Drill Cor, Concert Band (FA'89-SP92), Westinghouse Entrant, Science Fair 1st Place Winner, Perfect Attendance, National Merit Scholarship Finalist. Cumulative GPA: 95.5%
1992-1998
Cornell University Bachelor of Science Applied and Engineering Physics (May, 1996) CUM LAUDE Bachelor of Arts, Asian Studies Department(May, 1997) HONORS Masters in Applied and Engineering Physics (May, 1998) Activities: Symphonic Band,
Japan-US Association,
Japanese Animation Society E-board, Japanese language house, Study Abroad in Japan. Undergrad GPA: 3.50 Grad GPA: 3.59
1995 Taught computer instrumentation design course: as a Teaching Assistant in the undergraduate Sophomore level Computer Instrumentation design course under Professor Cool. The course involves programming computers to interface with various experimental devices with ADC's and DAC's. In addition the course involves scientific writing.
1996-7 Redesigned the web page for the
Kyoto Center for Japanese studies in Japan. Involved use of scanning and graphics software in addition to HTML.
1997 Rewrote Laser control program into G (LABVIEW), a graphical programming language. The program involved getting data via Time of Flight Mass Spectra. The oscilloscope, FL 3002 Laser, and TOFMS & laser detectors or the Burleigh Wavemeter were connected via GPIB buses and a DAQ using IEEE 488 protocols.
1997-8 Worked on the Cornell Study Abroad information team to spread information
about study abroad to Cornell students. My focus was on opportunities to study in Japan. To do this I created a web site repository.
1998 Taught Computer Instrumentation design course, except this time, C++ and Matlab were used instead of Pascal and Gnu-plot, extending my teaching, and programming abilities.
1998 Put the final touches on debugging and revising the LABVIEW laser control program for a particular experiment, again under Professor Cool at Cornell University.
1998-9 Worked for Oracle Japan working with computers in a fully Japanese language environment. Responsibilities included programming a complex library lending system in PL/SQL-HTML-JavaScript and lecturing on PL/SQL.
1999-2009 Working for Linc Media INC, spun off into Layer-8 Technologies and finally succeeded in getting our own company as Theta Music Technologies as a Quality Control Engineer & Software Programmer (+ 100 other things) using Japanese 50% of the time. Including DBA (Oracle MySQL Postgres), JavaScript Programmer, Java Programmer, Cutting Edge Chakumelo {Ringtone} Programmer, Database Porter, Project Integrator.
2008-2014 Prudential Finanical(details in Linkedin)
2014- SMBC (Sumitomo Mitsui Bankinvg Corporation):JRIA (Japan Research Institute America) (details in Linkedin)
Some Products (allowed to mention)
Ericisson (www.chakumatic.com) (primitive ringtone site with theta)
Also Programmed with PL/SQL, Applet JAVA, JavaScript, Pascal, assembler, BASIC, HTML, and LABVIEW on varied Commodores, IBM's (286, 386, 486, 586, 686, Pentium, Pentium +,Crusoe... OS: Windows 3.1/NT/95/98/ME/2000/XP/2003/2008/2012/7), UNIX (LINUX 5.x, 6.x, 7.x, 9.x, Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.5.6, mostly BASH shell, C shell, and Bourne Shell), and Macintoshes (Quadras, Power Macs, Systems 7.1.1, 7.5.1, 7.5.3, 7.5.5).
Worked for long periods with Microsoft Excel(3.0, 4.0, 95, 97, 2000), Microsoft Works(1.1), Microsoft Word (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 95, 97, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2012), Word, PowerPoint (95,2000,2012), KaleidaGraph, LABVIEW (2.54, 3.0), Japanese Language Kit, Maple, Eudora (1.22, Light, 3.0, Pro), Netscape(2.02, 3.0, 4.04, 4.5, 4.60, 4.61, 4.7), MATLAB, WAS 3.0, Oracle (8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5), Internet Explorer (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0) and Adobe Photoshop (older versions). (with Japanese and English versions) and many other less well known programs.