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Gateway Data

CD/track             Wave V / Exploring 3: Exploring Intuition
body position        upright with knees bent
CD player            Panasonic SL-CT510
headphones           Audio-Technica ATH-T3
ambient temperature  25 C
clothing             shorts, T-shirt, blanket
working nostril(s)   right
emotional state      anxious
physical             fine
head                 fine
stomach              fine
pain/soreness        none
phone/door	     off/closed
time allowed	     hour
ambient light	     daylight through curtains
ambient noise	     highway 246 through double pane window
date/time            9:50am JST Thursday 14 June 2007 (day 13595)
location	     Sakurashinmachi apartment

10:20am JST Thursday 14 June 2007 (day 13595)

I fell asleep multiple times during the exercise, but I may do it again.

Lazy morning

1:20pm JST Thursday 14 June 2007 (day 13595)

Nice lazy morning this AM; I got a message from Tariq like, "no word from Hitoshi yet. I'll call you" which I took to mean the meeting was cancelled unless he called.

Tariq took it to mean the opposite. Shit.

After doing the Gateway exercise, I worked on my resume; I slept; I texted Ami; I slept; I painted.

Before going in to work, I plan to go to the book store to get _Gods of Eden_ by William Bramley, which I ordered some time ago and thought they said the would call me when it arrived.

Resume

1:24am JST Friday 15 June 2007 (day 13596)

Just rewrote the shit out of my resume. It was hard to rip out all the stuff about travel and teaching, but I did, and I think it looks pretty good now.

Rob Nugen

Summary:

I have 8 years' professional programming experience with databases and website development. I paint for private collections and will soon show 4 canvases in Harajuku. After 10 years of personal growth work, including 7 months traveling to 24 ports around the world by cruise ship, I'm ready to engage an actual job again.

Objective:

Use English fluency and Japanese knowledge to support web development in a unix environment.

Experience:

 

IST Associates, Tokyo Japan

October 2006 - present

programmer

Writing a sample video game to show potential investors for a startup company. Creating website to support the video game users in an interactive environment.

• Macromedia Flash Actionscript 2.0

FSD Data Services, Houston, Texas

August 1999 - June 2002

programmer

Main responsibility was to design a user-friendly web-based survey tool that allowed secure login, survey branching based on responses, save and continue, lost passwords, and administrator access.  The product had to be built with SAS, the software in use at our company.  In one year, I learned enough SAS to produce a survey creation tool that reduced the creation time of a survey from 2 weeks to 1 hour.

• SAS: backend data storage
• HTML: web based user interface
• Javascript: data entry sanity checking

MR Laboratories, Houston, Texas

August 1998 - 2002

programmer

web design and maintenance for a variety of clients

• Shopping Carts
• Perl: custom user interface

Telecheck, Inc., Houston, Texas

October 1995 - June 1998

programmer

In a VMS environment, I was on the team supporting customers' account data.  The code spanned many years' development, and many changes as new customers made requests, so we were required to dig in to old code and make changes while keeping the existing functionality intact.  I wrote one application from scratch: it allowed CSR reps to pull up a customer's billing data from any point in their billing history, and print copies of certain pages or a range of pages.

• C, C++, PL/1
• Evolved proprietary DBMS to meet customers' needs
• Continued evolution of reporting capabilities in three tier application architecture
• Wrote batch process to eliminate 24 man-hours per month.
  This application helped Telecheck migrate to "any day" billing cycle.
• Wrote batch utility to automatically examine incoming data files for integrity.
  Wove it seamlessly into existing process.
• Wrote proprietary application for internal use:
  Fully object oriented C++
  text menu interface in three tier architecture
  displays and prints archived invoices
  allows flexible reporting using SQL

Education:

University of Houston, Houston, Texas

May 1995

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

In my two most memorable classes, we wrote an assembler in Assembler, and a database in C.

• C
• Pascal
• C++
• Assembler
• Lisp
• Prolog
• Fortran
• COBOL

Tomball High School, Tomball, Texas

May 1988

• Rifle Corps
• Spanish

Extracurricular:

Mankind Project, Houston, Texas

November 1997 - present

This organization focuses on personal growth, including teaching interpersonal communication skills, living in integrity, and in mission.

YRUU, Houston, Texas

September 1995 - January 2003

volunteer youth advisor

Supporting youth-led programming for high school youth across Texas and Oklahoma