I work with people.
Teacher/Mentor and Team Leader
2013 and 2014 GPIUS/ISA Japan Empowerment Programs
Summer 2013 and 2014
- Created a website as a forum for the program participants.
- Experienced working with Japanese colleagues and superiors, a foreign cultural setting
- Raised confidence and self-esteem in Japanese high school students
- Cultivated leadership and presentational skills to students
- Inspired Japanese students to dream big and solve problems
- Raised awareness of domestic and global issues
- Taught English
IT Consultant and Webmaster
UC Berkeley Botanical Gardens, Berkeley, CA
February 2013 - July 2013
- Fixed networking failures and advised administration
- Implemented proper website practices, raising the website score from F to A
- Fixed thousands of broken references on website and removed obsolete methods
- Began migration to to Drupal
Former Club President at Mission San Jose HS
President of Japan Culture Club
2011 - 2012
- Paneled "So You Wanna Learn Japanese?" at FanimeCon 2013
- Increase membership from eight to eighty
- Teach Japanese culture
- Led on and off-campus club activities
President of Anime Club
2010 - 2012
- Increase membership from 12 to 230
- Led on and off-campus club activities
Vice President of Go Club
2011 - 2012
- This is Go. (Then there's Go.)
- I'm 3-dan in Go. (Like a third-stage black belt in karate.)
- I often teach players on the Kiseido Go Server.
- If you play, add TAPJoshua on KGS!