Mika Leuck

, Female

Honolulu

United States

Profile Information:

Occupation:: Consultant, IT Technical Support/Help Desk, Manager, Network/Systems Administrator, Quality Assurance Engineer, Web Developer
Company:: Ikayzo, inc.
Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):: Traveling, Photography, Japanese History and Literature, French Literature and Film, City Life, Sake Tasting, Good Food, Lemurs - not for food :-), Anything about Fiji!
Software Language Proficiencies / Interests:: HTML, Javascript, Perl, Ruby, XML
About Me:: I'm originally from Japan. Now I work at Ikayzo as a systems administrator, Japanese localization engineer and COO in Honolulu. I like diving, snorkeling, traveling, working with Linux and reading.

My company does Java, Ruby, Flex, Flash, iPhone and C# development, localization (specializing in Japanese, Spanish, Português, French, German, Korean and Chinese), IT Technical support/Help desk, Google Apps migration and software system auditing. Our customers include Nomura Securities, Bank of America, Oracle and ValueCommerce.
Website:: http://www.ikayzo.com
Twitter Username: mikanoco

Comment Wall:

J. David Beutel

Nice picture!

Dec 7, 2007
Mika Leuck

Thank you!
Your picture looks good, too.

Dec 7, 2007
Matthew

aloha Mika san.

what's the news in Hawaiiland?

M-

Dec 7, 2007
Mika Leuck

Hi Matt san!!
Not much news in Hawaii.
We might start to take French lessons for French speaking countries' trips for future.
BTW, I like your webpage www.cuteoverload.com. The abandoned hedge the the best!
Mika

Dec 7, 2007
Viil

Aloha Mika,
long time no see! Hope all is good :)
-V

Dec 7, 2007
Mika Leuck

Hi Vill!
How are you?
I am doing OK. See you soon!
Mika

Dec 9, 2007
Truman Leung

Hi Mika, great to meet you at the conferenz. I actually heard about TechHui in December after I attended a Honolulu Coders meeting. Dan was there at the meeting, though I didn't get to meet him. But I signed up for TechHui afterwards. I'm so glad you and Elisabeth got to talk in Japanese! Aloha, Truman

Jan 15, 2008
Truman Leung

Hi Mika! We would have loved to have joined you folks for volleyball, but we had back-to-back schedule from 5am to 6pm yesterday! Hopefully we will bel free next time.

Jan 28, 2008
Stephen Kapali

Hi Mika,

Thanks for the welcome. I've just found this site and i look forward to joining in on some discussions.

Jan 28, 2008
Deanna

Hi, I mostly use a mac, but also Linux and Windows if I have to! Are you here in Hawaii or in Japan?

Jan 31, 2008
Cheryll

Hi Mika,

Thanks for the warm welcome! All the web developing I've done so far have been using PHP, MySQL, and Smarty. And you?

Feb 1, 2008
Russell Castagnaro

Aloha!
Thanks for the welcome! too bad we can't import our facebook info into techui ;)

Feb 1, 2008
Austen Ito

Thanks for the welcome :)

Feb 2, 2008
Viil

Of course I am planning something mischievous! As soon as I know what it is I will invite you to join me ;)

Feb 8, 2008
Bobby

hi mika, I am very happy to join with lots of talented persons...........

Feb 10, 2008
jianshi

Yes I work with Aaron. I'm working on data warehousing type software at Referentia.

Feb 10, 2008
Bobby

I am from India..
I had taken this pic in an Old fort...

Feb 10, 2008
Stan Baptista

Thanks Mika. I'll have to start thinking about the cartoons:-)

Feb 15, 2008
Joe Philipson

Hello,
I just thought I'd tell you that I think you're really pretty.

Kai Thx Bai

Mar 11, 2008
Joe Philipson

Lol... you think I'm really pretty? :-) Thanks! As far as a photography group I'm already really active on flickr and we have a hawaii flickr meet group. We meet at least every month and we have one actually this friday. You should come!

Here's the link to the event:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/428198/

and the link to the group.
http://flickr.com/groups/nahui_aikane/

If you have a flickr account add me as a contact, jphilipson.

Mar 11, 2008
Joe Philipson

Yeah definitely that'd be cool...

Mar 11, 2008
Joe Philipson

I dont remember you at the unconferenz you weren't the girl that won that thingy were you?

Mar 11, 2008
noblemaster

tiicoon is still work in progress. I am having a hard time putting the fun into the game!

Being part of the game developers group - are you working on you own game(s) too?

Mar 13, 2008
noblemaster

So, you got any plans for the future - I mean, any games you would really like to implement? You said you like SimCity. What else, are you more a role playing, action etc. kind of gal?

> At 3:51am on March 14th, 2008, Mika Leuck said…
more important: what are you doing at 3:51am???

Mar 14, 2008
Alex Kin Wang

hi mika...nice to meet you! :)

Mar 15, 2008
Sunny Bak

Hello Mika,

It is exciting to find out there is a local tech group in Hawaii. Where have I been?

Sunny

Mar 25, 2008
Dr Drew

Thanks Mika, my wife is from Yokohama, but I don't get to go to Japan often enough. We both love Kyoto and Nara. Next time I want to visit Imbe and other pottery places. I've never been to Izumo-ken.

Mar 27, 2008
Bob C.Y. Yang (Robert Yang)

thanks for the warm welcome Mika

nice, have you been Spain? I didn't go back for over 12 years. I missed there. I heard my classmates say it is very different now. I lived in Malaga, Torremonilos and some south coast area.

I started from Palm V with internet connetion (it was a pain!) then we gave up that platform and move to J2ME but still with a lot of limitation and not development friendly. then we move to CF .net and stay here since 4 years ago. we must say we are happy so far because we make it work with mobile database, internet, GPS, sync data to the server, barcode RFID and so on. However, I must say, the mobile is not matual yet. still a lot of bugs and limitations. Moreover, the mobile tech is not moving as fast as web. 1995 to 2000 web tech changed a lot, but I don't really see the changes of mobile devices.

it sounds like you like Linux and Java. is it because your company environment using those or just your interesting? perhaps, I will see you around for the .net group meeting if you join it. :)

Mar 27, 2008
austin

hi, great to meet everyone here.

Mar 27, 2008
Jonagustine Lim

Hi Mika,

My company does both, provide services in China and Philippines as well as use available services there.

Jon

Mar 27, 2008
Dr Drew

Thanks again, Mika. I think I saw the Izuma Taisha in the movie Inland Sea. It must have been a beautiful place to grow up in.

Thanks for the Adachi Museum link. It looks beautiful in autumn. I want to see autumn in Japan someday. I miss the change of seasons.

Mar 27, 2008
Bob C.Y. Yang (Robert Yang)

nice. London. how was the weather over there? must be cold...raining a lot?

that's nice. which linux are you running? did you ever try ubuton for desktop? I was surprise because it is easy! they make linux very easy. I never try their server yet I still feel more comfortable to run suse or redhat for server. I haven't touched linux for over a year! you will be the person for me about linux quetions in the future. :p.. I forget everything already.. too much to learn. I just try to catch up vista now.

it is nice you have .net and java team at the same time! what do they do here? you have developing team in japan and they localize to USA version?

Just curious, what java development tool you are using now? eclipse, jbuilder, jdeveloper? it is good to know what tool a java focusing company use in Hawaii. thanks!

Mar 28, 2008
Sam Chepkevich

Aloha Mika,
Thanks for the welcome. I look forward to joining a few groups. I agree with you on the DB Administrators group. There probably are a few very good DBAs & Developers out there. Maybe a Network/Systems Admin group also? I wager there are a few of us out there too.

Mar 28, 2008
Sam Chepkevich

Aloha Mika,
You are fast. Good addition to the groups!

Mar 28, 2008
Alfred Zimermann

Mika,

Thanks. If I have the time, I will be in those areas.

Aloha, Al Z

Mar 29, 2008
Robert Slike

Hi Mika, thanks for the welcome. Both groups sound interesting. Have you been using Ubuntu much?

Mar 29, 2008
Ryan Chun

Thanks, Mika. I primarly use SharePoint but am interested in other products a well. Some of the best ideas I get for tweaking SharePoint come from other collaboration tools.

Mar 30, 2008
Baron Fujimoto

thanks for the welcome. tnx also for the comment on the blog name. I also enjoy the way muckadungdungfooshoyubillygoat just rolls off the tongue. sturgeon's law may be general, but I definitely know it applies to my own works in particular.

Mar 31, 2008
Jay Chun

Thank you. Nice to meet you.

Apr 1, 2008
Stephen Itoga

Not sure exactly where, but some place near Hiroshima. My mother's side is from Kumamoto in Kyushu.
s

Apr 2, 2008