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

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Brent Norris

Mahalo Mika!

Say, we also put together the local Big Island Adobe User Group Meetings over here. Just planting that seed in case anyone is looking for something techie to do when over here. The meetings are at Hawai`i Community College and are held in the evenings on the 3rd Tuesday of each month.

Apr 2, 2008
Dean Sadamune

Hi Mika,
Thanks for the nice welcome.
Dean

Apr 2, 2008
Mikita

thanks. btw, where emperor came from?

Apr 3, 2008
Mikita

I got it fixed

Apr 3, 2008
Marcus Yano

Hi Mika,

Thanks for the invite.

Marcus

Apr 8, 2008
GenePhillips

Aloha Mika,

Thanks for visiting my page and honestly no I don't get to Hawaii as often as I would like too. Its been actually 3 years since my last visit..

Have you been to New York since you relocated?

Apr 9, 2008
Laurel

it's an interactive art piece that i worked on with a group a few years ago called the "fantastic piano". i have since dubbed it a musical instrument for the talentless :) it consists of the 6 cylinders filled with water (and glitter for visual effect), 6 IR sensors on the black platform in front of the cylinders, 6 pumps connected underneath each cylinder, an arduino, lights, and speakers. when you trip the sensors with hand movements (think conductor), notes sound, the pumps generate bubbles that move the glitter in the water, and you can control the decibels by proximity to the sensors. the best part of that project was a perfect team and the unexpected result that anyone can play it and make it sound GREAT. thanks for the interest :)

Apr 9, 2008
GenePhillips

It must be exciting to travel that often..I do wish I could do the same often..

Apr 9, 2008
Kangkid

Don't worry Found the X at the top of the page

Apr 10, 2008
TopSurf

...is there any other browser? :)

Apr 11, 2008
TopSurf

thank you also for the welcome!

Apr 11, 2008
Scott Robertson

Hi Mika,
Sorry it took me a while to respond! Yes, I work with Dan mostly. I have talked with Peter Kay a few times. I am really happy with the HCI community here.
-Scott

Apr 13, 2008
David Takeyama

Thanks. will definately join the mobile group....

Apr 15, 2008
Jared I. Kuroiwa

Thank you for the hello... and I was planning on filling out more of the blanks later... I'm the Director of Interactive Strategy for KGMB9.

Apr 15, 2008
Russell

Thanks, look forward to be a part of the community.

Apr 16, 2008
Mark Quezada

Hi Mika,
Many thanks for the warm welcome... I actually know Truman through some friends at church and he's been trying to get me on here for a while. I'm looking forward to being part of the community!

Apr 16, 2008
liana lehua

Aloha Mika. Mahalo for the comment. I hope to be on Oahu in June or July. I look forward to making a TechHui meetup some time. :)

Apr 27, 2008
Kat

Hi Mika! Thank you for the comment! It was TechHui theme! I hope to one day customize my page with my own design ;)

Apr 30, 2008
Kat

Thank you! It was fun to make :)

May 9, 2008
Randy Williams

Thanks Mika. Happy to be here. How's Daniel and the crew at Ikayzo?

May 10, 2008
Jackson

Great, thanks for the direction.

May 10, 2008
Michael Kramer

Aloha Mika,
I'd love to present what I do to the Tech Hui sometime - I'm about all things sustainable....

May 13, 2008
Michael Kramer

I'm in Kona, actually, but come to business to Oahu periodically. You may want to check out my presentation at www.hvca.org. It'll give you a sense of my orientation regarding socially and environmentally conscious business here in Hawaii.

Aloha...

May 13, 2008
Theresa Doris

Thank you Mika, I have joined the PM group.

May 14, 2008
Frederick F Dietz

Thx Mika, If you like I could share some software demos with the group.

May 15, 2008
Derick

hi mika. thanks for the welcome. hey, i applied with your company in the fall. i was referred to you guys by kat actually. i definitely need to brush up on my skills. i hope i can be diligent about that this summer.

May 15, 2008
Nancy Kelly

Thank you Mika! I do plan on joining the PM group.

May 15, 2008
Hongli Lai

Thanks Mika. :) Though, please call it "Phusion Passenger" rather than "mod_rails".

May 18, 2008
Jonathan Wong

Thanks for the welcome and references Mika :)

May 22, 2008
Kevin Vaccarello

Thanks, Mika. I took your suggestion of joining the two groups.

Iʻm looking forward to talkinʻ nerdy with everyone here ;-)

May 23, 2008
Nicholas Herring

Eh, a platform is a platform. With projects like Wine and Mono it's all about the flexibility of the language/API, although I think Gentoo does it faster than anyone else. ;)

Although, nothing beats the usability of Visual Studio.

May 23, 2008
Scott Murphy

Thank you for the welcome. I hope you have a great weekend too and see you around in the forums.

May 23, 2008
Justin Hernandez

Thanks Mika. You guys did a great job with the site.

May 23, 2008
Alyssa K

Hi Mika!
Yup, I joined some of the groups, and also created 2 :)
This site is great!

May 23, 2008
Kenta

joined! btw... how do you soup up your background on your page?

May 24, 2008
Lorenz Sell

Thanks Mika! We're just about to launch our beta. If you're interested, please sign up at www.ilovephotos.com. Cheers!

May 28, 2008
Philip Maxfield

Thanks Mika!
I certainly don't get back home as often as I'd like=). Now with the outragous airfare I'm affraid that it will be even less often.

Jun 2, 2008
Lorenz Sell

No luck so far. we really need this person to be local. Thanks!

Jun 3, 2008
Jerome Madlangbayan

Thanks for the info on the other groups.

Jun 9, 2008
Christopher Kobayashi

Aloha Mika,
Thanks for the suggestions.

Lived there for about fifteen years. Currently in Tokyo, but I miss the islands! Looking forward to coming home someday.

Jun 11, 2008
Jeffrey Matsuki

Thanks for the welcome! Worked with Truman together on some web projects back in 2000.

Jun 11, 2008
Nathan Salon

Thank you for the warm welcome Mika!

Jun 12, 2008
Eric Carlson

Thanks for the invite! I look forward to building the tech community with you!

Jun 16, 2008
Scott Nishi

Hi Mika! Thanks for the welcome!
Japan was fun and always rawks!

Jun 17, 2008
Beau Mueller

Thanks much for the kind welcome! Loving the niche community and groups ...

Jun 18, 2008
Rob Bertholf

Mahalo for your greeting, so glad to see a local social networking site!

Jun 18, 2008
Mary Therese Perez Hattori

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions on groups to join; I'll certainly look into them. If you are interested in seeing a demo of SL, my department (IT staff and students) will be doing a demo with student reactions on July 11, 2pm-3:30, Kapi'olani Community College (free parking), Naio 203.

Jun 20, 2008
Grant

thanks for the tip on the nightcubs in miami :-D

Jun 27, 2008
Dave Takaki

Aloha e Mika,

Thanks for the tip on groups. Japan is always of interest, as are the other NE Asian countries. When I review the developments in cn, jp, and kr, the impression (for a variety of reasons) is usually' "honto sugoi".

The shop I work in is using ajax and ruby to build-out and support Saipan DataCom, which is the ccTLd registrar for .mp
(Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). We are working on a site called chi.mp.

A hui hou

Jun 27, 2008
Bruce Campbell

Aloha Mika,

Thanks for the aloha.
My focus is really on web strategy which certainly includes design. Our creative director is Mario Nanguse who is also an member of this techhui. Have you met him yet?

Jul 1, 2008