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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Randi

Thank you Mika! Learning to love Web 2.0!

Oct 23, 2008
Elya McCleave

Thank you so much Mika! Looking forward to meeting you

Best wishes from Canada ;)
Elya

Oct 23, 2008
Patrick Ahler

Thanks Mika!

Oct 23, 2008
George Allen

Hi Mika... and thank you. Haven't quite moved to Honolulu yet, but my girl friend lives there, so visit often. Looking forward to enjoying the beauty of Hawaii and getting to know more of the great people here. - George

Oct 23, 2008
Patrick Ahler

hope you don't mind all the extra traffic today! As you can see we are all very excited the move.

Oct 23, 2008
Patrick Ahler

and we like TechHui! :)

Oct 23, 2008
Peggy Kelley

Aloha Mika,
My background with Sun was QA for technology compatibility kits for many of the Java JSRs. Good to be part of this tech hui.
Mahalo.
Peggy

Oct 27, 2008
Jennifer Geis

Thank you for the welcome. This site is such a good idea, I'm looking forward to exploring.

Oct 29, 2008
Viil

Hi Mika, I love your new profile photo. You look very beautiful :)

Nov 2, 2008
David Chatsuthiphan

Awesome! Thanks for tips on the groups. Joining a few now.

Nov 2, 2008
Luis Rosa

Hi Mika,

Thanks for the warm welcome. This is a nice site, what's the cms behind it?

Nov 4, 2008
Shinya Yarimizo

Mika, thanks for your warm aloha!
I'll be checking out the site more, and perhaps joining a few groups.

yoroshiku-.

Nov 4, 2008
Truman Leung

Hi Mika, thanks for setting up the SAAS group and the invite! I hope we'll get some good discussion going on it.

Nov 5, 2008
Kathleen Nemetz

Aloha, thanks for the welcome...I just invited a couple of interesting sustainable energy entrepreneurs to join the renewable energy forum...one of them is Kurt Kornbluth, who already has projects in Hawaii with his company,l Humdingerwind.com......

Nov 5, 2008
Kaya Alpan

Aloha Mika, I reside in Honolulu but I am often in Kihei too. Thank you for the pointer!

Nov 8, 2008
Keith Rollman

Thanks Mika, I know quite a few of group's members from around town. I look forward to meeting the rest. Aloha, Keith

Nov 9, 2008
Kaya Alpan

I hear what you're saying :-) It's indeed a great change of pace to be there. High-tech on Maui is taking roots and I am confident that it will keep growing.

Nov 9, 2008
John Franklin

Hi Mika, thanks for the warm welcome. I'm planning to attend the MG meeting tonight. I recently met Lorenz downtown at Blue Lava and was impressed with their ilovephoto project. I hope to see you there.

Nov 13, 2008
Sandi Kanemori

Thanks Mika! I'm also encouraging my other co-workers and people I meet to join and support TechHui. This place has really grown, awesome job!!!! I also appreciate the special HTDC category that you all created for us!

Nov 14, 2008
Troy Tolle

Hi Mika, thanks for the welcome. I am not sure if you know Greg Hester or not, but he sent me an invite to join in the fun you are having here. I am not on the islands and have actually never been, but I would love to come out there sometime as so many of us do here in the lower 48.

Nov 15, 2008
Lisbeth Sabol

Thanks Mika! Good suggestions, I'll check those out.

Nov 19, 2008
Nikolas Yem

Thanks for the welcome! In case you don't know what the profile picture is all about... it's the infamous Rat Chicken! :)

Nov 19, 2008
Vern Takebayashi

Mika,

Thanks for the welcome and the link to the FAQ. I notice that your company does Flex programming. I had heard that there have been memory leak problems associated with Flex applications. Has that been your experience? Programming with Flex is something that I am thinking about getting into, so anything that you can share about it would be helpful and appreciated.

As to being the first instructor from HCC to join, there are some others that I will try to encourage to join.

Nov 20, 2008
Jussi Sipola

Mika, thanks for the welcome! I've been a member since the early days of TechHui, but just recently changed my name :-)

Nov 20, 2008
Vern Takebayashi

Mika,
Thanks for the information. I will join some groups. I think I will start with the PHP group because I want to get some feedback on how effective some PHP PDO code I have been using is at preventing SQL injection attacks.

Nov 21, 2008
Naim Ferguson

;) the official Google board. I'm working on mine right now, custom board with my logo etc.
It epitomizes my life, as I embrace lifestyle and career. There was a time when I felt a conflict of interest (technology vs da aina). I guess its about balance.
Thanks for the message...

Nov 21, 2008
MarkWolf

Aloha

Thanks for your message, I took your advice and posted the below on the jobs page. Would you know of anyone in particular you could reccomend who could fit the mold for the below? Thankyou very much for the help, I'm grateful:)

I am creating an MMORGP game with a purpose of creating a better world through education and technology. We're in need of very strong flash programmers.

Do you know flash and want to help the world or know of anyone who does? And please send examples of flash work.

Mahalo,
Mark
mwolf85@gmail.com

Nov 26, 2008
Adam Leszczynski

HI Mika,

Yes I'm moving to Hawaii with Superb. Thanks for the site info. I hope to find this place useful but I have a history of not really using forums/social networking sites for any extended period of time. Perhaps this is one of the few places that breaks that pattern.

Nov 27, 2008
Bill

Mika, I appreciate the welcome to the community.

Bill

Nov 29, 2008
Alexander Cheng

Great to meet you too! I thought you looked familiar! Glad we were all able to celebrate Truman together!

Nov 29, 2008
Gordon Hee

Hi Mika! はじめまして！I manage Asian region production for Microsoft Game Studios Xbox 360 and Windows games. よろしくお願いします！

Dec 1, 2008
Clay Sato

Thank you.

Dec 3, 2008
Jeffrey Char ジェフリー・チャー

Thanks Mika. I assume you are related to Dan since Leuck is definitely not a common name in Hawaii. :-)

Dec 6, 2008
Jeffrey Char ジェフリー・チャー

That figures... I had a good meeting with Dan the other day in Tokyo. Thanks for the advice on groups to join.

Dec 7, 2008
Attila Seress

Thanks for inviting me into your community :)

Dec 10, 2008
jen murphy

Thanks! You've been super helpful!

Dec 10, 2008
Jesse Barros

Mahalo Mika. I've been lurking for a while and am impressed by how you make time to write a personal welcome for everybody!

Dec 10, 2008
Joseph Beemer

Thanks for being so quick to welcome me :)

Dec 15, 2008
Truman Leung

Happy Birthday, Mika!! I hope you and Dan are having a wonderful vacation. Merry Christmas!!

Dec 21, 2008
Bob Pulgino

Mahalo Mika ... nice place you have here, I appreciate the kind welcome.

Dec 22, 2008
Nelson Nomura

Thanks for accepting me as a member. Happy holidays!!!

Dec 24, 2008
Sandi Kanemori

Hi Mika! Fancy seeing you the other day at the new Pipeline office. :) Wishing you and Daniel a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Dec 26, 2008
Moriba Jah

Aloha Mika...I don't know about having the most exciting job in HI, but it certainly is exciting to me :)

I like the theme to your site...how do I get it (or is it just yours? :) )

Keep in touch and happy holidays,

Moriba Delete Comment

Dec 27, 2008
Chris Hall

Hello Mika, it was nice to meet you and Dan at the Science & Tech Fair. I enjoyed our conversation; hopefully i'll see both of you at Manoa Geeks in January.

Dec 29, 2008
Tom Simmons

Hi Mika, thank you for the note. I cover the Lotus portfolio for IBM, which is our collaboration solutions. I make it back to Hawaii about every six weeks. We are currently working on our 2009 calendar, so I will keep you posted. It would be a pleasure to meet the TechHui community.

Dec 30, 2008
LanCE

Thanks for the warm welcome! I'm not working on Blue Mars, although I would love to. I'm just excited about it and like to cover it.

Jan 2, 2009
Dale Stubbart

Hi Mika,
Thanks for the comment. Yes, I do do ecotours in Hawaii and am a member of the Hawaii Ecotourism Society and Hawaii Visitor's Bureau. I do Ecotours on Kauai, Maui, and Big Island.
My wife's insisting we add snorkeling to our ecotours.

Jan 2, 2009
Brian

Thanks Mika! We appreciate the welcome and look forward to sharing with everyone. Happy New Year! Brian

Jan 3, 2009
Robert Ho

Thanks Mika for the welcome. We are looking forward to an active community here on the islands.

Jan 5, 2009
Rocco Blais

Aloha Mika!
Thanks for accepting me to Tech Hui. Although I find myself in Virginia these days, my plan is to venture back to Hawaii and make an impact within the Education System on the islands.
Ciao,
~ Rocco

Jan 5, 2009