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Lynn Powers
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- Lahaina, HI
- United States
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Although men are still the predominant players in the technology sphere, it's great to see us, women, gaining momentum! Woohoo! ;) I think the female mind can be powerful and uniquely creat…
A group for women in Hawaii working in technical fields or just generally interested in technology
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A group for digital artists including those involved with CGI, digital painting, CAI, photo art and related fields.
Profile Information
- Occupation:
- Manager, Project Manager
- Company:
- Gazillion Entertainment (SmartyCard.com)
- Areas of Interest (Robotics, Software Architecture, Green Energy, Web 2.0, etc.):
- Technology in Education, Information Architecture, User Experience Design, Web 2.0, Product Management, Project Management, Interaction Design
- About Me:
- Michiko Lynn Powers (Lynn) is currently the Product Manager at Gazillion Entertainment (SmartyCard.com) a venture backed, first-of-kind web service for online learning focused on the K-12 market enabling direct- to-consumer supplemental learning for students. Lynn defines and determines the functional requirements for SmartyCard's new features and enhancements.
In 2008 she earned her Master's degree from the Learning, Design & Technology Program (LDT) in Education at Stanford University where she gained in-depth knowledge of how to assess and design an integrated, theoretically-informed and empirically-grounded framework for learning environments and products that effectively utilize emergent technology in a variety of settings.
Prior to her graduate work, Lynn ran the daily operations of Powerful Concepts, LLC., a boutique production consultancy. From 2002 and 2005, she was an animation producer for a variety of leading animation titles at Geneon Entertainment, a subsidiary of Dentsu.
Lynn received her BA in Political Science at Amherst College in 2002, where she was a prestigious Uchimura Kanzo Scholar. She also received a BA in 1998 in English and American Studies from Kansai Gaidai University in Osaka, Japan. In 1996, she had the pleasure of attending Växjö University in Växjö, Sweden where she studied Swedish language, Scandinavian literature, history, culture and the welfare system. Lynn is a native of Kyoto, Japan and speaks Japanese, English and Swedish.
Specialties: Product management, creating specifications and wireframes, knowledge of InDesign, Axure RP and CS4, conducting user research and usability testing.
- Website:
- http://www.powers.to
- Secondary Website:
- http://michiko.us
- Twitter Username
- lynnpowers
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 6:59pm on December 5, 2009,
Rubén Peña said…
- Lynn:
Aloha! I just saw a video on your www.powers.to website about how we are all genetically connected -- I'm wundering if the "6-degrees of freeedom" seperation in the current generation of 6+ billion folks on the polanet also applies going back into our historical acestory. I also see you have an interesting educational/experience background from the Learning, Design and Technology Program in Education at Stanford University. I was also a pre-K to 5th grade Teacher in Taiwan for 2+ years: taught English, Math and Sciences. You may want to check out my video: "Project Niu - Hawai'i Educational (K-12)" (http://www.techhui.com/video/project-niu-hawaii).
Hope you will accept my friendship & invitation to TechHui ... Aloha and welcome to Hawaii and TechHui!!
Mahalo,
Ruben
- At 8:37am on November 16, 2009,
Rob Bertholf said…
- Aloha and welcome to Hawaii (and TechHui!)
- At 1:19am on November 10, 2009,
aaron kagawa said…
- welcome to the group. Learning, Design & Technology Program (LDT) in Education sounds like a fun degree.
- At 4:21am on October 29, 2009,
Moriba Jah said…
- Lynn...I'm going to check out SmartyCard and get back to you on it. I have two kids: Denali (6) and Inara (4).
Hopefully we can meet soon, perhaps at one of these techie gatherings.
Cheers...
- At 9:42am on October 2, 2009,
Derek said… - Welcome to Hawaiʻi.
- At 3:50am on October 2, 2009,
Roxanne Darling said… - Mahalo for reaching out. I hope to be on Maui later this month! We'll arrange a Tweetup sometime between Oct 18-25.
- At 12:51am on October 2, 2009,
Anders Friberg said… - Michiko, very welcome to Maui. This is truly the best place on earth to live now that the internet allows us to work from anywhere. I checked out your web sites - SmartyCard is a very interesting concept for K-12 extracurricular academics. Remember to stop by if you go to the North Shore. You can always practice speaking Swedish far far away from Växjö.
Aloha!
- At 9:14pm on October 1, 2009,
Tetsuzan Benny Ron said… - Aloha Michiko,
Welcome to Hawai'i
Kindly check also on facebook and join aquaculturehub.org
You probably can help with the online education group
Mahaloz
~tetsuzanbennyron
- At 9:11pm on October 1, 2009,
GB Hajim said… - Aloha!!!!
- At 9:11pm on October 1, 2009,
Konstantin A Lukin said… - Hi Lynn, thanks for getting connected. Just saw a video on one of your websites about how we are all connected.. fascinating, and, in a lot of ways, not very surprising. Can see you have some interesting educational background, back in the days I was also a part of development group on an e-learning web project initiative, very interesting stuff with an amazing potential.. Welcome to TechHui!
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