High School Quality Control
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Paul B. Lestere-mail address: ****@*******.***
HOME ADDRESS:
Nikko Palace #205
Azabumamiana-cho 57
Minato-ku, Tokyo-to, Japan 106-0042
U.S.A. CONTACT:
Brooklyn, NY 11224
U.S.A.
(718) 373 - 0468
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EDUCATION:
1981-1986: Public School 276K Lewis Marshall School
Activities: Astor Program for the gifted and talented, Band 1984-1986.
1986-1988: Junior High School for the Gifted and Talented
Activities: Music Talent (Clarinet), Select Band, National Junor Honor Society.
1988-1992:
Stuyvesant Specialized Math and Science High School
Activities: Arista Honor Society, Chorus FA'88-SP'90, Gospel Choir FA'90-SP'92, Reaction Force Tae Kwon Do Club, Seekers Christian Club, Hebrew Culture Club, SMSC Military Drill Cor, Concert Band (FA'89-SP92), Westinghouse Entrant, Science Fair 1st Place Winner, Perfect Attendence, National Merit Scholarship Finalist.
Cumulative GPA: 95.5%
1992-present
Cornell University
Bachelor of Science Applied and Engineering Physics (May, 1996) CUM LAUDE
Bachelor of Arts, Asian Studies Department(May, 1997) HONORS
Masters in Applied and Engineering Physics (May, 1998)
Activities:,
Japan-US Association,
Japanese Animation Society E-board, Japanese language house, .
GPA: 3.50
[Return to Index]EMPLOYMENT:
1995 Taught computer instrumentation design course:
as a Teaching Assistant in the undergraduate Sophomore level Computer Instrumentation design course under Professor Cool. The course involves programming computers to interface with various experimental devices with ADC's and DAC's. In addition the course involves scientific writing.
1996-7 Redesigned the web page for the
Kyoto Center for Japanese studies in Japan. Involved use of scanning and graphics software in addition to HTML.
1997 Rewrote Laser control program
into G (LABVIEW), a graphical programming language. The program involved getting data via Time of Flight Mass Spectra. The oscilloscope, FL 3002 Laser, and TOFMS & laser detectors or the Burleigh Wavemeter were connected via GPIB buses and a DAQ using IEEE 488 protocols.
1997-8 Worked on the Cornell Study Abroad information team to spread information
about study abroad to Cornell students. My focus was on opportunities to study in Japan. To do this I created a .
1998 Taught Computer Instrumentation design course, except this time, C++ and Matlab were used instead of Pascal and Gnu-plot, extending my teaching, and programming abilities.
1998 Put the final touches on debugging and revising the LABVIEW laser control program for a particular experiment, again under Professor Cool at Cornell University.
1998-9 Worked for Oracle Japan working with computers in a fully Japanese language enviorment. Responsibilities included programming a complex library lending system in PL/SQL-HTML-JavaScript and lecturing on PL/SQL.
1999- Working for Linc Media INC as a Quality Control Engineer (+ 100 other things) using Japanese 50% of the time.
[Return to Index]ADDITIONAL SCIENTIFIC COURSEWORK:
Graduate Quantum Mechanics
Graduate Electrodynamics
Programming in Pascal
High Energy Particle Physics
Nuclear Design
Astrophysics
Computer Instrumentation Design
Electronic Circuit Design
[Return to Index] COMPUTER SKILLS:Strong skills with: PL/SQL. HTML, JavaScript, JAVA (LEARNING RAPIDLY), LabVIEW, Pascal, C, SQL (MySQL, JDBC, Oracle 'SQL
Programmed with PL/SQL, Applet JAVA, JAVA, JavaScript, Pascal, C, assembler, BASIC, HTML, and LABVIEW on varied Commodores, IBM's (286, 386, 486, Pentium, Pentium +, OS: Windows 3.1, Windows NT, Windows 95. Windows 98), UNIX (LINUX, Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.5.6, mostly BASH shell, C shell, and Bourne Shell), and Macintoshes (Quadras, Power Macs, Systems 7.1.1, 7.5.1, 7.5.3, 7.5.5).
Worked for long periods with Microsoft Excel(3.0, 4.0, 95, 97, 2000), Microsoft Works(1.1), Microsoft Word (3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 95, 97, 2000), Word, PowerPoint (95), KaleidaGraph, LABVIEW (2.54, 3.0), Japanese Language Kit, Maple, Eudora (1.22, Light, 3.0, Pro), Netscape(2.02, 3.0, 4.04, 4.5, 4.60, 4.61, 4.7), MATLAB, WAS 3.0, Oracle (8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5), Internet Explorer (3.0, 4.0, 5.0) and Adobe Photoshop (older versions). (with Japanese and English versions) and many other less well known programs.
Oracle Master Silver
Bilingual web page:HTTP://MEMBERS.TRIPOD.COM/~PBL1/PAUL.HTML
[Return to Index]FOREIGN LANGUAGES:Fluency in Japanese.
4 years of Spanish study.
[Return to Index]JAPANESE EXPERIENCE:
Continuous Study of Japanese 1992- Present
1993 FALCON Summer intensive Japanese program.
1994 HIF Summer intensive Japanese program in Hokkaido Japan.
Successfully completed High-Advanced Coursework.
1995 Self-study of the basic 2000 Kanji.
1996 EAGLE Summer intensive Japanese program in K.I.T. (Kanazawa Institute of Technology) and the industrial city of Niihama in Japan.
Learned HTML in Japanese.
Studied business methods in Niihama.
Made scientific presentations using technical Japanese.
1996-7 Studied 1 year at the
Kyoto Center For Japanese Studies in Japan.
Studied Engineering Physics at Kyoto University.
Studied Japanese literature (Heian-Present) and Noh Drama.
[Return to Index]INTERNSHIPS, AWARDS, AND OTHER ACTIVITIES:
Earned 2nd Degree Black Belt ('90) at T. Kang Tae Kwon Do USA
Teaching Tae Kwon Do to Adults and Children (~'91-'96
Translated techincal documents from Japanese to English at Cornell.
Youth in Engineering and Science (YES) internship at Polytechnic Institute, NY. Performed research on the aspects of the Standard Model ('91).
Took a first place prize in the NYC Science Fair ('92) for research done during the YES internship.
Clerk ('93,'95) Treasurer ('94) Reader ('96,'97,'98) President ('98) at Cornell University
2nd Reader(English) (October '96) Christian Science Society at Kyoto, Japan.
1st Reader(Japanese) (November '96-April '97) Christian Science Society at Kyoto, Japan.
1st Reader(English) (Feburary '99-Present) 1st Church of Christ Scientist Tokyo, Japan.
Playing Clarinet in Ensembles for 12 years (ending when graduating Cornell, but still practicing)
Learned leadership, first-aid, and other skills as a Cub-scout and then Boy-scout ('82-'87)
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