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mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine) June 2008
Contact c/o Yoshiro Oka mitcho@mitcho.com
3-7 Zaimokuza 4-chome http://mitcho.com/
Kamakura, Kanagawa Portfolio: http://mitcho.com/code/
Japan 248-0013
Summary I have a varied academic and professional background in theoretical linguistics and mathematics,
web programming, and education. I seek a position where I can use my strong analytical skills and
native Japanese and English.
Biographical Birth: June 8th, 1985, Kamakura, Japan
Information Citizenship: United States and Japan (dual)
Education University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Master of Arts in Linguistics, University of Chicago, June 2007.
Thesis: "A New Syntax/Semantics for the Mandarin bi Comparative"
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and Mathematics, University of Chicago, June 2007.
Dean's list 20032007, GPA: 3.8/4.0.
Selected Yilan County Department of Education, Yilan county, Taiwan
Employment Fulbright Fellow August 2007June 2008
Taught English to 200 students in rural Taiwanese elementary schools together with a local teacher.
Grades 16.
The Academic Approach, Chicago, Illinois
TEX programmer September 2006June 2007
Managed an educational firm's content management and publishing in L TEX, using advanced for-
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matting and classes. Automated the transfer of academic materials written in TEX to their online
course backend using perl and open-source tools.
University of Chicago: Kanji alive, Chicago, Illinois
Technical lead, AJAX project director February 2004June 2007
Launched and oversaw maintenance of the new Kanji alive website, and continued to develop its
instructional web content and web site back-end, using XHTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. Led de-
velopment of a new AJAX version of Kanji alive using Flash.
Computer Skills · Applications: Photoshop, Flash, Microsoft Office, MySQL, WordPress, and UNIX shells.
· Typesetting languages: Advanced knowledge of XHTML/CSS, TEX, Markdown.
· Programming languages: Intermediate knowledge of PHP, SQL, perl, Javascript, Obj-C, others.
Languages · American English: native
· Japanese: native
· Mandarin Chinese: Test of Proficiency - Huayu Intermediate Certificate
· French: completed second year college sequence
Honors Linguistic Society of Taiwan National Conference on Linguistics
Best Paper Award 2008
J. William Fulbright Program
English Teaching Assistantship, Taiwan 20072008
Phi Beta Kappa 2007
Sigma Xi, the scientific research honor society
Associate Member 2006