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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