Bachelor of Arts Degree in Journalism, 2003
                              California State University, Northridge
Associate of Arts Degree, 2001
                              Pasadena City College

DAILY  SUNDIAL (August-December, 2003)
       Worked as a staff photographer of a campus daily newspaper and learned how to maintain a professional attitude as a photographer in a variety of events, meetings, and parties.  Major events I have taken pictures include: Neighborhood Address of Los Angeles Mayor Hann, Sobriety Check by Police, Welcoming Festival for new students, Music Therapy Event, University Provost Retirement Party.

Digital Photography  

    Headshot, modeling, portrait, event (Birthday Party at a Le meridien hotel in Beverly Hills, Live Concert in a restaurant in Old Pasadena, Wedding assistant at Figuroa Hotel, Downtown LA). Also, photos for CD Cover, poster and promotional postcards for musicians. Picture of foods for a store at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suits, Downtown LA.
      Excellent for outside shoot, finding appropriate background for a subject without setting-up.  Experienced to get the best lighting condition while shooting outside daytime
      Learned both being observational and directional through the experiences of both journalistic and artistic photography works.
      Professional skills for digital retouching, photo enhancement, color correction and adding texts.

Graphic Design

      Graphic design for commercial flier, poster, business card, promotional postcard, greeting card.
      Basic skills to make websites, such as uploading images, adding text, changing colors, making links

Photoshop CS, Dreamweaver, QuarkXpress, HTML, MS Word, Internet     


Camera & Lense: Canon 5D digital camera (12mega pixel), Canon 16-35mm (2.8F) lens, Canon 24-70mm (2.8F), Canon 70-200 (4.0F), Sigma 70-200mm (2.8F), Tamron 28-300mm lens (3.5F), Canon Flash EX430, flash bracket, 8 GB Memory Card

Lighting Equipments:

Two main strobes (440 watt), four 180 watt strobes, reflector, Backdrops (Black, White, gray, light blue, green, blue),

       The following are the photo essays I created during the time I was taking photojournalism courses: gStop Smog (2002),h gGetting Over the Barriers of Language and Culture (2002),h gJapanese American Cultural & Community Center (non-profit organization) (2003),h gThe Aftermath of the Southland Wildfires (2003),h and gChildrenfs Hungerfs Fund (non-profit organization)(2003)h

Japanese native speaker and fluent in English, conversational in Spanish