Education/ Work Projects Skills References Functional Resume

The comprehensive resume of

Kelly George Hirai

 1908 E Indianhead Dr Tallahassee FL 32301 
(850) 504-1220 home (850) 644-1550 work
khirai@ongaku.isa-geek.net bakanonaka@yahoo.com

Education:


     graduate, Lansing Community College summer '93
     music, electronics, Japanese, Spanish, audio recording
     general associates degree

     graduate, University of New Mexico May  '00
     Bachelor of Arts, Music

     graduate, MS Computer Science
     Florida State University August '09

Work:

     Dec '06 - Present
     FSU Meteorology Department -- Computer Research Faculty
       Supported hetrogenous department computing enviroment including 
       weather feeds, web, LAN mgmt, printing, classrooms,
       storage and compute servers.
       Other projects include: implementing a 15 display maproom,
       repairing a badly dammaged mobile weather radar truck, 
       rigging and wiring remote instrumentation.
     Bret Whissel, Edward Peirce (850) 644-2552

     Sept '04 - Dec '06
     FSU Computer Science Dept -- TA, Instructor  C++ for non-majors
     David Giatros, Ann Ford-Tyson 

     Sept '02 - Sept '04 
     Leon County Civic Center -Audio Tech, irregular overhire
     Christine (850) 847-9808

     Sept '02 - Sept '03 
     Ruby Diamond Auditorium -Stage Tech, Audio Engineer
     Katie (850) 644-0324

     June  00 - Sept '02
     Musical Theater Southwest -Carpentry, Sound, Lights
     Heather Hillhouse (505) 720-2818

     June '00 - Sept '02
     Albuquerque's KiMo Theater -- Technical Supervisor
     Dennis Potter (505) 764-1704 DPotter@cabq.gov 

     Sept '98, -Sept '02
     Quickbeam   Regular over hire.  Sound reinforcement 
     Gary Matthews (505) 345-9230

     Sept '98 - May  00
     UNM Popejoy Hall   stage hand, loader, lights, carpentry, rail, sound
     Stanley Olivares (505) 277-9412 stano@unm.edu 

     Feb '99 - May  00
     UNM Keller Hall   stage hand, sound reinforcement/recording, lights, sound,
     maintenance, front of house, green room monitor.
     Roweena Mckay (505) 277-2131 roweena@unm.edu 

     June '99 - Dec  99
     KUNM Radio   music librarian / production / data entry
     David House (505) 277-8369 davho@unm.edu 

     Sept '97 - June '98
     UNM International Center    interim-co-coordinator. 
     Organized & promoted 1998 International Fiesta amongst other public
     presentations & activities. Installed and maintained 3 computers 
     Supervised 2 employees. 
     Ferando Maresma (505) 277-6191


     Sept '96 - Dec '97
     Double Rainbow Bakery -- baker
     Central NE Albuquerque NM 87106--super Peter Diddy
     (505) 255-6633

     Aug '95 - Sept '96
     Greyhound Transit / Win-Jen Corp. --ticket sales
     300 2nd Ave SW Albuquerque NM 87102 --super Ida White
     (505) 243-4435

     July '95 - Aug '95
     restored apartment --tile,shelves,paint,drywall,minor plumbing 
     502 Silver SE #c -- Bertha Snodgrass

     Dec '94 - July '95
     Video World / Hollywood Video --clerk
     Central NE Albuquerque NM --super Cheryl Dymond 
     (505) 262-0665  

     Jan' 94 - Aug '94
     The Fajita Factory --linecook, prepcook
     Central NE Albuquerque NM --super Erma
     (505) 247-2574

     Aug '93 - Dec '93
     Asahi Teriyaki -- dishwasher, prepcook, linecook
     Central NE Albuquerque NM --super Sidth
     (505) 265-4047

     Jan '93 - Aug'93
     El Azteco Restaurant West --dishwash, cook, bus, wait
     Saginaw Ave Lansing MI --super Tza

     Sept '91 - April '92
     The Lookout (newspaper)-- photographer
     Lansing Community College super -- Todd Mireles

     Feb '87 - Nov '92                                 
     Bilbo's Pizza in a Pan --cook, prep, wait, host, driver, bartender
     Ann st East Lansing MI --super Jim Barlow
     (517) 332-6006

     Summer '87
     Audio Services -- lab aide
     Lansing Community College --super Kate Merrill

     Sept '86 - Jan '87
     Begger's Benquet --dishwasher
     Abbot st East Lansing MI --super Bob Adler
     (517) 332-4504 


     Aug '84 - Aug '86
     El Azteco Resturant East --dishwasher, busser, cook, waiter
     M.A.C. Ave East Lansing MI -- super, Lupe
     (517) 351-9111

     Summer '84
     Baskin Robbin's Ice Cream Paroler --ice cream scooper
     East Grand River East Lansing MI --super, Dan Wardlow

Art Projects, Grant, Volunteer and Contract Work:

     Apr 14 - present
     Alien Hypnotist
     electronic ambient noise art trio
     guitarist, electronics
  
     May 10 - May 16
     Nenefest annual neighborhood culture festival
     House Band Guitarist, Participant

     Dec 09 - Dec 10
     Desparitely not Weird Guitarist, Drummer

     May 09
     Nenefest, exibition of wiimote generated music

     Sept 06 - present
     John Wesley United Methodist Church Guitarist, Sound Enginneer,
     IT Consultant 
     Pastor Ron Mccrurey, Armando Rodriguez 
     Minister of Music Angelyn Hirai (850) 877-1738
     
     Sept 03 - Sept 06
     Intensity Productions Guitarist, Sound Engineer, Recording Engineer
     Joseph (850) 284-8450

     Nov 01
     Variety Show, "Dia de los Muertos" benefit for NM Water
     Protection Coalition.
     Technical Director, sound and light board operator.
     Producer: Jaime Chavez 

     Oct 01
     Musical, "Americus Brass Band" lighting programmer / board op. 
       
     Oct 01 
     Sound design, Technical Director,  "Shining Town" 
     Producer: Stephany Willis (505)243-4325 
     
     May 01- present 
     UNM Media Arts, Lodestar Planetarium,
     Albuquerque High Performance  Computing  Center 
     Sound design and 3d modeling (Maya) of NASA data sets for a short on the
     cultural aspects of astronomy for a hemispheric projector system and
     5.1 sound. 
     More info at http://ongaku.isa-geek.net/~khirai/stars
     Faculty Advisor: Hue Bumgariner-Kirby huebk@unm.edu 

     Dec 00 - present 
     Fractal Music Toolkit, Development of C++ class library for the
     implementation of fractal algorithms in Csound. 

     Feb 00 - present
     Linux System Administrator, supporting a wide
     range of multimedia and system development applications.
     Server hosting personal pages: http://ongaku.isa-geek.net/

     Dec  99 - Dec  00
     Art of the Americas / Arts and Technologies Center Grant Recipient
     Proposal Title, "Toward a Computerized Approach to Contour Analysis"
     More info at http://ongaku.isa-geek.net/~khirai/king 
     Faculty Advisor: Richard Hermann (505) 277-2419 harhar@unm.edu 

     April  00
     Musical "Grease" arrangements / guitarist / sound tech.
     Clarissa Clark (505) 321-6826

     March  00
     Play, "Good News" flutist/actor
     director Thresa Christaneli (505)896-9604

     Jan  97 - Sept 02
     Racin Kreol, Albuquerque's Little Afro-Caribbean Music Gem.
     guitarist, vocalist, drummer
     
     Oct  99 and April  00
     Native American Studies Productions:
     "Guarding My Four Sacred Mountains" & "The Long Walk"
     sound design & reinforcement / actor
     Director: Carmelita Topaha (505)277-3917 ctopaha@unm.edu
     
     Oct '98
     Variety show -- The Reptilian Lounge / Meteor Variety Show 
     guitarist / accompanist

     Feb '98
     Theater project -- Dionysus on the Round -- guitarist 
     music director: Tom Robinson tsr1@unm.edu
    
     Jan '98 - June '98
     UNM Gospel Choir -- singer

     Jan '95 - Aug '02
     KUNM radio -- on call jazz dj, board operator
     David House (505) 277-8369 davho@unm.edu

     June '94 - Aug '95
     Fuzzy Bush and the Silent Rebels Reggae Band --guitarist 
   
     Jan '94 - Jan '95
     The Outpost Performance Space -- ticket taker, sound 
     reinforcement 

     July '93
     North Town Development Association annual Snake Rodeo 
     sound stage provider and performer
     
     Nov '92 
     movie "Nawgawni" -- asst. sound recorder

     April '93 - June '93
     The Ibex Stage and Boutique -- Sound Engineer, crowd 
     control, dj
 
     Sept '92 - April '93
     The Otherwise Gallery -- volunteer gallery sitter

     Nov '91 - July '93
     freelance photographer with home darkroom 

     Sept '90 - June '92
     DJ-Twisty-Tie free-lance house party dj

     June '88 - May '90
     Intermission -- audio colleges, slide projections, movie  
     projections 

     Dec '87 - Aug '88
     The Red Hats (improvisatory group) -- guitar, keyboard, 
     drums, vocals 

     Sept' 86 - Aug '88
     The Jesus Figs -- live audio colleges, sound reinforcement 
     construction of atypical musical instruments, environmental 
     recordings, mixing
     Trial by Death -- live audio colleges, 
     scratchin' and sound reinforcement
 
     Dec '85
     movie: "The Five Elbows of Death." --actor

     Sept '85 - Aug '86
     The Doe Boys -- sound reinforcement & recording
     Not For Sale -- recordings and audio colleges 

Other Skills not reflected in Resume

Computer Skills:

     Operating Systems and Platforms

          C/PM, DOS, UNIX/Linux, Windows3.1 - 7, Mac OS 7 thru OSX, TRS-80,
          Commadore, IBM, Mac Classic, Power PC, iMac, Linux on 386 thru x64
          Arduino, Raspberry PI, C.H.I.P. 
    
     Programing and Scripting Languages

          COBOL, FORTRAN, Pascal, Z-80 assembly, TRS-80 BASIC, QBASIC, C, C++
          Maya Embedded Language (MEL Script), Bash, Csound, Cmask
          Common Music Notation, Java, RISC, ada, lisp, python, SQL, perl 
          CRBasic, git

     Objects Coded for, libraries

          HTML, MIDI, pbmlib, Imagemagick, csound, ecasound, Bright Star Catalog,
          assorted music pieces (this involves a variety of data structures),
          common gateway interface, lexers and parsers, linux kernel modules,
          alsa (advanced linux sound architecture), css, pthreads, GSL, 
          Foray, soloii, rsl, IDV, wrf

     Applications

          Editors

               MS Word, Word Perfect, AppleWorks, AmiPro, Lyx, Emacs
               pico, nano, vi, vim, Netscape Composer, JWP & NJStar
               (Japanese Word Processors), Finale (Music Notation), LibreOffice,
               ed, screen, MS Visual Studio, Eclipse.

          Image Editors & Computer Aided Drafting, Graphing

               Gimp, Photoshop, xv, xfig, qcad, ImageMagick, inkscape
               gnuplot, 

          Animation, Video & Sound
:
               Maya, Adobe Premier, Goldwave, SAW, Csound, Cakewalk,
               for Linux
                    Gimp, snd, Xwave, Mxv, Ecasound, Csound, sox, Studio
                    rosegarden, SoundTracker, TerminatorX, Timidity, 
                    Ardour, Audacity, ffmpeg, Blender, mencoder/mplayer

         Unix Services Configured:
              Apache, CVS, exim4 (sendmail), alsa, jack, sshd, route, ntp,
              sockets, ldap

     Other Skills:       
 
          Able to analyze discrete transistor, and tube audio circuits. Good
          soldering skills. Able to solve small mechanical problems. Working
          knowledge of home architecture, architectural drawing and carpentry.
          Parenting Skills.

Professional References:

     
This resume and other personal expressions are available at:
         
http://ongaku.isa-geek.net/~khirai