KAPS News, May 11th

Welcome to the May 11th, 2010 edition of the KAPS Newsletter.

In this issue:
*South Bay Kappy Hour
*Recap: May Kappy Hour
*KCI Event: North Korea - Human Face Lecture Series - Health Diplomacy in North Korea
*KABANC's Legal Clinic 2010
*Job Posting: Software Engineers
*Job Posting: VP/Director of Engineering
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South Bay Kappy Hour

April Showers bring May flowers, and South Bay Kappy Hours.

Come join us at:

Location: Three Seasons Palo Alto (Patio area)
Date/Time: 5/20 (Thursday; 7pm-10pm)

We were able to get a couple drink specials:
$5.00 Acacia Chardonnay, California
$5.00 Cicchitti Merlot, Argentina
$4.00 Draft Beer, Stella

Look forward to seeing you there!

Recap: May Kappy Hour

Thanks to everyone who attended our May Kappy Hour at Lava Lounge, and twice thanks to those who signed up to be a potential Bone Marrow/Stem Cell donor with the Asian American Donor Program. For more information, please visit http://www.aadp.org.

Photos from the event will be available on our website shortly.

KCI Event: North Korea - Human Face Lecture Series - Health Diplomacy in North Korea

The Korean Center, Inc. (KCI) is proud to present the next installment of its special lecture series entitled North Korea: Human Face. A group of KAPS members will be attending this lecture on Wednesday, May 19th at 6:00 pm at the Korean Center (1362 Post St, San Francisco). There will also be a reception with refreshments at 7:00 pm.

Global health diplomacy: This lecture is framed around the critical issue of “health diplomacy” as a way to engage North Korea, and comprises Part II of the Global Health Diplomacy subseries of the “North Korea: Human Face” program. An emerging field of global policy, international health diplomacy is a cutting-edge field that interfaces between foreign policy, public health, and law and economics.

Dr. Sharon Perry is a senior research scientist from the Division of Infectious Diseases, School of Medicine, Stanford University, and science fellow with the Stanford Freeman-Spogli Institute, Center for International Security & Cooperation. Sharon Perry and her team were recently featured in the New York Times for their cutting-edge humanitarian work in North Korea. In an unprecedented collaboration between U.S. and North Korean tuberculosis experts, Perry has been leading a team of U.S. medical specialists working with doctors from Pyongyang’s Ministry of Public Health to develop the country’s first diagnostic laboratory for drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB).

Dr. Perry’s medical research has focused on the immuno-epidemiology of tuberculosis, for which she is a recipient of an NIH K23 career development award. During 2008, in collaboration with CISAC and APARC, she organized the Bay Area Tuberculosis Consortium to host a delegation of North Korean physicians to visit Bay Area TB programs and discuss opportunities for mutual cooperation. She holds a BA, mcl, in History and Economics from Boston University, and an EdM in Social Policy from Harvard University, and completed her PhD in Epidemiology at UCSD.

The Stanford-led Bay Area Tuberculosis Consortium was organized in 2007 to promote opportunities for professional collaboration with North Korea on mutual interests in TB control. For the past two years, Dr. Sharon Perry has directed the DPRK TB Health Policy Project, which seeks to develop opportunities for academic exchange on tuberculosis control. Dr. Perry will discuss the consortium’s work with the DPRK Ministry of Public Health to develop the country’s first laboratory with capacity to diagnose tuberculosis by culture and drug susceptibility testing. Implications of the project for regional and Pacific Rim TB programs will also be discussed.

Please join the Korean Center's Facebook page! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Korean-Center-Inc-KCI-in-San-Francisco/110...

Anyone interested in attending with KAPS should RSVP to KAPS Vice-President Andrew Ko at andrew@kaps.org.

KABANC's Legal Clinic 2010

KABANC's annual legal clinic is coming up on May 22, 2010, so please mark your calendars. This is a pro bono project that reaches out to the Korean-American community. The legal clinic over the years have served hundreds of KAs from all over the Bay Area, and we even had people coming from as far as Salinas to receive a consultation.

Attorneys and law students from all practice areas will make themselves available to provide consultations and answer questions. What we have found is that the questions that many people have are actually "basic" for most of us attorneys, sometimes not even "legal" in nature. However, for many KAs, it's very daunting and confusing because of language and access issues. One of our main objectives is to dispel individuals of those impediments that prevent them from seeking out answers by providing Korean interpreters as well as fostering a more familiar environment.

The event details are as follows:

KABANC Legal Clinic
Date: May 22, 2010, Saturday
Time: 9am to 2pm
Place: The Lord's Church (2526 Homestead Rd. Santa Clara, CA 95051)

TO SIGN UP AS A VOLUNTEER, PLEASE CONTACT HANESTHER KIM AT kim.hanesther@gmail.com

From your KABANC Pro Bono/Community Outreach Committee, Chaired by Jonathan Bae and Co-Chaired by Hanesther Kim and Harrison Nam.

Job Posting: Software Engineers

Location: Burlingame, CA
Pay: Commensurate with experience

DESCRIPTION: Start up currently in stealth mode. Founders are industry vets including Nick Swinmurn who founded Zappos.com which sold recently to Amazon for ~$1B.

Looking for passionate programmers with entrepreneurial drive. Any experience developing consumer web applications a definite plus.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

- BS or Masters Degree in Computer Science or related field
- 5+ years professional related experience or Master’s Degree and 4+ years
- Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Good social skills and a positive attitude.
- Strong Core Java competencies (Core, IO, Threading), Spring, Spring MVC, Hibernate, JUnit
- Strong OO design skills, and understanding of design patterns
- Developed systems with Multitier architecture, MySQL (or similar RDBMS), back-end management and heavy traffic sites
- Fluent in SQL (MySQL experience preferred).
- Experience with web services, XML, and standards for describing and processing XML documents.
- Strong Javascript/AJAX/JSON/JQuery skills are required
- Strong HTML/CSS skills
- Linux or other Unix experience

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

* Design application and core, backend software components that interact with databases and other services.
* Conduct design and code reviews
* Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system resources.

Please send your resume and cover letter to jamesk.m@gmail.com.

Location: Burlingame, CA
Pay: Commensurate with experience
DESCRIPTION: Start up currently in stealth mode. Founders are industry vets including Nick Swinmurn who founded Zappos.com which sold recently to Amazon for ~$1B.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

- Must be extremely articulate and possess superb written communication, presentation, and reasoning skills
- Able to articulate ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Proven leader with the ability to set and manage priorities judiciously
- Must be detail-oriented, well organized, and able to lead cross-functional executions simultaneously
- Superior analytical, evaluative, and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to motivate in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Able to take ideas from whiteboard to production quickly with teams from zero to 10+
- Strong Javascript/AJAX/JSON/JQuery/CSS skills are required
- Proven proficiency programming with J2EE, Java, LAMP
- Must have developed systems with Multitier architecture, MySQL (or similar RDBMS), back-end management and heavy traffic sites
- BA/BS degree required in the field of computer science or other computer related discipline; an advanced degree is a plus
- 6-10 years relevant experience
- Experience with overseas and outsourcing management

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

- Evaluate and identify appropriate technology platforms (including web application frameworks and the deployment stack) for delivering the company’s products
- Lead strategic planning to achieve business goals by identifying and prioritizing development initiatives and setting timetables for the evaluation, development, and deployment of all web-based services
- Establish and supervise the processes for software development, code reviews, and releases

Please send your resume and cover letter to jamesk.m@gmail.com.

KAPS is always on the lookout for people interested in getting the most out of their KAPS experience. We are looking for volunteers to plan social events, coordinate community service events, serve as guest speakers, monitor the website, and improve the overall KAPS member experience. We are also looking for contributors to our newsletters and website, in the form of job postings, professional advice, and relevant news.

If you are interested in becoming an officer, contributing to newsletters, or assisting with an event, please contact andrew@kaps.org.

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