Takeo Shimazu's
e-Portfolio

I love math, cooking, and creating different sorts of systems.
Colorful vegetables showcased

About Me

Adult Computer Science Student

with entrepreneurial experience in East and Southeast Asia

who speaks English, Japanese, and Vietnamese and not yet good at spoken English. You can click the vegetable image to get to know who I am in a concise way.

Japanese prime minister Abe Shinzo meeting Admiral John M. Richardson

Scholarship Application

In Fall 2023, I applied for a scholarship for students who are raising children. The scholarship was also available to international students. Unfortunately, I was not able to be granted, but what I conveyed in the application essay is still the same. Please click the image to see the screenshots (three pages.)

Japanese Ukiyoe featuring Big wave

Strengths

  • Appreciating the impact of preparation and waiting to benefit from changes
  • Respect the power of writing effectively to move people
  • Surrender to the significance of trade-offs to prioritize matters
  • Exploiting inherent bluntness and lingering thoughts with details to add value
A soccer goal

Goals

  • Accumulate experience as a software developer in teams with low-fear, high-trust, and no-politicking culture.
  • Starting a profitable business and solving problems together with people who dare tackle
  • Dying as a husband, a father, and a grandfather
Three red candles lit in the dark

Achievements

  • 10 years as creative entrepreneur
  • 10-years expertise of leading diversed workforce
  • 22 years in international marriage
  • Competitive son and cute daughter
A baby lone pony foraging in a pasture

Weaknesses

  • Cannot engage in innocuous, unimportant, or light talks very well (in English)
  • Cannot understand or respond to illogically or implicitly delivered message well (in Vietnamese and English)
  • Having complicated, ambivalent, and incompleted ideas (in Japanese, Vietnamese and English)