I'm an English Instructor and the IT Specialist at Nippon Steel Sumikin-Intercom, Inc here in Japan. My first love was database development but I have worked with a whole range of technologies and frameworks in the last 20 years: JSP, .NET, YUI, PHP, the UML. Recently I've been getting better acquainted with Knockout and jQuery. My YUI work got me interested in more ambitious JavaScript projects and the need for good Build processes to deploy minified files on a production site.