Rob Nugen Email & Phone Number

I conduct workshops and meetings giving people skills to connect with each other and with their personal life mission.I have been running a men’s peer counseling group in Tokyo since 2015. I lead walking meditation and other wellness workshops in both Tokyo and Kanagawa.As an 18-year resident in Kanagawa, I am fully aware of both the joys and pitfalls of life in Japan. In the middle of work, relationships, and other commitments, it is easy to feel cut off, isolated, and eager to… Show more I conduct workshops and meetings giving people skills to connect with each other and with their personal life mission.I have been running a men’s peer counseling group in Tokyo since 2015. I lead walking meditation and other wellness workshops in both Tokyo and Kanagawa.As an 18-year resident in Kanagawa, I am fully aware of both the joys and pitfalls of life in Japan. In the middle of work, relationships, and other commitments, it is easy to feel cut off, isolated, and eager to find something more meaningful.My experience in counseling and facilitation work includes: 10+ years attending and 5+ years leading a weekly peer counseling circle for men 1+ year’s experience suicide hotline volunteer 19+ years barefoot walking in Houston Texas and Tokyo Japan Shamanic healing training ShadowWork basic trainingYour trusted guideDoing inner emotional work, you should have a competent and trusted guide. Leading my Peer counseling circles has given me vast experience in navigating this territory. Do you need someone to hear you? I can be that person. Need someone to represent the energy of your father, your mother, your boss, your brother, sister, or your employee? I can be that person. I can ask you the questions that will help you see the way forward.My workshops will let you explore what blocks you from offering the best of yourself to the world. We will work through the emotions and allow your inner guidance to shine through. Show less

Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

ongoing iOS development of card games focused on educationProgrammed a sample video game as part of investors relations package to promote the company. Created website to support the video game users in an interactive environment, including scripts to decode RSS feeds for placement on website.

designed + created multi-lingual backend and frontend websites for real estate companyprogrammed Android app 絵Phone箱

Ebisu, Tokyo, Japan

create user interface to administrative and front end websites, allowing admins to input and edit datacreate onscreen translation interface to allow converting website to Japanese

Modified record maintenance system to allow copying of records and sub-records Built a saleable website product from existing objects Designed and built custom invoicing system for contract and one-off invoices using mySQL and PHP for back and front ends and AJAX technologies, including MooTools, jQuery and JSON, for user interface functionality

Designed and implemented new web services in existing PHP website, including business rules for sending products to clients for evaluation and technical writing descriptions with screenshots of front and back ends from user, administrator and programmer points of view, respectively Installed wiki to document company software environment Merged two websites written in different model-view-controller (MVC) architectures and database back ends, including mySQL and Postgres Expanded… Show more Designed and implemented new web services in existing PHP website, including business rules for sending products to clients for evaluation and technical writing descriptions with screenshots of front and back ends from user, administrator and programmer points of view, respectively Installed wiki to document company software environment Merged two websites written in different model-view-controller (MVC) architectures and database back ends, including mySQL and Postgres Expanded database to track multiple scores per client depending on service used Employed separate GUIs to help users and administrators handle new web services Undertook changes to Smarty website to enable mobile phone video uploads Designed mySQL tables and wrote PHP pages for tracking clicks on client websites Rewrote mySQL queries, improving run times by a quarter Utilized PHP extensively to produce HTML and to access mySQL Employed mySQL for table design and database implementation Show less

Programmed sample video game for investor relations package promoting the company and built website to support video game users in interactive environment, including scripts to decode RSS feeds for placement on website Employed Macromedia Flash Actionscript 2.0 for video game programming Programmed in Perl for RSS decoding and website's computer-generated imagery

Designed and implemented user-friendly, web-based survey tool with secure log-in, survey branching based on responses, save and continue, recovery of lost passwords, and administrator access, using SAS for back-end data storage, HTML for web-based user interface, and Javascript for data entry sanity checking Utilized SAS skills and knowledge to produce tool that reduced survey creation time from two weeks to one hour

Founded MR Laboratories to provide hand-coded websites and sourced and interviewed all clients to determine their website requirements Applied Perl in design of custom user interfaces Devised Blankets to You baby blanket shopping cart Developed the Right Step drug rehabilitation center website Built website for software reseller Devised variable image size photo album for private artist

Modified old code in a VMS environment to support new requests while preserving functionality and wrote one application from scratch to allow customer service representatives to pull up customer billing data in real time and print a range of pages Programmed heavily in C, C++, and PL/1 Evolved proprietary database management system to meet customer needs Continued evolution of reporting capabilities in three-tier application architecture Wrote batch process application to… Show more Modified old code in a VMS environment to support new requests while preserving functionality and wrote one application from scratch to allow customer service representatives to pull up customer billing data in real time and print a range of pages Programmed heavily in C, C++, and PL/1 Evolved proprietary database management system to meet customer needs Continued evolution of reporting capabilities in three-tier application architecture Wrote batch process application to eliminate 24 man-hours per month and help Telecheck migrate to any-day billing cycle Wrote batch utility and wove it seamlessly into process to automatically examine incoming data files for integrity Wrote proprietary application for internal use that boasts fully object-oriented C++ and text menu interface in three-tier architecture and that displays and prints archived invoices and allows flexible reporting using mySQL Show less

Around The World

designed English lessons and activities for Japanese passengers while attending lectures around the world

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Science