My mission is to engage and work as a case worker to 20+ of my veteran clients who reside in couple of permanent supportive housings inside of the VA facility in Sepulveda, outreaching each my clients at a weekly basis to see how they are doing physically and mentally, asking their needs, and focusing on residents who may require special help. - Outreaching: Checked with each of my clients at a weekly basis, staying in contact, especially for those veterans who may require special care, helping with various documentations.- Reviewing goals: Met with clients every three or six months to discuss and review their goals from housing, social independence and support, financial, medical and mental health stand points. - Helping for special needs: Engage and interact with clients who may require special help, such as arranging in-home services, veterans who may looking to get an electric wheelchair, or arrange for clients to get help at rehabilitation centers.- Hosting and facilitating events: Host and facilitate events, such as inviting guest speakers on rental issues advising, social worker who provides advices on mental health, community activities, such as bingo, barbecue events, arts & crafts, bible study groups. - Establish and maintain relationships: Building relationships with organizations who could donate food, clothing, transportations, and other various services that could provide, and us giving to them as well, maintaining the give and take relationships.

Working as a Peer Support Specialist, I worked for Veteran Peer Access Network (VPAN) at Veterans West of Battleship Iowa. My mission was to outreach veterans who needed help in Supervisory District 4 (SD-4) in Los Angeles County, by providing the necessary resources to veterans who may not be aware of, try to make their transitioning process as smooth as possible. I have outreached veterans who are in permanent supportive housings, veterans who make frequent visits at some of the multi service centers, churches, veteran resources center in colleges, and veterans who spend their days and knights on the streets, riverbanks in Southern LA County. - Outreaching: Did every day outreaching to veterans I received referrals through Unite Us referral platform, veterans who visit at the Multi Service Center in Long Beach, to a church where they go to get breakfasts, veterans residing at the Plaza Permanent Supportive Housing in the Century Village at Cabrillo (CVC), informing about the type of services VPAN do offer.- Reconning: Collaborating with DMH and other veteran service organizations, we formed some groups of bi-weekly reconning to locate homeless veterans in city streets and riverbanks, asking if they need any help.- Resource Fairs: Hosted several resource fairs for veterans and their families who resides within SD-4, introducing the type of services VPAN offers to veterans, such as VA benefit screenings, medical benefits, housings, education, clothing and food. - Meal events: Hosted events for providing meals to veterans, such as having a BBQ gathering in the summer and giving out boxed meals during the Holiday Season at the Battleship IOWA and at the Plaza in CVC.- Inviting veterans: The Battleship IOWA is a museum that many veterans wanted to visit. We have invited tens of veterans from both LA and Orange Counties, fulfilling their thoughts of what they wanted to do for quite some time.

As an AmeriCorps VISTA member, I worked for Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles (Habitat LA), handling the veteran outreach program throughout Los Angeles County. My mission was to let the veterans become aware of our veteran program, "Habitat for Heroes" (H4Hero). The program featured Home Ownership, Home Repairs, Volunteers and Employment opportunities. I did the following activities to spread our message. - Presentations: I visited at veteran services organizations (VSOs), veteran resource centers in schools and public libraries, and did presentations by power point or by disseminating sales kits.- Resource fairs: Resource fairs were held 20+ times a year in various locations in LA County and these were great opportunities enabling to engage with resource seeking veterans and got to introduce our program. - Community meetings: There were several community meetings held monthly and I had opportunities to introduce our program to professionals from other VSOs. H4Hero includes volunteer program and I was in charge of recruiting veteran and active service member volunteers for our build events. I got in touch with VSOs, schools, and Habitat LA's Veteran Advisory Council, especially when the following two events were held.- Fleet Week Build: Annually held during Fleet Week, Labor Day weekend. I recruited 40+ active service member volunteers each year, mostly from the Navy, some from the Coast Guard, the USMC, and the Canadian Navy, building affordable homes.- Veterans Build: Featuring veteran volunteers and hosting at various military related facilities in LA County, this event is held annually during the Veterans Day weekend. Being one of the major volunteer event that Habitat LA hosts, I have recruited 70+ veteran volunteers each year for this event and received great cooperation from VSOs and universities.Also, served as a committee member for both, Metro's employment fair and City of Compton's resource fair, in 2018 and 2019.

Rehired by H.I.S. International Tours gave me an opportunity to work for a key role. This time, working for both branches at New York and Los Angeles, my duty was to establish relationships locally and internationally, bridging the gap between the customers' needs in Japan and offers that suppliers can come up with in the United States. - New York: Lead the role as the contracting manager, I established wholesale contracts with hotels and various suppliers in the eastern region of the United States for our customers traveling individually from Japan. - Los Angeles: As being the planning supervisor, I lead in creating tour packages in the western region, mainly featuring packages to the National Park regions disseminated to clients in Japan. Gathering up the local resources and the customers' needs in overseas required plenty of constant communications.

A Japanese travel agent based in Tokyo, Japan, I had an opportunity to work at both offices, Tokyo and New York.- Tokyo: Worked as representative selling air tickets to over seas, mainly to Asia, Europe, and the United States. Constantly sold at least 5 tickets a day during the "pre-computer era".- New York: Handled all the inbound customers visiting from Japan. I was mainly in charge of customer greetings at all three New York airports with airport transfers, tour guiding, selling and arranging optional tours and hotel reservations in New York City.

Went to Basic Training at Ft. Bliss, TX in 1984/85.Stationed in then West Germany from 1985 for 2 years as a field medic at Charlie Company, 2nd of 4th Infantry Battalion, 56th Field Artillery Brigade, United States Army Europe.