Introduction
Tags: beginners, webdev
Published: 2022-09-01 07:30:00

Hi there, I’m **Nami Miyashiro**. Currently studying Web Development at CICCC in Vancouver. Thank you for dropping by my page, I will post records of my growth as a frontend engineer. 

**About me**
I was born in Japan and spent most of my life in a small town surrounded by mountains. Even though I was in a rich natural environment, I love playing games, surfing the Internet, and playing with cats at home. I became interested in other cultures after watching Pokémon movies set in foreign countries, and that was the start of my (kind of) international career.
I am studying HTML/CSS, JavaScript and Ruby on Rails.
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**Things I like**
<u>Pokémon</u> 
My father bought Pokémon Red and Blue for me when I was six years old, and I played Red every day. I was too young to understand the story and battle actions so it was Gold and Silver that I fully enjoyed the game first time. Typhlosion is my best partner forever. I have played every new series and I will buy a new one that will be released this December.
Since I was desperately in love with it, I applied for a part time job at Pokémon center and gained the honorable job through several interviews. It was a great time to be a member of the Pokémon company and I really enjoyed “working” there.

<u>Games</u>
I am an only child, and my parents were both working, so they gave me a lot of toys that I could play with while I was at home. I had been playing video games since my father bought Pokémon games, as I mentioned above. I prefer RPG and action games, and have played the Pokémon series, FF7/10/13, Kingdom Hearts1/2/3, Splatoon2, Monster Hunter 3rd/X/World & IB/Rise & SB …and so on. I also like something creative such as Animal Crossing. I played Animal Crossing New Horizons over nine hundred and twenty hours. If I start playing Minecraft, it will consume the majority of my time, so I will refrain from doing so for the time being.

<u>Cats</u>
I am a cat person. My parents bought a small American Shorthair fourteen years ago, and it was the beginning. She was so adorable and we were obsessed with cats. My father brought back a Russian Blue kitten next year, and we also started to adopt stray cats. We keep adopting cats, and there are now nine cats in my parents' home. My bedroom turns to cats’ room so I always sleep on the floor when I go home for the holiday.
In Vancouver, I rarely see stray cats so I am starving for them.　Please share any information you have about the best places to see such adorable animals.

<u>Travel</u>
Traveling is one of the few outdoor activities that I enjoy as an indoor person. When I watched one of the Pokémon movies (sorry I am crazy about it), I was interested in the location. The film was set in Venice and I remember that descriptions of water, trees, and buildings were so beautiful. It made me want to travel to other countries and see beautiful scenery. To visit real Venice, I had studied English so hard and continued on to university.　Finally I have been to The City of Canals for my graduation trip and that was so amazing. I was happy to make one of my dreams come true. 
I also have been to the US, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic, Croatia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Fiji, and Canada.
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**Education and Work Experience**
I majored in British and American culture at _Nagoya University of Foreign Studies_ because I wanted to pursue a career in foreign cultures. After graduation, I worked as a hotel clerk at the front desk and kept learning English through conversati​​on with guests for four years. Certainly, it was what I had hoped for in the past, but the job gave me the feeling of traveling the world as visitors came to my country.

I had quit my job at the hotel and started a new career in the tech field. I would have preferred to be a freelancer so that I could work and travel at the same time, but I decided to start with a temp agency _Modis Ltd._ to learn the fundamentals of technology. 

I studied hardware and got certified with CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), then I was sent to _Hitachi Systems, Ltd._ as a member of the SOC (Security Operation Center) for three years. I have worked on analyzing attacks to web servers and behaviors of scam emails, configuring black lists on firewalls to block malicious communication, and documenting our findings in reports. I had learned a lot from working at SOC. When I was new there, I couldn't tell the difference between a proxy server and a web server. I studied how to investigate tons of communications with Splunk, and I became to be able to deal with DDoS attack to our web server. After I experienced SOC, I moved to _SoftBank Corp._ as a temporary worker and engaged with operating mobile security app, Zimperium for six months. We assisted customers in making their mobile devices more secure by adding a black list　and analyzing suspicious communications. This job is also in the "security" field, but it was totally different what I experienced before. First of all, I needed to understand how MDM (Mobile Device Management) manages the mobile app, as well as network activities via wireless access points. It was exciting and enjoyable for me to study the mobile field.

The other day, I bought a book about HTML/CSS for a change of pace while I studied security and found it so fun to create something by myself. Also it was almost the last chance for me to use a working holiday visa so I decided to try new things in a new environment. I searched for a study abroad agency and found one that is based in Vancouver.
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**Certification/Tools**
CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)
Splunk
AWS
Cybereason
FireEye
Zimperium
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**My Goal**
I want to be a frontend engineer who is skilled in animations. Through the class for a month, we practiced making prototypes of web pages and apps. It is available to build using just words and pictures, but it will be more useful and attractive if we put some animations on backgrounds, buttons, and any other functions. I also like drawing pictures so I would like to use my works on my webpage one day.