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About Me
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| I am currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Education at Appalachian State University, for an overview of my professional life, you can access my online curriculum vita. I am much more than my work. So on the right I've included several photo galleries of family, favorite interests, travels, and places around the globe where I've lived. |
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Hobbies :: Travel & Surfing
My favorite travel and surf spot in Indonesia is a long right-hand point break that rolls through a sand bottom bay for up to 400 meters in front of a palm-lined black sand beach. |
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Photo Galleries
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Luke
My son, Luke Shigenari Wallace, born on Sep. 13, 2008. When I leave for work I tell him "I'm going out now to make money so someday I can take you surfing all over the world".
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Japan
I moved to Japan to work at a university in Niigata, and later a technology consulting firm in Tokyo. To this day, Japan holds many of the memories closest to my heart.
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Indonesia
Photos from many years in Indonesia; from the surf breaks of Bali and Java, to the exotic islands of Sumba and Flores. Every single day that I'm not in Indonesia I miss it dearly.
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China
I was Visiting Professor of Instructional Technology at Shaanxi Normal University in the ancient capital of Xi´an, one of the greatest cities I have had the pleasure to stay.
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Guam
Guam is a beautiful tropical island located in Micronesia and a territory of the US. I lived here for several years, teaching Instructional Technology at the University of Guam.
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The Past 10 or so Years...
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee, and immediately left the country in search of adventure... First I served as both Visiting Professor of Business and Lead Architect for online academic systems at the International University of Japan, in the "snow country" region of Niigata, Japan. Then during the dot com era, after interviewing in London, Hamburg, and Singapore, I decided to remain in Japan, where I worked as an information architect and the manager of mobile and wireless data systems for European and Hong Kong based technology consulting firms in Tokyo. We worked a lot on i-mode mobile web applications — in fact, I wrote the book on it (in English at least).
Disillusioned with the business world, I took some time off and for more than a year I was in Indonesia, where I volunteered with the Sumba Foundation, working on a project to promote local handicrafts and textiles from the impoverished areas of Sumba Island. Returning from the journey across Indonesia, at the time of the tsunami there, I served as the first Visiting Professor in the field of Instructional Technology at Shaanxi Normal University in Xi'an, China — one of the largest teacher preparatory universities in the world.
Just prior to moving to Appalachian State University in the summer of 2008, I was Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Instructional Technology in the School of Education for several years in Micronesia, at the University of Guam. |
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