Certification, Speaking Engagements, and Awards
2009 

2009 Pamantasan Conference: "Youth: The Hope for the Future with a Respect for Cultural Preservation"
Session III - Leadership/Education - Member of a Panel of UH Grad Students discussing "Filipinos in Arts and Humanities"
Maui Community College, Kahului, HI

Certificate "Teaching All Students Reaching All Learners: Innovative Ways to Address Disability and Diversity in the Post Secondary Classroom"
Center for Disability Studies and Center for Teaching Excellence, UH, Manoa, HI

2007 
Certificate of Appreciation - Outstanding Contribution "Justin Lin and the crew of 'Finishing The Game'" @ SDSU
from the Intercultural Relations/Cross Cultural Center, SDSU, San Diego, CA

Guest Speaker - Asian Studies 472: Economic Reforms in China - "Development of Rural China",, SDSU, San Diego, CA

Guest Speaker - Department of Homeland Security - "t;Asian Pacific History Month Luncheon", San Diego, CA

Guest Speaker - Asian Studies 531: Spiritual and Intellectual Traditions of the Asia Pacific - "Lama Chic" SDSU, San Diego, CA
2006 
Guest Speaker - Television, Film, and Media 160: Cinema as Art & Communication - "Interrogating the Image" SDSU, San Diego, CA

Guest Speaker - Andres Bonifacio Samahan - Celebration the Centennial Anniversary of Filipino immigrants being in the United States:
"Coming Home: We Remember Our Roots" SDSU, San Diego, CA
2005 
Faculty Lecture Series - Fall 2005 - "Destabilizing Narratives: Post War Memories of the United State, Japan, and the Philippines and the Bataan Death March"
SDSU, Imperial Valley Campus, CA

Guest Speaker - Women's Studies 360: Women's Sexuality and The Body - "Introduction to Michel Foucault: Heculine Barbin and the Category Problem of the Hermaphrodite"
SDSU, San Diego, CA
2004 
7th Joint Graduate Liberal Studies Conference - The Globalized Citizen - "Globalization and Destabilization in a Confluence of Master Narratives: Post War Memories of the United States, Japan, and the Philippines and the Bataan Death March" Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Guest Speaker:
- Master of Arts Liberal Arts and Sciences 600A: The Matrix - "The Betrayal of the Real: The Matrix - Riff or Rip-Off" SDSU, San Diego, CA
- Asian Studies 460: Filipino American Communities - "Introduction to the Abu Sayyaf" SDSU, San Diego, CA
- Asian Studies 460: Filipino American Communities - "Rizal and Filipino Nationalism" SDSU, San Diego, CA
- Asian Studies 351: Literary Horizons in the Asia Pacific - "Examining Spectacle and Re-Collecting Collective Guilt in Jessica Hagedorn's Dogeaters" SDSU, San Diego, CA
- Asian Studies 300: Asia's Global Futurees - "Introduction to the Abu Sayyaf" SDSU, San Diego, CA
- Asian Studies 300: Asia's Global Futures - "What is your take on Tibet?" SDSU, San Diego, CA
- SDSU AIESEC - "The 'Race' Problematic"SDSU, San Diego, CA
2003 
1999 
PADI Open Water Diver Diver No. 9911C39911 Lillooet, BC
1998 
An Overview of Teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) Vancouver Community College - Continuing Education

TTeaching English as a Foreign Language Vancouver Community College - Continuing Education

VCC TEFL Program - Practice Teaching (151722) Vancouver Community College - Continuing Education
1996 
Tax Preparation H & R Block Tax Services, Inc. Vancouver, BC

Certified Global Positioning System (GPS) Technician Terra Pro GPS, Lillooet, BC

National Coaching Certification Program, Level 1 Vancouver, BC
1995 
Certified Novell Administrator Vancouver, BC
1993 
Canada Day Contest First Place Area 35 Speech Contest, Toastmaster's International, Lillooet, BC
Toastmaster of the Year - 1993 (September 24, 1993) Mile "O" Lillooet Toastmaster's Club, Lillooet, BC
Competent Toastmaster (August 20, 1993) Mile "O" Lillooet Toastmaster's Club, Lillooet, BC
Letter of Commendation - Lytton Fires Province of BC, Ministry oof Forest, Lillooet Forest District, BC
Canada Day Contest Third Place Division C Speech Contest, Toastmaster's International, Vernon, BC
Canada Day Contest First Place Area 35 Speech Contest, Toastmaster's International, Kamloops, BC
Competent Toastmaster (February 28, 1993) Mile "O" Lillooet Toastmaster's Club, Lillooet, BC
1992 
Outstanding Student Capilano College, North Vancouver, BC

Introduction to Careers with Computers Asociacion Cristiana Laboral Hispana, Vancouver, BC
1990 
Certificate of Appreciation Government Organization for Information Technology, Manila, Philippines
1989 
Marketing Man of the Year 1st Runner-up Mega Group of Computer Companies, Manila, Philippines

Most Punctual Nominee Mega Group of Computer Companies, Manila, Philippines
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