About Author

• Back in the 60's: got sent far away as an orphan to orphanage for school, but due to homesick so back home again
• 1972 - 1974: went far way again for school, and most of the time no breakfast because could not afford even a piece of bread

Work history

• 1987 - present: As taxpreparer at Kong & Su Tax Service since , his wife and he work four months per year, then make the best out of each year.
• 1997 - 2016: Retired from Diversified Staff since 2016, owner and as Vice President, in charge of recruiting, marketing and all other daily tasks
• 1980 - 1996: worked for a printed circuit board company as a technician, then promoted to a process engineer.
  Besides designing test fixtures, training, and providing technical supports in his department, he suggested and implemented cost saving ideas that the company nominated him as one of the great performers in 1984, and gave him a "trip for two" to Florida for a week. He wrote most procedures in his department for ISO 9000 certification. He was also responsible for selecting test equipment, then recommended to management for automation that reduced test time from eight hours to 10 seconds per circuit board.
  Self taught Macro 11 programming language at his own time at home, he modified software at work to reduce machine programming time from 10 hours to five minutes per part number. He alo self taught programming C language at home, then wrote routing software to reduce the design of (transgrid) CAD data for test fixture from 40 hours to five minutes per design on a PC with 100 Mhz at that time.

Education

• High school: Lincoln High School, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
• Saint Paul Technical College: Two-year certificate in electronic technology
• U of M: Independent study up to calculus IV, and some computer science classes

Speaking languages:

• Hmong
• English
• Lao
• Thai: Learned from newspaper trash found along the side of the road
• French & Japanese (little)

Computer languages come and go, but exposure to the following:

• 6502 OPCODES: First text to speech in English from letter A to Z, and number from 0 to 9 on Apple II+ computer to teach own children before attending kindergarten
• Alpha 5 database & XBasic: Extensive database with CRM (customer relationship management) and accounting to manage staffing company
• Apple Soft basic: First program to predict lunar eclipse -1M and 1M+ years, worked with supervisor to make HP plotters as robots for automation
• Fortran IV: The paper punch tape area
• HTML & javascript: Developed all internal web pages including Rainbow Animation
• Java: Yuhalu Hmong Text To Speech
• Macro 11
• MicroSoft C
• Pascal

Author:

• Yuhalu Hmong Text To Speech (2018 - Present)
• Hmong-English Phrasebook Of Daily Language and its recording cassette tape (1980)

Family: Married with four children, two boys and two girls, and six grand-children

Hobby: Hiking - mushroom hunter, play guitar & programming

Why is he here in the USA?
Due to his father's involvement with the US government in the Vietnam war, after the CIA pulled out from Vietnam, he escaped from Laos to Thailand in 1975 along with his mother and three sisters. He came to the United States in March 17, 1977 with his uncle who served as an interpreter for the US government.