A Fond Goodbye to Kai

Kai Lu, our staff Computer Network Technologist (and resident professional fisherman) has been poached! He recently received an ‘offer he couldn’t refuse’ from Housing and Residential Services. We hate to lose him, but the Department couldn’t match the offer from H&RS, and nobody can blame Kai for taking such attractive bait, both in terms of finances and in terms of opportunities for future advancement.

Kai has a BS in Business Administration from California State University Los Angeles, was on the President’s List at Mt. San Antonio City College, and completed Cisco Network Certification Courses and Computer Repair classes at Santa Barbara City College . Before joining Geography, he was an intern for the Vice President of Human Resources at EMI Music/Capitol Records in Los Angeles and a Certified Fishing Expert at Sport Chalet in Oxnard, CA . Kai leaves the Department next week to begin his new duties. We will all miss him, insofar as his friendliness, enthusiasm, expertise, and refreshing willingness to try to explain both the problems and the solutions to our computer puzzles endeared him to everyone in the Department. We all wish Kai “tight lines” in his future IT career!

Editor’s note: For you non-fishing folk, “tight lines” is a fishing term which indicates the hope that one will be successful in catching fish (a tight line being an indication that a fish has been hooked and has made the line taut). By extension, the term is used to wish someone success in any aspect of life.