David Nokamura

Basic Info

Name: David Nokamura
Operational Codename: Tseng
Convention: New World Order
Methodology: Men in Black, Men in Gray
Gender: Male
Age: 38
Origin: Japanese-American (Half Japanese)
Education: B.S. - Anthropology (Case Western Reserve)

Background

David Nokamura was raised in San Francisco, the only child in a well-to-do, progressive family. His father was a computer science researcher at Lawrence-Berkeley National Lab, while his mother was a physician at a local hospital. David was an average student in school, though from a young age his talent for computer programming and electronics was noted by his teachers and parents. As he grew up, he also demonstrated superior athletic talent, a track star at his high school. Nevertheless, David's predispositions got him into trouble. He didn't take his studies seriously and spent more time socializing with friends. Furthermore, he accrued a juvenile record, owing to his becoming involved with the city's street racing scene. Still, his parents were respected in the community, and David was given a pass on offenses for which other students would have been expelled. After graduating high school, he moved out of his parents' house to a poor neighborhood in Oakland, where he scraped on winnings from races and gambling. A year later, David's father finally convinced him to attend college. Although his transcript was average, his lineage once again proved to be his lifeline; his father's connections to the computer science community earned him admission to Case Western's engineering program, and he departed for Ohio, enrolling as a computer science major.

Although David was a more than adequate programmer, he found his studies dry and uninteresting. Rather than slipping back into degeneracy, he acknowledged what was perhaps his one legitimate academic interest. David was fascinated by the practices of other cultures, particularly ancient ones, and so became an anthropology major, focusing his studies on archaeology. He excelled in this field, securing several internships to study in foreign countries. This work only deepened his interest in the field. By the time he graduated, David (and his family) were pleased that he seemed to have found a passion. Unfortunately, what David hadn't anticipated was the issue of money - student loans didn't pay themselves, and what David found was the archaeology barely paid them either.

But, as David had learned in the past, when all else fails, crime can, in fact, pay.