EXPERIENCE
Project Manager / Founder at inD
June 2015 – Present
New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Web Dev – HTML5, Magento, WordPress
- Mobile Dev – apps, games, services
- Music – commercial, game music, children’s music
- Agent – crowdfunding, social media, organic marketing
Project Manager / Sound Director at WiseKids
February 2012 – March 2015 (3 years 2 months)
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Composed and performed music for most apps and games from WiseKids, a Nexon Company specialized in developing products for pre-school children.
- Composed, arranged and recorded all original soundtracks for 15 interactive book apps.
- Interactive books were created with an authoring suite specifically developed in-house.
- Managed several projects.
- Scheduled, conducted and remastered voice-over recordings with actors of 7 different languages – English, Spanish, German, French, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
- “Shape the Village” app was featured in many iTunes Stores around the world.
Project Manager at Nexon Mobile
July 2010 – February 2012 (1 year 8 months)
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Managed game projects for multiple platforms including iOS, Android and Mac OS X.
- Created all original music and sound effects and conducted all necessary recording sessions.
- The team had implemented many newly introduced technologies including in-app-purchase and downloadable content system for the first time as a part of R&D operation in Nexon Mobile, a Nexon company specialized largely in legacy mobile games.
Senior Product Marketing Manager at Core Logic
June 2008 – April 2010 (1 year 11 months)
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Analyzed market demands to support designing various SoC (System-on-Chip) products with a strong focus on digital imaging solutions.
- Conducted market research, pricing simulation and sourcing IP’s (Intellectual Properties) for developing new products.
- In charge of international business issues especially regarding hardware and software IP vendors from all over the world.
Product Marketing Manager at Nayio Media
January 2004 – January 2008 (4 years 1 month)
Gangnam-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Worked for the renewal of the Bugs Music web site, then-largest online music provider in Korea. (Nayio Media was acquired by Bugs Music in 2007.)
- Mainly contributed in improving user experiences by suggesting the concept of “relational music database based on interventions” and other innovative ideas.
- Developed a music creation and sharing web service as the head of an experimental spin-off of Nayio Media, Hips Urban.
- Developed and managed many derivative products and services utilizing the company’s patented music search engine.
Music Producer / Marketing Manager at Belfonics
July 2001 – January 2004 (2 years 7 months)
Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Composed, wrote and co-produced the album of “Romantic Soul Orchestra”, praised by the mainstream media as one of the most underrated albums of 2003 and 2004.
- Produced various other commercial music projects.
- Conducted marketing campaigns for the Romantic Soul Orchestra’s album launch and concerts.
Web SI Project Manager at Nextel Korea
December 1999 – June 2001 (1 year 7 months)
Gwangjin-gu, Seoul, Korea
- As a project manager representing the SI company in the early dotcom era, resolving technical issues between programming side, artwork side and content provider side was the key responsibility.
- Designed and pioneered early concepts of “Master CP” or “Content Aggregator” business model for a collaboration project with Samsung.
- As a member of Strategic Planning Team under a very social CEO, reviewing business proposals from various channels and organizing multi-national conferences were essential to the job.
Musician / Music Producer
September 1992 – September 1998 (6 years 1 month)
Seocho-gu, Seoul, Korea
- Worked as a songwriter, programmer, recording engineer, and producer for many renowned Korean artists including Yoon Sang, N.ex.T, Kim Jong-seo and Seo Taiji to name a few.
- Composed, wrote, arranged and co-produced the debut album of the band “Halo”, still revisited by famous musicians and fans as one of the most underrated albums of all time.
- Composed, wrote, arranged and co-produced two albums of the band “1730”, sold over 100k albums in Korea.
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Ajou University
1991 – 1999
Suwon, Korea
- Double majored in French Language and Literature.
- Awarded full 4-year scholarship due to the highest entrance exam score.
CERTIFICATIONS
Project Management Professional (PMP)®, The Project Management Institute (PMI)
License 1845454
Starting September 2015
MCSE1: Windows NT 4.0, Microsoft
License D469-0833
Starting September 1998
MCPS: Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet, Microsoft
License E275-0326
Starting September 1998