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