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Los Angeles, California, United States

Manhattan Beach, California, United States

+ Started with bootstrapped team and spearheaded initial brand UX development. + Designed mockups, conducted User Research, and Prototyped product/company Website as a part of first stage front-end development efforts. + Strategized and designed UX experience of product systems for both user and provider flows.

Los Angeles, California, United States

+ Collaborated with brands such as Tiffany & CO, Fear Of God: Essentials, and Urban Outfitters for social media campaign photos upon new product release. + Professional work with social media influencers reaching follower counts of 600,000 and more.+ Location scouting, visual directing for studio photoshoots, and branding consulting.

Los Angeles, California, United States

+ Coordinated with cross functional teams located in the U.S and South Korea for launching of e-commerce fashion accessories brand (et al.). + Co-directed SS’20 catalogue look book photoshoot. -Talent acquisition, Concept ideation, Location scouting/Finalization -Responsible for still unit photography, BTS photography, photo edits via Adobe, photo direction+ Created original content to provide visibility on et al. branding, hello82 branding, and other Kai related branding.+ Researched and compiled analytics on digital media campaigns to share with possible sponsors, vendors, and executives for optimized usage of social media platforms.+ Curated K-Pop related social media posts for major platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, TikTok, Snapchat).

Los Angeles, California, United States

+ Curated and coordinated all photoshoots, promotional photo contents, as well as, branding and graphics.+ Responsible for asset management, routing to various stakeholders, legal clearances, and reflecting feedback for multiple revisions.+ Concept ideation following branding guidelines and specs guidelines.+ Utilized website analytics (Google), social media analytics (paid/organic) on native platforms, and sales analytics via native web platform and Quickbooks.+ Managed creative budget for all media expenses regarding asset creation, vendor SOW approvals and invoice processing.+ Directed first collection of e-commerce street fashion brand to over $10,000 revenue within the first month, with multiple items being sold-out.

Los Angeles, California, United States

E-Commerce Street Fashion start-up.+ Point of contact between legal representatives, financial representatives, and manufacturing representatives. + Coordinated brand launch timeline from designing/sampling to media launch. + Translated overall brand direction into prototyped product over various stages of sampling involving different clothing material, styles, manufacturing methods, and shipping methods.

Los Angeles County, California, United States

KOHN Lab - UCLA Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Molecular Genetics.Worked under Donald Kohn, MD and Richard Morgan PhD.+ Research focused on Gene Therapy treatment through development of lentiviral vectors (LVs) to combat hemoglobinopathies, including Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and β-thallasemia (β-thal). + Participated in daily in vitro dry/wet lab work, including PCR, cell culturing, gDNA extraction/transduction, etc. + Routinely presented research papers for lab faculty briefings involving updated gene therapy technologies, such as CRISPR/Cas-9. + Oversaw personal research experimentation and presentation of work involving Single-Cell Isolation and Erythroid-Differentiation of Sickle HuDep2. Hypothesized that Hudep2-SCD may be a polyclonal population, with clones harboring a combination of wild type, sickle, and/or thalassemia.

Los Angeles, California, United States

AHN Lab - UCLA AIDS Institute/UCLA School of NursingWorked under Dong Sung Ahn, MD, PhD and Olivier Pernet, PhD.+ Research focused on HIV/AIDS treatment via new Gene Therapy methods.+ Conducted dry/wet lab work focused on in vitro experimentation of alternative CRISPR/Cas-9 delivery systems in eliminating HIV receptor CCR5. + Assisted in studying Hematopoietic Stem cell reprogramming methods (RNAi, CRISPR) specific to growing resistance to HIV infection. + Coordinated with doctorate researchers in algorithm development for non-conventional CRSIPR off-target prediction. + Review and edited manuscript for journal publication review of Stem cell based HIV/AIDS treatment methods. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4935568/

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Biology/Biological Sciences, General

High School Diploma