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Seoul, Korea

ICT, M&A & Investment Consulting- Provide Cloud services (infrastructure, billing, payment gateway, Big Data analytics, etc.) to small-to-medium sized website and game development companies.- Provide implementation of best practice IT solutions―Payment & Clearance, Electronic ID, AFC (Automatic Fare Collection), RFID, IPTV Settop Box, Deep learning, etc.- Facilitate Private Investment Programs utilizing assets of financial instruments (SBLC, MTN, BG, Bank Draft, etc.) or precious metals/stones.

Seoul, Korea

Business Development & Strategic Alliances- Led the strategic collaboration between Samsung Group and Sun Microsystem to plan and launch HPC (High Performance Computing) Service based on Sun’s grid computing technology, which later evolved to Cloud Business Unit in Samsung SDS.- Planned and launched new services based on emerging technology―Data Center Services, Government Certified Digital Archives, Storage Service, and Desktop Management Service, etc.- Launched Samsung’s mobile B2B business, which involved building a mobile cloud center in New Jersey, through which enterprises have their back-end applications―CRM, ERP, SCM, etc. ―mobilized for sales people, field personnel and executives.- Launched Samsung’s mobile B2C business through global strategic alliances with 350 carriers. Samsung Electronics sold smartphones loaded with SDS’ integrated messaging solution, called Social Hub, out of NOC (Network Operation Center) in Frankfurt, Germany. - Made strategic alliances with leading global IT companies such as IBM, Intel, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, SAP, Sybase, Symantec, EMC, etc.

Connecticut, Usa

Senior Systems Integrator- Worked as a founding member of the Transition Team of then newly created Strategic Outsourcing division in IBM GS, and contributed to the successful delivery of the first customer, Volvo Cars, and following largest customers in North America—Lucent Technology, Chase Manhattan Bank, Kodak, Campbell Soup, Equitable, ComEnergy, etc. - Transition Team designed and implemented the remote management environment in Southbury datacenter using various management tools―Tivoli, Netview, MetaFrame, etc. ―and handed over the management environment to Steady State (Operation) Team.

B.S. Electrical Engineering, Graduated With Honor, Received A Computer Engineering Certificate For Additional Focus On Computer Science Courses.

Activities and Societies: Member, τβπ (Tau Beta Pi) National Engineering Honor Society

Education record