MBA Intern - Extreme Blue Program @ • Developed a business plan and conducted competitive analyses for a cloud-computing project, which entailed enabling OpenStack (the fastest growing open source cloud computing platform) on IBM’s Power Systems
• Assessed a $50B server market and identified $336M of potential business opportunities for the project
• Led a team of 3 technical interns to ensure team deadlines were met and presentations were appropriately polished From May 2013 to August 2013 (4 months) Austin, Texas AreaPre-MBA Intern - Enterprise Risk Service @ • Designed risk monitoring system for national health insurance review agency
• Bench-marked risk monitoring best practices within public organizations, prioritizing risk factors for the final solution delivered to the client
• Interviewed managers from various divisions and identified potential risks that should to be monitored by internal audit team
• Presented hypotheses and recommendations for long-term system improvement to client and internal senior managers From May 2012 to July 2012 (3 months) Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, KoreaEngineer, DRAM Product Planning Team @ • Assessed manufacturing feasibility of hybrid memory solution and analyzed segments and requirements needed to serve the market
• Facilitated executive’s decision making through strategic, competitive and risk analyses in consortium meetings for new product, Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC)
• Represented Samsung in Management Committee of HMC Consortium which consisted of Micron, IBM, Xilinx, Altera, Open-Silicon and Samsung, establishing HMC technology roadmap
• Managed strategic alliance with Micron to align technological progress on developing HMC specifications and to coordinate joint promotion and marketing projects targeting high-end network system and server manufacturers
• Reviewed the HMC consortium legal agreement and assessed the potential risk to intellectual property
• Specialties:
- Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC)
- Hybrid Memory Solutions (DRAM + NAND Module Solutions)
- Competitive Analysis, Market Analysis, Industry Trend Forecasts From May 2011 to February 2012 (10 months) Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, KoreaEngineer, DRAM Design Team @ • Participated in specification and prototype design for next-generation standard memory device to be launched
• Developed power saving scheme that reduced power consumption by 63%, equivalent to clients’ cost savings of $1.6 billion
• Improved input receiver that cut power consumption by 48% while maintaining the same performance, featured in corporate “Green” marketing efforts
• Initiated new circuit modeling and invented an executable program, improving memory design efficiency by estimated 40%
• Specialties:
- DRAM Input Path Design
- ODT (On-Die-Termination) Latency Design
- Full-chip level functional verification From August 2007 to May 2011 (3 years 10 months) Hwaseong, Gyeonggi-do, Korea
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business @ Columbia University - Columbia Business School From 2012 to 2014 M.S., Electronic and Electrical Engineering @ Pohang University of Science and Technology From 2005 to 2007 B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ University of California, Berkeley From 2003 to 2005 Shawn Kim is skilled in: Semiconductors, Circuit Design, Competitive Analysis, Verilog, CMOS, Simulations, DRAM, Cloud Computing, Integrated Circuit Design, Electrical Engineering, Product Development, ASIC, Strategy, Analog Circuit Design, Mixed Signal