Brief

I am currently living in Tokyo, Japan working as a Business Analyst for a major investment bank. Previous to living in Japan, I lived in Seoul, Korea, in Hong Kong, and in London, England.

I have excellent experience working in Investment Banking, particularly Equity Derivatives and Cash, doing Business Analysis and managing IT projects. I also have a background as a developer, and a First Class degree in Computer Science.

One of my strengths is working across international locations. In Citibank Hong Kong, I co-ordinated projects between Hong Kong and the Korea office, across multiple departments, and with external vendors. My current role in Tokyo involves co-ordination between Tokyo, Singapore, and Hong Kong, also across multiple departments. Other roles have involved co-ordinating internationally, with external vendors, and across departments.

Outside investment banking, as Chief Technology Officer of an internet company, I managed a team of developers, infrastructure specialists, and designers, as well as co-ordinating and reporting at board level. In my current role, I manage the book of work for a team of developers in Singapore, co-ordinating priorities with Japan Compliance and COO.

I reached Vice President level at Citigroup at the age of 27.

Languages

English - Native speaker. Korean - Good (see Education).

Education

Sogang University, South Korea - Korean Language - 2003 to 2005

University Of Glasgow, UK - BSc (Hons) Computing Science - First Class - 1990 to 1994

Employment History

Major Investment Bank (Japan) - Vice President (VP) – September 2006 to Present

Business Analyst for Equities Japan. Business analysis and management of high profile key projects such as legal ticketing and disaster planning (ensuiring trading, both internal traders and external clients, can continue in the event of a disaster). Co-ordinating between departments and across international locations, and Japan Equity COO.

UBGlobal (Korea) - Senior Manager - Dec 2005 to March 2006

Report directly to company owners and advise on company restructuring. Business analysis and project management, including planning of international marketing strategy and managing developers working on internet site upgrades.

Education: Sogang University (Korea) - Korean Language - 2003 to 2005

Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney (Hong Kong) - Independent Consultant - June 2001 to Jan 2003

Business analysis, project management, development, and support in Equity Derivatives: Korea KOSDAQ and KSE exchange connectivity, external broker connectivity, trading system enhancements (eg, basket trading, risk viewing). Liaison between HK and Korea, legal, compliance, traders, exchanges, and vendors. Frequent visits to Korea. Daily direct interaction with traders, including business analysis with the desk heads and trader support.

Saffron Hill Venture Capital (UK) - Chief Technology Officer - May 2000 to June 2001

First in the role of Technical Development Manager, evaluating companies for potential investment, business analysis and management of internet projects within portfolio companies. Promoted to Chief Technology Officer of a Saffron Hill portfolio company, managing a team of developers, infrastructure specialists, and designers. Tasked to analyse and turn around the failing launch of the company's portal and shopping internet sites. Under my management the extensively delayed projects were successfully completed, and the portal website won an award as the UK's best Asian internet site.

Citigroup, Salomon Smith Barney (UK) - Vice President (VP) - June 1998 to April 2000

Project management, development, and support in Equity Derivatives: LIFFE, XETRA, and LSE exchange connectivity, trading system enhancements (eg, strategy trading, automatic market making, arbitrage opportunity searching), risk management (live and reporting). Liaison between Citigroup and exchanges. Representing Citigroup and performing exchange acceptance tests. Daily direct interaction with the traders. Achieved Vice President position due to consistent and accurate delivery of high profile trading projects.

Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Limited (UK) - Developer - July 1997 to June 1998

Project management, development, and support in Global Equity Cash Trading, in charge of the Order Management application in London. Impact analysis of global changes to London. Local modifications. Designed enhancements for real time international internal order routing. Created web based support system. Co-ordinated with New York and Tokyo Japan. Represented London in global meetings. Managed relationship with users and support staff.

Salomon Brothers International Limited (UK) - Developer - July 1994 to July 1997

Project management, development, and support in Market Data and Equity Derivatives teams: SOFFEX exchange connectivity, design of an external broker intranet trading system, and Tibco market data projects.

J P Morgan (UK) - Intern - July 1993 to September 1993

Intern position before final year of university. Development in Global SWAPs.

Education: University Of Glasgow (UK) - BSc (Hons) Computing Science, First Class - 1990 to 1994

Interests

My interests include healthy living, appreciation of music, comedy, cooking (Mexican, Italian, and Korean), photography, hiking, and language. I speak Korean, and I am currently learning Japanese.