Jane Trading, Ltd
CEO
Feb 2026 - Present
Seoul, SK
- Architected and developed a pricing analysis dashboard leveraging AI Agent Workflows on top of an AI agent built app that captures real-time client-side browsing data from e-commerce sites, directly streamlining product pricing decisions for imported goods
- Streamlined marketing asset creation by implementing AI Agent Workflows to automate the translation of product images (English to Korean) and conversion of assets (JPG/PNG/PDF) into deployable HTML/CSS/JavaScript, including building a supporting desktop asset downloader
- Optimized administrative efficiency in a foreign market by utilizing Google AI Notebooks to rapidly process and complete complex business tasks, including document comprehension and form submission in the Korean language
American Women's Club of Korea
Board Member, IT & Communications
Communications Web Developer
June 2025 - Present
Seoul, SK
- Leading a strategic migration from costly paid platforms (Wild Apricot, Zoom) to Google Workspace for Nonprofits, slashing annual software expenditures and preserving 5% of the organization's total bank reserves
- Modernized the club's digital presence using AI-assisted development and custom HTML/CSS/JavaScript, resulting in a responsive, mobile-optimized website to enhance user experience
Pathfolk
Freelance Web Developer
August 2025 - September 2025
Remote & Seoul, SK
- Maintained strict visual consistency across a Squarespace platform and deployed AI-assisted custom code to enable user-provided fonts
- Documented Squarespace 7.1 best practices user guide
Addium
Director, Data Science
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Remote
- Spearheaded an Intelligent Plant Monitoring initiative in collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success, leading a team of three data scientists to build AI features on crop data that assisted farmers in real-time growing decisions, estimated to increase revenue by $1M USD
- Provided leadership and technical guidance to US and offshore data science teams, managing performance KPIs setting strategic roadmaps, and ensuring alignment with product goals.
- Develop, scale, maintain OOTB platform feature using signal processing on time series data to calculate water uptake by plants. Feature turn-off & turn-on rate equal since release
- Build Streamlit data dashboard app to POC a solution that predicts when daily plant irrigation should stop using signal processing and regression
Riverbed Technology
Director, Data Science
Technical Director
Oct 2020 - June 2023
Remote
- Founded and led the company’s first Product Data Science team, establishing a cross-functional model to deliver data science solutions across a suite of network and end-user monitoring products. Launched a real-time Machine Learning SaaS product designed to automatically identify and remediate complex network, application, and enduser device issues for enterprise customers
- Secured a high-profile customer renewal by developing, patenting (Patent No: 12353277, first author), and technically communicating a Chi-square based tool that enabled IT teams to accurately root-cause widespread device issues
- Recognized as a high potential employee to participate in 360 leadership development program
Walmart
Staff Data Scientist
Senior Data Scientist
Decision Manager II
2015 Summer Intern
Aug 2016 - Oct 2020
Bentonville, AR
- Boosted online grocery sales by $160 million using Hive to develop an automated weekly audit report for 1 billion store-items that identifies discrepancies among ecommerce site back-end systems to fix items that are erroneously showing as out-of-stock, to provide root cause analysis for back-end system engineers, and to provide leadership with inventory accuracy KPI’s
- Orchestrated development of AI product that automatically assigns items to slots in a warehouse by gathering requirements from stakeholders, designing linear programming optimization model, preparing dataset via R/SQL/Altyerx, overseeing model improvements and CPLEX implementation, providing logistics leadership with project updates, and launching product in 5 warehouses with estimated $5 million in labor savings
- Enhanced demand forecasts by cleansing poor historical sales data for every item in all 4,000+ stores using R and Hadoop Hive to implement linear models that predict when a drop in sales is due to unfulfilled customer demand
University of California
Grad Student Researcher
Teacher Assistant
Sep 2011 - Aug 2016
Santa Cruz, CA
- Researched, developed, and applied spatial model selection algorithms such as the Fused LASSO, Bayesian indicator model selection, and Bayesian spatial models to hypersepctral images using R, Matlab, and C++ OpenMP to identify chemicals in gasses released in the atmosphere
- Produced academic papers with proven interest in PhD research as demonstrated by accepted talks and awards at academic conferences.
- Mapped connectivity in the brain by fitting ARIMA time series models, dynamic linear models, and the cross-correlation function to MEG brain data in R and Matlab as part of masters thesis
- Educated undergraduate students in probability and statistics courses with proven effectiveness as showcased in excellent teacher assistant evaluations
MIT Lincoln Laboratory
Research Intern
Summer 2013 & 2014
Boston, MA
- Acquired physics knowledge and Matlab skills from expert researchers in spectral imaging and continued remote collaboration as part of PhD research
Introduction to Probability Theory
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2013, Fall 2015
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Upper division course covering an introduction to probability theory and its applications. Combinatorial analysis, axioms of probability and independence, random variables (discrete and continuous), joint probability distributions, properties of expectation, Central Limit Theorem, Law of Large Numbers, Markov chains
- Developed review lessons, answered questions, held office hours, and graded assignments for a total of 6 sections
Gaming and Gambling
Teaching Assistant
Winter 2013, Spring 2014
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Lower division, statistics GE course covering games of chance and strategy motivated by early developments in probability, statistics, and decision theory. Course uses popular games to introduce students to these concepts, which underpin recent scientific developments in economics, genetics, ecology, and physics.
- Developed review lessons, answered questions, held office hours, and graded assignments for a total of 6 sections
CTB McGraw Hill
SOX Technical Writer Intern
Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
Monterey, CA
- Discovered weaknesses in and conveyed improvements for SOX compliance to finance team by producing narratives and Visio flowcharts of billing and revenue recognition processes
- Delivered company-wide presentation explaining company’s financial processes and the importance of SOX compliance
Law Office of W. Parks
Legal Assistant
Mar 2009 - Oct 2010
Sunnyvale, CA
- Advocated over 200 clients in filling out legal forms to successfully discharge debts
Equality California
Administrative Assistant
Aug 2008 - Jan 2009
San Francisco, CA
- Worked for the No On 8 campaign by campaigning for monetary donations and maintaining large donor databases
UC Center Sacramento
Scholar Intern
Jun 2008 - Aug 2008
Sacramento, CA
- Wrote reports analyzing the financial feasibility of bills regarding various topics, such as California’s budget crisis, California’s state prison crisis, and child poverty
PhD, Statistics & Applied Mathematics
University of California
Jun 2018
Santa Cruz, CA
- Dissertation: “Model selection methods for linear, non-linear, and spatial data in hyperspectral imagery” with advisor, Dr. Abel Rodríguez
- NSF S-STATS MODEL Fellowship recipient, 2012-2013 & 2013-2014
- Courses include: Bayesian statistics, multivariate statistics, linear models, general linear models, non-parametric modeling, spatial modeling, times-series modeling, stochastic processes, machine learning, data mining, econometrics, micro- and macro- economic analysis, financial analysis, corporate finance, accounting
M.S., Statistics & Applied Mathematics
University of California
Jun 2014
Santa Cruz, CA
- Thesis: “Time series models for MEG data” with advisor, Dr. Raquel Prado
B.A., Women's Studies & Political Science
University of California
Aug 2008
Santa Barbara, CA
- Activities and societies: Events Officer, UCSB Society of Leadership and Success (2006-2007)
- Courses include: Economics, Modern US Law, Third-World Politics, Philosophy, Gender Studies
Machine Learning Certificate
Cornell University
Oct 2020
Online
- Courses in Python covering linear classifiers, decision trees & model selection, kernel machines, deep learning and neural networks
수료증 Certificate of Completion
서올대한국어
Seorae Global Village Center
Level 1 - Jun 18, 2025
Level 2 - Summer 2026
Seoul, SK
- 서올대한국어 is the 6-level Seoul National University (SNU) Korean Language Course
- Completed Level 1 and will continue to Level 2 in Fall 2025
- Curriculum includes beginner level Korean grammar, reading, writing, and speaking