Paul Kim
BA in Political Science from UC San Diego, and BSc in Computer Science from San Jose State University. Currently working as Senior UI Engineer at Sidestep Inc.
| Headline: | Entrepreneur |
| Work status: | Employed Full-Time |
| Industries: | Travel |
| Skills: | C/C++, HTML / CSS, Java, Javascript, Languages and Platforms, Perl, PHP, Software Engineering, SQL, Web Development |
| Interested in: | Advising startups, Brainstorming, Finding business partners, Finding team mates, Getting press, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Partnering with other groups, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Raising money, Recruiting for my startup |
| Schools: | California State University System - San Jose State University, University of California System - San Diego |
FEATURED STARTUP
WORK EXPERIENCE
| Employer: | Voyij Inc. |
| Position: | Front-End Hacker/UI Developer/Co-Founder |
| Time period: | December 2007 - Present |
| Employer: | Sidestep Inc, Santa Clara, CA |
| Position: | UI Engineering Manager |
| Time period: | October 2006 - November 2007 |
| Description: | • Responsibilities include the management of the UI engineering team and development of the main site, its verticals and co-branding partnership sites.
• Accomplishments: complete re-write of the existing Deals vertical to be inline with today’s HTML standards to improve site performance, maintenance and customer’s user experience. • Wrote the Travel Search API documentation for developers and potential distribution customers and also built a generic UI framework for our co-brands using HTML, Struts, and JSPs. |
| Employer: | Yahoo! Inc, Sunnyvale, CA |
| Position: | Senior Front-End Engineer, MDS Ad Systems |
| Time period: | December 2004 - October 2006 |
| Description: | Responsibilities include the front end web development of internal sales/pre-sales applications and support of internal advertising batching tools.
• Applications developed/co-developed: A stand-alone web application embedded in Siebel Customer Sales Management application. Next generation inventory management system that moves old MFC client to the web. • Applied UI design experience, particularly in organizing information and implementing workflow and collaboration – worked with User Experience & Design team. • Provided support to Java Engineers in integration and implementation of building a rich internet application. |
| Employer: | Yahoo! Inc, Sunnyvale, CA |
| Position: | Senior Technical Yahoo!, UED Platform Design |
| Time period: | August 1999 - December 2004 |
| Description: | Responsibilities include the management, planning, design, architect, development, implementation and support of internet and intranet workflow, collaboration, messaging, ad scheduling and data reporting applications; advertising and promotional micro-sites for various business units within the company such as shopping/commerce, promotions/front page, ad research, user research, marketing, ad systems and user experience & design.
• Applications developed/co-developed: Ads management system, ads batch scheduling system, omni-ad creator, automatic ad scheduler, promotional micro-site creator, user recruitment system for research studies and surveys with user panels, page analysis application, user click-stream tracking system, creative briefs and requests workflow/collaboration/messaging system, campaign and project tracker. • Provided support and consultation services to web application and site developers/engineers, producers, researchers and external clients. Traveled to worldwide offices (England, Japan, Italy, Germany) to do implementation of key applications and hold training sessions • UI design experience, particularly in organizing information and implementing workflow and collaboration • Cross browser/cross platform Internet/Intranet design and testing experience. • Administered servers running WindowsNT/2000 with Lotus Domino Application Server, Apache Web Server and Oracle 8i, 9i. • Managed the full SDLC of various applications including documenting the user requirements gathering/analysis to identify the necessary solution and properly architect its design before beginning development, debugging and testing. |
| Employer: | IBM Corp. – San Jose, CA |
| Position: | Application Web Developer |
| Time period: | December 1998 - August 1999 |
| Description: | Responsible for intranet development and support of Storage Software Division Technical Support.
• Represented IBM’s Storage Systems Division-Storage Software Department (SSD-SSD) location in Corporate technical web presence strategy. • Developed, enhanced, and maintained IBM’s SSD-SSD web site based on Corporate strategy. • Cross browser scripting using DHTML (HTML, CSS, JavaScript). |
| Employer: | Computer Task Group (CTG) Inc. – San Jose, CA |
| Position: | Application Web Developer Consultant to IBM Corp. |
| Time period: | December 1997 - December 1998 |
| Description: | Responsible for intranet development and support of Storage Software Division Technical Support.
• Developed, administered and maintained the IBM’s SSD-SSD technical support web pages for IBM and Tivoli’s storage system software. • Designed, developed and implemented Intranet site for Customer Support Service Planners. • Performed various Web Master duties, such as creating a site analysis tool and addressing any user comments or complaints to web site. |
EDUCATION
| University: | University of California System - San Diego |
| Degree: | Political Science, BA |
| University: | California State University System - San Jose State University |
| Degree: | Computer Science, BSc |
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Olga Grigoryeva
Russian, BS in Management concentrating on Finance from Menlo College, volunteered on multiple team building and leadership building projects for teenagers