Experience

Sempio Foods Company

• South Korea
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Brand Manager

  • Jun 2017 - Present

  Global manufacturer of award-winning pantry sauces and condiments since 1946. Masterfully brewing Korea's #1-selling soy sauce for four generations. https://www.globalsempio.com/ Yondu Vegetable Umami is Sempio's all-purpose cooking sauce that adds depth of flavor and balanced umami to any dish. Complex flavors brewed from simple veg. 10+ years of R&D, 4 patents, used by the world's best chefs, 2000+ 5 star reviews on Amazon. ➤ Amazon Brand Manager for Yondu (300% YOY growth from 2018 - 2021): from EBC design to FBA inventory management and everything in between. (http://amazon.com/yondu) ➤ Customer-centered brand management, backed by data: Identifying DTC opportunities, building bulk-ordering store to service restaurants and high-volume customers, implementing email marketing & segmentation to strengthen customer-brand relationships (http://shopyondu.com) ➤ Managing all organic and paid social media since inception, Influencer Partnerships, Community Engagement. Cook along with us @yondu.usa or answer your Qs @yondu.FAQs! (http://yondunyc.com/linkinbio) ➤ Identifying + securing key wholesale customers and brand & PR partnerships: Milk Street, Momofuku, Sakara Life, Local Roots NYC, Rainbow Grocery, Parkslope Co-op ➤ Designing graphics across all digital platforms. Designing printed collateral and branded materials for demos, tradeshows, and in-store merchandising ➤ Launching Yondu Culinary Studio, a 3000 sq ft culinary and community space in NYC's Seaport District. We host events that encourage cooking vegetables with flavor! Our hub for content creation and partnerships with like-minded organizations. (https://theseaport.nyc/explore/eat-drink/yondu-culinary-studio) Show less



Stanford University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Food Innovation Project Manager

  • Apr 2017 - Oct 2017

  ➤ Assisting Prof. Soh Kim’s long-term research projects including: coffee/wine business models, sustainable seafood structures, and alternative proteins. ➤ Assisting Prof. Soh Kim’s long-term research projects including: coffee/wine business models, sustainable seafood structures, and alternative proteins.



FoodInno Institute

• United States
• Food and Beverage Services

• Co-Founder

  • Apr 2015 - May 2017

  Our mission at the FoodInno Institute is to build a collaborative environment of food innovators from all walks of life. Combining Open Innovation with the food industry, food innovation is the use of external ideas with internal ideas to innovate food companies’ business models in the new food and technology age. We provide the opportunity to work alongside innovative food companies to help these companies design novel products/services. ➤ Directing the overall conceptualization, planning, and promotion for numerous “Hackathons” with a combined engagement of 500+ participants and budgets of $15K+. ➤ Collaborating with partners including Coca-Cola and the Esade Business School in Barcelona to host professional events, leveraging student-led innovations for impactful food-systems change. ➤ Developing team schedules, managing volunteers, maintaining and executing PR for all events. Show less



University of California, Berkeley

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• • Apr 2015 - May 2017

  A 15 week, 1-unit, undergraduate course accredited by the University through the DeCal Program. Designed to offer students an interdisciplinary study of Food Systems. Weekly topics include: Farming 2.0 Vertical & Efficient; Transforming Proteins; Food Sovereignty.➤ Creating relevant and original course content each semester for Interdisciplinary Study of Food Systems (Fall ’15), Fermentation (Spring ’16), and Hacking the Future of Food (Fall ’16). > Designing flyers, website, syllabus and promoting the course on-campus. Efforts directly resulted in 600 page views and 50+ applications within 2 weeks.➤ Maintaining local networks of food entrepreneurs, activists and academics for guest speaking and mentoring. Consistently ending each semester with 100% favorable evaluations from students. Show less

• • Aug 2016 - Jan 2017

  Berkeley Connect is an academic mentoring program that combines the intellectual firepower of a world-class research university with the nurturing inclusiveness of a small liberal arts college. ➤ drafting and publishing weekly blog posts on events, maintaining and growing all social media channels, and photographing and processing images for official use.

• • Aug 2015 - Aug 2016

  ➤ Caring for the development and the educational needs of infants and toddlers aged 3 - 36 months, using the training and "Best Practices" model recommended by the USDA, CDC, and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP).



University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher, Project Coordinator

  • Sep 2014 - May 2017

  ➤ Securing funds and corporate sponsorships through in-person and online networking. ➤ Maintaining the lab’s website, professional networks, and designing and formatting official reports. ➤ Securing funds and corporate sponsorships through in-person and online networking. ➤ Maintaining the lab’s website, professional networks, and designing and formatting official reports.



Prodege, LLC

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Marketing & User Acquisition Intern

  • Jun 2016 - Aug 2016

  Prodege operates multiple consumer engagement brands, including Swagbucks.com & MyPoints.com (consumer rewards communities), SodaHead (consumer polling), nCrave (video discovery and audience extension platform), and ProdegeMR (consumer surveys and research solutions). > Executed the tracking and implementation of targeted media campaigns on Facebook and Reddit. Produced comprehensive performance reports with actionable data on a daily basis. ➤ Leveraged internal/external reporting tools to gain insights on user behavior, provide feedback to media partners and improve key performance indicators. ➤ Created organic blog posts and compelling headlines/sales copy for specific audiences utilizing direct response marketing strategies. Show less



Alma, Commis, Corso Tratttoria,

• California, United States

• Commis Chef

  • Jun 2014 - Jul 2015

  ➤ Alma, Los Angeles: A modern-American restaurant with a rotating seasonal tasting menu. Awarded Best New Restaurant in America, 2013 by Bon Appétit and #12 on L.A Times' Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurant List, 2014. Apprenticeship involved executing precise preparation techniques for a diverse range of foraged, locally-sourced and grown produce, seafood, and meats. Prepped mise for all stations as well executing orders during dinner service. ➤ Commis, Oakland: a Michelin two-star fine dining destination from Chef James Syhabout. Open-kitchen experiments with unique Bay Area ingredients. ➤ Corso Trattoria, Berkeley: A fine-dining Florentine restaurant consistently awarded Bib Gourmand. Prepping peak produce and mise-en-place for service in addition to completing specific projects involving circulators, seasoning percentages, and in-house pasta making Show less



Angeline's Louisiana Kitchen

• Berkeley, California

• Chef de Partie

  • Jun 2014 - Jun 2015

  ➤ Providing consistent, quality dishes in a high-pressure environment (up to 300 covers/night). Advanced from garde manger to fry/grill in under two months and to fry expo within an additional month. http://www.zagat.com/r/angelines-louisiana-kitchen-berkeley http://www.yelp.com/biz/angelines-louisiana-kitchen-berkeley ➤ Providing consistent, quality dishes in a high-pressure environment (up to 300 covers/night). Advanced from garde manger to fry/grill in under two months and to fry expo within an additional month. http://www.zagat.com/r/angelines-louisiana-kitchen-berkeley http://www.yelp.com/biz/angelines-louisiana-kitchen-berkeley



UC Berkeley Public Service Center

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Literacy Tutor

  • Dec 2013 - Jun 2015

  Providing 900 youths in Berkeley and Oakland with individualized tutoring http://publicservice.berkeley.edu/build Providing 900 youths in Berkeley and Oakland with individualized tutoring http://publicservice.berkeley.edu/build



Sprouts Chef Training

• United States
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director's Assistant

  • Mar 2014 - Aug 2014

  In 2006, Sprouts was launched in the Bay Area with the mission to teach children from all socioeconomic, physical and mental health backgrounds the importance of healthy, nutritional foods through hands-on cooking with REAL chefs with REAL ingredients in REAL restaurants. In 2009, it was formally converted into an official 501c3, thanks to the encouragement of Alice Waters, a member of Sprouts’ advisory board. ➤ Managed and maintained the logistics for 150 applicants as the sole point of contact. ➤ Led 4 other counselors in overseeing the safety of up to 20 children in a range of environments (classroom and kitchen settings). ➤ Responsible for creating and curating daily email and social media updates. Show less