Profile
This website combines elements of my academic CV and professional resume. For a formal resume or business inquiries, please email from your official organization account. Below is a broader profile that integrates my intellectual commitments and professional experiences.
Education
- Early & Honors graduation (cum laude) from both high school and college
- Studied political-legal theory, economics, and mathematics at a liberal arts college, with full merit scholarships & grants and multiple Dean’s Lists awarded
- East Coast Straussian-inflected Epistocratic Republican; equity-centered, civic-meritocratic constitutionalism
- Political-Legal Theory Honors Thesis: defended; magna cum laude
Examines justice by analyzing modern democracy, suffrage, natural rights, civil rights, and legal positivism.
- Political-Legal Theory Honors Thesis: defended; magna cum laude
- Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian (HANK); distributional macro / inequality incidence
- Mathematics-Economics Senior Thesis: ECON 699 track; A-
Quantifies inflation incidence across income strata with a proprietary HANK-DSGE model, simulating heterogeneous propagation channels.
- Mathematics-Economics Senior Thesis: ECON 699 track; A-
Experience
- Politics, Education, Data Analytics, Consulting, Finance, and Construction
- Published an introductory investing guidebook for retail investors who started investing during the post-pandemic retail trading frenzy
- Construction 👷: Manual labor in cleaning, civil engineering, and welding
- Private Equity 📈: Deal sourcing, closing, and post-merger integration due diligence for cleantech fund portfolio companies
- Asset Management 💰: Closing of residential and commercial real estate deals, and strategic planning for the Korea office at the enterprise level
- Management Consulting 📊: Advisory on operations, strategy, and M&A
- Fintech 🖥️: Financial product database overhaul and global macro analysis
- Private Education 🧑🏫: Tutoring and admissions consulting for Korean & US prep schools and colleges
- Central Headquarters of the Presidential Campaign and Ruling Party 🏦: Council member in two winning presidential campaigns for two different parties (2012, 2016), each of which subsequently became the ruling party, contributing to high school education and youth employment policy development
- Presidential Advisory Council (2013, 2016) 🏦: Appointed twice to a 50-member national presidential advisory council on youth policy, under the Park and Moon administrations
- The National Assembly (parliamentary audit work for the Standing Committees of ⑴ Environment & Labor, ⑵ Education & Culture & Sports & Tourism, and ⑶ Construction & Transportation) 👨⚖️: A special aide to Chair of Presidential Committee (2012) and former Presidential Chief of Staff (2013)
Interests
- Political·Legal Theory/Philosophy, Normative Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies, Monetary Theory, Behavioral Economics, International Economics, Econometrics, Finance, Business, Data Science, Classical Piano, Taekwondo, Kendo, Boxing, Muay Thai, Iaido (北辰一刀流 Hokushin Ittoryu), Aikido (合気会 Aikikai)