KENNY KIM

*** * ******** *** #**** Chicago, IL **601

217-***-**** ade36x@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Chicago, IL Master of Business Administration, Concentrations in Business Analytics and Entrepreneurship Sep 2018 – Jun 2020

New Product Innovation Lab: Conducted 15 customer interviews identifying unmet needs in the nutritional bars industry, ideated three product concepts for target demographic, and provided weekly updates to Senior Director of Consumer Insights

Country Captain: Hosted three meet-and-greets (100+ participants) and improved average attendance by 17% with new content

Founder of Booth Coffee Club; active member of Technology Club, Analytics Club, and Outdoor Leadership Club UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN Champaign, IL Master of Accounting Science, Minor in Information Technology Aug 2009 – May 2010 Dual Degree: Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance (Honors) Aug 2005 – May 2009

Social Entrepreneurship: Conducted needs assessment and door-to-door surveys of users of public services at Urban League EXPERIENCE

AMAZON Seattle, WA

Product Manager Intern in Customer Shopping Experience Jun 2019 – Aug 2019

Analyzed Canada mobile traffic (20M+ user paths), uncovering three most abandoned pages on mobile app; recommended 14 features to address seven user pain points on these pages, with estimated increase of $54.7M on gross merchandise sales

Performed feature parity analysis across marketplaces and collaborated with eight functional teams including Marketing and Search Experience to discover a total of 51 program and feature gaps; prioritized four features for development effort in 2020 ALIXPARTNERS LLP, a top management consulting firm in operational turnaround New York, NY Vice President in Financial Advisory Services Jan 2016 – Jul 2018

Partnered with two engineers to define user requirements and create a data visualization portal in Tableau, accelerating client’s review of $28.2M of sales data from six distributors and identifying $510K of potential problematic transactions

Designed and built a wire transfer database consisting of 800K+ transactions from more than 10 banks in SQL and Access, empowering users at US law enforcement agency to trace $19M of money laundering activities

Led Accounting, Legal, Marketing, and Sales departments to investigate a cloud computing client’s records and substantiated

$620K of sales and marketing fraud, leading to reorganization of Sales and implementation of a new Compliance program

Identified $113.4M of cost-saving opportunity in inventory for Australia’s leading electronics retailer by analyzing 5-year inventory movement on 6K+ retail products and parsing through 1.3M+ lines of purchase and sales data Associate in Financial Advisory Services Apr 2013 – Dec 2015

Automated the conversion of 2,000+ pages of financial information from PDF to Excel by leveraging two optical character recognition (OCR) software packages outside of firm, increasing project efficiency by 60% (from one week to two days)

Quantified stock price impact of earnings announcements and negative market information based on capital asset pricing model for legal counsel to request collateral damage up to $17M in a class action lawsuit ERNST & YOUNG LLP, a multinational accounting and advisory services firm New York, NY Senior Audit Associate in Financial Services Office Oct 2010 – Mar 2013

Streamlined audit procedures on an oil client’s trading operations and reduced future engagement budget by $12K for CFO LEADERSHIP AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

KOREAN AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICE CENTER Queens, NY

Volunteer Committee Chair and Mentor Nov 2016 – Jul 2018

Inspired and led 15 members to organize large-scale events such as Purple 5K Run/Walk (50+ runners) and Silent March (100+ marchers), raising over $11K and building new relationships with two local community partners ADDITIONAL

SKILLS AND CERTIFICATIONS: HTML, Microsoft Access, Python, R, SQL, and Tableau; CPA; CFA Charterholder; Barista Intermediate Skills Certification by Specialty Coffee Association GLOBAL EXPERIENCES: Fluent in Mandarin and Korean; work experiences in Brazil, China, Korea, Mexico, Spain, and Taiwan INTERESTS: Coffee nerd learning latte arts and facilitating cultural exchanges between roasters in US and Taiwan; power user of Alexa and Headspace; amateur hiker (Grand Canyon, Mount Rainier, Patagonia, and Smangus) and mixed martial arts practitioner