SUNG-KWAN KIM, Ph.D
Senior Consultant
Phone: 501-952-0530
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BACKGROUND SUMMARY:
Thirteen years of managerial level experience in vessel operations and planning in the shipping industry, in addition to more than ten years teaching in MIS programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels in a university. Includes experience as a manager of the planning and administrative department (including IT planning). Teaching areas are database and system analysis and design. Significant expertise includes:
Data modeling
Database design
System Analysis
Knowledge modeling
E-commerce
MIS
WORK EXPERIENCE:
The VMP Group, LLC – Business Consultants 2007-Present
Senior Consultant - Consulting business (13 professionals plus contract associates)
University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2006-Present
• Associate Professor in MIS
• Teaching Fields
- Database management systems
- Advanced database management systems
- System analysis and design
- E-commerce technologies
- MIS
University of Arkansas at Little Rock 2000-2006
• Assistant Professor in MIS
University of Nebraska at Lincoln 1998-2000
• Instructor in MIS
Ssangyong Shipping Ltd. 1996 - 1997
• Manager, Bulk Cargo Business Department
• Directed the operation of the company’s bulk cargo carrier fleet, responsible for bulk cargo fleet expansion planning
Ssangyong Shipping Ltd. 1995 – 1996
• Manager, Administrative Department
• Was responsible for the organizational structure design
Ssangyong Shipping Ltd. 1990 - 1994
• Section chief, Planning Department
• Coordinated the strategic planning of the corporation (including IT planning) and was responsible for budgeting and performance evaluation.
Ssangyong Shipping Ltd. 1984 – 1987
• Staff, Planning Department
• Coordinated yearly budgeting and periodic performance evaluation at the corporate level
Korean Army 1979-1982
• Bravo Computer in the Battalion Fire Direction Center
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS:
Association for Computing Machine (ACM)
Decision Science Institutes (DSI)
Association for Korean Management Information Systems (KMIS)
EDUCATION:
Ph. D. – University of Nebraska at Lincoln 2001
• Major: MIS
• Minors: computer science, operation management
M.B.A. – University of Missouri at Columbia 1990
• Emphasis area: MIS
B.A. – Kyunghee University (Seoul, Korea) 1984
• Major: English Literature
OTHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:
Internal Auditor for International Safety Management System (ISM) by Korean Register of Shipping (1996)
Ssangyong Business Group Global Manager Program
• Global Manager Program at the Ohio State University, University of Toledo,
and Old Dominion University, 3 weeks (1996)
• International Labor Management Program at the University of Hawaii, 1 week
(1991)
AWARDS / RECOGNITION:
Teaching fellow at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Award of Excellence in Teaching (2006)
Ssangyong Business Group Study Abroad Scholarship
• MBA study at the University of Missouri-Columbia (1987-1990)
SELECT PUBLICATIONS:
Kim, Sung-kwan and Trmi, Silvana (2007), “Information technology for knowledge management in the management consulting industry,” Journal of Knowledge Management, Accepted will appear on Vol.11, Issue 2.
Kim, Sung-kwan, Lim, Seongbae, and Mitchell, Robert B. (2006), “A method for knowledge modeling: application of unified modeling language (UML) to knowledge modeling,” International Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 2, No. 4.
Kim, Sung-kwan and Lim, Seongbae, and Mitchell, Robert B. (2004), “Building a knowledge model: A decision-making approach,” Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, Vol. 5, August, Article 68.
Lim, Seongbae, Kim, Sung-kwan, Mitchell, Robert B., and Hong, Soongoo (2004), “Small buyers’ adoption of reverse aggregation electronic markets: A case study of the Korean Auto repair industry”, The Journal of Information Systems, Vol. 13, No. 2.
Lim, Sengbae, Kim, Sung-kwan, Mitchell, Robert B., and Hong, Soongoo (2004), “A study of suppliers’ participation in private exchange focusing on the MRO market”, Journal of the Society for E-business Studies, Vol. 9, No 3.