YOUNG KWARK

800 W. Campbell Road SM33, Richardson, TX 75083

972.883.4395/youngk082@utdallas.edu

EDUCATION
     Ph.D., Management Science, Information System
August 2008 - present
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, Richardson, TX
Advisor: Dr. Srinivasan Raghunathan and Dr. Jianqing Chen
Master of Business Administration (Graduated with Honors)
June 2008
THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, WA
Master of Science, Graduate School of Information, Internet Business
August. 2003
YONSEI UNIVERSITY, Seoul, Korea (ROK)
THESIS: Charging a fee on the Internet Contents Service
Advisor: Dr. JungWoo Lee

RESEARCH

    Papers Under Review

         Online Product Reviews: Implications for Retailer and Competing Manufacturers (Under Revision for Second Round Review)
                with Jianqing Chen and Srinivasan Raghunathan
         Platform or Wholesale: Different Effects on Retailers of Online Product Reviews (Under Review)
                with Jianqing Chen and Srinivasan Raghunathan
         Passenger Profiling and Screening for Aviation Security in the Presence of Strategic Attackers (Decision Analysis, Conditionally Accepted Subject to Minor Revisions)
                with Bin Mai, Huseyin Cavusoglu, and Srinivasan Raghunathan
         Information security vulnerability from Manager's perspective: Cross-cultural Analysis (Under Review)
                with Dan Kim and Young Ryu

    Working and Work-In-Progress

         The Effect of Online Product Reviews on Firms' Product Design Decisions (Target Journal: Management Science)
                with Jianqing Chen and Srinivasan Raghunathan
         Empirical Analysis of perceived Information security vulnerability from Managers' Perspective (Target Journal: MIS Quarterly)
                with Dan Kim and Young Ryu
         Rank-By-Bid or Rank-By-Revenue? Impact of Competition and Quality Uncertainty in Sponsored Search
                with Srinivasan Raghunathan
         What makes it successful? Conflict in IS Project Evaluation between Clients and Developers - Empirical Analysis
                with Kyung Sung Jung
         IT personnel investment Scheduling - Empirical Analysis
                with Kyung Sung Jung

    Papers in Refereed Conference and Workshop

         Platform or Wholesale: Different Effects on Retailers of Online Product Reviews with Jianqing Chen and Srinivasan Raghunathan
                2012 International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2012), Orlando, FL. Dec 15-19 2012
         Online Product Reviews: Implications for Retailers and Competing Manufacturers with Jianqing Chen and Srinivasan Raghunathan
                2012 Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST 2012) Phoenix, AZ. Oct 13-17 2012
         Implications of Product Reviews in Online Retailing with Srinivasan Raghunathan
                20th Workshop on Information Technologies and Systems (WITS 2010), St. Louis, MO. Dec 11-12. 2010

    RESEARCH INTEREST

    Competition and Information
    Online Retailing and Personalization
    Online Auction
    Information Security
    IT Project Efficiency and IT personnel
    Online Information provision

    TEACHING

     Instructor : System Analysis and Design (with UML 2.0)
Fall Semester 2011
        - Student Evaluation: 4.5/5.0

    TEACHING ASSISTANT

     Teaching Assistant
August 2008 - present
        - Java programming language(2008-2009)
        - System Analysis and Design with UML(2009)
        - Healthcare Information Systems(2009-2010)
        - Management Information Systems (MBA, undergraduate)(2010-2011)

    SERVICE

     Ad hoc reviewer for Information Technology and Management (ITM)
     Ad hoc reviewer for International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2012

WORKING EXPERIENCE

    System Designer & Solution Expert

     LG CNS (EDS) Co., Ltd., Seoul, Korea
August 2003 - August 2006
    - Led a development team for Business Process Reengineering (BPR) System
    - Analyzed, designed, and Implemented Expert System for LG CNS Co., Ltd.
    - Conducted researches on Software as a Service (SAAS) and Service Reference Model (SRM)
      for industrial applicability (Salesforce.com, etc.)
      to branch out Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) on demand business
    - Analyzed, designed, and implemented Card Service Development System
      by using Business Process Management based on SOA
    - Conducted researches on SOA & Business Process Management(BPM)
    - Provided consulting services and presented master plan for the Enterprise Portal (EP) of LG Chem., Ltd.
    - Provided consulting services for the groupware of GS Home Shopping.
    - Designed and implemented IKEP (Integrated Knowledge Enterprise Portal)
    - Analyzed, designed and implemented Knowledge Management System (KMS) of LG CNS Co., Ltd.
    - Analyzed, designed and implemented Skill Information Management System (called TIMS),
      a kind of KMS, for GS E&C.
    - Analyzed and designed Digital Archive System (DAS), a kind of Content Management System,
      for National Information Society Agency (NIA).

SKILLS

    CERTIFICATIONS

    BEA AQUA Logic Service Bus2.1, BEA, Korea (Jul. 2006)
     IT Investment Valuation, LG CNS Co., Ltd., Korea (Nov. 2005)
     Object-Oriented Analysis & Design Using UML, Sun, Korea (Nov. 2005)
     Servlet & JSP with JDBC Workshop, Sun, Korea (Dec. 2004)
     Java Programming Language for Entry Level Developers Bundle, Sun, Korea (Nov. 2003)
     Introduction to oracle 8i:SQL and PL/SQL, Oracle, Korea (Oct. 2003)
     Fundamental of UNIX system, HP, Korea (Sep. 2003)

    SKILLS: Statistics, Computer Languages, DB, and S/W

    - SAS, SPSS, Mini-tab, Lisrel, Smart PLS
     - Java, C, C++, Servlet & JSP, BPEL, Oracle BPEL PM, Oracle ni, UNIX, MS SQL, Perl
     - IBM rational modeler, Visual Paradigm for UML, Matlab, Mathematica, Weka, etc.
     - Data Spreadsheet Modeling using Excel and Crystal Ball, Access, Eclipse, etc.

AFFILIATION
    SOA TFT (Jan. 2006-)
     BPM TFT (Jan. 2005-)
     Into the Marketing (Jan.2003-Sep.2005)
     Global Business Association (UW MBA Org.) (Aug.2007-)
     Business Consulting Network(UW MBA Org.) (Aug.2007-)
     Korean-American Scientists & Engineers Association (July.2007-)
     The Korean Association for Information Systems(krAIS) (Dec.2010-)



Use of VP-UML, BPVA, AG is made available to University of Texas at Dallas by the Academic Partner Program from Visual Paradigm for educational purpose.