Woochang Lim
Director of IT (Principal Professional) @ Samsung Electronics
About
I have over 27.5 years of IT experience, including +15 years as a enterprise IT strategy of the CIO office(Samsung Electronics), 9 years as a IT Infra consultant of the global IT vendor(HP Korea), 2 years as an insurance IT system maintenance(Dongbu Life Insurance), and 1 year as a IT research engineer of telco(LG Telecom). While I have been working for the Global IT vendor and the mojor enterprise with more than 120 subsidiaries worldwide, I have had a lot of IT business experience related IT Strategy Planning, IT Portfolio Management, IT Budget Management, IT Outsourcing & SLA Management, IAM(Identity and Access Management), Digital Workplace, IT Financial Analysis(TCO/ROI), IT Infra Assessment & Architecture, Virtualization, Next Generation Insurance System, UML Modeling and OO/CBD methodology. And I have strength in the rich field collaboration experience with multinational personnel and cross function organization and the ability to discover and solve issues.
South Korea
Seoul
Consumer Electronics
ID 및 액세스 관리(IAM), MFA, 아웃소싱, IT 거버넌스, Data Science, Python, 통계학, 통합 인증(SSO), 다문화 커뮤니케이션, VDI(데스크톱 가상화), 화상회의, QA, IT 재무, 방법론, 내부 커뮤니케이션, HPUX, 오라클 RAC, 데이터 마이그레이션, VMware ESX, 프로젝트관리
Experience

Director of IT (Principal Professional)
■ IT Tech. Strategy Planning - 2025.07~present, Build up the Gemini on-prem service architecture - 2024.12~present, New IT Procurement Technology Strategy organizational setup and biz process establishment - 2024.3~present, HQ management of GroupWare policy & service catalog - 2023.7~2023.12, Discover the generative AI usecase of the digital workplace business and build AI machine learning metadata ■ Digital Workplace - 2022.4~2023.12, Led the architecture design and operation of the virtual desktop system using Citrix for the work from home (apply the security & cloud technology such as CX, MS Azure) - 2021.10~2023.3, Led the B2E legacy system cross browsing T/F (MS IE → Edge/Chrome/Whale) - 2021.7~2021.9, Led the benchmark and comparative analysis to apply optimal collaborative solutions for employees, also pilot of Microsoft M365 - 2021.1~2021.6, Cisco on-prem Webex video conferencing system building and operation ■ IAM (Identity and Access Management) & Security - 2017.7~2017.10, Led the design of an corporate IAM framework (Active Directory, ADFS and their DR) - 2017.11~2019.6, Led the building LDAP(MS Active Directory) for the worldwide subsidiaries, extended application as collaboration with global employees over 60 country (host of the global seminar 16times) - 2019.7-2020.12, Led the server-side global standard SSO deployment T/F (ADFS using SAML) - 2020.2~2020.12, Led the MFA(multi factor authentication) architecture design and application

Senior Manager
- Department : Corporate IT Strategy Team ■ Long-term strategy for agile & flexible IT structure transformation - Responsible for enhancing IT functions, planned and managed long-term advancement of enterprise IT - Involved in transformation of on-prem IT infra to cloud-based solutions, Integrating similar systems, enhancement of team as a CoE (Center of Excellence), etc. - Adjust annual task priorities and monitor transformation performance ■ IT governance - Budget and Portfolio Management - Led the global IT budgeting (over USD 2 billion per year) - Management of major IT performance indicators (IT expense, system utilization, # of operation headcounts, server infra, etc.) - Provided timely solutions for evolving business IT requirements using IT supply management - Reviewing the feasibility of the new IT project and supervising QA ■ IT governance - Outsourcing & SLA Management - Led the corporate IT outsourcing contract (over USD 500 million per year) - Reorganized global IT operation manpower(headcount 2,000+) into major regions; set up 24x7 service procedure, streamlined redundant systems and organizations, saved IT expense - Discover SLA innovation indicators & Manage monthly SLA assessments to improve service level

Senior IT Consultant
- Department : EDS Consulting & Integration, Enterprise Infrastructure - Analysis/design of IT infrastructure for various enterprise customers * Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Heavy Industries, LG Electronics, Shinhan Bank, SKT, GM, NHN, Doosan, Hyundai Logistics, CJ, Lotte Confectionery, Citi Bank, KRX, etc - IT Financial effects assessment with TCO/ROI analysis - Software architecture design & UML modeling based system integration methodology - Contribute to HP products pre & post sales < Key Projects > ■ Samsung Electronics IT Transformation Planning, 2009.4~12 - PM of the server architecture assessment for B2E legacy - To-Be architecture, DB schema optimization, J2EE web migration - IT financial analysis ■ Shinhan Bank Montvale Project, 2008.5~2009.3 - PL of the banking system migration (CPU Montecito→Montvale) - Application migration process methodology consulting and implementation - Biz. Communication between S/W vendor PIC ■ NHN Wintel Consolidation Planning & Pilot, 2007.4~9 - Led the high level design of the Naver community DB & web architecture - Pilot of the 3node DB HA architecture ■ Hyundai Logistics Consolidation, 2006.9~2007.02 - PM of server migration (SUN Solaris→HPUX) - Reorganized DB scheme for enhancement DB performance - Checked S/W compatibility due to OS changes ■ Hyundai Heavy Industries Virtualization, 2005.11~2006.8 - PL of the deploying virtualization infrastructure (VMWare) to OS Scale Out - Scale Up by deploying an MS-SQL integrated DB and built an enterprise file server ■ Samsung Semiconductor Windows Consolidation, 2004.8~2005.1 - PM of factory windows server consolidation - Migration to the MS-SQL integrated DB & web applications ■ Sales Support (Internal), 2003.10~2004.6 - Participated in ubiquitous digital automation solution development as a S/W architect - Technical sales support for financial IT service offerings such as wealth management application - Developed an XML I/F (Customer's legacy↔HP service desk solution)

Software Architect
- Department : Professional Services ■ Korea Life Next Generation Project - NK21, 2001.3~2003.9 - Building a next generation insurance system(IBM Mainframe→True64/J2EE) - Project leader of the salesforce management application implementation - UML modeling, Object-oriented methodology (Rational Unified Process), EJB/Java/jsp - Design the control process of the large data

IT Technician
- Department : IT PU MIS Team ■ Responsible for KMS, B2E Groupware and B2B Mobile Groupware - Benchmark for point solutions for optimal corporate KMS(knowledge management systems) building - Operation of the groupware (Sun Solaris, Apache, Sendmail, CGI) - Participated in the establishment of mobile groupware (B2B commercial solution)

Software Programmer
- Department : Information System Team ■ Operation of the Key IT System for the Insurance - Responsible for the New contracts, Reinsurance, and Sales support system as COBOL programmer - Mainframe skill & knowledge (IBM AIX, DB400, COBOL400) - Performing Y2K
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