About Me

Hey! This is my website. I’m currently looking for work and I want to make something that better speaks to my experience and personality.

My biggest passion in life is learning what makes people tick. My ability to establish trust and build community is what helps me gel with any problem solving team.

Below is my story of how I combine my people skills with engineering ones to define value, create value, and expand our collective curiosity.

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My Philosophy: Fuel Curiosity

My calling in life is to prevent suicide through loneliness prevention. A theory I’ve developed from that work is that life is about moments of astonishment - the “aha” moments of self-actualization that are as grounding as they are fulfilling.

This has guided my leadership style. My leadership style is to be constantly reaching for those moments by pulling on two levers, truth and grace. Truth is found in the balance between what we’re capable of and what our capacity is. Grace is accounting for the space between the circumstances of our lives and current condition of our well-being.

The result of leading people in this way, of reinforcing both individualism and belonging, is that you see people excited to be a part of something bigger. The effort to reinforce that we matter and belong is technical and intricate, but when you see people experience astonishment, it’s worth it.

New Opportunities

I’m currently looking for people management positions. I’ll make a chess analogy to demonstrate the perspective I developed for manager roles drawing from Product Management and Product Owner roles at Accenture.

In chess, there are 3 parts to every game - the opening, the midgame and the endgame. My favorite games are those that have muddy, complicated midgames. There’s no secret to solving them. You have to keep track of all of threats, stick to your fundamental attacking ideas, look for opportunities to better your position, and identify when you can afford to take calculated risks.

The difference between chess and defining/shaping/solving a business case is the objective. In chess, great players don’t lose sight of the objective — go get the king.

In business, the king isn’t a person, it’s alignment around meaningful outcomes.

It can be easy to think that the objective is to receive increased investment with your name recognized in “the next thing”, and I can confirm that makes you feel appreciated. However, throughout a project lifecycle, when stakeholders, change managers, engineers, designers, and stakeholders lean in with alacrity and ask, “Hey, what are we doin next?” — for me, that’s checkmate.

Big Ideas,
Real Impact.

0 to 1

The last few years, I have been exploring how to contribute to the mental health space. My team developed 2 mobile applications designed to promote community and mental health.

For the journaling app, we worked with mental health clinicians and users to define a new tagging mechanism called “feels”. The intent was to help people better identify and articulate their emotions. We got featured in the news for a success story from one of our MH partner’s having a breakthrough with a client who claimed she has measurably better MH management using our app!

That was a major step in proving we could get people we don’t know to open up and be honest in our product. We have since pivoted our attention to building a social networking app for close friends to address a step in loneliness that we keep hearing - “As we get older, it gets harder to keep in touch and people fall out of your life.” Why not create something that makes that easier?

Penciv - Journaling App

I am so bad at journaling and so good at anxiety scrolling.

This app helped me get in the habit of recognizing my feelings, writing them down and sharing honestly with friends (on my own terms). Such a beautiful concept and I have really been enjoying the app thus far!

— Lauren_303, App Store

Koop - Newsletter App

Not like other social media apps, Koop allows me to share my thoughts and stories only with my close family and friends. I love it.

— Bend One

Skills - Account Management, Public Speaking, Generative AI, React Native, Python, TypeScript, REST APIs, Authentication, DB management, UI/UX Design, Figma

Public Speaking

The work hasn’t been all 1s and 0s. The mental health space is still very young and in need of advocacy!

To that end, I have grown as a public speaker speaking to audiences including church youth, sober living programs, young professionals and small businesses about emotional literacy and mental health.

"Today, I appreciated learning about Meaningful Tension. I realized tension is necessary, but it should not be overwhelming. It will make me a better friend and worker."

— Dan O., Sr. National Account Manager, BamCore

"Today, I appreciated learning how we get bogged down with mud in our journey. It will make me a better friend, wife, and manager.”

— Tobe S., CMO, BamCore

"Our coaches were overwhelmed. None of us had ever seen our guys ask so many questions about their emotions and well being.”

— Robby Mitchell, CEO, Elevate Recovery Homes

"I’ve never seen my kids this engaged with a speaker. I recommend Jinhyun for anyone who is looking for someone to teach mental health fundamentals to teenage kids.”

— Tim Coressel, Youth Pastor, Cornerstone Boulder