User:Danieljaycho

From 2003 until 2008, studied Industrial Engineering and Systems engineering, Sales engineering, and Business Administration at University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. In 2004, was initiated into Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

Career

While attending school, Cho worked for various companies including a dentistry office, a toy store, a Quizno's sandwich shop, a barbeque supply store, Hollister Co. and Abercrombie & Fitch, and also briefly as a DJ.

Later during college, he got a start in the field of process improvement by working at a countertop manufacturing company, Surface Technology Corporation, located in Gulfport, Florida. While working there, he helped with projects to implement a pull-based manufacturing methodology based on DuPont's Profit Optimization Program.

After graduating from the University of Florida, he remained in Gainesville from 2009 until 2012, where he was an Enterprise Architect at Gainesville Regional Utilities working on benchmarking and Business Process Management specializing in process simulation using ARIS. In 2011 he obtained TOGAF certification for Enterprise Architecture. Late in 2011, he also helped to found Carina Space Corporation, a space industry consulting and training company.

In early 2012, he moved to Oahu in Hawaii. In Honolulu he began working for Coca-Cola as the Maintenance Manager overseeing the line maintenance team and facility improvements for the two production sites on the island. While working at Coca-Cola, he completed the Six Sigma Black Belt course from the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

In 2013, he was hired as an Enterprise Project Manager at American Savings Bank. He briefly left the bank for part of 2016, but returned later that year to work for the Operations Excellence team working on continuous process improvements and Six Sigma projects. In 2017, he obtained a Black Belt certification from American Society for Quality.

Random Notes

We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed, for our safety, to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.