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Hong Kwon

Product Manager

Plaxo

San Francisco, CA

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About Hong Taek Kwon

I'm a product manager helping to work on the next generation of social networking here at Plaxo. I've also worked at Netscape and AOL, initially building automation test tools and later managing multiple teams of QA engineers. I have a passion for consumer software that enables and improves the way you interact with the people you know.

By night, I'm a salsa dancer/teacher. I've been studying Japanese off-and-on for 11 years or so -- conversationally fluent but still working on it (and learning all those kanji). I grew up in Boston but now living in the beautiful city of San Francisco.

birthday

March 14th

political views

Moderate

religious views

Agnostic

hometown

Lexington, MA

relationship status

In a relationship

activities

salsa dancing performing and teaching, running, DJing, playing music (violin, viola, bass, guitar, drums, classical, jazz, funk, acid jazz, hip hop)

interests

Japanese culture, Korean and Japanese language, food, wine

music

salsa: spanish harlem orchestra, willie rosario, jimmy bosch, jimmy sabater/son boricua, mongo santamaria, cal tjader, eddie palmieri, willie colon, louie ramirez, tito puente, ray barretto, sonora poncena, el gran combo, frankie ruiz, oscar de leon, local bands azabache, mazacote and tito garcia. korean: boa, epik high ft clazziquai, roorah, solid, SG Wannabe, cool. japanese: boa, m-flo (pre-breakup), spitz, every little thing, dragon ash, zeebra, cibo matto, mr. children, southern all stars, tamaki kouji, fukuyama masaharu. new wave/80s alternative: the smiths, new order, joy division, depeche mode, the cure, erasure. funk and soul: maceo parker, the jbs, james brown, sly and the family stone, p-funk, parliament, funkadelic, isley brothers, kool and the gang, earth wind and fire, the commodores, rick james (esp. mary jane). acid jazz: jamiroquai, dig, greyboy all stars, brand new heavies, groove collective. jazz: miles davis, john coltrane, horace silver, herbie hancock (and the headhunters), clifford brown, max roach, stan getz. reggae/dancehall: chaka demus, bob marley, shaggy. mainstream hiphop/r&;b: 2pac, snoop dogg, nate dogg, kurupt, ludikris, dr. dre, mary j. blige. underground hiphop: dilated peoples, jurassic 5, dj shadow, lyrics born, dj qbert. classical: mahler, stravinsky, schumann, grieg, brahms, tchaikovsky, faure, debussy, ravel.

tv shows / movies

ninja warrior (sasuke/kunoichi), kung fu mahjong, nobody knows (dare mo siranai), afterlife, everything about lily chouchou, shaolin soccer, taegukgi, terminator 2, robocop, house of flying daggers, crouching tiger hidden dragon, spellbound, super size me, office space, aliens 1-3, star wars, empire strikes back, return of the jedi, cinema paradiso, red rock west, the last seduction, casablanca, fight club, envy, meet the parents, the godfather, apocalypse now, platoon, the vanishing, breaking the waves, the sea within, spiderman, kill bill v.2, my neighbor totoro (tonari no totoro), castle in the clouds (laputa), school of rock, talladega nights, coming to america, the kite runner

books

Le Petit Prince, Blink, the Tipping Point, Freakanomics, a Guide to Style, the Brick Testament, Get Your War On I and II, Ender's Game, The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Book of Three, Harry Potter, Memoirs of a Geisha, Fight Club, the Magic City

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Hong Kwon - Pulse without connections is TV without cable. Jun 9, 2009

Hong Kwon just registered for the full San Francisco Marathon (July 26)! Apr 28, 2009

Hong Kwon is excited. Apr 27, 2009

Hong Kwon Just ran 14 miles (soma to the GG Bridge). The Embarcadero was closed to traffic, so a lot of people were out. Beautiful day in SF! Apr 26, 2009

Hong Kwon is working on the caltrain. Just got solicited for a job by a fellow passenger. "Looking for Java engineers? I am very experienced." Apr 21, 2009

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Hong Kwon's Professional Experience
Product Manager
2006 - Present
2009 - Present
Senior QA Lead
2004 - 2006
QA Architect (Performance Testing)
2001 - 2003
Manager, Enterprise Client QA
2000 - 2001
Manager, Client Sustaining QA
1998 - 2000
Test Automation Engineer
1997 - 1998
Hong Kwon's Education
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science, 1997
 
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