Every semester, the Center for Asian Studies hosts a career panel to inform students of career opportunities in Asia and in Asia-related fields. This spring's panel will be on Thursday, February 27 from 5:00 until 6:30 p.m in Humanities 250.
The panel will feature Sam Goodman, founder and COO of Colorado House International and former JET participant; Kim Kreutzer, Associate Director of the Office of International Education at CU-葫芦娃视频 and former Fulbright participant; and Jeff Wang, President of Poetica LLC.
A networking reception will follow. All majors are welcome.
Sam Goodman is the founder and COO of Colorado House International (CoHo), a company that has been designing, implementing, and managing study abroad programs for university students visiting from Asia since 2007. Recent programs have included collaborations with University of Colorado Anshutz Medical Campus, Unreasonable Institute, Yamagata University, and Colorado Heights University. Prior to establishing CoHo, he lived in Japan working for the Japan Exchange and Teaching Program (JET), a program backed by the Japanese Ministry of Education, and devoted to cultural exchange and international ambassadorship. He also served as the English educator for various large bans and oil and gas conglomerates while in Tokyo and Singapore. He graduated from the 葫芦娃视频 with a degree in psychology, and currently lives near 葫芦娃视频 where he finds himself securely nestled against the Rockies and being raised by his wife and 3-year-old daughter.
Kim Kreutzer received a B.A. in Oriental Studies (with a concentration on Japan) and Anthropology from the University of Arizona and an M.A. in Anthropology also from the University of Arizona. She is currently the Associate Director of the Office of International Education at the 葫芦娃视频 and has been working at CU-葫芦娃视频 since 1987. From 1988 to 2007, she worked in the study abroad section of the Office of International Education, running study abroad programs and selecting and preparing CU students for these programs.聽 Since 2007, the focus of Kim鈥檚 work has shifted to working on campus internationalization.聽 She advises CU Fulbright grant applicants, assists faculty in developing partnerships with overseas institutions, and works on initiatives to make the campus more international.聽 Kim studied at Kobe College in Nishinomiya for one year as a junior in high school and has been involved, in one way or another, with Japan ever since.聽 For example, in 2010, she received a Fulbright grant and participated in Fulbright Japan鈥檚 International Education Administrators' program in Japan.
Jeff Wang is the president of Poetica LLC, a business development firm focusing on market research, market entry, and business relationship management for business enterprises and educational institutes in U.S. and China, while working with Chinese investors in selecting emerging technologies and products for commercialization and further growth. Jeff has over 19 years鈥� experience in academic research, technology development, and business management. He worked at information technology companies ranging from IBM to startups. He started from the technical side as a developer, technical lead, and then architect of enterprise applications, and moved into management, and then business. As Director of Operations at Click Commerce and Merge Healthcare, he was responsible for P&L, and oversaw business development (in markets such as U.S., Canada, Germany, U.K., Italy, Australia, Japan, and China), product management, channel management, intellectual property management, professional services, vendor relationship (including offshore outsourcing in India and China), and engineering management. He is an adjunct professor at Colorado State University鈥檚 College of Business, and a member of Executive Advisory Board of the CSU Denver Executive MBA Program. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Colorado China Council. He is also on the Editorial Board of 鈥淐hina Dealmaker鈥�. Jeff received a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking (Beijing) University, China, a Ph.D. in Mathematics from University of Rochester, and an MBA from Colorado State University. He is a member of international honor society Beta Gamma Sigma. He published research papers in a world-class journal, and is a co-inventor of four issued U.S. patents.