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Hannah Im

My CV

  • Education:

    Bachelor of Arts from Mount Holyoke College – first college in the US that gave women an education beyond high school and still a women’s college, founded in 1839!

  • Work History:

    Associate consultant at Coopers & Lybrand
    Internal auditor at Bank of America
    Consultant at Deloitte & Touche
    Senior consultant at Shared Vision Group
    Business continuity manager at Goldman Sachs
    Manager at Protiviti
    Franchise operations manager at Dashing Diva and at Cuts Fitness
    Software asset manager at Schlumberger
    Operational excellence performance manager at bp
    Americas risk and compliance manager at bp
    Global operations and infrastructure risk officer at bp
    IT security assurance manager at bp

  • Current Job:

    Integrated risk manager at bp

  • About Me:

    Professional laugher. Positively ever positive. Lover of love. Justice seeker. Christian soldier of peace.

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    • I’m an immigrant from Korea, and Korean is my first language
    • Aside from Houston, I’ve lived in New York City, Boston, Richmond (Virginia), and Providence (Rhode Island) in the US, as well as Seoul, Tokyo, and Paris
    • I have two younger brothers, two nephews, and a niece
    • Love to read, stream TV (Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Amazon Prime, and soon to be Apple TV)
    • Like to kayak when it’s not too hot
    • Used to skydive before I got vertigo
    • Am an ally to Black Lives Matter and the LGBTQI
    • Volunteer with the kids at my church (nondenominational) and mentor young girls at a local middle school
    • Vegan when I can be and vegetarian when I can’t
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    Given we face risks all the time, every minute of every day, do you know how to identify a risk in your life? There are different levels of risk and different types of risk – like safety, environmental, cyber, operational, etc. Risks are events that haven’t happened to us yet, and my job is to help the people in my company know how to tell if something is risky enough that we need to try to prevent it or contain it, should it occur.

  • My Typical Day:

    So many emails all the time! Helping people. Creating new ways of working. Managing our team’s workload. And even more than emails – meetings – so, so, so, so, so many meetings.

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    So many emails all the time! Emails nonstop throughout the day – mostly people with questions or updates about work in progress. I read a lot of documents created by other people and create new processes to help make managing risk easier. Sound boring? I promise that it’s not. I mean, there are times where I wish someone else could do my work for me, but most of the time, it’s great being able to design a new way to operate, to improve on what’s already in place. The reason it’s so great is that I get to do it with the best people. We have so much fun – it’s like creating Lego masterpieces without the instructions – or actually, making them better than the instructions!

  • What I'd do with the prize money:

    Put it toward a scholarship for the person with the best idea of what the future will look like

  • My Interview

    • How would you describe yourself in 3 words?

      outgoing, smiley, warm

      What did you want to be after you left school?

      Teacher - maybe

      Were you ever in trouble at school?

      Only in the first grade

      Who is your favourite singer or band?

      U2

      What's your favourite food?

      Korean

      If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!

      get out of debt, be closer to my brothers, see my niece and nephews everyday

      Tell us a joke.

      How do you make a tissue dance? Put a little boogie in it.

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