Sangmin Ahn (Founder & CEO)
Sangmin is the founder & CEO of The Choimirai Company（日本語「ちょいみらい」）.
僕の夢は皆さんと一緒に勉強が出来るスペースを作ることです。その第一歩として、オンラインのストアを本日立ち上げました。それから、初の注文と納品??。詳細は@ChoimiraiHQ でアップデートします。今後ともよろしくお願いします?。 pic.twitter.com/CRUXoyzBdJ
— Sangmin Ahn (@gijigae) June 6, 2016
Sangmin was born and raised in South Korea. He briefly studied architecture before joining military service in 1994.
Journey Starts and First Overseas
旅の始まりと初めての海外
Sangmin started his English learning in Australia in 1997 soon after he finished 26 months long military service in South Korea. He lived in Australia for a year with a working holiday visa.
Trip to Japan
日本への旅
In 1998, Sangmin flew to Japan to study Japanese and he lived in Japan till 2000. While in Japan, he passed JLPT (日本語能力試験) Level 1, which is the highest level in the exam.
Study Computer Science
カナダへ大学留学
Sangmin went to Canada to pursue a degree in Computer Science. He lived in Calgary, Canada for 4 years and successfully earned BSc. with Cum Laude, in Computer Science. During school years, Sangmin worked as a faculty assistant in a school library. He never went back to Korea to resume the school where he majored in architecture.
One Year in India
インドで１年
In his senior year, Sangmin landed a job at Infosys, which is one of the best IT consulting companies in the world. The company is based in Bangalore, India. Sangmin lived in Bangalore for a year from 2004 till 2005 and moved to Infosys' Tokyo office in 2005. Till 2009, Sangmin had worked in various IT projects for international as well as Japanese domestic clients.
<Image> Sangmin featured in Nikkei on 8/23/2005. Click the image to enlarge.
Work at Nomura
野村証券での勤務
In 2009, Sangmin joined Global Information Technology department at Nomura Securities and he had experienced in many different aspects of financial IT systems End-to-End.
Pursue Higher Education
大学院へ挑戦
During Sangmin's tenure at Nomura, he was accepted to Georgia Tech in 2014 to further pursue Master's degree in Computer Science (Specialization in Machine Learning). The image below is the acceptance letter that Sangmin received from Georgia Tech. According to US News, Georgia Tech ranked #7 in the Best Engineering US Grad Schools.
Machine Learning
ジョージア工科大学では、機械学習（Machine Learning）を専攻。
Machine Learning
Reinforcement Learning
Qualifications
資格
| Sun Certified JAVA Programmer | Project Management Professional |
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| Newsela Certified Educator | |
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「ちょいみらい」の幕開け
Sangmin left Nomura in March 2015 to start his own business. Since he started 「ちょいみらい」in April 2015, Sangmin has made a few pivots in business plan and finally decided to work on improving English skills for Japanese learners.
History of TOEIC Test
公開テストの履歴
※ Did not take 209th TOEIC test.
※ TBA：To Be Added
217th: Jan. 29
公開テスト直後に意見が分かれる設問がいくつかあって、どうかなと思ったのですが「満点?」でした。去年３月からの受験でしたので、１月の満点は初めてです。これで #ちょいみらい模試会?参加者の皆さんにも良い報告が出来そうです ^^。 pic.twitter.com/cAyxHSh2Vr
— Sangmin Ahn (@gijigae) February 20, 2017
アビメ連続（第２１４回と第２１５回）１００
アビメ連続?? ^^
— Sangmin Ahn (@gijigae) December 17, 2016
僕にとって今年は
大変、でも最高の一年でした。
３月に初のTOEIC受験。
６月には @ChoimiraiHQ の立ち上げ。@hana30318422 さんが
声をかけてくれたお陰で
多くの学習者と繋がるようになり
アビメ連続?の報告?
今後とも? pic.twitter.com/jDVxzl9wS8
214th: Oct. 23
Just got home, and look what I find?.
— Sangmin Ahn (@gijigae) November 14, 2016
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３回連続は初めてです。
これでようやく自己ベスト更新。
???? pic.twitter.com/s76ZAH8QJ2
210th
これからオンライン勉強会（リスニング?）の資料?準備します。続けての満点?、取れるもんですね ^^。 pic.twitter.com/SVvxhskl4L
— Sangmin Ahn (@gijigae) June 20, 2016
208th（初受験）
#TOEIC結果 満点でした?。 pic.twitter.com/LUj9Y4ArhT
— Sangmin Ahn (@gijigae) April 4, 2016
History of TOEFL Test
16年ぶりに受けたTOEFLテストの結果は、
Places Where Sangmin Has Lived
旅の足跡。まだ続く。
You can contact Sangmin via Twitter(@gijigae) or his email, sangmin at choimirai.com.
追記
１１月１０日：
- Qualificationsの追加
- TOEICスコアの推移表追加