Frank Yong Jea Cho
PROFESSIONAL
2022- Present
Digital Production Project Leader at Elevated (Lighting Environments)
2022- 2023 Product Designer at Lighting Environments
2021- 2022 Senior Digital Designer at Lighting Environments
2017 – 2020 UX/UI Designer & 3D/AR Developer at Johns Hopkins Medicine
2009 – 2017 Multimedia Designer & Engineer at INCREDITEK
2005 – 2006 Interactive Designer at ADMIND, Korea
2004 – 2005 Concept Design / Illustration at DESIGNCORNER, Korea
2001 – 2004 Motion & Animation Artist at DOOBIMEDIA, Korea
ACADEMIC
2022 – Present
Adjunct Professor at UMBC Department of Visual Arts
• ART447 Motion Graphics and Composite
• ART341 Introduction to Animation
2022 – Present
Adjunct Professor at MICA Media Arts
• AN 245 Pre-Production
2019 – Present
Adjunct Professor / Associate Graduate Instructor at Towson University Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education
• ART322 Motion Design
• ART414 Advanced Studio
• ART514 Advanced Studio
2019 Master of Fine Arts, Digital Design – Towson University
2019 MFA Thesis “In Pursue of Greatness” Holtzman MFA Gallery
2012 “Alumni Spotlights” Chesapeake Gallery, MD
2009 Associate of Fine Arts – Harford Community College, Maryland, USA.
2009 Nancy Sterner Fine Art Memorial Endowment recipient.
2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Communication Design – Kyungwon University, South Korea
2003 “한국설화” (Animentary Korean Folk Tale) 제 30회 한국방송협회대상. Received the 30th Korean Broadcasting Association Award.
2003 “한국설화” (Animentary Korean Folk Tale) YMCA 좋은 어린이 프로그램 상. Received the Award for the Best Children’s Television Program by YMCA.
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Specialization Certificates
Imfomation Visualization Specialization
Tandon School of Engineering, New York University
• Foundation • Applied Perception • Programming with D3.js • Advanced Techniques
iOS Developer Specialization
LearnQuest, Apple Authorized Training Provider
• Programming in Swift 5 • iOS App Development with Swift 5 • Tables, Data & Networking in iOS • iOS App Store & In-App Purchases
Course Certificates
Game Development for Modern Platforms Michigan State University
User Experience Principles and Process University of Michigan
Search Engine Optimization University of California, Davis
Biomedical Visualization University of Glasgow
HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for Web Developers Johns Hopkins University
Continuous Delivery & DevOps Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
Version Control with Git Atlassian
Front-End JavaScript Frameworks: Angular Hong Kong University of Science and Technology