Team & operating story

Sharp Zonex grew from weekend bench sessions into cohort contracts because audit trails beat hero slides. We still cap live attendance per cohort to keep mentor feedback sharp—exact seats vary by track.

Traceable builds

Every demo ships with revision notes peers can reproduce.

Honest scope

Labs say no to carrier certification theater in classroom kits.

Mentor signal

Feedback references specific modules—never boilerplate praise.

Safety first

Power budgets before feature creep; brownouts get daylight.

Milestones

2019 — Pilot cohort in Busan: Twelve learners shipped UART-first portfolios before cloud dashboards.
2022 — Corporate tabletop library: Released facilitator scripts for device onboarding audits.
2025 — KR evening overlap blocks: Standardized live windows covering Seoul and EU-friendly touchpoints.

Roster (20)

Soyeon Chae

Academic Director

Sets cohort outcomes and signs off lab revisions quarterly.

Minseo Han

Course Mentor

Embedded fundamentals and UART-first debugging advocate.

Leo Park

Course Mentor

BLE pairing labs and gateway reliability drills.

Rina Cho

Course Mentor

Edge analytics and watt-budget coaching.

Noah Kim

Course Mentor

Weekend sprint facilitation across APAC time zones.

Haeun Song

Career Coach

Portfolio narrative studio for career switchers.

Jisoo Baek

Student Success Manager

Tracks attendance artifacts and escalation paths.

Mira Jung

Enrollment Advisor

Maps cohort fit without overselling hardware needs.

Daniel Ahn

Corporate Training Lead

Enterprise cohort design and tabletop facilitation.

Sumin Lee

Course Mentor

ISR-safe C patterns and timing diagrams.

Priya Nair

Course Mentor

MQTT and Modbus hygiene for factory pilots.

Ethan Ruiz

Course Mentor

Key rotation ceremonies without theatrics.

Yuri Matsumoto

Course Mentor

Sensor fusion experiments with honest failure cases.

Camille Otis

Course Mentor

Documentation clarity for mixed hardware revisions.

Ibrahim Saleh

Course Mentor

Gateway containers and observability hooks.

Nara Fujita

Student Success Manager

Learner accommodations and conflict mediation.

Elliot Vaughn

Enrollment Advisor

Corporate procurement alignment and PO hygiene.

Geonwoo Shin

Career Coach

Interview loops for hardware-adjacent roles.

Amelia Costa

Corporate Training Lead

Logistics for hybrid on-sites across Korea.

Taeyang Koo

Partnerships Lead

Partnerships with regional makerspaces for kit staging.