Summary
Sung Nam is a senior instructor and seasoned software engineer with 10+ years in academia and over three decades of hands-on industry experience spanning telecoms, enterprise BI, and systems software. Based in Denver, he teaches core CS courses—Unix systems programming, algorithms, data structures, OOP, and logic design—while bringing real-world architecture experience from roles at Avaya, Lucent/AT&T Bell Labs, and IBM. He has led large re-architecture and migration efforts (OBIEE/SSIS/SSRS/SSAS), designed web-based enterprise tools for global product registration and security reporting, and managed offshore teams as a technical lead and scrum master. Comfortable across C/C++, Java, Perl, C#, SQL and shell scripting, he blends deep systems-level engineering with practical product and lifecycle management. An early adopter of object-oriented re-engineering and a multi-award recipient during his Bell Labs tenure, he pairs academic teaching with a proven track record of translating complex requirements into production systems.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of Colorado Boulder
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Accounting and Business/Management, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Accounting and Business/Management at Yeungnam University
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at University of Colorado Colorado Springs
English, Korean, Chinese