In 1999, Kim started his work studying IT organizations, capturing and codifying how high performing organizations have IT operations, security, audit, management, and governance working together to solve common business objectives [REF].
Kim was named as a Computer Science Outstanding Alumni in 2007 for "exceptional professional achievements and their success in advancing world technology with the application of computer science",[REF] and as one of Computerworld's "Forty Technology Innovators Under Forty" in 2007 [REF].