He co-founded Stimsoft, a medical products company. Kim has spent 25 years in the design and development of medical, military, and satellite equipment. He wrote the textbook, “Electronic Instrument Design: Architecting for the Life Cycle,” published by Oxford University Press in 1996 and is preparing the second edition. He just completed another textbook for CRC Press titled, “What Every Engineer Should Know About Developing Real-Time, Embedded Products.” He is Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement magazine and writes the “Tried and True” column. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in Instrumentation and Measurement and lectures on the international circuit. He has published widely in engineering journals and has three patents, two pending, one filed, and 13 invention disclosures.