Not a straight line toward a job title — a series of honest questions about how things work, and whether I could build them myself.
I studied Industrial Physics at Covenant University because I wanted to understand how things actually worked, not just how they were supposed to. Physics teaches you to sit with a problem until it resolves — no shortcuts, no guessing. That habit never left me. Long before I had a product title, I had the instinct: ask the real question, then go find the real answer.
At Venture Garden Group, I managed business analysis across TRIPS.ng and watched, up close, what it takes to turn an idea into an operating business — the unglamorous parts included. It made one thing obvious: I didn't want to wait for a title to start building. So I went to W. P. Carey for my MBA, not to collect credentials, but to sharpen the judgment I'd already started using.
Amazon, AWS, and Alexa gave me a front-row seat to how AI products get built at real scale — and the discipline to ship responsibly inside a huge company. But the instinct to build my own things never quietened. So alongside that work, I founded J'aduné Beauty, started Pearl & Roses, and began building Brkeven — three different bets on the same belief: that I can build things that matter, on my own terms.
I'm hands-on, not just strategic. I work daily with Claude Code and Cursor, and I'm comfortable in a full-stack Python/FastAPI codebase. My product experience spans LLMOps, generative AI, and NLP — plus the less glamorous work of international expansion, where the technology has to hold up outside its home market.
Running J'aduné Beauty, Pearl & Roses, and Brkeven at the same time — alongside a full-time career — has taught me more about product than any single job could. Every venture is a different test of the same muscle: build something real, with limited resources, and keep building when no one is watching.
| MBA | Complete |
| AI / technical development | Ongoing |
| AIGP certification | Pursuing |
| Psychology (PhD) | Future |
My faith and my community shape how I work as much as any MBA did. I care about showing up for local schools, small businesses, and the people around me — not as a side project, but as part of the same values that drive everything else I build.