I grew up in Honolulu, went to college in Seattle, and studied abroad in Japan and Italy.
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Honolulu
~2022
I grew up on Oahu, where community isn't a value statement; it's how things get done. Punahou basketball and a varsity co-captain year, a 199-hour Eagle project rebuilding a library, and a first job as a sales associate helping military families at the Navy Exchange.
Seattle
2022
Seattle University: Business Analytics and Marketing by day, refereeing flag football by night. I started as an intramural official and left running the program; along the way I co-founded a student credit union initiative that won $22.5K across two business plan competitions.
東京 · Tokyo
2024
A semester at 上智大学 (Sophia University): Japanese language, Anthropology of Japan, and a Philosophy of AI course a full year before AI became my job. Being the person who doesn't fully speak the language teaches you to listen harder than any classroom does.
Honolulu
Summer 2025
Back to the islands as one of Bank of Hawaii's first AI interns: 50+ use cases gathered across the organization, a scoring framework, a Power BI dashboard, and a readout to 60+ employees and senior leaders. The journey loops home before its last leg.
Seattle U · Experience By Doing → The LinkedIn post → BOH 2025 employee report →
Italy
August 2025
I have always wanted to go to Europe, so when this opportunity came along, I could not pass it up. Italy felt completely new compared with anything I had experienced before. I went in not knowing anyone, but I left making lifelong friends. The class brought together MBA students and younger undergrads. As a senior, I was somewhere in the middle: asking people who had already built careers for advice, while sharing some of what I had learned with students just starting out. At the family-run places, the care was impossible to miss. You could feel the pride, history, and personal care behind the product. Seeing that level of craft alongside companies operating at global scale made all the preparation work from spring and summer feel real.
What's next?
2026
Graduated and keeping busy: learning, doing self-learning projects, freelance, and real estate. I am studying for my JLPT N3, getting in touch with my roots and trying to verify my years of study.
Participation analysis from a player and manager
Zippy’s · an independent expansion strategy
I revisited an introductory marketing project two years later, rebuilding the strategy around what had changed at Zippy’s.
It started as a marketing class project
2024 course project · independently revisited in 2026
Explore the full projectFan Demand Lab · an NBA attendance model
Oops, All In · a multiplayer party game
29,011 Airbnb listings against a hotel benchmark
25,000+ listings across Tokyo submarkets
AI growth has been moving fast. It feels like there is always something new coming out. I never thought I would be able to build a web app, a video game, or even a website, but AI gave me the confidence to try. I take inspiration from what I have seen and experienced, especially problems I have run into or things that could work better. I learn by building different versions and getting a feel for what works. One of my strengths is noticing when an output feels off, then figuring out what needs to change. Curiosity keeps me learning, and I want to turn that into useful things with other people.
Start with the person and the decision.
Bring context. Compare possible approaches.
Make something concrete to evaluate.
Test the result against the original goal.
Save what works. Automate the repeat work.
I use AI tools, including ChatGPT, Codex, Claude, and Gemini, to explore ideas, research, write and debug code, develop designs, and revise writing. This website and several projects in this portfolio were developed with AI assistance, including parts of their code, copy, and visuals.
I set the direction, bring the personal context, choose what to keep, and work through revisions. I review the output, test how things work, and check factual claims against sources before sharing. That review can still miss things, and I take responsibility for correcting errors in the work I publish.
The level of AI involvement varies by project. My standard is to explain its role where it matters, label generated visuals, credit outside sources, and distinguish my own experience from AI-assisted exploration. Using AI does not mean I built every part from scratch or that its output is automatically correct.
Open to marketing, analytics, sports, global business, and program management roles, plus freelance projects and collaborations.
