The Journey
One island, one city, two study-abroad chapters, and a loop back home. Scroll to travel; click a stop to jump.
2004 to 2022
I grew up on O'ahu, 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 ringing up military families at the Navy Exchange.
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.
2024
A semester at 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.
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.
September 2025
Ten days across Tuscany with the Albers School: family wineries, Nestle's Perugina chocolate operation, a B Corp textile mill older than most countries. Small firms, long views, and marketing that has survived centuries of change.
2026
Back in Seattle, building what's next: case studies, GA4 lead tracking for a family real estate business, and whatever messy problem lands on the desk after that.