2021–Now
Strategy & Product
Oliver Wyman
Advise enterprise clients on strategy, operations, and product delivery, and built The Hub, a 0-to-1 AI platform that shipped to five of them. Most recently led a ~$6M retail engagement as PM.
I am a strategist and a builder. For the last six years I have moved between the whiteboard and the codebase, taking things that are ambiguous and making them real.
My family is from Việt Nam, and that heritage is the quiet through-line of how I work: patience, layering, and a respect for craft that I trace back to sơn mài, the lacquer painting built up coat by coat until it glows. I grew up between that culture and an American one, and today I live and work in the Washington, D.C. area.
I care less about titles than about the shape of a problem. Give me something tangled and under-defined, and the work I most enjoy is giving it structure, building the first version, and shipping it to someone real.
Take something ambiguous, give it structure, and make it real.
Advise enterprise clients on strategy, operations, and product delivery, and built The Hub, a 0-to-1 AI platform that shipped to five of them. Most recently led a ~$6M retail engagement as PM.
Co-founded and ran a parking lot striping business, grew it through direct sales and local partnerships, and sold it. A reminder that shipping is shipping, whatever the medium.
Led a 10-person team through a Fortune 50 IT divestiture, managing $6M in engagement funds and a ~20K-item backlog.
Built GPS, audio, and tracking features in Java and C for one of the first fully integrated satellite smartphones, developed for DoD applications.
Graduated With Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa with a 3.9 GPA. Founding member of 180 Degrees Consulting and a discrete mathematics teaching assistant.
Outside of work I am usually in the water or making something with my hands. I swam varsity and club, I grew up building robots and 3D-printing parts at all hours, and I still chase that feeling of taking an idea and producing the physical thing. The corner of Vietnamese culture I hold closest is the food and the long table it gathers people around. A good weekend has a hard problem, a long swim, and a meal worth lingering over.