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'm a strategist and a builder. For the past six years I've moved between consulting and product work, starting where the strategy gets set and staying through the part where it actually gets built. That's the work I care about: not the deck, but what happens after the deck, built layer by layer until it holds.
I come by that honestly. My family is from Việt Nam, and I grew up between two cultures, set on not letting that heritage thin out in me. I'm relearning the language so I can talk with my grandparents in it, and one day write my own poetry in it. I keep Vietnamese music in rotation constantly, and the craft traditions I grew up around, especially sơn mài lacquerware, are where I actually learned to build things: layer by layer, with patience, until the depth starts to show.
That same instinct is what I do for a living. It started with slide decks and financial models, the language of consulting, and grew into shipping software and standing up products from nothing. Hand me something tangled and half-defined, and I'll try to give it a shape and ship something. That's what I keep doing whether anyone asks me to or not.
Plenty of that happens before anything ships. Much of it happens in the room, not on the page: years in steering committees and executive meetings, making the case for an idea or turning something complicated into a story a leader can act on in the next 30 minutes. I'm at home reading a room and working with the personalities in it.
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, then sold it.
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'm almost always training. I swam competitively as a kid, moved into bodybuilding after college, and eventually landed on hybrid training for the way it forces strength and endurance to coexist. I've raced HYROX, and an Ironman is on the horizon. I think about longevity a lot, and I treat my health like a long-term project, not a phase. The other constant is food: I'll track down a good restaurant anywhere I go, and the first thing I look for in a new city is its best Vietnamese spot.
None of that restlessness is new. I grew up on superheroes and never lost the habit of wanting to build something bigger than what's in front of me. That instinct is what led me to tech, to AI, and to the kinds of companies I want to be part of next.