BACKGROUND
Background
A dual degree in graphic design, print and interactive, then brand and web work and the automation behind both. Dates and issuers are listed for checking.
Awards
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2026
American Advertising Awards, Silver
Future Frontier 2025, group campaign
Responsible for the web design and the brand identity.
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2025
Section AI full scholarship
Section School of Business
A competitive award of one year of full access.
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2021
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Chi Epsilon chapter
Inducted for academic achievement.
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2021
First place, art
Phoenix Magazine, Valencia College
Annual student submission contest.
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2020
Lois Holt Scholarship
Valencia College Foundation
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2015
Best Newcomer
Ticketbox
Two disciplines
I studied graphic design twice at Valencia College, once in print and once in interactive. Print is fixed: the file goes to press at one size and nothing changes after that. Interactive is not fixed: the same layout has to hold on a phone and on a wide monitor, and the reader can change the text size. I keep both habits, checking before committing and never treating my own screen as the one that matters, so the work holds on screens the person approving it will never see.
Into automation
The same pattern kept appearing on design jobs, just outside the design itself. The brand was sound and the site was sound, while behind both a person copied rows between two systems manually every morning, because no one had been given the task of examining it. I learned to build the part that removes that work, using the method design already supplies: establish what actually happens rather than what the process document records. The steps that survive on habit are dropped, what is left is kept simple enough to hand over, and the task leaves the working day rather than moving to another desk.
One job
The identity decides what the site has to be, the site decides what gets captured and where, and that decides what can be automated later. What resists automation is data that was never held in a usable shape. When three suppliers own those three pieces, no one owns the decisions that join them, which is where the cost appears. A single owner across all three closes that gap, so keeping them together costs less and less breaks.
Where AI goes
The automation I build includes a model only where a model belongs, and that placement is decided deliberately. A model suits work that needs judgement and can be wrong occasionally: sorting, drafting, reading messy text. It is not reliable for anything that has to be exactly right every time, so the model reads, a plain rule decides, and every run leaves a record that can be opened. Where a task can be done without a model, I do it without one, which costs less and does not drift.
How I work
The work starts with a long list of questions, and if a brief is pointing the wrong way I say so before anything is built. What I show at review is the working build, not a picture of one, and anything unfinished is named at handover. A small number of jobs at a time is what makes that attention possible. Delivery is the files, the rules that govern them, and enough written down that another person could keep it running.
Right fit
Working alone is deliberate, and it suits work where judgement matters more than volume. The fit is an identity meant to last, a site that explains itself unattended, an internal tool a few people use daily, or a process that accumulated step by step without anyone designing it. I am not the right choice when the need is a six person team available immediately, or the same campaign in five markets at once. Naming that limit early keeps a poor fit out of the contract.
Certified
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2025
AI Expert
Section
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2025
AI Proficiency
Section
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2025
Integrating AI into Team Workflows
Section
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2025
Building a Custom GPT
Section
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2025
Building a Business Case for AI Initiatives
Section
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2025
AI for Product Managers
Section
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2025
AI for Writing
Section
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2025
AI Crash Course
Section
Work
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2026 to now
Software Developer and Graphic Designer
Nona AI, Orlando, Florida
AI systems and the automation behind digital workflows, and the design that goes with them.
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2025 to now
AI Developer and Graphic Designer
Naura AI Agency, Orlando, Florida
Automation, branding and web work for the agency's clients.
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2025 to 2026
Graphic Designer
Employers 4 Change, Florida
Brand and digital design across the organisation's programmes.
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2015 to 2016
Business Development and Operation Specialist
VNG Corporation, Ho Chi Minh City
Partnerships, internal operations and market research behind VNG's digital products.
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2014 to 2016
Business Development Specialist, then Operation Specialist
Ticketbox Group, Ho Chi Minh City
An early hire, on daily ticketing operations and client support, then on partnerships with promoters, theatres and venues.
Study
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Valencia College
Graphic Design, Interactive
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
UI and UX, web design and prototyping. Figma, HTML and CSS, Adobe XD, Webflow. User centred design, accessibility, visual storytelling.
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Valencia College
Graphic Design, Printing
Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Typography, production and prepress. Screen printing, offset and digital, on real print campaigns and student exhibitions.
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Valencia College
Associate of Arts, General Studies
2022 to 2023, Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
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COFER
Commerce and Economics, Commercial English
College of Foreign Economic Relation
Business English, correspondence and negotiation for international trade.