Story so far — Started working at 12. No fancy origin story. Just broke, hungry, read about Steve Jobs, and got fueled to learn design with pirated Photoshop 5 on a classic Celeron processors.

Assembled and sold PCs in school. Built websites before “design thinking” became a ugly PowerPoint template. Did engineering by day, freelanced by night. Ate failure for years. Startups died. Products crashed. I didn’t.

Took a job at Moonraft Innovation Labs to learn from the best leaders and kill debt. Built experiences for various top brands, and made a dent on the digital banking universe. Ended up building and running a UX design studio in South Africa within a decade. No MBA. No defined roadmap. Just war scars and output.

Then I saw AI coming. Dropped titles. Took the hit. Got out of the comfort zone. Joined Lowe’s and —

• Crushed the vendor. Rebuilt Visual Search from the ground up,
  in-house, better and faster.

• Rolled out Visual AI systems and Evaluation Frameworks that made our core team and internal clients rethink how they worked.

• Got pulled into the Lowes.com/AI game — laid the foundation, built the core, then watched it shift hands. Went to the market as myLow, peace.

• Building Style Your Space, Gen-AI based styling engine — launched two solid versions of interior spaces. Now styling outdoor landscapes, patios, and cooking up what’s next.

I build. I bleed. Repeat.