Waipahu High School
University of Hawaii
Hawaii Pacific University
SVP and Director of Digital Commerce + Mobile, Bank of Hawaii - Honolulu, HI
Owner, Tapiki LLC, a mobile and web app development company, Honolulu, HI
Multiple patent holder, iCloud and Internet Services Software Engineer at Apple, Inc., Cupertino, CA
Bioinformatics software engineer/web developer at Incyte Genomics, Palo Alto, CA
Lead software engineer/mobile app dev/founder on multiple tech startups
“Develop a wide gamut of skills. Be multi-dimensional. Your life is a diverse set of experiences. Each experience is like a tool in your toolbox, a dot that needs connecting. These are unique to you. Learn to leverage them. Combine them. Extend them. No one else has the same set and therefore, no one else has the exact same lens/perspective. Innovative solutions are hidden in the spaces between. If you always start from compassion and empathy for your end user, you will never go wrong. Learn to listen. Learn to collaborate. True success comes from both.”
