I. Where the Work Comes From
I came to hospitality through lived experience before I came to it through theory. Long before formal training, I was attentive to how people move through spaces, how food carries memory, how environments shape behavior, and how care is communicated without language. Hospitality, for me, has always been less about service and more about structure. It is about the systems that determine who feels welcome, who feels seen, and who feels held.
My background spans luxury food and beverage, experiential dining, business operations, and strategic analysis. What connects these disciplines is a sustained interest in how intention becomes execution. I am drawn to environments where creativity is supported by rigor and where cultural context carries as much weight as aesthetics. This sensibility has shaped both my academic focus and my professional work, grounding creativity in discipline rather than instinct alone.
II. How I Learned to See
My education formalized what curiosity first introduced. Studying hospitality management alongside business strategy sharpened my ability to translate experience into frameworks that can be evaluated, scaled, and sustained. Coursework in analytics, operations, and global business gave structure to patterns I had long observed. These included the relationship between design and behavior, between systems and emotion, and between culture and consumption.
International study further deepened this perspective. Exposure to European hospitality systems reframed my understanding of pace, ritual, and value. I became interested not only in what works, but in why it works differently across regions. This comparative lens now informs how I approach projects of all kinds. I treat hospitality as an applied field of study that rewards observation, humility, and precision.
III. What I Am Building Toward
My work sits at the intersection of hospitality strategy, experience design, and cultural analysis. I focus on projects that require both imagination and accountability, where storytelling is supported by operational clarity. This includes experience frameworks, brand development, applied research, and case-based exploration of hospitality as a system rather than a spectacle.
This site is a record of thinking in progress. The projects collected here reflect how I approach problems, how I test ideas, and how concepts evolve through practice and critique. Hospitality, at its best, is a discipline of care backed by structure. Everything presented here is built from that belief.