I remember the moment I realized what I wanted to do for the rest of my life.

When I was 16, I remember feeling a rush to write down my thoughts one evening. Where should I go to college? How can I translate my interests to a major? Where do I really want to open the next chapter of my life?

… I ended up writing a blog on my Tumblr page. But evidently it became a coming-of-age story … and little did I know where it would eventually take me.

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“What is it that really interests me in life? Marketing. There’s a reason why there are those people that line up for days before a new generation of an iPhone or something launches. It’s how they make that product look so awesome and how they make it look like it’s something you have to have. It’s a sandwich of glass and aluminum. But they sell millions of them around the world …

… Northern CA is a place where I just feel that it’s truly a place where I’d love to live and explore. It’s a whole new world out there. And I emphasize new. You’ll never improve if you never change.”

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Despite my lifelong worth of friends and family in my Southern California hometown, I knew an opportunity was lying ahead. I started planning my move to Silicon Valley and learning what it’d take to be a digital marketer. When I graduated high school, I made a decision.

I am a graduate from San Jose State University with a concentration in Marketing. I became the President of the SJSU Marketing Association in my senior year of college. I graduated cum laude with a 3.7 GPA while completing the Gary J. Sbona Honors Program in SJSU’s Lucas College of Business. I'm focused in the world of digital marketing: specifically content strategy, digital experience, social media management, community building, and multimedia production.

If I could look back to my former self, I’d say he accomplished his dream and did what he sought out to do. And this is only just the start.