About me

Where I'm from

I'm from St. Vincent and the Grenadines. I moved to Jamaica for my bachelor's degree and stayed for my master's, both at the University of the West Indies.

Kingston

My HR career started in Kingston. First as an HR Partner at Sagicor, a financial services group of more than 1,000 people, then as Senior HR & Talent Partner at a merchant bank. Banking is regulated work: files get audited, and processes have to hold up. That is where I learned to build systems people can rely on.

Switzerland

At the end of 2021 I moved to Switzerland. From there I led People Operations for a Jamaican agency, remotely and across time zones.

Berlin

In August 2022 I came to Berlin and into tech. I started in edtech at Sharpist, then moved into insurtech, joining simplesurance in 2023. Over three years in talent acquisition there, I made 41 of the company's 104 new hires and kept building the systems around the hiring.

Why I build

For two years I kept notes on where the tools in my working life let me down. When I had the space and time to think about what I'd change, curiosity took over. The notes turned into products, and the products became Lighthouse, my own suite of tools.

I'm a problem solver at heart. Building gives me a way to solve problems for myself, and maybe for other people too. People are at the centre of everything I make. Neuro, for example, came from wanting to make task managers more human.

What's next

I'm looking for a role where I use my people skills to solve problems with products, using AI and code. I'm learning to code, and I intend to keep going.

Outside work

Pilates, hackathons and documentaries. I'm a very curious person.