My Story

I was born and raised in New York City — full Chinese, fluent in Cantonese at home, American fast-pace on the street. Growing up between two cultures taught me the thing I now sell with: every culture buys differently, and the person who understands both sides of the table closes the deal.

At 18 I started at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott, and I stayed for twenty-nine years — bartender and events at a major convention hotel. A convention property is the world walking through your door every single week: international executives, tour groups, wedding parties, trade delegations. My job was to read each one fast, listen, tell the right story, and turn a stranger into a regular. That is the exact muscle behind real estate sales — I've just been training it behind a bar instead of in a sales gallery.

Along the way I became a business owner — InksterPrints Corp, my own print shop — where I learned what commission-only agents know: nobody hands you customers. You market, you follow up, you earn reviews, you survive on results. I built the shop's visibility with social media and local SEO myself.

Then I went all-in on AI. I created The Yap Method — a learning system for ADHD and neurodivergent minds — built and launched two web properties end-to-end (yapbrain.com, adhdyap.com), and teach live AI classes at public libraries. Today I deliver AI audits, chatbots, and automation workflows for small businesses using Zapier, Make, Claude, and Codex agents, and run social distribution with Blotato. It's the same translation skill, pointed at technology.

Why Dubai? Because it's the most international property market on earth, and everything I have — the languages, the cultural range, the hospitality instinct, the marketing machine — is worth the most there. I'm a world traveler who wants to live and work in Dubai and grow with it. I'm not drifting into this; I'm aiming at it.

Older, yes — with the old-school work ethic and integrity that comes with it. 29 years at one company is my proof.