Nearly my entire life, I have been a leader. In middle school, I would create and organize game groups online. In high school, I fought against homophobia spewed by a teacher during class, after high school I started my own business, and most recently, I created the group Strong Towns Huntsville with ~100 local members.
Running a business and leading multiple groups over the past 12+ years has given me the skills in managing finances, analyzing data, creating deals with 3rd party companies, working with others to solve problems, and organizing large groups of people.
Through Strong Towns, I have completed credited courses involving leadership and urban design.
Through Strong Towns Huntsville and BASC, I having formed working relationships with many city of Huntsville staff members and consultants. When I become city councilman, I won’t need to spend weeks figuring out who does want, I will be able to start working with our departments on day 1.
For my campaign, I have not relied on large corporate consultant groups to design my website, come up with policy goals, or perform research. My experiences and skills have lead me to do these things myself. I built my own website from scratch, I took my own photos, designed my own flyers, crafted my policy goals from my person experiences and from conversations with people who live in the city.
My t-shirts and yard signs were designed by the small local company Green Pea Press.
District 4 has a growing immigrant population. When my wife and step-daughter moved to Huntsville, they added to this population. When they immigrated here, like my campaign, I did not hire someone else to do everything for me. I went through the entire immigration process myself to help my family immigrate from Malaysia to America. My knowledge of what immigrants in this city go through will allow me to better assist and protect our immigrant community.
I not only have the experience and working relationships to become city councilman, I also have the desire and eagerness to learn more.
