Portrait of Collins Anfo
About / complete profile

Product builder with a business and operations background, focused on everyday problems in Ghana and across Africa.

I am a founder and product builder grounded in business and operations. My work begins with problems I cannot stop thinking about. When an idea needs a digital product, I learn the tools, use AI carefully and work through the details until there is something people can see, question and use.

I think most often about Africa, especially Ghana: how small businesses become visible, how people access useful services, how trust travels, and how digital systems can fit the realities of everyday life instead of asking people to fit the software.

I am strongest at connecting a lived problem to a clear product direction: research, workflows, interface decisions, documentation and operations. I can move an early idea forward independently, and I value developers, designers, operators and users whose expertise makes the result stronger.

Based in Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, Germanycollinsanfo24@gmail.com+49 162 7445475English / German
01 / What I bring

I connect the problem, the people and the practical work.

My foundation is business and operations. Product thinking, AI-assisted building and deliberate learning help me turn that experience into something visible, testable and easier to improve.

01

Problem framing & product thinking

Turning lived frustrations and operational gaps into clear product questions, user journeys, priorities and testable next steps.

02

AI-assisted product building

Using Claude, Cursor, Hermes, ChatGPT and Gemini to research, learn, document and build prototypes while keeping decisions and quality under human review.

03

Prototyping & delivery

Shaping product specifications, user flows, interfaces and testable MVPs, then checking what works before making a stronger claim.

04

Operations & collaboration

Bringing hands-on experience with inventory, logistics, service, budgets, schedules, documentation and team communication into product decisions.

02 / How I learn

I begin with curiosity and turn learning into progress.

I begin by understanding the problem. Then I learn the product and digital tools the next step requires, make the idea tangible, test it and listen. I use AI to extend my ability while keeping judgement, responsibility and quality under human review.

  1. 01Ask

    Understand the lived problem and the people inside it.

  2. 02Learn

    Study the tools, constraints and examples the next decision requires.

  3. 03Make

    Turn the idea into a specification, flow, prototype or working release.

  4. 04Test & listen

    Check what works, invite challenge and improve the claim with evidence.

04 / Professional experience

Operations made the product thinking practical.

Logistics, production, service, teaching and project work taught me throughput, inventory, handoffs, standards, communication and what breaks when a process meets the real world.

01

Assistant Production Associate

Pommes Freunde / Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Managed daily inventory and ordering to reduce waste and keep the kitchen workflow moving.
  • Prepared menu items to recipe and safety standards while handling customer orders and enquiries.
02

Logistics Assistant

GLS / Neunkirchen, Germany

  • Processed inbound shipments with quality checks and accurate inventory documentation.
  • Sorted and organised goods and prepared outbound orders for dispatch.
03

Sortation Associate

Amazon / Ramstein-Miesenbach and Grolsheim, Germany

  • Scanned and inducted 80–100 packages per minute and sorted packages into delivery routes by size, weight and destination.
  • Updated inventory and production data using warehouse-management systems and scanner devices.
04

Warehouse Associate

Rofu Kinderland / Hoppstädten-Weiersbach, Germany

  • Picked goods with a low-lift device, handled price labelling, packaging and returns.
05

Service Crew

McDonald’s / Idar-Oberstein, Germany

  • Maintained food-safety and sanitation standards, supported kitchen preparation and handled customer sales.
06

Teacher / Intern

Ebenezer Methodist Preparatory & JHS / Kumasi, Ghana

  • Taught eight subjects to a class of 35 pupils; 98% progressed to the next level.
  • Introduced the school’s first Excel gradebook and created digital visual aids for classroom learning.
07

Assistant Project Manager / Intern

X-Quisite Plus / Kumasi, Ghana

  • Reported milestones to stakeholders and supported delivery through control of budgets, schedules and scope.
  • Negotiated supplier quotations and contracts to secure favourable terms.
05 / Education & coursework

The foundation I continue to build from.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering studies — Sustainable Business and Technology

Hochschule Trier, Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld

Germany / Through 2028
Bachelor of Science — International Business Management

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

Kumasi, Ghana / Completed September 2023

Certifications

SAP coursework
  • The Ultimate SAP S/4HANA Course 2026: From Zero to Expert — Udemy, 2026
  • SAP S/4HANA Essentials for Beginners — Great Learning, 2026
AI
  • Prompt Engineering for ChatGPT — Vanderbilt University via Coursera, 2024
  • Generative AI Fundamentals, five-course specialisation — IBM via Coursera, 2024
Operations
  • Forklift licence — AGG Staplerschule Frankfurt, 2025
06 / Beyond the job title

Creative practice, international work and community.

Languages

  • English — fluent
  • German — basic conversational

Activities

  • Erasmus+ scholar in International Business and Digital Transformation at Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld.
  • X-Culture international team project on market entry for Finnish School International, 2022.
  • Volunteer systems operator for The Elevate You and CARISCA Work Ready Summit, 2023.
  • Event organising team for Exit Strategy Summit and Success Africa Summit, 2019 and 2021.

Creative work

  • Independent author of two Amazon KDP books—fiction and non-fiction—managing the path from manuscript to distribution and marketing.
  • Creator of Gaimase: three singles and one full-length album produced with AI-assisted composition and production.
  • Published writing on entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence and technology through Medium.