Fast Facts
- Name: Collins Nazario Mugume
- Hometown: Kampala, Uganda
- Internship Year(s): 2017
- Began Full-Time: 2018
- Role(s) during time w/ AJGA: Membership Services Coordinator, Manager
- College/Graduation Date: Ndejje University Kampala, October 2010
- Major/Minor: Computer Networking
- Married: February 4th, 2017
- Kids: 1
- Favorite TV show: Currently into Marvel stuff
- Favorite movie: N/A
- Favorite artist: It’s impossible
- Favorite sports teams: Manchester United, Atlanta United & Uganda Cranes
- Number of states traveled to: 9
Get to know Collins
- What's one thing people don't know about you? In Uganda there's a special type of bug we eat locally referred to as "Nsenene," seriously not the Timon & Pumba kind (what you & my wife think 😊) - the word is special bugs!
What's your favorite AJGA experience/memory? I feel it’s a tie between these two:
1 – The welcome I received when I joined the AJGA. It felt like everyone I met knew me or was a friend. The work culture here (AJGA) makes me look forward to every work day.
2 – My first experience of what happens at the Rolex Tournament of Champions via the 2020 Virtual broadcast. It surely crowns all the efforts of everyone throughout the year!
- Who's been your biggest influence in life? Christ has been the constant force in how I model my life, otherwise, my list of mentors is endless.
- What's the best piece of advice you've ever received? Spoil it but learn – break it only if you can study the process to put it together again. We go through life holding material stuff on a mantle forgetting the power of innovation and refining new things. I couldn’t afford a computer and as an IT student I was scared to mess up anybody’s computer. A friend who was giving me keyboard lessons noticed the fear I had and he said that statement which has cheered me up in many scenarios (sure enough, I did pull apart my first laptop & put it back together).