Jude is a graduate of Sociology from the University of the Orient in Santiago de Cuba and also International Relations from the Superior Institute of International Relations, Havana, Cuba.
Since graduating in 2004 he has worked with TIDCO in the Trade and Investment Division where he was assigned to the Cabinet appointed Latin American Route Development Committee and Latin American affairs thereafter at the Tourism Development Company as a Destination Service Officer until his appointment by the Ministry of Trade and Industry to the Trade Facilitation Office in Havana, Cuba where he has worked diligently towards achieving the MTI-exporTT trade mandate of increasing trade with Cuba which is a non-traditional market.