Complex problems. Simple solutions.

I'm an engineer who learned to think like a strategist, and a strategist who never stopped building.

My foundation is mechanical engineering at Howard University, where research found me early: modeling a pressure vessel for low Earth orbit, then studying nanofluids with applications in cancer treatment. At NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a spectrometer built to search for life on other planets kept overheating. I designed the heat sink that fixed it and co-authored the paper that followed.

Industry taught me ownership. At Pratt & Whitney, a failed airfoil became a 20% cost reduction. At Boeing, I was the responsible engineer for flight computer circuit boards, working every day across electrical, reliability and manufacturing teams to keep hardware on schedule and built right.

I went to Johns Hopkins to point that rigor at health. The Center for Bioengineering Innovation and Design sent me to clinics in Uganda and Kenya for thirty days to uncover why breast cancer mortality there is so high. Some days I interviewed patients and pathologists; other days I sat across from Ministry of Health officials. I came back and founded Ekyaalo to build the answer. Along the way I learned financial modeling, and used it to shape a Gates Foundation-linked scale-up decision for VectorCam.

That year showed me my real role on a team: I listen more than I speak, then turn many good ideas into one clear plan. Today I'm back with Boeing as a contractor, consulting with clients, and speaking on AI and equity, while looking for the next problem worth solving.