Co-founding executive of real estate development and finance company spanning West Africa.

American Homebuilders is building residential and mixed use developments for the emerging middle class of West Africa. We are bringing production homebuilding techniques to a region where home construction can often take 10-20 years, cutting that time to 7 months or less. We use a combination of local and international design and materials to maximize building efficiency, minimize environmental impact and reduce costs. AHWA is also using innovative financing structures and partnerships to allow middle class West Africans to achieve home ownership as much as ten years faster than they might otherwise be able to.

JOBOMAX Global LTD (www.jobomax.com) is a pioneer in bringing FLO Fair Trade Certified (TM) agricultural products from West Africa to the US market. The company manages sustainable trade in a variety of agricultural products from West Africa, and provides development and capacity building for local supplier communities. We specialize in equitable sourcing arrangements with cooperatives and women-owned businesses.

PPS is the assignee for the portfolio family of US Patent No. 7,228,287 ("Method of Providing Online Incentives"), and manages all licensing initiatives related to the portfolio.

Led company through tech transfer spinout from Temple University, provided strategic guidance and partner alliance negotiation. Secured company admission to competitive FastFWD business acceleration program. Led successful proposal development for bid team on major CDC policy IDIQ (2014-N-15780).Legal Science Partners (LSP) is a woman-owned small business born out of a 2013 technology-transfer spin-off from the Temple University, Beasley School of Law’s Public Health Law Research (PHLR) National Program Office, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported program to improve availability of data about laws that impact public health.LSP's flagship product is LawAtlas™, a robust application that provides powerful visual display of policy data across jurisdictions and time. This is being used to track statutory and regulatory policy on a variety of public health issues (distracted driving laws, youth sports concussion laws, etc.), but is also applicable in other sectors, from land tenure policy to trade policy and education. LSP’s Workbench™ is a proprietary software that was built specifically to enable the coding of legal text.

Started new Health Communication practice. Delivered 10 new proposal partnerships and 5 contract wins in first 18 months; secured over $2M in USAID, ADB and IBRD contracts; delivered 50% of firm's new business in 2005-06. Scaled from zero to 20+ staff on three continents in less than two years.Overseas Strategic Consulting (www.oscltd.com) provides communication and public information campaign strategies and capacity building on donor-funded contracts around the world.

Slingshot Solutions provided services to consumer goods manufacturers and retailers to help optimize liquidation pricing of surplus inventory through rules-based integration of inventory management and pricing systems with online auction marketplaces.

The International Studies magnet program at North Atlanta High School provides students with a foundation for higher education and careers in the international field. Taught courses in Intercultural Communication, Global Issues, East Asian Economics, and faciliated Japanese language distance learning courses.

Mobilized and taught health agents to develop plans for addressing community health education needs. Conducted social marketing campaigns promoting awareness of AIDS and STD prevention methods.

Designed and taught English conversation and pronunciation courses in Osaka, Japan.

Deckhand on US-Soviet joint venture fishing vessel Diomedes for king crab fishing seasons in Sea of Okhotsk and Bering Sea.