He holds a Master of Science in Economics from Europe and served as a Development Finance Officer with a subsidiary of the African Development Bank in Sierra Leone, helping businesses secure small business loans, building financial models to analyze acquisitions and organizing long-range plans for bank clients.
Since immigrating to the U.S. in 1985, he has worked as a Community Development Loan Officer for Valley Community Development Bank Corp in Western Massachusetts, then in IT as a systems and data analyst, project/product manager and federal contractor for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Social Security Administration, as well as T. Rowe Price and the University of Maryland, College Park.
He holds an MS in Information and Telecommunication Systems for Business from Johns Hopkins University, and lives in Maryland with his wife.