You may know me as a local Rochester musician / composer and leader of my band, KnuFunK. You may also know me as a medical imaging software engineer for Mayo Clinic. 

The following is my summary of accomplishments and work for which I am proud: 

I was born and raised in Northeast Philadelphia where I attended Ben Franklin high school graduating #3 in my class of 600.

Earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology at Brandeis University 

I served in the Airforce for 8 years as a programmer writing diagnostic medical imaging applications. I was as awarded the prestigious Air Force Commendation Medal for my service 

Earned a Masters of Science degree in Math, Computer Science, and Systems Design at the University of Texas at San Antonio. 

I‘m retired from the Mayo Clinic after 29 years of working as a software engineer for the radiology department. During that time I helped develop an application called QREADS that is used Mayo-enterprise-wide (It’s the program that your Mayo doctor uses to display your images after X-Rays, CT or MRI.

I’m the inventor of a suite of Mayo Clinic diagnostic imaging apps called Mayo Image Studio that was primarily used by the Nuclear Medicine department at Mayo Clinic for about 20 years. I received a 1st place award at the International Society of Nuclear Medicine Conference in Toronto for my invention. I also received The Award for Individual Excellence from Mayo for my work. 

I’m also an R&B, Funk and Rock music composer and musician. You may have seen me perform as the leader and guitar player / vocalist for band called KnuFunK (pronounced New Funk). KnuFunK has been performing around Rochester for years at events like Down By the Riverside, RochesterFest and Thursdays on First. 

I was commissioned by the Mayor to write the Rochester theme song “Rochester's a Number One City” back in 1995. 

I’m currently a member of the Rotary Club and active in its STRIVE program where I mentor high school students to improve their grades with the goal of college enrollment. 

I’ve served on the Celebration of a City / RochesterFest Board and the Civic Music Board. 

I served as president of the Black Data Processing Associates (BDPA) where I successfully trained high school students to compete in the Annual National Computer Programming Competition. We won first place in the nation for several years is a row competing with 30 chapters from all of the majors cities in the USA. I worked with Jerry Williams to get the students high school credit after winning the national competition. 

I was a volunteer for the Boys and Girls Club for which I installed the first recording studio. We actually made a CD with some pretty great songs. A song called “Thank You” was the hit song on that CD. 

I recently received a certificate in Music Technology from RCTC with a 4.0 average and graduated with High Honors in 2022.