Awards & honors

Recognized for what I shipped.

Civic commendations, academic honors, competition wins, intellectual property, and industry certifications — across more than a decade of cross-disciplinary work.

14
total honors & credentials
7
industry certifications
4
academic & competition
1
U.S. Copyright registered
Civic & service
2025 Civic recognition

Certificate of Commendation

Mayor-President, City of Baton Rouge · April 12, 2025. Outstanding leadership and dedicated service as a member of the Graduate Student Association, Southern University & A&M College.

2025 Service

Recognition of dedicated service & outstanding contributions

Southern University Graduate Student Association · April 12, 2025. Support of the Graduate Student Body during the 2024–2025 academic year.

Academic & competition
2026 Best Paper

Best Paper Award — SITE X Realities & Learning SIG

Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference · Philadelphia, USA · March 23–27, 2026. Awarded for Development of an Interactive Virtual Reality Application for Additive Manufacturing Workforce Training.

2023 Runner-up

Best oral graduate presentation — runner-up

78th Joint Meeting of Beta Kappa Chi & National Institute of Science · Charlotte, NC · April 1, 2023.

2020 Winner

DXC / SUBR Cloud Computing Virtual Camp — team project winner

Southern University & A&M College in partnership with DXC Technology · 2020.

2019 Runner-up

Best oral graduate presentation — runner-up

76th Joint Meeting of Beta Kappa Chi & National Institute of Science · Atlanta, GA · March 28–30, 2019.

Certifications
2025 AWS

AWS Certified AI Practitioner

Issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification · July 2025.

2025 AWS

AWS Educate Machine Learning Foundations

Issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification · June 2025.

2022 IBM

IBM Artificial Intelligence Practitioner

Issued by IBM · January 2022.

2021 IBM

Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner

Issued by IBM · December 2021.

2021 IBM

Enterprise Design Thinking — Team Essentials for AI

Issued by IBM · December 2021.

2021 AWS

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

Issued by Amazon Web Services Training and Certification · April 2021.

2011 Cisco

Cisco Certified Network Associate — Routing and Switching

Issued by Cisco · March 2011.

Intellectual property
2024 Copyright

Exploring immersive technology on engineering CT skills

Copyright registration, United States Library of Congress. Research instrument and curriculum design for measuring computational thinking in immersive engineering environments.

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