He is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering in the University of Nairobi, Kenya, where he has been since 1999. He obtained his undergraduate degree in materials science from the University of Bath (UK) and his MS and Ph.D. in Solid State Science from Penn State. His doctoral thesis was on antiferroelectric ceramics for electrical energy storage and delivery applications, for which he obtained a US patent. He worked for TDK in Narita Japan as a research scientist for 2¹/₂ years, where he specialised in electro-ceramics for varistor manufacture. He currently teaches materials science to Mechanical and Electrical Engineering students, and his research includes the production of activated carbon for water filtration, the processing of titanium bearing heavy minerals sands, the recycling of waste plastics (in collaboration with the University of Kassel, Germany), and ferroelectric and antiferroelectric materials (in collaboration with Penn State researchers). He is also the founder of a student group which is designed to encourage entrepreneurship based on engineering and scientific knowledge, and to serve as an outreach to high schools and the community, which he intends to develop into a business incubator. He is also involved in the setting up of a Science Park at the University of Nairobi, and is a lay preacher.