Education & Verification

Foreign credentials invite fair questions. Here are mine, with the verification trail attached.

The degree

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), 2005 — a four-year program including data structures and algorithms, database systems, software engineering, systems analysis and design, computer architecture, AI and expert systems, operations research, and a year-long industrial attachment. NUST is one of Zimbabwe's two flagship universities; the program was rigorous, English-language, and heavily practical.

The US equivalence — independently verified

In July 2026, World Education Services (WES) — the US standard for credential evaluation — completed a course-by-course evaluation: equivalent to a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited US institution, 132 semester credits, with my documents authenticated directly by the issuing university. This is the strongest form of foreign-credential verification that exists; the evaluation reference is available to employers on request, and WES can confirm it directly.

Continuing education, recent and deliberate

Medical Billing & Coding certificate (2025) — chosen to map fourteen years of billing-adjacent systems experience onto US healthcare vocabulary. The Complete Data Science Bootcamp (2026, 32 hours) — Python, statistics, and machine-learning foundations, taken to put formal structure under skills I'd been using in practice. Both are certificates of completion, and I present them as exactly that — not degrees, not licenses.

The pattern worth noticing

Each credential was acquired for a purpose just before it was needed: the evaluation to enter the US market cleanly, the billing course to translate domain vocabulary, the bootcamp to formalize the analytical toolkit. That's how I approach gaps generally — name them, close them, show receipts.