Tyrone is the Chief Information Officer leading the IT team at the IHME, independent global health research center at the University of Washington. The IHME provides rigorous and comparable measurement of the world’s most important health problems and evaluates the strategies used to address them. Prior to his involvement at the IHME Tyrone was Deputy Chief Data Officer at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington D.C. and a Presidential Innovation Fellow assisting with the CENSUS’ CitySDK projects and project at the US Department of Labor. Prior to this, Tyrone held various positions at IBM’s Almaden Research where he achieved recognition as a Master Inventor. Tyrone holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Imperial College of London, a MSc in Software Engineering from University of the West Indies and is a graduate of the IBM T J Warson Research Center micro MBA program in business.