Hello Sir/Madam,
I have been working with private companies and educational institutes to make their block-chains for both data flow and crypto-currencies, for your project I would like to recommend to go for crypto-note directly instead of a fork-note implementation of it.
However to make the currency unique, we have to discuss few things like emission rate, block reward and target difficulty. If you have something already in mind please do share otherwise we can disccus it tot.