...Having developed curriculum for undergraduate and graduate online courses, I have also experienced and appreciated the potential and effectiveness of online instruction. My tutoring days began in high school, helping struggling classmates, continued as a part time job through college, and now as... (read more)
...I also published many peer-reviewed papers in the field. Coauthored multiple papers/books on data science (eg. big data) during my PhD work, as data science is a core discipline for my machine learning specialization. My PhD advisor was a famous programmer statistician who authored many books in data science. (read more)
...Having taught and mentored many people during my career, I feel that I have the ability and the nature to help students by helping them to understand new material through the acquisition of appropriate vocabulary and practice, by guiding them toward solutions to problems through thought-provoking... (read more)
...I provide a shadowing program where a student spends the day with me to observe what civil engineers do. I coached youth soccer for 19 years and was a Boy Scout and Troop Leader. My wife is the Librarian at a high school and my daughter teaches school in Grass Valley, so we are very educationally oriented. (read more)
...It helps for students to see how the theoretical converts to the practical. I worked for the US Forest Service for 16 years ranging from using my degree in Biology (recombiant DNA) for the Institute of Forest Genetics to doing the Abandoned Mine survey for the El Dorado and Tahoe National Forest... (read more)