...I served as a TA throughout the rest of my career at Pitt and also during my master's degree at CMU (overall, 4 years). As a TA, I had multiple opportunities to teach students in both a 1-1 setting and a classroom setting. I would hold recitations for classes of up to 20-30 students and create s... (read more)
...This application was rather large, and had already been developed for more than 500,000 man-hours when I joined the project, and was written exclusively in Visual C++. During my relatively short involvement I first deep-dove into the software to make sense of it all, producing updated documentat... (read more)
...I once had a student at community college who I’ll call Jim. Jim got so frustrated with algebra 1 that he threw his textbook out the window. Yet, I spent hours with Jim week after week in the college tutoring center, and he eventually passed algebra 1 and moved on to a University program. (read more)
...I was a “math dad” at the public schools when my kids were young. I enjoy helping students of all levels understand math and reach their potential. In addition to my math degree, somewhere along the line I earned a Master’s degree in music. (read more)
...Geometry is the first subject I tutored in professionally, and it's personally my favorite subject to teach because it's very visual and fun. I worked with many students at my college who were basically learning prealgebra in order to pass their exams to start in the education program. I also commonly worked with the entry level students. (read more)