...I teach a wide variety of subjects and students of all ages: engineering students, college students in multivariable calculus and calc-based physics (my favorites), grade school students with ADHD, high school students in AP classes or ACT/SAT prep, etc. My focus is developing an understanding from the deepest roots of a concept to its sun and sky. I do NOT preach memorization or repetition. (read more)
...After that, I worked in government and industry for two years as a programmer on scientific and distributed computing projects. I then returned to graduate school, finishing with a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in computational genetics. Perl has been my go-to language for web scraping, data processing, and general automation for 20+ years. (read more)
...As a graduate student, I taught electrical engineering lab classes for two years. During the tumult of the pandemic, I successfully transitioned to online teaching. I would meet with students out of class to provide personal assistance to struggling students. (read more)