Experience Summary
I have done private tutoring of high school students in math from pre-algebra to calculus and in other subjects. I have also home schooled adopted daughters from lower grades to high school level, including teaching English as a second language. In graduate school I was a teaching assistant in an electric machinery laboratory for non-electrical engineering majors. My own experience with standardized tests includes having taken the ACT in 1971 with scores ranging from 22 (76th percentile) in English to 31 (97th percentile) in math with a composite of 27 (93rd percentile) and having passed the GRE in 1975.
Other previous experience includes 34 years experience as a communication system engineer. This experience includes satellite communications and other communications for the US military, NASA, FAA, and commercial customers. Antennas and radio propagation were special areas of professional interest for me.
Teaching Style
Lead the student to find the right answer himself or herself if possible.
My Hobbies
My main hobby interest is gardening. I also enjoy international shortwave radio when I have time.
ACT |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I have personally took the ACT and did very well on it. More recently I have
assisted in ACT preparation. |
Algebra II |
This is one of my top subjects!
Proficiency: Expert
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I have seen a student who came to me in the last two weeks of the school year with a grade of D in Algebra II raise his grade by getting a B+ on the final exam after intensive tutoring. |
American History |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I can help with High School or College American History, including Civil War and Reconstruction. |
Chemistry |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I can help with High School or College General Chemistry. |
Civil Engineering |
Proficiency: I know the basics
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I can help with Engineering Mechanics. |
Composition |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I can help with High School or College Composition including organization of the paper, reviewing grammar and structure. |
Electrical Engineering |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I have a 34 year career and graduate degrees in Electrical Engineering specializing in RF and Satellite Communications. |
Elementary |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I have home schooled two daughters from first grade into the high school level, including one who began without a knowledge of the English language. |
English |
Proficiency: Expert
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My use of English I am good with vocabulary, grammar, and I have substantial experience in writing (technical and research papers on many non-fiction topics). |
English ESOL |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I have taught English to a 7 year old foreign (Haitian) adopted child who did not know English initially. She had acquired a good vocabulary and had no noticeable foreign accent after several years. |
French |
Proficiency: I know the basics
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I have a reading knowledge of French. |
Grammar |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I am very careful with grammar in written material. I can help you with grammar. |
Math |
Proficiency: Expert
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I can help with any high school or undergraduate college Math course. |
Mechanical Engineering |
Proficiency: I know the basics
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I can help with Engineering Mechanics. |
Microsoft Excel |
Proficiency: Expert
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I have used Excel to search for terms in text and create a customized document, to track retirement account performance, to perform many calculations of for engineering tasks, etc. I have recorded macros sometimes when appropriate and occasionally created a Visual Basic macro that is not simply recorded. |
Microsoft Office |
Proficiency: Expert
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I have much experience in Microsoft Office products, Excel, Word, and Power Point. |
Microsoft PowerPoint |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I have used PowerPoint to create presentations in an office environment. |
Physics |
Proficiency: Expert
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High School and College Physics. |
Piano |
Proficiency: I know the basics
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I can teach beginning piano to a level of playing church hymns with standard arrangements. |
Spanish |
Proficiency: I know the basics
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I have a reading knowledge of Spanish. |
Statistics |
Proficiency: Experienced
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I can help with Probability and Statistics including Regression analysis. |
World History |
Proficiency: I know the basics
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I can help with world history. |
Writing |
Proficiency: Expert
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I have much experience in technical writing. I can also help with college English papers, including research papers. |