"I have a degree in Biology (Molecular), graduating with Departmental Honors (1988-1993) from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.

I have been an educator since 1993, and I've been tutoring full-time since 2012. Tutoring has been a tremendously rewarding shift in my career. As a classroom teacher I came to believe more and more strongly in the importance of the student-teacher relationship, which is why I now tutor full-time. Tutoring is simply the best way to learn. I have now tutored hundreds of students (only a few here on Wyzant) and have confirmed over and over again that tutoring is the most painless way to learn.

A bit more about me personally:

I grew up in Kalispell, Montana, but lived in the Baltimore-Washington corridor from 1988-1998 (with a one-year hiatus in Alaska) and in Norfolk, Virginia, from 1998 until I moved to St. Louis in 2007 to work on a graduate degree.

While I am new to WyzAnt, I am not new to tutoring or teaching. I first began tutoring in college through the chaplain's office in a program for underprivileged children. I married my college sweetheart and for a sabbatical we decided to spend our first year of marriage exploring Alaska where I taught and tutored at a small school in Wasilla..

After our year of living adventurously in Alaska we moved back to Maryland where I taught in Metro Washington, D.C.

In 1998 I began a career as a teacher, trainer, and problem solver for a software company. When I left that career to attend grad school in St. Louis, I was the director of training for an academic software group that specialized in tools for research which was used in universities and seminaries worldwide such as Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Duke, Oxford, Cambridge. Their software was widely acclaimed in international journals to be the premier software in the field.

In addition to my career I have had numerous other interesting education experiences:

I was the Christian Education director for my church in Norfolk, VA for nearly seven years. A congregation of ~300, I t" less...