Kaplan Test Prep: June 2010 – November 2013
Helped students achieve higher scores with both in-class and one-on-one sessions where all sections of the test were improved. I also proctored full-length practice tests: a dress rehearsal of how their actual test day would flow.
Engineer in the Wireless Telecom Industry: 20+ years
Built and optimized analog, CDMA, and LTE networks across the nation. Analyzed statistics, performed root cause analysis to find highly-technical issues, and monitored the capacity of numerous network elements.
Education:
BSEE from The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH GPA 3.1
MBA from The McColl Graduate School of Business in Charlotte, NC GPA 3.9
Self-Study on Auditory Processing Disorder:
Since I had a few students who had been diagnosed with APD, and because it could affect their performance on standardized tests, I reached out to a parent familiar with the diagnosis who recommended two great books that a non-clinician such as me could learn from and thus be better prepared to help these kids succeed.
Author: only one minor recognition and nothing published so far, but all pieces are being shopped around.
Short Stories
Silent Night, Leper Night The nativity … with zombies! A love story, combined with a re-imagining of a little-known biblical character, told amidst a struggle for survival against an unknown enemy. Received an Honorable Mention from the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future contest. Volume 32, Q4 2016
Emerging Solutions: Hostage Rescue Rescuing high-value hostages using a new twist on time travel!
Earthship Audacious: Beacon of Hope Thread from novel below pulled out as a stand-alone story. Follows a faith walk on the outside hull of a multi-generation colony ship
Novel – Earthship Audacious: Keep Hope Alive
First of its kind Earthship Audacious has launched on her only journey to a nearby star, and no one alive today will ever know the final outcome, whether it was a success or not. It will take 10,000 years to reach her destination: more time than humans have been recording history on Earth. By then, between three- and five-hundred generations will be born and die having only known Audacious as their home. This grand journey was conceived by a group of brilliant minds dedicated to truth and science, and all inaugural crew are likewise genius-level.
Thematically, Keep Hope Alive takes the roles of faith, science, and conventional wisdom, stirs them together, then pours out a distinctly human tale that spans the first ten years of that initial crew of visionary adventurers.
ACES: November 2013 – December 2016
Math specialist for the highly-reputable test prep tutor Jerry Kasparek, more affectionately known locally as Dr. K.
Notable achievements:
Worked with at least one Morehead-Cain Scholarship Award winner at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Three sisters from the same family happily attending boarding school, two at Groton School, one still picking her favorite.
Met wonderful students from multiple schools including: Charlotte Catholic, Charlotte Country Day, Charlotte Latin, Charlotte Preparatory, Collinswood Language Academy, Cuthbertson, Kennedy Charter Public, Manus Academy, Marvin Ridge, Metrolina Christian Academy, Myers Park, Omni Montessori, Providence Day, South Meck, Weddington, as well as some fabulous home-school graduates.
Published an article in US Prep Athletes magazine, February 2017, (page 17 of print version) titled ACT or SAT: Which to Choose? It is duplicated as an essay on my site as well: Which Admissions Test to Choose?