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Timothy V.

Applied Mathematics Scientist

San Mateo, CA (94403)

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My tutoring approach emanates from a boundless curiosity about the world. I'll extend that to my students by finding examples and problem sets that they tell me are relevant to their own interests.

From sports, to politics, to business, to art, to high-tech, to the physical and social sciences there are endless numerical and inferential examples that will help me curtail our tutoring sessions to each student's specific interests. Statistics textbooks are full of dry, boring, and poorly situated problem sets that tend to turn students off, not appeal to their own tastes, hence their ability to both understand the material as well as to extend those lessons to their subsequent academic and professional experiences.

Having worked as a marine biologist, social.Net demographer, applied mathematician in several business domains, scientific programmer in a weather prediction lab, software engineer, and most recently as a human cognitive scientist within the real-time-predictions world of the internet I am confident that I can appeal to each student's specific interests while encompassing the requisite material that will allow them to extend these statistical and probabilistic lessons to their coursework.

Part of my recent endeavor has been to build mathematical models of critical thinking processes, and I will seek to help my students develop that skill-set in their own problem solving approach as well. Most problem sets in statistics and probability are much less intimidating when you realize that the data you need to solve the problem is often given to you in ways that might disguise them from those that see them as mere mathematical exercises. Fostering ways to get the student to think about the answers sought in the context of the information given will be a point of emphasis in all my tutoring sessions.

Here are some examples of my own background and interests that may serve to inform prospective students and their parents of the topical areas that have excited and motivated me throughout my career.

-Volunteer Educator and Instructor at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, CA

-Former Chief Scientist of Aggregate Knowledge, Inc in San Mateo, CA

-Former Sr. Software Engineer/Statistician at IBM's Software Group in RTP, NC

-Started my own business in 2008, heur-e-ka LLC, deploying text-mining software based on semiotic semantics; our instructional video for VC's and Angel Investors can be accessed at heurekaTJV at youtube

-Former Biologist and Administrator at The Newfound Harbor Marine Institute at Seacamp on Big Pine Key, FL

Timothy's Subjects

Math:
Science:
English:
  • grammar,
  • public speaking,
  • reading,
  • vocabulary
Computer:
Elementary Education:
  • elementary math,
  • elementary science,
  • grammar,
  • reading,
  • spelling,
  • vocabulary
Business:
Sports/Recreation:
Corporate Training:
  • general computer,
  • grammar,
  • Microsoft Excel,
  • Microsoft Word,
  • public speaking,
  • SQL,
  • statistics
Homeschool:

Algebra 1

As a 25+ year statistical consultant I've found that most issues with statistics arise from poor algebra skills.

To be an effective statistical consultant one must combat math-anxiety in its many forms, and come to learn how to teach basic mathematics along with more advanced but related issues having to do with issues in every day applications of applied mathematics.

Biology

Former Marine Biologist and marine Science Instructor at The Newfound Harbor Marine Institute on Big Pine Key, FL
Current volunteer educator at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, CA

Microsoft PowerPoint

I have used PowerPoint as an analyst, executive, and active public speaker for years!

Prealgebra

With a master's degree in Statistics and extensive graduate level training in Statistical Consulting I have found myself having to tutor my clients in algebra and pre-algebra, even basic arithmetic sometimes, to be able to help them with their statistical issues.

Statistics

M.S. - Statistics from the #8 ranked Statistics Graduate Dept in the USA at the time!

Probability

M.S. - Statistics from the #8 ranked Statistics Graduate Dept in the USA at the time!

Zoology

I am a former marine biologist that now works on the construction of taxonomies and ontologies. Zoology is chiefly preoccupied with the differentiation of the anatomical, physiological, and ecological differences that distinguish one species of animal from another, hence the science of classification and knowledge about how all those biological traits differ is one of its key specialization.

Water Polo

I played on the University of Illinois Men's Water Polo Club from 1973-77, competing against Big Ten clubs. We also played AAU teams from across the Midwest, including the AAU Women's National Team (The Cincinnati Pepsi Marlins).

Discrete Math

With an MS in Statistics I have a career full of discrete data modeling like predicting events, days until an intervention will occur, waiting lines, etc.

I've studied, applied, and taught discrete statistical techniques like the chi-squared test, Bayesian probability, counting theory, Markov Chains, Box-Jenkins Timer Series models, etc, all of which require training and skill with discrete mathematics.

Analysis with discrete numbers requires a deep understanding of the... Read More

Volleyball

I played USVBA volleyball at the "A" level in the Florida Keys and then went on to compete in "AA" tournaments in the USVBA's Sunshine State Region at Florida State University and the Garden-Empire Region in Bergen County, NJ.

I was President of the FSU Men's Volleyball Club one season and refereed for three seasons of Intramural volleyball there. I first learned the rules and principles of how to coach and play the game from Dr. Ari Selinger at the University of Illinois in a PE Class... Read More

SAS

20+ years of SAS programming and analysis in a variety of academic and business settings; demographics, telephony, search and recommendation engines, human decision making software.

Classes taken at SAS Institute;

SAS Macro Programming I - 4 days; Cary, NC
SAS Macro Programming II - 1 day; Cary, NC
SAS Enterprise Miner - 3 days - San Francisco, CA
SAS Text Miner - 3 days - San Francisco, CA
SAS Survival Analysis - 3 days; Irvine, CA

I've licensed... Read More

Biostatistics

I have a BS In Genetics from a Top-10 public university, an MS in Statistics form a Top-10 statistics graduate department, and I have taught Marine Science for over 30 years.

I have worked as a statistical consultant on projects across industries as varied as marine mammalogy, pharmaceutical research, and epidemiology.

Computer Programming

Worked as Scientific Programmer at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, a global weather prediction laboratory, on the campus of Floridat State University.

Since then I;ve gone one to write analysis code in;

FORTRAN
LISP
Objective-C
Basic
Visual Basic
Turbo Pascal
Dbase III+
PStat
Perl
Nawk/Awk
Sed
RegEx
SAS
TransatSQL
Pig Latin
HIve

Computer Science

Managed a software development group as Analytics Architect at Macromedia, Inc., eventually seeing that product sold to IBM where he was employed as Statistician/Sr. Software Engineer for 5 years.

He now runs a small firm named heur-e-ka LLC , building and marketing SaaS software that reads text and classifies its content for topics and emotional portent wighted by degree and valance.

He has written programs in FORTRAN, Lisp, Basic, Visual Basic, Turbo-Pascal, Objective-C,... Read More

Fortran

Took two FORTRAN classes (IV & V) in Graduate School.

Worked for two years as a Scientific Programmer writing global weather prediction programs in FORTRAn of several different CDC computers (Cyber 730, 760, and 2000-Series [among the first super-computers]) at the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute on the Florida State University campus.

Genetics

I have a B.S. in Genetics from the University of Illinois.

Molecular Genetics, Biogeography, and the Evolution of Animal Behavior were among my specialities. In that regard, I was honored to meet my longtime hero, Harvard's EO Wilson, in the Fall of 2010.

We spent quite a while discussing our careers and it turns out that when I was young Marine Biologist on Big Pine Key, FL fresh out of my undergraduate training he was taking his sabbatical on that same island studying his... Read More

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