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Irwin S.

Computer and school subjects slowed down to your learning speed

Washington, DC (20004)

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Hi, welcome to my profile!

My qualifications are:

* Bachelor's Degree in Computer Info Systems
* Two more college classes to complete, before being awarded an MBA with an Accounting major (27 credits in accounting)
* Have passed the Praxis II teaching test for Middle School math (which goes up to Algebra I, and Geometry), and (High School) Business Studies: Finance/Economics/Law.

During the school year, I am a substitute teacher for the Board of Ed. in Hillsborough, NJ, and am able to help with homework from kindergarten to about 10th grade, and a few subjects in college centered around Accounting.

This summer I am working in Washington, DC, and am looking to work with students in the surrounding area.

I am experienced in the use of computers, databases (SQL), Microsoft Office (Excel, Access, Word), and Photoshop, both as a user, and a software developer (VBA macros!). ( I prefer to guide you rather than do the work for you )

My hobbies include: urban sketching, flying indoor RC planes, ham radio, electronics, astronomy, robotics, and photography.

Irwin's Subjects

Math:
Science:
  • philosophy
Art:
English:
Computer:
History:
  • European history,
  • geography
Special Needs:
Elementary Education:
Business:
Corporate Training:
Homeschool:

Algebra 1

I always strive to help students attain their goals, and achieve the level of understanding required to meet the NJ Common Core Curriculum Standards in Algebra I

In Algebra I, they must be able to:
* Interpret the structure of expressions
* Write expressions in equivalent forms to solve problems
* Perform arithmetic operations on polynomials
* Understand the relationship between zeros and factors of polynomials
* Use polynomial identities to solve problemsRead More

Microsoft Excel

I have worked extensively with Microsoft Excel during my 20 years as a computer programmer, and can guide you from the basics to the advanced topics.

Here is my topic outline for teaching Excel (topics are not in any specific order, nor do you have to learn all of them; it's really up to you how far you want to go):

Basics:
Changing Column Width
Changing the Format
Inserting Blank Rows and Columns
Changing the Style of Text
Storing Numbers as TextRead More

General Computer

I've worked for nearly 20 years as a computer programmer, and at various times on an as needed basis as a computer repairman.

I can show you in a step by step manner, how to use Windows, Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Photoshop, Lightroom, Acrobat, or Publisher, so you can use your computer to its fullest potential.

In my museum I still have an original IBM PC with a 5 1/4 floppy drive, and an even earlier one by Ohio Scientific, which used tones recorded on... Read More

Microsoft Word

I have worked extensively with Microsoft Word during my 20 years as a computer programmer, and can guide you from the basics to the advanced topics.

Here is my topic outline for teaching Word (topics are not in any specific order)

Entering Your Text
Correcting Mistakes
Changing the Look of Your Text
Aligning Text on the Page
Altering Line Spacing
Changing Fonts
Changing Font Size
Bold, Italic and Underline
Subscript and SuperscriptRead More

Microsoft PowerPoint

I have worked extensively with Microsoft PowerPoint during my 20 years as a computer programmer, and can guide you from the basics to the advanced topics.

Here is my topic outline for teaching PowerPoint (topics are not in any specific order, nor do you have to learn all of them):


Basics:
Entering Text onto the First Slide
Saving a Presentation
Adding New Slides
Changing the Look of Your Text on the Slide
Changing the Layout to Include... Read More

Reading

I am certified to teach elementary school (CE) by the NJ DOE, and am presently a substitute teacher in Ewing, and Franklin school districts.

I always strive to help students attain their goals, and achieve the level of understanding required to meet the NJ Common Core Curriculum Standards in reading.

By the 4th Grade a student must be able to :
*Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words
*Use combined knowledge of all letter-sound... Read More

English

I am certified to teach elementary school (CE) by the NJ DOE, and am presently a substitute teacher in Hillsborough, Ewing, and Franklin school districts.

I always strive to help students attain their goals, and achieve the level of understanding required to meet the NJ Common Core Curriculum Standards in writing for their grade level

By the 4th grade (and beyond) they must be able to:

* Use good English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

*... Read More

Accounting

I am 95% finished with an MBA in Accounting; my completion is projected for August 2012.

Accounting Courses I've taken:
ACC-201 Principles of Accounting I
ACC-202 Principles of Accounting II
ACC-301 Intermediate Accounting I
ACC-302 Intermediate Accounting II
ACC-331 Cost Accounting
ACC-504 Fund Accounting Govt and Nonprofits
ACC-505 Fraud Examination
ACC-532 Advanced Cost Accounting
ACC-540 Accounting Theory

I have completed the... Read More

Adobe Photoshop

I did pro style photograpy for about a year in the fashion industry. I am very good at using Lightroom, and Photoshop for things such as smoothing skin, removing distractions, vectors, adjusting lighting, replacing backgrounds, and taking a few pounds off using transform commands, or liquefy.

SQL

I have worked with SQL extensively during my 20 years as a computer programmer, on both Microsoft Access, and Sybase 12.5 database systems.

At a number of projects I worked on, the entire application was written using stored procedures exclusively.

Elementary Math

I am certified to teach elementary school (CE) by the NJ DOE, and am presently a substitute teacher in Ewing, and Franklin school districts.

I always strive to help students attain their goals, and achieve the level of understanding required to meet the NJ Common Core Curriculum Standards in math

By the 4th Grade they must:

* Know how to use the four operations (addition, multiplication, division, subtraction) with whole numbers to solve problems.

*... Read More

Adobe Lightroom

I have used Lightroom in conjunction with Photoshop for a number of years since 2.0.

It is one of the best camera raw image processors that exist at this time, in both ease of use, and features available; in fact there are so many controls that it can be hard to figure out what to use and when.

Each new version has been getting major upgrades in functionality, but Adobe purposely keeps it out of the layers and channels business, as that is Photoshop's domain.

Elementary (K-6th)

I am certified to teach elementary school (CE) by the NJ DOE, and am presently a substitute teacher in Ewing, and Franklin school districts.

I always strive to help students attain their goals, and achieve the level of understanding required to meet the NJ Common Core Curriculum Standards in literacy, math, science, and social studies for their grade level.

Drawing

Anyone can draw, it’s just like learning your letters (remember back in kindergarten), you practiced them and practiced them. As you got better at it each year, the ledger lines on the paper got smaller, and smaller, until you were using college rule paper.

It’s the same in drawing, but instead of ledger paper, you have blank drawing paper, that will stare at for a long time, while you wonder what comes next, cause all you can draw is squiggles, or letters on it.

It took... Read More

Business

I am currently finishing up an MBA with an Accounting major.

So far I've taken:
Business Courses
ACC-538 Business Law for Accountants
MBA-525 Professional Development
MBA-533 Human Resource in Management
MBA-540 Managerial Economics
MBA-565 Marketing
MBA-575 Global Business Management

Accounting Courses
ACC-301 Intermediate Accounting I
ACC-302 Intermediate Accounting II
ACC-331 Cost Accounting
ACC-504 Fund... Read More

Photography

The camera has been with us for nearly 150 years in one form or another, but after all the casing is striped away all your left with is a movable lens, a shutter, an f stop, and a back plate.

It's interesting how some of the tools of the past are still useful in the digital age... Although most pro type 35mm film cameras, and lenses, can be had for under $100 on eBay, try and find a color meter, or a light meter for that price.

I practiced the craft for about 3 years in... Read More

ADD/ADHD

I am licensed to teach Elementary Education (CE), have a Bachelor's in Computer Info Systems, and I am currently halfway through an MBA. I am personally well acquainted with ADD/ADHD, as I was a borderline case when I was a student in elementary school.

In some subjects I was a genius, because it really interested me, and I would hyper-focus, while in other subjects that I found boring, I would simply zone out most of the time.

Since I know the feeling, of feeling like a... Read More

C

When I first started my career in computer programming back in 1991, C was the dominate language in the industry for programming on PC's. Nowadays with Java, VB script, VBA, VB#, or C#, the ease of creating a visual interface has trumped the need for down to the hardware access.

I can remember working with the first API for Windows 3.1, back in 1993, and how much code you had to write in C to have a message loop, create a window, and draw in it using a DC handle.

While in... Read More

Computer Programming

I was a computer programmer for over 20 years, and have experience writing requirements and documentation; developing, debugging, testing, and securing applications using Sybase, shell scripting, MS Access, MS Word, VBA, C, C++, and PERL on a UNIX or Windows platform. On most of the projects, I was also responsible for level 3 tech support, where custom reports, and special features were rapidly created for power users.

Microsoft Access

I have worked extensively with Microsoft Access during my 20 years as a computer programmer, and can guide you from the basics to the advanced topics.

I've utilized the Tables, Queries, and Forms, not to mention advanced use of the VBA macro language, and have manually written SQL queries for complex joins and unions

Here is my topic outline for teaching Access (topics are not in any specific order):

Searching for a Particular Record
Sorting
IndexesRead More

Visual Basic

I have worked extensively with Visual Basic during my 20 years as a computer programmer, and can guide you from the basics to the advanced topics.

I started working with VB when it was called Visual Basic 6 back in the good old days of 1997. Since then it disappeared as a standalone product, which could compile programs into exe files that had all sorts of compatibility problems with mismatched dll's, and custom control libraries.

Nowadays, it is found in it's original flavor,... Read More

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