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Experienced Instructor (Excel / Access / VBA)
Cindy K.

399 hours tutoring

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Hourly Rate: $45
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About Cindy


Bio

For about 30 years, I ran a successful business designing Access databases, building Excel solutions for clients, and teaching a variety of MS Office classes for adults. I'm mostly retired now, but software is my hobby, and I thoroughly enjoy teaching through the Wyzant platform!

Whether you are looking for short-term help with a particular challenge or interested in a personalized course of study to gain new skills (or build on existing), I welcome the chance to meet with you.

Excel...

For about 30 years, I ran a successful business designing Access databases, building Excel solutions for clients, and teaching a variety of MS Office classes for adults. I'm mostly retired now, but software is my hobby, and I thoroughly enjoy teaching through the Wyzant platform!

Whether you are looking for short-term help with a particular challenge or interested in a personalized course of study to gain new skills (or build on existing), I welcome the chance to meet with you.

Excel Course: I offer a comprehensive course outline for Excel topics, complete with files and labs. If you might be interested in this course, I’ll send you the outline before we meet. In our first session, we identify topics of interest. Some students want to focus on specific lessons (i.e. pivot tables, formulas, power query, VBA) – whereas others will want to tackle the lessons from A to Z!
When applicable, we use your files– getting “real work” done while you’re learning!

Access Assistance: I don’t have a full course outline for Access, but welcome assisting you with any database projects you might have. I put together a couple sample databases to cover basics and certainly can offer solid foundational lessons if you are new to Access, and/or address enhancements/functionality with existing databases. My ideal Access student is someone who uses or plans to use Access in their work environment: I seldom take on college students. Why? As a former full-time Access developer, I find myself cringing at classroom database models filled with design issues! The courses have their place, but if we had a perfect world, course material would be very different and I’ve found the experience frustrating.

All Classes: We will focus on maximizing existing help resources. Unless you request otherwise, the mantra will be to "teach you to fish" rather than handing you the fish! The advent of AI is an exciting one (yes, sometimes scary too), but we will incorporate how to use these new tools where it makes sense!


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Microsoft Access

Microsoft Access

My experience is both in training and in practical application. For business customers, I have designed over 100 Microsoft Applications covering a wide range of needs. For training, I have developed and conducted online webinar trainings for database design, queries, form and report design, and Visual Basic for Applications. I have served as a database coach for corporate customers, empowering them to their own solutions! I often rely on Excel for reporting purposes: Access and Excel are meant for each other. I am a power Excel user and have passed the Wyzant Excel qualification test, but prefer to focus on database work and/or Excel VBA. I purposely do not list Excel in my profile of subjects simply to minimize tutorial requests for Excel data projects that involve statistical analysis (not my strongpoint!).
Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel

I am a database developer, working primarily with Access and SQL Server - which almost always includes excel downloads because Excel is such a fantastic reporting tool. I'm an expert "solutions" provider: pivot tables, power query, VBA.

Examples of Expertise


Cindy has provided examples of their subject expertise by answering 12 questions submitted by students on Wyzant’s Ask an Expert.

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Cindy is Awesome!

She has a real gift for teaching and makes every session feel both approachable and productive. Cindy takes the time to explain why formulas are important, not just how to use them, which really helps the concepts stick. She’s patient, understanding, and always open to questions, no matter how simple or complex! She’s also super flexible with scheduling, which has been a huge help. Every time we meet, I walk away with more knowledge and confidence to actually apply what I’ve learned in my day-to-day work! If you’re looking to grow your Excel skills, I can’t recommend Cindy enough. She’s a true teacher and an absolute gem to work with!

Jack, 28 lessons with Cindy

Beyond All Expectations.

Cindy is truly an amazing teacher! She is patient and very well structured! Communication is never an issue and is very accommodating! Her explanations and walkthroughs are thorough and easy to understand. There are no stupid questions with her. She is honest about her knowledge and really takes the time to tailor the sessions to your needs. Any time spent with Cindy is time well spent. You won’t regret your choice in choosing her!

Kelly, 17 lessons with Cindy

Highly Recommend!

Cindy exceeded my every expectation. The project was complicated. She grasped every concept immediately. She went above and beyond with every step. What I say here cannot do justice to her work and work ethic. Very glad to have had the pleasure of working with Cindy.

Keith, 15 lessons with Cindy

Amazing! Extremely Knowledgeable

Being a first-timer at Wyzant, I didn't know what to expect. Somewhat skittish, tentative, even apprehensive. I was late to our first meeting, not from neglect, I had the window open a whole hour prior to the appointment. Thinking I could do some work as I "waited..." I blew past the time by 20 minutes. Fearing I'd be charged a no-show fee and start-off on a bad note, she was instead most gracious and rescheduled. This time I set an alarm, which I routinely do for my timed projects - how I forget, I don't know... Anyway, after explaining what I wanted and proudly showed her my multi-step progress to that end, she showed how it could be done in a single step. I really didn't think it was possible. She did it! Wow! Amazing!!! She is exceptional! I will be working with her again after the hectic holiday season. Thanks Cindy! You're the Best.

Marc, 1 lesson with Cindy

Amazing tutor - super knowledgeable with Excel and VBA!

I had a VBA assignment for a course that I was stuck on and could not figure out the code for. Cindy went above and beyond to walk me through every single step of the code and show me what each line did and how it worked. She also showed me tricks that I can use to make the code more understandable and user friendly. She is extremely knowledgeable and patient and will go above and beyond to make sure that you have all of the knowledge that you need for your assignment. I 100% recommend Cindy for anything related to VBA or Excel!

Christopher, 1 lesson with Cindy

Super knowledgeable

Cindy was able to teach me impressive and new exciting formulas as well explain the logic behind them. She was a tremendous help with solving problems to the excel project I was working on. She is a God sent!

Chetana, 1 lesson with Cindy

Extremely helpful and excellent teacher

I thoroughly enjoyed my lesson, Cindy went above and beyond and I will be booking with her again soon. I’m not sure why I forces me to write a longer review but I have nothing else to say

Lindsay, 8 lessons with Cindy

Excellent resource

So easy to work with and a patient and thorough teacher. I’m so grateful to have found her. She is so helpful and persistent in coming up with workable solutions.

Kelly, 3 lessons with Cindy

Knowledgeable and patient instructor. Definitely an expert in excel and pivot tables.

Clever ways to manipulate data despite of some pivot table limitations. Very determined to solve the problem and willing to explain how to get there. Friendly personality.

Elaine, 3 lessons with Cindy

Above and Beyond!

Cindy went waaay above and beyond with me. She's whip-smart and incredibly efficient. Was very patient and offered multiple solutions - each one better than the previous. I highly recommend Cindy for any and all Excel tutoring.

Adam, 2 lessons with Cindy
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