"I have been working in the field of education and tutoring for over a decade, specializing in CG (OpenGL), DSA (EECS 280 @ UMich), ML/AI (Python), and Game Development (Unity, Unreal).

I thrive on enabling students to feel a sense of achievement — that feeling that happens when, after struggling with and working through a challenging question together, the student "gets" it. Their eyes light up, they smile, laugh, put their arms up in a "v" and scream "yes!"... or simply says "yay" in subdued, Monty Python kind-of-way. I have an undergraduate degree in computer graphics and interactive media from Pratt Institute (2003) and a masters degree in electronic art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2015). My favorite subjects to tutor are game development, math, C++/#, and python for data science. I find comfort in the structured logic of math and programming. It gives me a small amount of hope that our existence can be understood and measured in times when nothing makes sense and the world feels like it's falling apart.

I pride myself in being able to listen attentively and meet my students at their own level in order to build from there. I like to create a nurturing educational environment where it's safe to try new techniques, make mistakes, learn from them, and ultimately enable curiosity to guide engagement with the subject. Whether we're working on data structures and algorithms, debugging code, or coming up with a plan of attack for a capstone project, we're in this together and I will go out of my way to make the experience fun and engaging. I believe that is the true secret to learning.

What projects are you working on? What are your academic or professional goals? What is it that you want to achieve through tutoring? If it's related to game development, programming, or data science, I'd love to help." less...