"I love teaching and training students to reach their full potential and be successful in school and in life. More importantly, I believe everyone has the potential to be the best they can be as long as they are made to believe in themselves, in their potential and innate abilities. I have had a lot of informal teaching experience as a Scoutmaster (woodbadger), volunteer in many student and professional organizations; and more formally as a undergraduate work-study student and graduate research assistant while at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. I have tutored many students and proctored countless tests and exams in the student writing center, adaptive technology lab, computer and science labs on campus. In my professional life, I have worked as a corporate pharmacy trainer for over 10 years. I have also taught pharmacy technology and pharmacy technician training programs in classroom settings, simulated case environment (CBT), store settings, one-on-one sessions...etc. What I have learned and enjoyed throughout is to 'start the car and let the student drive', turn the computer and surrender the mouse to them, and then watch their eyes get bigger and brighter as they find clarity and purpose in their own directed learning. I truly subscribe to the Boy Scouts method of "learning by doing" applied to facilitating learning.

I have a very broad and solid science and humanities education, coupled with a visceral need for reading and research. I am constantly updating my knowledge through interaction with people much smarter than I am and staying abreast with current research and advances in Science, Technology and Math (STEM). I was in a very rigorous International Baccalaureate program at a prestigious boarding High School, got accepted in a BS/MS program in college and was awarded numerous scholarships and a prestigious Howard Hughes Undergraduate Fellowship. This allowed me to conduct cutting-edge research in Biotechnology, Bioinformatics and Molecular Genetics and to present my research at vario" less...