John: Palos Heights tutor

Certified Tutor

I am a graduate of Indiana University where I studied Economics, History, and Gender Studies.

Since graduating, I have been a global operations analyst working in the tech industry, retail, and healthcare, traveling internationally, and serving as an Excel coach on my teams, implementing best practices for data in Excel and CRMs. I have very high standards for Excel Sheet cleanliness and user-friendliness.

My advanced Excel experience started as a young Boy Scout selling Christmas wreaths and tracking my customers by neighborhood, and now I have 15+ years of professional experience working extensively with:

Advanced formulas
Corporate reporting
Pivot tables
Very large data set manipulation (1 Million+ records)
Data integration
Building large workbooks that pull from multiple data sources
Summaries on many levels that each tie back to the raw data
Google Sheets
Charts and data visualization

I also love Economics, the science of choice. Economics as an academic subject, I have found, is rooted in taking time to fully absorb concepts so that when test time comes around, there isn't much thinking involved and the answers come almost automatically.
I also specialize in successful study habits and test-taking practices, keeping in mind that Economics is fun!

Other topics I tutor are: History, Writing, Anthropology, and Music Appreciation

I enjoy finding new ways to share ideas and knowledge with learners in the context of my experience and how I have found ideas to be useful in my work and life!