Hi, I'm Jon! I hold a Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Marketing, a Master's in Quantitative Finance, and an MBA, all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. After a successful career on Wall Street, I launched my own hedge fund, which I continue to manage today. (read more)
...Business people setting up spreadsheets to manage budgets or to use as a database. Other people will know more tricks here. I have a PhD in economics (Harvard, 2007), which for me largely means being a professional statistician. (read more)
...My students always tell me that I explain topics clearly and thoroughly. I've taught business calculus, probability / statistics, operations / supply chain management and decision analytics (linear programming, integer linear programming, Monte Carlo simulation, decision trees) courses from freshman to MBA level. For statistics / analytics courses, I use Excel and R in my classes. (read more)
...Additionally, I taught a geometry class to a student 1 on 1 in a summer school program. Therefore, I have taken and excelled in all HS classes involving trigonometry and also have experience tutoring in HS classes involving topics of trigonometry. In HS, I took AP statistics and got an A in the class and a perfect score (5) on the AP statistics exam. (read more)