About J

Nice Guy

• Friendly, people-person
• Informal and down-to-earth
• Likes helping people

Elite Academic Pedigree

• Successful high school student
• Buffalo’s City Honors School
• Valedictorian (Academic Math Diploma)
• Represented upstate New York at Atlantic Region Math Meet
• Western New York Scholar Athlete of the Year
• Admitted to Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Caltech, every school applied to
• B.S. Harvard
• 1st person to graduate BS in 3 years (5 year program)
• Developed thermal molecular dissociation apparatus to use in experiments to save earth’s ozone layer
• Admitted to Harvard Law School, Chicago Business School, and Stanford Engineering School
• M.S. Stanford
• No.1 Student in Combustion fundamentals class
• Ph.D. Stanford
• Tied for highest-rated paper worldwide (perfect score) in scientific category
• One of top three authors (number of published comments & papers) in worldwide conference in field
• Numerous reports for United States Department of Energy

A Born Mentor

• Family of teachers
  • mother, father, maternal uncle, paternal uncle were all teachers
• Former substitute teacher
• Tutored math and science at Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning
• Graduate of Stanford University School of Engineering’s tutor training program
• Stanford University Teaching Assistant
• Stanford University Tutorial Assistant (rated highest of all tutors)
• Raised grades from F to C, or C to A, in 4 sessions
• Started formal tutoring over 33 years ago

World Class Scientist/Engineer

• Sandia National Labs Visiting Researcher
  • One of few industry practitioners worldwide to be selected
• B&W Research Engineer
  • 1st model ever for solid fuel that actually matched real furnace results
  • 1st person to measure actual conditions in a power plant furnace's flame

Fortune 200 Management Consultant

• Strategic Decisions Group
• Helped companies decide how to handle $billion investment decisions