Mark Patane

I am experienced in tutoring, consultation, and mentorship. Whether a student needs to improve their grade, a horse show needs a better payout schedule, a business needs fine tuning, or someone needs personal help, I'm your guy!


Experience

Private Tutor

Self-Employed

Focus with acute intuitive awareness during investigation of another’s wants/needs/motivations in order to determine their specific understanding. Establish excellence as a standard, then guide a novice towards said standard. Adapt methods and adjust terms of instruction as needed.

2009 - Present

Consultant/Spreadsheet Development

Self-Employed

Created a payout calculation tool (with graphic data visualization) to solve payout schedule inconsistencies in the National Reigning Horse Association. Taught a client to use said tool in order to autonomously benefit from its creation. Created graph linking sources of data to visually display short & long term estimations of workload, available resources and firm-wide productivity goals. Research client's theoretical invention to analyze & validate viability via Newtonian Physics.

2014 - Present

Solution Support Manager

Phillips Architecture PA

Developed & researched strategies to meet threats, maximize opportunities and ensure that business processes/technology support future trends. Manage out-sourced IT company; coordinated switching to new service provider in order to improve service and cost. Negotiated purchases of hardware as well as software licensing. Organized methods of both hardware and of cost effective software sharing between end-users. Developed training presentations demonstrating uses of new technology and best practices.

2016 - 2018

Personal Advisor

Self-Employed

Actively listen to client's difficulties and determine realistic goals. Accompany clients to legal courts, advocate to keep clients from incarceration. Model meditative and other spiritual practices for client's daily emotional & mental stability. Apply various psychological models to improve client's self-awareness. Assist clients in navigating personal relationships.

2007 - Present

Education

State University of New York at Oswego

Bachelor of Arts
Psychology
2011 - 2014

State University of New York at Onondaga

Associate of Science
Mathematics
2009 - 2011

Skills

Subjects I've Tutored
  • Algebra
  • Trigonometry
  • Geometry
  • Pre-Calc
  • Calculus I & II
  • Statistics
  • Chemistry
  • ELA & Essay Writing
  • SAT prep

Interests

I have to admit, I am an avid gamer. In particular, I enjoy strategy, card, and rogue-like games, that let me use my analytical mind. It is a lot of fun for me to learn how a game is set up, then maximize my effectivity by leveraging the rules in my favor!

Other than playing around on my laptop, I love being a part of dialectic discussions. Nothing, other than Math, is really black and white. So, I like presenting conflicting truths to my friends, and exploring the grey areas between our perspectives.