About Me
Me!
Biography:
My name is Michael Garrido, and I am the founder and CEO of Garrido Tutoring Services. I founded GTS after years of experience teaching and working with adults and youths in the New York City area, primarily Brooklyn and Manhattan. In addition to teaching a variety of subjects, from traditional programming, to video game development, web design and development, mobile application design, 3D printing, laser cutting, electrical engineering, and more, I also led the Technology department of a Company that specialized in teaching digital technologies to kids. As the Director of Technology I worked with many different programming and computer technologies, like PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript/jQuery, Java, Python, C++, C#, as well as software like Unity, Game Maker Studio, Unreal Engine, Photoshop, Flash, and other Adobe products.
My main passion is teaching, and I have taught students as young as 6, and as old as 75+, and have the patience and understanding to teach complicated concepts to advanced students and complete beginners! I am also pediatric first aid certified, and have some experience with students with light learning disabilities, like mild ADHD/ADD, mild autism/aspergers, etc (though I am NOT certified or experienced. to work with medium and severly disabled students)
Work Experience:
I have had the following relevant experience:
College Tutor
2 years
Employed by NYU-Poly at the Poly Tutoring Center, as a tutor for students needing help. Main languages taught were C++, Python, and Matlab. Taught 1 on 1, and group lessons.
Programming Intern
2.5 years
Programming Intern at a Real Estate firm, tasking with writing automation scripts using PHP and MySQL for parsing and sorting data.
Freelance Web Developer
6 years
Freelance Web Developer and Designer for various clients throughout the New York City and Connecticut area. Using mainly HTML/CSS, Javascript/Jquery, PHP, MySQL. Also some server administration, mainly on Linux systems running Apache.
Senior Director of Technology
5 years
Senior Director of Technology at Pixel Academy, an educational program for youths that offers afterschool and summer based programming. I wore many hats at this job, but mainly developed our in house software for managing the business, which included solutions for checking students in or out of the space, handling online transactions, developing the public facing and internal ticketing system, creating out custom curriculum and software for game development, laser cutting, 3D printing, and much more.
Contact Me:
You can contact me via email or phone at the following:
Email: MikeTheCoder4@gmail.com
Phone: (860)-514-5979