Michael Twum-Danso
Irvington, NJ07111
Mobile # 610-***-**** Email:
OBJECTIVE:
Seeking employment in a technical or business environment. Expertise includes work in Teaching, Research and Administration.
EDUCATION:
Wheeling Jesuit University, Wheeling, WV B.S. Mathematics
AWARDS: Recipient of a 4year Loyola Scholarship from WJU
MEMBER: Mathematical Association of America
EXPERIENCE:
12/2015 – Present Substitute Teacher (Part-Time), Source4Teachers Cherry Hill, NJ
Work as a Substitute Public School Teacher for all subjects, Grades K-12, in various school districts within the state of New Jersey including districts such as Perth Amboy School District, Hackensack Public School District, East Rutherford School District, Saddle Brook School District, South Plainfield School District, Elizabeth Public School District among others.
Responsibilities include assisting and teaching students classroom assignments for various courses, which include Math and Science, by helping them understand the concepts and principles within the subject matter, giving them examples of work done in class to solve without supervision and also ensuring that home-work assignments are properly done and corrected.
Maintaining a culture of learning, attentiveness and discipline among the students as a practice to improve student academic and social life.
11//2013 -10/2015 Sales Supervisor, WorldShippers Company., Irvington, NJ
Worked with employees to establish suitable goals, time lines and definitive plans.
Marketed various telecommunication products, electronic appliances and computer hardware
and software products through customer orders processed using World Shipper’s computer software system.
Provided on-going training and reviewing of company policies and procedures to employees.
Recommended well deserving employees to upper management for promotions.
Prepared operational reports as well as keeping day to day inventory of company products.
Maintained a client database using computer software programs which includes Microsoft Office
05/2012 – 09/2013 Private Math Teacher, Middle & High School Students, Newark, NJ
Taught High School Students PreCalculus, Algebra I&II, Functions, Probability,Trigonometry, Polynomials, Geometry, Imaginary Numbers on a private basis.
Taught Middle School Students how to work with fractions, decimals, percents and how to find their approximate locations on a number line.
Explained the use of ratios and proportions to represent quantitative relationships.
Used factors, multiples and prime numbers to solve mathematical problems including the effects of arithmetic operations with fractions, decimals and integers.
How the use of associative, commutative and distributive properties of multiplication and addition can be used to simplify computations and, the use of scientific notation when solving problems.
02/2006– 03/2012 Scientific Officer, Ghana Atomic Energy Commission, Accra, Ghana
Conducted scientific research using software programs such as Matlab, Maple, C++ and
QuickBasic.
Used mathematical software to write and solve various math problems that describe the diverse applications of differential equations, integration, complex variables, topological spaces, power series solutions and the boundedness of sequences.
Writing annual scientific reports for further review by management and to be utilized by the commission.
Performed electronic based laboratory experiments using software programs designed to show how integrated circuits can be used to produce wave-like signals on a computer screen and also how they are used for temperature measurements that determine the weather pattern on a daily basis.
Participated in weekly scientific seminars to keep abreast with new trends in science and mathematics.
HARDWARE: IBM-PC Family, HP9000, Toshiba and Compaq.
SOFTWARE : MS-Office, C++, Matlab, Maple, Quick Basic.
ACTIVITIES : Chess, Basketball, Soccer and Reading Scientific & Business Journals.
REFERENCES: Available Upon Request.