About
Hi, I'm Anthony
I spent 30 years in corporate Planning and Finance, a good stretch of it at large national companies. Excel was the tool I lived in every single day, and somewhere along the way I became the person colleagues pulled aside when a spreadsheet wasn't behaving.
I ended up running training classes inside those companies, teaching everyone from brand-new graduates to people who'd been there twenty years. That's where I stopped being the guy who was good at Excel and became a teacher, and where I learned the thing that shapes how I teach now:
Almost nobody is bad at Excel. They're just afraid of it, and nobody ever sat down next to them.
So that's what I do. I sit beside you and we work through it together, at your pace, on your files. No lecture, no slides, no rushing to the next topic because a syllabus says so.
Excel is the only thing I teach. That's on purpose. It keeps me sharp on the features, the shortcuts, and the little things that changed last year. And it means you're not getting someone who does a bit of everything.
What that covers, in practice: spreadsheets from scratch, formulas and functions, formatting, sorting and filtering, using a sheet as a database, pivot tables and slicers, graphs, charts and dashboards, data analysis and the reports that come out of it, and macros for when you'd rather the repetitive part happened by itself. Beginner, intermediate or advanced. The people I teach are high school and college students, job seekers, working professionals and small business owners, and the lesson plan gets built for the one person sitting in front of me.
I'm based in Neptune Township and teach in person from Monmouth County, New Jersey. If you'd rather learn from your own kitchen table, we can do it on Zoom just as easily. We'll work out what suits you on the first call.