Timeline:
Born and raised in Berkeley and Oakland, California
Graduated:     Maybeck High School, Berkeley, California
                        The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington
                        The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Ran Boomerang Manufacturing Company, Gel Boomerangs
Taught Boomerang classes and ran boomerang events for the WBA and the USBA
Graduated:    California State University, School of Business and Economics
Taught business courses at College of Alameda
Worked for Broderick Consulting, Berkeley, California
Taught business and accounting courses at Highline Community College
Authored academic content for Accounting and Excel textbooks and ancillaries
New York Times article about Michael Girvin and Gel Boomerangs , or this link: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE2DF1F30F935A25754C0A9609C8B63
Federal Way Article about Boomerangs: http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/south_king/fwm/sports/52976112.html
Excel Consulting: See YouTube site
Published book title: “Slaying Excel Dragons”: book

 

As a business teacher at Highline Community College my accomplishments are:

1) Authored FOUR FREE textbooks used by students in Accounting 121 and Busniness 216 Highline classes.

2) Converted traditional business content classes like Statistics, Finance, Math and Accounting into classes taught in a computer lab where the business content is taught using Excel for all quantitative calculations and data analysis. The goal is to teach the business content in a real-world context and get students to automatically think about quantitative tasks in efficient spreadsheet creation terms.

3) Created SEVEN full classes where 100% of lecture material is streaming online in video forum. The goal is two-fold: 1) For online teaching, videos are perhaps the most efficient communication channel, and they are the future of online teaching; 2) For classes that are taught in the classroom (not online), students can review what they saw in the classroom – to summarize this idea from a student’s comment: “Finally I have a rewind button on my teacher!”.

4) Posted 2500 Excel Business related videos at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/excelisfun

5) Published book title: “Slaying Excel Dragons” (Holy Macro! Books, 2011) :
http://www.amazon.com/Slaying-Excel-Dragons-Conquering-Frustrations/dp/161547000X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8

6) Published book title: "Ctrl + Shift + Enter: Mastering Excel Array Formulas (Holy Macro Books, 2013):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1615470077

7) Faculty of the Year Award, 2011

8) YouTube Silver Button Award, 2013

9) Microsoft Excel Most Valuable Professional Award: 2013, 2014, 2015

 Last Updated: Tuesday, 15 December 2015 11:07 AM -0800