Siphelo M - Tutor in Ormonde
Nerd that is passionate about people harnessing their full potential. I'm mechanical engineering graduate working in the financial services industry whose true calling is to be a creative. Essentially, I have loads of experience in different fields of industry, and dare I say, and life. Hopefully I can enrich my students' lives beyond getting good grades but becoming fulfilled value-creating members of society.
Tutor basics
Teaching places
Students Home, Public Place, and Online
Travelling distance
Siphelo will travel 30km from Ormonde, Johannesburg South, Gauteng, South Africa
Languages spoken
Siphelo speaks Zulu, English, and Xhosa
Experience
Investment Banking Graduate Trainee
This was a 3-month secondment to Nedbank's Investment Banking(IB) Business unit. Here I managed dashboards that tracked the performance of IB's credit portfolios, reporting to the senior management on a weekly basis. I also managed the business-case forum's documentation and tracking the progress on deals in the bank's pipeline. I had daily interaction with balance sheet managememt and deal managers.
Payment Operation Manager
Business analyst role: assessing and implementing business cases to optimise payment operation processes. Reporting: writing MIS reports for senior Management. Writing reports to internal stakeholders at Nedbank, usually client facing business units. Writing and submitting reports to the South African Reserve Bank through our Exchange Control Compliance business unit.
Vacational Work Engineering Student at AECI
Conducted a research project into the steam quality of steam produced at the Modderfontein plant and provided recommendations to senior engineers. This entailed tracking steam-lines and comparing to existing process charts, refining process charts and performing thermodynamic analyses of steam production and transport.
Vacational Work Engineering Student at AECI Modderfontein
Training in boiling-maker skills such as welding, drilling, threading and bending. Conducted design of mechanical coupling for the transportation of nitrate liquids from tank to truck.
Mechanical Engineering Design Tutor
Tutored 2nd Wits University Mechanical Engineering students on a weekly basis. I was employed by the university.
Engineering Mathematics Tutor
Tutored 2nd Wits University Chemical Engineering students on a weekly basis. I was employed by the university.
Education
NSC Matric - Highlands North Boys' High School
Matriculated top of my grade with four distinctions, i.e Pure Maths, Physical Science, Life Science and Economics and B grades in L.O and English Home Language.
PASA Foundational Course - Payment Association of South Africa
Graduated with merit, >80% average.
Duke CE graduate programme - Duke University
Part of the 2018/19 Nedbank CIB graduate programme. Place in the top-10 achiever list, where I was ranked 3rd and was awarded with an immersive international excursion to India and Kenya.
Bsc Mechanical Engineering - Wits University
2-time Dean's List achievement Degree average of 68% Honours certificates in Mathematics 3 years consecutively
Subjects taught
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General Maths & Science
I have an Honurs degree in Mechanical Engineering, making the Dean's List on 2 years consecutively. Beyond technical prowess, I believe my communication skills allow me to unpack difficult topics to digestable fundamentals. I tutored my classmates in 12 grade and 1st year (informally of course). Then I tutored formally in my 3rd year in which tutored 2nd Year Engineering Mathematics under the employ of Wits University. Wits University hired me once more to tutor 2nd Year Mechanical Engineering Design and 1st Year Physics.
Siphelo teaches General Maths & Science at High School, Primary School, and University/College level(s)
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English Language and Literature
I'm writer and fervant reader. This is a field that I ply my trade in. I believe I can bring creative methods to analysing text, such as making use of other mediums to easier understanding. I also achieved a 72% in Home Language English in 12th Grade.
Siphelo teaches English Language and Literature at High School, Primary School, and Adult level(s)