Meet the Director
Meet our Tutors

Top-Tier Academic Consulting, LLC was founded and is operated by Dr. David Corbin.

Prior to becoming Assistant Professor of Politics at The King's College in New York City, Prof. Corbin taught courses in political philosophy, American politics and international relations at the University of New Hampshire and Boston University. His main areas of academic interest include classical political philosophy, politics and literature, and American foreign policy. Prof. Corbin has co-authored a book on Aristotle's Politics that will be published in May of 2009 by Continuum Books. He is currently working on a manuscript titled "Shakespeare's Prince".

Dr. Corbin has participated in numerous academic and civic endeavors, including serving a term in the New Hampshire State Legislature (1998-2000), involvement in the Henry Salvatori Fellows program at the Heritage Foundation (1998), the study of liberty and literature at the Liberty Fund (1999), touring Switzerland with a delegation of 20 outstanding young American diplomats to further American-Swiss relations in the summer of 2000, as a candidate for the governorship of New Hampshire in 2002, and, most recently, in his appointment as the 2007-2008 Julius Stratton Adams fellow by the Friends of Switzerland, Boston. He was commended for his outstanding teaching by former University of New Hampshire president Joan Leitzel in May of 2001.

David's analysis of political, cultural and social trends has appeared in the Investors Business Daily, The New York Times, the Associated Press, Radio Free Europe, the French News Agency, New Hampshire Public Broadcasting, New England Cable News, and WCVB's "Chronicle," along with various news organizations in the New England area. He resides in New York City and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, with his wife, Catie, and has three children Alex, Catherine, and Patrick.

David administers Top Tier's College Admissions Testing & Consulting department.

Our Tutors

Our tutors and teachers are available not only during school hours, but also after school, evenings and Saturdays in person as well as by phone, fax and e-mail. Top-Tier Academic Consulting will send our experts to clients anywhere in New England.

Brett A. Veinotte, Vice-President

Brett Veinotte has worked in private education for the last ten years, in a variety of capabilities.

While still in college, Brett began working at a Southern Vermont boarding school as a residential counselor. After receiving his B.S. in 2000, he sought greater involvement in the school's education programs. As an Outdoor Education Leader, he initiated adventure and team-building programs for previously campus-restricted students with severe behavioral and emotional challenges. He also coached soccer, basketball and softball.

In 2002 he was promoted to Lead Teacher for one of the school's satellite locations. Along with the program's lead clinician, he led a successful restructuring of campus clinical and educational program goals, implementing a new curriculum, a less restrictive residential setting, a full outdoor education program, campus jobs opportunities and additional enrichment opportunities. He authored and implemented the Sim-ciety life skills curriculum, focused on personal responsibility, community involvement, micro-economics and 21st Century job skills. In an effort to enhance this career-oriented curriculum, he developed and managed the school's first newspaper, employing his students as writers, photographers, and editors.

From 2004 to 2006, Brett taught History and Mathematics at the Great Expectations School in Manchester, VT. He also managed all special publications projects, including yearbooks, calendars and brochures. He designed new curricula for all classes he taught, including American History, World History, Media Ethics, Film History, and a variety of mathematics courses. While teaching at Great Expectations, he completed masters level coursework in educational leadership, and the secondary education certificate program at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.

In 2006, Brett began to work exclusively as a private tutor in the greater Boston area. Much of this work was related to standardized test prep (SAT, ACT, SSAT, SAT II, ISEE), but also included providing essay writing support to college applicants, leading training sessions for prospective teachers taking state certification exams, and serving as a liaison between parents and public schools, to address student needs and parent concerns.

Heather R. Anderson
Heather holds a Master of Arts in Education and Teaching Certification from Antioch University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Washington. Her teaching experience includes providing educational support to pediatric oncology patients from kindergarten to 12th grade at Children's Hospital and Medical Center, Ronald McDonald House, and Hutch School, a transitional school for children undergoing treatment for cancer.

William Asbell
William holds a Master of Arts in Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama from the National University of Ireland, University College Dublin, and a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy from Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has worked for Canter and Associates, the largest developer and producer of teacher professional development curricula in the United States, and in Pamplona and Barcelona, Spain, as an English teacher, tutor, translator and interpreter. He speaks fluent Castilian Spanish.

Scott M. Bergeron
Scott is a Master of Science in Chemistry candidate at the University of New Hampshire. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from the University of Rhode Island. Scott has taught basic laboratory practices and concepts to freshman and sophomore chemistry university students, and has tutored college students one-on-one as well as in small groups on the topics of chemistry, mathematics and physics.

Peter W. Bixby
Peter earned his Ph.D.in Comparative Literature with minors in Folklore and Semiotic Studies from Indiana University, Bloomington. His dissertation was "Reading over a Character's Shoulder: Embedded Texts in Fictional Worlds." He earned his Master of Arts in Comparative Literature from Indiana University, Bloomington, and his Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Yale University. He has taught college-level writing and literature; served as a senior consultant at the University of New Hampshire Writing Center; and taught English, math and study skills to learning-disabled secondary and middle school students in a private school setting.

Carolyn Marie Girod
Carolyn holds a Master of Science in Natural Resources from the University of New Hampshire, and a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from the University of Chicago. She was a National Merit Scholar, Student Marshal, Phi Beta Kappa member, and Sigma Xi member. As a teaching assistant, she developed and taught weekly lab activities & seminars on scientific writing, and facilitated paper discussions.

Elia B. Kopreski
Elia holds a Bachelor of Science in Marine and Freshwater Biology, and a Bachelor of Science in International Affairs with a minor in Spanish Language, both earned at the University of New Hampshire. Her research has included projects on biotic and abiotic parameters of the Northern New Hampshire forest lakes, coral reef monitoring, habitat and nursery identification of the Horseshoe Crab, and study of the American Eel and the Spiny Dogfish.

Jen Lechak
Jen is a Ph.D. candidate in psychology at the University of New Hampshire. Her current research is focused in cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging at Yale University, specifically functional magnetic resonance imaging. She earned her Bachelor of Science in psychology at Fairfield University in Connecticut. As a teaching assistant, Jen has worked with college-level statistics, research methods, and cognition classes.

Maigh Manahan
Maigh will be earning her Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Mathematics: Statistics in May 2010 from the University of New Hampshire. She is currently pursuing admission into an actuarial society and while maintaining a full course load. During her Junior and Senior years at UNH, she sat for and passed the first two actuarial exams, Probability and Financial Mathematics. She has been named to the Dean's List 7 consecutive semesters and is a member of the University Honors Program. She has experience tutoring personally as well as through the University Athletics Department specifically in the field of mathematics.

Julia Nemetz
Julia received a Masters degree in the Art of Teaching and an Elementary Education Teaching Certification from Sacred Heart University. She has worked with students from the entire spectrum of grade and ability levels. With these experiences she has accumulated a vast amount of teaching strategies and ideas. Her teaching style integrates fun, hands-on activities with learning.

Matthew Parks
Matthew holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston University. His research has focused on political theory, American political thought/culture, and American politics. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Mathematics from Dickinson College.

Daniel Seaton
Daniel is a Ph.D. candidate in Space Science and a New Hampshire Space Grant Fellow at the University of New Hampshire. His scientific research and experience includes serving as an Astrophysicist with the Solar & Stellar X-Ray Group, TRACE, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass. His undergraduate Senior Thesis in Astrophysics focused on solar coronal heating and large-scale structure.

Jill Hope Torregiani
Jill earned her Master of Science in Zoology and Coral Reef Ecology, and her Bachelor of Science in Zoology, with an Oceanography minor. Her Master of Science Thesis Research investigated ultraviolet radiation-induced DNA damage in populations of Pacific corals, and the potential protective role played by UV-absorbing compounds. She has taught college-level human anatomy and assisted in curriculum development.

Kellie P. Zupp
Kellie earned her Master of Arts in English Literature/Creative Writing from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and her Bachelor of Arts in English from Boston College. She has worked as a professional writer and editor, and has taught creative writing for numerous years.