Jonathan K. Email & Phone Number

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

www.bringingbuzzwordshome.comDeveloped a dynamic Django web application to explore some of today’s most contentious social issuesCreated, read, updated, deleted (CRUD) and extracted, transformed, and loaded (ETL) over 300,000 divergent data pointsUtilized Agile methodology on a three-person team to build a Heroku deployed scalable application within a 2.5 week deadlineDesigned a RESTful Django API to serve up JSON for D3 homepage data visualization map Employed Django’s powerful ORM to query disparate databases within PostgresSQLConsumed GET requests from Google Places API to link and key together data within relational database

Durham, Nc

The Iron Yard is a 12-week intensive programming academy aimed at preparing students with the skills of a junior level software developer and training them in approaching solutions, solving problems, and thinking like a developerCleaned and analyzed complex data sets using Jupiter Notebooks and Pandas; Matplotlib charts visualized dataCollaborated on full-stack web clone of Stack Overflow; employed Python, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, DjangoBuilt Monte Carlo simulations in Python to test and prove mathematical and statistical problems

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Informal team manager and department subject matter expert with nearly annual promotions and job title changes; reflecting a continual increase in job responsibilities, roles, and work ownershipAssumed a Product Owner role in attending scrums, helping create software requirements, and providing a clear, motivating, and elevating vision for the products to be builtEffectively communicated with key stakeholders throughout the organization and beyond, demanding the ability to communicate different messages to different people about projects at any given timeResponsible for maintaining a strong balance between independent workload and working in team setting to meet customer service goalsRepresented entire Principal Nonqualified department as sole technical user, consultant, and expert during exploratory negotiations with third-party executive benefits software designersMaintained large amounts of data in internal client tracking databases, requiring strong analytical skills and strict attention to detailsAssisted in managing reporting projects, consisting of the successful audit and deliver of over 1,500 client reportsWorked directly with Client Service Manager on coordinating and implementing new participant plan management for large and complex institutional client with hundreds of participants

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Coordinated with management on a new workflow system and task procedures to improve work effectiveness and efficiencyTrained numerous contract employees and new team members on group tasks, demonstrating subject matter mastery, leadership, and strong verbal communication and interpersonal skillsAssisted in managing reporting projects, consisting of the successful audit and deliver of over 1,500 client reports

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Learned the complexities of nonqualified deferred compensation, executive benefits, corporate life insurance policies, tax regulations, and the diversification and management and mutual funds and phantom stocksMastered propriety software and processed hundreds of enrollment contracts for senior executives

Santa Ana, Ca

Python Engineering Certificate, Data Science With Python, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Political Economy

Activities and Societies: Alpha Gamma Omega

Ecology/Ecological Restoration Certificate, Ecology And Ecological Restoration, 4.0