Jonathan Bennett Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Kono Analytics translates your business data into Actionable Insight. Each day we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. That's 300 megabytes per person on earth. Enough to build a stack of CDs 400 miles tall. How many hours do you spend preparing daily, weekly and monthly reports? Do you struggle to locate the data you need to make business decisions? Does a majority of your company's data reside on laptops and email? Are you drowning in spreadsheets with broken links, trapped by canned reports that don’t show you exactly what you want?Envision spending your time analyzing your business and making decisions instead of scrambling for data and crossing your fingers that it’s accurate. Kono Analytics can make that happen for you.https://konoanalytics.comhttps://konoanalytics.app

Houston, Texas Area

VISION: Embrace data science as a means for optimizing and managing the performance of 20,000+ residential solar systems.TEAM: An extraordinary group of individuals determined to become the most innovative and effective fleet management team in the industry.SYSTEM: A “big data” analytics and storage platform optimized to gather, clean, manipulate, visualize and analyze data for strategic and operational action. Infrastructure Layer:• Amazon Web Services SQL Server for data warehousing• R for production-quality analytics software• Integrates multiple cloud-based applications including Salesforce, SAP, SolarOS (Locus), Google Maps, SolarEdge, Enlighten (Enphase), Box.com, Twitter, and weather data Application Layer:• Machine learning algorithms to: o Recognize suboptimal inverter patterns o Recognize potential high-value sales leads• Predictive Analytics to optimize construction scheduling• Visualization in Domo, HTML (knitR R package), Excel (xlsx R package) and Google Drive• Reporting automation• Performance guarantee calculation and execution• Automatic creation of deep-dive site reviews triggered by case creation• Git/GitHub for version controlPROCESS:• Identify and empower process owners throughout the business to participate in continuous improvement• Every design decision weighed the ability to scale without adding additional resources• Heavy automation to replace manual tasks• Extensive process documentation• Exception reporting and monitoring to minimize the shortcomings of automationRESULTS:• Leaner Operations• Higher Quality• Faster Turnaround• Expanded Capabilities• Success!

Houston, Texas Area

* Implemented a data-centric mentality as an approach to developing strategy and operating the business – predictive analytics, A/B testing* Installed operational efficiencies to increase automation, reduce error rates and improve time-to-market* Developed more robust pricing models and marketing analytics to guide business decisions

Houston, Texas Area

* Chief architect and primary business lead for Direct Energy’s enterprise-level retail electricity and natural gas pricing system for residential and small commercial customers. The systems introduced automation and workflow process control implemented under IT-supported infrastructure, and allowed faster deployment, engaging reporting, financial projection capabilities and greater flexibility to meet the big data demands for the next generation of pricing* Designed and built US Electric pricing models using Visual Basic and a high degree of database integration, reducing pricing department man-hours by more than 50% while introducing codified strategies and new pricing metrics* Developed a self-serve pricing model for the multifamily sales team and championed the cause for salespersons to be involved in margin-based decisions

Houston, Texas Area

* Designed, perfected and operated retail mass market and C&I pricing models for natural gas and electricity in 46 markets across 15 states* Developed initiatives to improve the operational efficiency and accuracy of customized commercial and industrial quotes. These efforts involved extensive Excel, Access and VBA integration* Systematically studied utility pricing and analyzed market forces in order to recommend margin-maximizing strategies to the CFO* Organized the push to expand MX's presence in the renewable energy sector by directing a cross-functional team from legal, regulatory, risk, supply, operations and pricing

Houston, Texas Area

* Developed models to forecast generation and project P&L for 3,800 megawatts of baseload, intermediate and peaking power plants fueled by a mix of coal, fuel oil and natural gas in NYISO and ISO-NE

Houston, Texas Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

* Developed operational procedures while the company grew from a startup in a guest house to a 30,000 square foot international distribution facility with $3MM in annual revenue, listed at #375 on the 2005 Inc. 500 list

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Houston, Texas Area

Mba, Strategy & Entrepreneurship

Activities and Societies: Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society

Bsee, Computer And Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Alpha Tau Omega FraternityChancellor’s Alumni Scholarship, LSU’s most prestigious scholarship

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