About Nathan

Welcome to my career website! Here, you’ll see what I hope to do for you and the skills I bring to your team.

Internal Communications (what I can do for you NOW)

  • Content strategy for team communication

  • Bulletins, newsletters, blogs

  • Project documentation

  • Coordination for onsite, off-site, and remote teams

Web Development (what I’m getting into, long-term)

  • Python, Django

  • JavaScript

  • SQL

My two areas of career interest:

I’ve gotten right to the point: drop me in now for internal communications, keep up with me for tech.

My resume is interesting, but just what is it that I can do for you?

Let me take you through what I’ll deliver for you.

How I’ll Help You and Your Team

Reduce risk of miscommunication

Tell your team what you wish you would have said—the first time

I’ll take your priorities, policies, projects, and plans and make them plain to the rest of your team.

Eliminate hassle of re-explaining

Get everybody speaking different languages on the same page—in their language.

Different departments speak different professional languages. Planners and doers speak from different angles on the same task. I’ll help each team hear what it needs to succeed.

Spare yourself the FAQs

Improve organizational culture and reduce onboarding times with documentation.

I help evolve your documentation “on the go” so that you can cancel meetings and focus on the non-FAQs.

Core Competencies

Writing

Including:

  • Project Documentation

  • Team Communication

  • Copywriting

  • Proofreading

  • Content Development

  • Targeted Messaging

  • Curriculum Design

  • Process Improvement

Tech + Web Development

Including:

  • Python

  • JavaScript

  • Postgres SQL

  • Docker

  • Flask + Django

  • SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps

  • AWS

  • Azure

  • Google Cloud

  • HTML/CSS

Working with People

Including:

  • Client Relations

  • Training & Coaching

  • Customer Service




Other Stuff I’m Working On

Language and Culture Learning

  • Spanish (intermediate)

  • Chinese (very basic conversational level)

  • Russian (exchanging pleasantries, saying “please excuse me” with a very good accent)

Podcasting

  • Food for Thought Police Podcast (offline) — about dystopian novels, TV series, and films

  • Chinese Revolutions Podcast — about modern Chinese history

Want to get in contact? Click “E-mail Nathan!”

Career as an English Teacher and Communications Professional

I’ve always wanted to be a multiplier. To really make a difference as a multiplier, I got into communication. When people work together and get to the point (and the right point) quickly and easily, they do what they want, how they want, and fast.

In college, I learned anthropology and linguistics so I could understand communication between people of different kinds, classes, and cultures.

I’ve taught English in Asia for six years, teaching my students how to communicate for themselves in conversationally and culturally effective ways.

For a year and a half, I learned how to document issues while delivering customer service, giving other departments the information they needed to serve the same client.

My last two years in China, I saw how technology changed the lives of people living in rural areas and how important marketing was to the success of the companies making that change possible.

Learning Web Development

When I was in Romania, I made a go of offering my communications skills to help tech startups. Now that I’m back in America, I’ve gone into Python backend web development and graduated from a boot camp in February, 2023.

Although I still do writing and communications, I found that I needed to take on new skillsets to advance my career.