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.