Neuroscience / Psychopharmacology
Data Science / Engineer
Cannabis / Psychedelics
Data Scientist / Cloud Engineer & Neuroscientist
A data-driven, results-oriented scientist. able to quickly translate between technical teams, management, and the general public to achieve strategic goals. able to merge business, science & data engineering skillsets to unlock data patterns, extract information and provide actionable insights.
Specialties
Neuroscience & Psychopharmacology
Drugs, Brain and Behavior scientist, analyst, and subject matter expert able to quickly collect, evaluate and present meaningful research & data-driven conclusions to any audience. Designed novel behavioral assays & validated model for adult zebrafish affective & cognitive behavior. Real-time video-tracking to positional time-series swim paths. Applied movement pattern analysis to predict neurotransmitter system modulation.
Cannabis & Psychedelics
Have operational, scientific, and technical senior management experience in all cannabis business verticals. Featured in top 10 cannabis industry publications & podcasts. Can identify market opportunities, develop strategies and pitch them. Raised $3MM for resource efficiency cultivation R&D, bringing Solatube Daylighting Devices & IoT AgTech into the cannabis space. Applied ML & AI to maintain light levels (between sun & led) to maximize growth, minimize costs. optimized results into modeling software to make designs and predictive savings forecasts. Grow. Lab. Dispensary. Data Systems. Extraction. Education.
Data Science & Data Engineering (GCP)
Always been a technology & data pipeline cross-pollinator. To overcome logistical hurdles, I go back to first principles & ask where similar hurdles have been such a hindrance that solutions have already been developed. For example, Used hurricane tracking algorithms & ML to predict drug zebrafish were on. Took residential skylights into cannabis Ag-Tech. A Demonstrated track record of unlocking opportunities within data & building machine learning models to optimize & automate strategic decisions. Knowledge cross-pollination specialist.
Team Player, Self-Motivated, Remote-First
Acustomed to providing data review(s) for a team in order to advance organizational efforts. Can assess, quantify and manage team operations while identifying and listening for areas of efficiency improvements and optimization. Able to build dynamic business intelligence data models and visual dashboards to improve realtime P&L financials, input use, and output quality.
Approach
Working with JC
Jonathan Cachat is a multi-faceted, talented technical professional that can fill a variety of roles on any team. JC has an incredible range of expertise - breadth and depth on data engineering, data science, ops, and data architecture. JC is a collaborative, strategic, and business-minded. He’s one of the best teammates and technical experts I’ve ever worked with. Be sure to equip him with a powerful laptop and let him work his magic. Anyone who has the opportunity to work with JC will quickly understand that he’s a gem.
Jonathan is a visionary, seeing things as they should be not as they are. He works hard to achieve his vision and can move people to help him. He was an excellent "data evangelist" and ran multiple successful social media campaigns. I am privileged to have worked with him at NIF.
"JC was professional and proficient, executing on our target goals & providing on time deliverables. He was able to quickly orient himself to our niche, our team and goals. He is a responsive communicator & made himself available whenever needed. In fact, after providing great documentation specific to our processes & data - he spent 3-4 hours providing real-time guidance to the team as we implemented the processes on our systems. Highly recommended, and a regular go to guy for Data & Systems development for our group moving forward."
Jonathan and I have worked together in academia and industry since 2013. In both cases I have been grateful to have him as a colleague. Jonathan has over a decade of out of the box thinking that has improved efficiency and outcomes of any project I have worked with him on. I believe this comes from a strong data analysis and visualization capability, which allows for insight and communication with the team that improves success rate of projects.
Jonathan has a rare background that makes him unique in the cannabis space. His background in academic science allows him to understand cannabis products and their effects on the brain in detail, while his background in education, drug policy reform, and sustainability tells you where his heart and values lie. I am excited to watch him lead an exciting new educational program at Hocking College and I'm confident it will be a success and a model for cannabis laboratory education moving forward!
JC's research was unlike any other student's in its breadth and insight. He seamlessly integrated the hard sciences with the social sciences and humanities, creating his own distinct conception of human nature. He is, far and away, the most academically accomplished peer of mine, which is easily seen in his work, available for review at www.jcachat.com. I expect him to be a force in the field of social neuroscience in the future.
"Jonathan was fast, communicative, and highly professional. He quickly understood the needs of our ask and the complexity of the research that needed to be visualized. While we provided a few drafts, they were sometimes incomplete. He was great about filling in our missing components, and quick to ask clarifying questions to complete the work. Final data visualizations reflected the accuracy and detail required by the team. The project started with a super tight turnaround, but the timeline changed a couple times—he was flexible, patient, and accommodating throughout these changes! Thanks, Jonathan!"
"Jonathan has been a great writer! I look forward to working on more projects with him in the future. Anyone would be lucky to have him as their writer!"
"Thank you so much for the quick service. Jonathan was very flexible and communicated very professionally while editing my paper. I really appreciate that and recommend him for editing scientific articles. Thank you Jonathan!"
"Jonathan was great! I will definitely hire him again. Quick response, clear communication. work was delivered on-time, It was what I needed and exactly what I was hoping for."