Jon Kaufthal's Résumé

JONATHAN S. KAUFTHAL

Current Address:
Box 291, 3901 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
(877) 823-4829

Permanent Address:
Five Alderbrook Road
Riverdale, New York 10471
(718) 549-0308

E-mail: kaufthal@ibm.net
Personal home page: https://members.tripod.com/~kaufthal/

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, PA

Candidate for Bachelor of Arts

Majors in Economics and in PPE, an interdisciplinary major integrating Philosophy, Politics and Economics

3.6/4.0 cumulative GPA

Coursework in Computer Science (3 courses), Corporate Finance, Accounting, Marketing, and Statistics

May 1999

RAMAZ UPPER SCHOOL, New York, NY _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

June 1994

HONORS

Dean's List, 1996-1997

Awarded Columbia Scholastic Press Association Certificate of Merit for Non-Fiction Writing for Magazines for article published in Thirty-Fourth Street magazine

ACTIVITIES

Founder and current Chair, Undergraduate PPE Committee

Undergraduate Peer Advisor

Student Columnist, The Pennsylvania Gazette

Consultant, Web Support Services

Created Web site for PPE major (http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ppe)

Delegate, Yale Model Israeli Knesset

EXPERIENCE

OBJECTSOFT CORPORATION, Hackensack, NJ

Web Developer: Created dynamic, database-driven content for ObjectSoft's SmartSign computer kiosks using standard Internet technologies including Dynamic HTML, Active Server Pages, and JavaScript. Researched and implemented embedded Internet video on FastTake video kiosk.

Summer 1998

MACROVIEW COMMUNICATIONS CORP., New York, NY

Freelance Web Designer: Created "Beyond Six Degrees" module for MacroView's popular Six Degrees Web site. (http://www.sixdegrees.com)

Summer 1998

WIRED MAGAZINE, San Francisco, CA

Freelance Contributor: Author product reviews published in Wired, recent two-time winner of the National Magazine Award for general excellence, the top industry honor.

Summer 1997 - Present

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ACADEMIC SUPPORT PROGRAMS,
Philadelphia, PA

Tutor: Work approximately five hours each week as a paid tutor in Economics.

September 1997 - Present

P. SCHOENFELD ASSET MANAGEMENT, LLC, New York, NY

Summer Analyst: Worked with financial models to perform quantitative and qualitative analysis of entire industries as well as of specific mergers and restructurings. Used the Bloomberg terminal and the Internet for research. PSAM is an asset manager specializing in risk arbitrage.

Summer 1997

PC MAGAZINE, New York, NY

Freelance Contributor: Author reviews, primarily of Internet software, and write about industry trends. Regularly published in PC Magazine, the world's largest circulation computer publication.

Summer 1996 - Present

Editorial intern: Worked full time as a paid editorial Intern. Authored numerous articles and reviews, assisted in Web site administration.

Summer 1996

THIRTY-FOURTH STREET MAGAZINE, Philadelphia, PA

Technology Editor: Choose content, edit, and lay out the Technology section and write for all sections of Thirty-Fourth Street, the weekly culture magazine of The Daily Pennsylvanian, recently recognized nationally as a top daily college newspaper.

January 1995 - Present

NYSE - NANDRA GROUP, INC., New York, NY

Assistant: Worked on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange as an assistant to a trader on the exchange.

Summer 1995

COMPUTER SKILLS

Applications: Extensive experience with Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook, Adobe PhotoShop, Quark XPress, and many other popular applications.

Internet:Thorough knowledge of the Internet, HTML, and Web design, including JavaScript, VBScript, Active Server Pages, Visual InterDev, FrontPage, Document Object Model, and UNIX.

Programming: Formal training and "real-world" experience with Java, C, Visual Basic, Scheme, and ML.

PERSONAL

Practiced magician, licensed bartender, near fluent in Hebrew, proficient in Spanish

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