Hello.
I'm Jason E. Lewis
Real Estate Investor / Software Engineer
Real Estate Investor / Software Engineer
Jason is a Chicago based Software Engineer working in
the field of cyber security. He is also a seasoned real estate
investor and co-founder of WTB Holdings,
a Chicago based
real estate investment group.
The Westchester County, NY native and Master Barber, was introduced to real estate by one of his clients. Receiving the council of real estate and legal professionals, Jason began to research investment opportunities. This search landed him in Jersey City’s -post 911- market.
With these accomplishments in hand, Jason decided to tackle some unfinished business. At the age of 33 he decided to pursue a degree from Rutgers University. Graduating In the summer of 2012, Jason earned a BS degree in Biology, minored in chemistry, and finished with a GPA of 3.45.
In the years that followed, Jason’s appetite for education burgeoned. This time it was as an instructor. Marrying this new interest with his entrepreneurial DNA, Jason co-founded ABC Tutoring , a NY based educational service.
Dissatisfied with complacency, Jason decided to take his affinity for technology and hobby of coding to the next level. Jason enrolled and completed the Full Stack Web Developer curriculum from Brooklyn's Flatiron School in 4 short months. Accepting a full time position with 5th Column, Jason relocated to Chicago in February of 2020. With his real estate investor “glasses” always on, Jason quickly became acquainted with the Chicago real estate market.
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Being curious and astute throughout his life afforded Jason the ability to have acquired a number of skills - both physical and cerebral. The processes of gaining these skills have proven - at times - to be more valuable than the skills themselves. Clocking more than 10,000 hours of barbering, on his way to Mastery, laid the blueprint for him to recognize, endure, and push through each learning curve, knowing that mastery was right around the corner. Below are some of the many skills that Jason possseses.
Real Estate Analysis
Expert, 17 years
Frontend Development
Advanced, 5 years
Backend Development
Expert, 2 years
Math & Science Education
Expert, 6 years
Knowledge
Jason's knowledge spans many disciplines. Below are some of the few domains that he demonstrates mastery in.
- JavaScript
- Python
- Ruby-on_Rails
- Docker
- HTML
- SCSS
- Git
- TypeScript
- Python
- Grid & Layout
- MySql
- Video Editing
Experience
As a founder, co-founder, member or part of the development team, Jason is willing and competent enough to wear many hats and switch them at any moment. Having and wide breath of experience yeilding successes and many lessons, Jason employed those untangible skills in the follwing businesses/companies below.
As co-founder and principle of this real estate acquition and holdings company, Jason's real estate acumen
is realized and relied upon in this role. In tandum with WTB's brilliant accountant member, Trisha Parker these two analyze, procure, and
acquire distressed properties in the greater Chicago/ Chicagoland areas with the goal of creating opportunities for home ownership.
for those in the immediate community.
ABC Tutoring allows Jason to execute on passion of providing quality education. Facitating the provision of
equitable education to students- who have become overwhemled and distracted by life's challenges- is the driving force of ABC's mission.
In addition to being a co-founder, Jason acts in a supervisory role, securing the most talented and compassionate
certified instructors to provide the primary, supplementary instruction of homebound students. Jason's forte is estabilshing, maintaining, and cultivating relationships
accross the acedemic community. These relationships have played an integral part in the procurement of district and private instruction contracts.
Jason is an indispensable part of the development team at 5thColumn. He designs and builds full stack
features - from databases and APIs, to frontend UI layouts - for internal and customer facing seecurity products.
In a domain in which threats are ever evolving, dynamic, and diverse the wepons used to identify, mediate and remove these
threats are key. Jason is proud to be part of the team designing these tools that make the cyber worriors at 5th Column always ready
for battle.
Education
Having earned a masters degree from the School of Life before returning to academia, Jason's knowlege was fortified through atypical mentorships, professional council, and a self-desigend curriculum that included a wealth of books on topics that spanned from investment to self-help. The ingestion of this information challenged traditions by redefined norms, shifted paradigms, and cultivated and appetite for education that would drive his achievements and guide him back to academia.
Rutgers University
Bachelor of Arts
Biology | chemistry2009 - 2012
Majoring in Biology, Jason was drawn to the phenomena, reactions, and fluid environments of organisms at the cellular level.
The chemistry minor - with graduate level electives - brought chemical analysis in real world applications to life. Taking more than
the requisite math made traversal of the forementioned displines that much more interesting and elucidating.
Flatiron School
Software Engineering
July 2019 - November 2019
Jason earned his certification in Full Stack Web Development. Posssesing the capacity
to design and build a web solutions for any size business or enterprise. This knowledge
allows Jason to create custom databases, APIs to access said databases, and the frontend skills
that allows users to interpret, interact with, and perform the authorized CRUD actions that fall
within the context of the web solution they are interfacing with.
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Contact
Let's Keep In Touch
I am always open for opportunities in partnerships, colaborations, and networking. Feel free to drop me a line to connect!
Jason E. Lewis
PO Box 16122 Collins Street West,
Victoria 8007, United States.
PO Box 16122 Collins Street West,
Victoria 8007, United States.
Phone
(914) 334-1062
(914) 334-1062
Email
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Jason E. Lewis
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invincible.
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