Grosse Pointe South High School

Seth Godin's altMBA

Miami University

University of Amsterdam Business School

Learn-it-all obsessed with the future of online education

Honolulu, Hawaii, United States

As an alumni mentor in David Perell's Write of Passage course, I help hundreds of entrepreneurs and professionals improve their online writing skills. I lead weekly writing group sessions, edit essays, and help new writers work through the emotional and mental hurdles of writing and sharing online.

Write of Passage

Alumni Mentor, Write of Passage

Delivery Associates

Marketing Manager

Each week, I publish a thoughtfully curated newsletter with discoveries from adventures in Hawaii, asking questions on life, and quotes to inspire your creativity. It's made hundreds of people's weeks a little better.

I have created efficient, systemized content workflows using Roam Research networked thought tool to successfully execute publication each week.

Letter from a Learn-it-all

Writer

iXperience

Community and Operations Manager

Astutely

Content Manager

Vitalize Talent

Course Manager

- Managed $900K+ in client projects for leadership development workshops with key stakeholders, including managing participants, assessments, report delivery, interviews, and logistics fulfillment
-  Helped design, execute, and organize the internal enablement platform and process, as our offerings quickly transitioned to virtual amidst COVID-19
-  Lead project implementation through tracking project scope, creating project plans, managing and mitigating risk, managing project budget, invoices, and revenue forecasting, coordinate custom delivery process and resources, software configuration, quality assurance, and serve as the primary point of contact for all client communications
-  Became enabled as technical support on Webex and Zoom to partner with facilitators to deliver virtual classroom experiences to clients on diversity & inclusion
-  Drove and managed the team to meet internal project delivery metrics including profit margin, recognizing revenue, submitting expenses, and forecasting new business opportunities.
-  My Fortune 100 clients were from a wide range of industries including retail, healthcare, software, construction, energy and natural gas.

Korn Ferry

Leadership Development Analyst

New Degree Press

Book Author

- Presented a team project to implement an all-encompassing subscription platform for the new business innovation company competition to senior executives. The purpose of this challenge was to see which team's pitch would make more money for the firm
- Proposed implementations for a conduct and reputation risk program after performing thorough market research for the insurance division
- Streamlined the company’s risk metrics and tolerances spreadsheet to simplify alignment between different lines of defense across the business
- Created presentation materials for the new products and underwriting committee meeting among leadership members and supported as needed

Ally

Risk Management Intern

- Analyzed return transactions on the SmartAuction Auto finance team comparing the transparency between different business units to illustrate the lack of communication among locations within the national company
- Redesigned a spreadsheet with 23 vendors to improve the simplicity of reaching out to business contacts leads, searching for legal documents, and referencing the 53% contract expirations not automatically renewed
- Presented an independent final presentation concerning vendor contract process with a recommendation to create 27% more purchase orders to help forecast expenses and reduce workload with less room for error

Specialized Asset Management Intern

- Led an intern case study project to improve the customer experience during the closing agent process and presented suggestions of implementations for the company to 60 senior executives
- Created daily production reports of coworkers to increase the efficiency of time while developing sufficient skills through training workshops in Atlas software, Microsoft Excel, and the cloud. Through adding relevant charts and graphs, these reports were more visually appealing
- Placed the production percentage of the output team next to my team's production to illustrate where room for improvement or exemplary results were
- Gained a better understanding of the sequence of queues throughout the mortgage process of purchasing or refinancing a home

Title Source

Closing Preparation Specialist Intern

- Taught children ages 7 to 15 basic water safety and provided coaching with sailboat operation and racing and established relationships with the children and improved my communication skills
- Improved the program by taking charge by organizing new daily activities and directing the lessons
- Took on the lead as the head sailing instructor after the previous head resigned, I strengthened my management and leadership skills through problem-solving, adapting to ambiguity and taking on more responsibility
- Planned events for the parents of the children to hand out awards and have social barbecues outside of sailing practice and regattas

Grosse Pointe Club

Head Sailing Coach

- Looked after a child while her parents were away
- Coordinated logistics of transportation to field hockey practice
- Walked dogs, corrected summer homework, and chaperoned bike riding and swimming in the pool

Self -Employed

Child Care Services

- Assisted customers in navigating the store for products they were looking for
- Checked out customers at the cash register
- Replenished shelves when needed
- Answered phone calls with professional phone etiquette

Jen Vermet