Jennifer Meester Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Conduct ongoing daily and weekly reporting and use results to identify trends and make recommendations to leaders. -Perform ad-hoc analyses to support business initiatives and decision making. Make recommendations to leaders on shift needs, promotions, and stretch assignments based upon analysis results. -Lead quarterly planning meetings. For each quarter, analyze last quarter’s performance, collaborate with leaders to develop realistic assumptions for future quarters, develop capacity outlook for upcoming quarters, determine which factors would have the greatest potential impacts to business goals for next quarter, and present results. -Developed new reporting to provide weekly visibility to business results and the contributing business level and individual performance factors driving performance. -Built collaborative relationships with business leaders through 1:1s and planning meetings. Offer consultative support, recommend courses of action, and help balance competing needs of the business. -Formalized onboarding process for new business leaders including an introduction to existing reporting and metrics, setting up phone and schedule management systems, explaining current scheduling practices, and establishing 1:1s for ongoing collaboration.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Support leaders in managing employee schedule and PTO requests based on capacity. Administer scheduling and PTO planning processes.-Monitor all communication channels throughout day to make real-time recommendations on shifting resources to meet performance goals.-Enhanced reporting to improve process efficiency, create consistency of PAR-reporting between supported groups, and ensure reporting remains relevant to and actionable for leaders. -Partnered with trainers to improve the onboarding process for new hires. Recommended set new hire classes throughout year with timings based on anticipated work volumes, standardized training schedules with best times to use phone team resources to support trainings, monitor y-cording to head off potential issues early in training, report new hire performance progress, and work with leaders to drive performance improvement during defined ramp up period.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Established advising relationships with learners through effective communication, policy expertise, management of learner records, and partnerships with learners and internal staff to support learners' educational goals. -Led weekly team huddles to communicate updates and reminders with team. Dependable resource to team for accurate and up-to-date information. -Demonstrated ability to adapt quickly to program changes and learn new processes and policies to support learner success. -Managed team reference documents including course sequences, course calendars, and phone lists.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Re-engaged alumni with Capella via phone conversations, LinkedIn, and email while collecting career outcome information. Made approximately 80-125 outbound calls a day. -Managed accurate records of alumni data using Microsoft Excel and Peoplesoft applications. -Part of pilot project and helped collect, analyze, and evaluate methods of outreach, data collection, and data management to improve process for later project stages. -Trained incoming team members on best practices for calls, software, data management, and turning around a challenging call. Remain a resource for fellow team members.

Minneapolis, Mn

-Supported students in introductory geology courses and helped them achieve success in one of their first college science courses. -Effectively communicated science concepts to a diverse population of students. -Provided 1:1 coaching and tutoring sessions for specific students in addition to holding open office hours to meet learner needs. -Fielded incoming calls and emails to answer questions about coursework, satisfying academic requirements, and issues with professors. Seen as an approachable and informative resource.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

-Developed a research project with Braun Intertec to increase efficiency in groundwater heat pump systems using computer modeling. -Evaluated existing models for this use, developed a process for determining the most efficient placement of heat pumps, and calculated potential energy savings by adopting these practices.

Davis, Ca

-Worked independently to evaluate numerous upscaling methods for groundwater models and develop an upscaling procedure incorporating the results.-Composed written reports detailing research goals, methods, and findings.

Davis, Ca

Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions -Collaborated with a group of graduate and undergraduate students to research groundwater- surface water interactions for conjunctive use management and conservation.-Measured groundwater levels in the field, gathered historical information, and maintained records of groundwater levels to provide continuous data in a 10-year study.-Processed and synthesized field data to create graphs and figures illustrating findings for use with clients and in presentations.-Interpreted data to determine areas of groundwater-surface water connection and the occurrence of perched aquifers.Ecohydrological Modeling -Parameterized an ecohydrological model for use in modeling the impact of climate change.-Completed an extensive literature review to find parameters for the model.-Led team to measure input parameters in the field.-Evaluated methods of incorporating additional hydrologic features into the existing succession model.Coccidioidomycosis Serology Lab -Maintained an adequate supply of prepped Gelrite plates.

Anaheim, Ca

-Supported Human Resources operations by processing applications, verifying employment and education, calling references, scheduling interviews, and organizing and maintaining application files.-Prepared paperwork for audit, contacted suppliers for up-to-date MSDS and contact information, and developed a data organization system for future audits.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Project Management, Gpa: 4.00

Graduation with Distinction

Master Of Science (Ms), Water Resources Science, Gpa: 3.94

Activities and Societies: Water Resources Students in Action, Executive Committee Officer, Social/Happy Hour OfficerAwards: Water.

Certificate, Graduate Certificate In Business Administration, Business Management, Gpa: 4.00

Certificate, Post-Baccalaureate Certificate In Business Administration, Management Consulting, Gpa: 4.00

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Hydrology, Gpa: 3.82

Activities and Societies: High Honors, LAWR Departmental Citation, University Medal Nominee, Integrated Studies Honor Program