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Jessica Garvar

West Palm Beach,FL

Summary

Interdisciplinary AI Contributor, Business Manager, Marketer, and Personal/Executive Assistant skillful in supporting daily business operations with a focus on efficiency, ROI, and anticipating needs. Offers a true synthesis of approaches from over 20 years of professional experience in AI, creative writing/editing, administration, sales, marketing, creative design, branding, and small business start up.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience

Work History

AI Domain Expert

Outlier
04.2024 - Current
  • High-value, high-scoring contributor on RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) multimodal projects
  • Train generative artificial intelligence models across several domains
  • Contributed both as an attempter, writing prompts, and as a reviewer, evaluating other contributors' prompts
  • With meticulous attention to detail, evaluate AI model responses, fact-check for inaccuracies, and rate them
  • Experienced in multimodal competencies with image-to-text, video-to-text, and audio-to-text

Owner & Freelance Business & Marketing Manager

WiseMind Marketing
10.2016 - Current

Sole proprietor and independent consultant to small businesses and individual business owners to develop a marketing plan, office management strategies, and actionable tasks.

  • Consult and mentor business owners in SMB market on ways to better engage and attract their target audience
  • Develop brand identity to include, logo design, website, eCommerce, social media, and print
  • Manage and build social media engagement and development of digital assets
  • Track, analyze, and report ROI (Return on Investment)

Co-founder, Practice Manager, & Exec Assistant

Agape Counseling Service
10.2019 - 02.2023
  • Developed brand identity and website for new Arizona based telehealth only private practice
  • Selected and implemented EMR (Electronic Medical Records) software
  • Oversaw insurance credentialing for all therapists
  • Created and implemented organizational policies and procedures for day to day operations, billing, payroll, HIPAA compliance, and secure client communications
  • Managed all insurance claim submissions, reconciliations, and appeals
  • Month over month and year over year reporting of business and each therapists' income
  • Oversaw all recruiting and onboarding of new contract therapists

Co-founder, Practice Manager, & Exec Assistant

Sinnergy Wellness Group
02.2018 - 05.2023
  • Partnered with owner to start Arizona based eating disorder dietitian private practice offering in office and virtual nutrition services
  • Managed and developed full brand identity, practice website and social media, Google Workspace set-up, and EMR (Electronic Medical Records) selection and implementation
  • Personal assistant to owner to assist in calendar management and other administrative tasks for personal and professional responsibilities
  • Developed all practice policies and procedures for effective office management, billing, payroll, HIPAA Compliance, and secure client communications
  • Led practice rebranding after 2 years to group practice offering nutrition therapy and psychotherapy in AZ and nationally via telehealth
  • Created effective and efficient recruiting and onboarding process for new contractors

Marketing, Business Development, and Education Director

Jester'Z Improv Comedy
01.2015 - 12.2016

100% Clean, family friendly improv comedy theater offering 4 shows a week, improv classes, corporate team training, and private corporate improv shows.

  • Managed operations of training center and all student communications through MailChimp email marketing software
  • Increased net profit year over year by 33%
  • Designed unique print and digital marketing assets which included producing web videos to market improv classes

Sr. Director, Recruitment Technology

Recruiting.com
09.2012 - 12.2014

Innovative talent acquisition SaaS that enables organizations to find and effectively recruit talent through social, mobile and search engine optimized career sites and candidate relationship management system.

  • Promoted by COO to join sales team to increase new business development and partner with SVP of sales to build strong and consistent sales team
  • Developed streamlined sales team training and process improvements while mentoring new employees resulting in increased productivity and overall sales
  • Selected by CEO to launch new division solely focused on selling recruitment technology in partnership with SVP Sales
  • Through Salesforce.com, meticulously managed opportunity pipeline which resulted in increase of recruitment technology business over 100%
  • Lead company in both overall subscription and employment video sales in 2013
  • Custom built strategic reports through Salesforce.com database used to analyze business and set goals accordingly
  • Consultant to C-Level Executives and HR Professionals on ways to elevate their talent strategy through search engine optimized career sites with mobile experiences and seamless integrations to social media platforms and ATS's

Director of Professional Services Industry Solutions

Recruiting.com
03.2011 - 09.2012
  • Promoted from sister company Jobing.com to Corporate Office in Phoenix, AZ to virtually manage company’s Professional Services Industries book of business
  • Managed roughly 300 client companies which was comprised of roughly $3.3M in yearly revenues and about 35% of company’s overall business.
  • Maintained monthly subscription renewal percentages ranging from 80-100%
  • Up-sold customized branding & video packages to recruitment technology subscription clients consistently resulting in $5-$10K/month in additional revenues
  • Project Implementation Manager for for new career sites which included copywriting and detailed editing of content



Director of Community Marketing

Jobing.com
09.2006 - 03.2011

Locally focused job board committed to connecting local talent with jobs and companies they love

Considered 'Face of Jobing' to all South Florida Job Seekers and HR Professionals

  • Managed channel marketing program with over 100 strategic partnerships for co-marketing and affiliate revenue growth
  • Produced bi-monthly newsletter through ExactTarget email marketing software
  • Company leader in new business lead generation through channel partners
  • Project managed company and community partner events often assuming responsibility for all marketing asset creation
  • Contributor to local employment related publications and edited local content for company's quarterly Go Jobing magazine
  • Responsible for online community and engagement after launching Facebook and Twitter
  • Educated partners and community leaders through workshop facilitations, webinars, blogging, and social media

Education

Bachelor of Science - Hospitality Management

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
2004

Leadership Breakthrough 1 and Power Communications

Rapport Leadership International
Las Vegas, NV
2007

Teamwork, Creativity and Innovation, and Communication

JesterZ Improv Comedy Corporate Training Center
Scottsdale, AZ
2012

Skills

  • AI (Artificial Intelligence)
  • Multimodal RHLF
  • Creative Writing, Copywriting, Editing
  • Meticulous Attention to Detail
  • Brand Identity, Graphic Design, Adobe Illustrator
  • Office Management & Strategic Planning
  • Process Improvement & Efficiency
  • Schedule & Calendar Management
  • Google Workspace
  • Project Management
  • Interpersonal Communication
  • Training & Development

Affiliations

  • SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management): Member 2006 to 2011
  • HRABC (Human Resource Association of Broward County): Member 2006 to 2011, Marketing Committee
  • HRPBC (Human Resource Association of Palm Beach County): Member 2006-2011, Marketing Chair 2010
  • SMA (Staffing Management Association) of South Florida: Member 2006-2011, Director of Marketing 2009 & 2010
  • ATD (The Association for Talent Development) South Florida: VP of Marketing  2010

Timeline

AI Domain Expert

Outlier
04.2024 - Current

Co-founder, Practice Manager, & Exec Assistant

Agape Counseling Service
10.2019 - 02.2023

Co-founder, Practice Manager, & Exec Assistant

Sinnergy Wellness Group
02.2018 - 05.2023

Owner & Freelance Business & Marketing Manager

WiseMind Marketing
10.2016 - Current

Marketing, Business Development, and Education Director

Jester'Z Improv Comedy
01.2015 - 12.2016

Sr. Director, Recruitment Technology

Recruiting.com
09.2012 - 12.2014

Director of Professional Services Industry Solutions

Recruiting.com
03.2011 - 09.2012

Director of Community Marketing

Jobing.com
09.2006 - 03.2011

Bachelor of Science - Hospitality Management

University of Central Florida

Leadership Breakthrough 1 and Power Communications

Rapport Leadership International

Teamwork, Creativity and Innovation, and Communication

JesterZ Improv Comedy Corporate Training Center
Jessica Garvar