Co-Founder and President

Jen’s interest in technology arose out of necessity while building her career as a human resources professional with the Franciscan Health System of the Ohio Valley in the 1990s.  During Jen’s tenure with FHSOV, first at The Franciscan at St. Leonard retirement facility and later at Franciscan Medical Center, her department endured a series of new software implementations.  As the youngest member of the staff at the time, Jen was aked to lead the software transition as it affected the HR department.  Ultimately, it fell upon Jen to learn to use the new software with little formal training and to share her expertise with the rest of the department.  Her success with the first project led to a similar role on another, and then another, and so on.

When Franciscan Medical Center closed its doors in 2000, Jen joined the fledgling Saturn Peformance Systems (SPS) as the Operations Manager in charge of improving processes and systems related to inventory, shipping, and warehouse management.  Drawing upon her experience with software implementation at FHSOV, Jen’s first initiative was to integrate the firm’s UPS shipping software with the accounting software using her own Access database.  Then she created another database to evaluate purchase history and vendor performance to improve and automate purchase orders.  With these tools, Jen had significantly improved operational efficiency at SPS and paved the way for an era of rapid growth.
 
When work began on updates to the SPS website, Jen recognized that rapidly-changing product offerings and diverse marketing efforts (including a series of print catalogs) required a centralized database of marketing and product information. So she created yet another database that became the foundation of all future marketing efforts at SPS. Working with John Comeskey and Brian Lavelle, the team created a system through which the website, catalogs, pricelists, and all other relevant marketing efforts were dynamically driven from Jen’s single source of data.
 
While some firms were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on entreprise management systems, Jen had virtually built her own for a tiny little warehouse in Dayton, Ohio!
 
In 2006, Jen collaborated with John Comeskey and Brian Lavelle to create a new website for Ground Water Science, a ground water consulting firm based in northwest Ohio. Recognizing the value of the combined skills of the team, Jen and John formed SpringHill Interactive Media to make their capabilities available to others.
 
Jen is a gifted proofreader, a grounded strategist, and a highly organized and focused leader. Often likely to inject a healthy dose of skepticism into any discussion, she is a perfect compliment to John’s sometimes-unbridled enthusiasm.
 
Jen enjoys gardening, running and walking with her dog (Patty), and being an active member of the Ohio River Road Runners Club.
 
Jen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in psychology from Miami University in 1993.