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In 2003 she founded Emergent Solutions Group, which is dedicated to meeting organization?s professional training needs on a project or part-time basis.  Jennifer serves a wide variety of clients, including public accounting firms, state CPA societies, private industry corporations, and public sector agencies.Previously Jennifer served as the Director of Audit Product Development at Surgent Professional Education for three years.  Prior to that, Jennifer was Executive Vice President\/Director of Training Services at AuditWatch, Inc., a highly respected training and audit process consulting firm later acquired by Thomson Reuters.  Over her six years at AuditWatch, Jennifer served many roles.  She began her career at AuditWatch as Vice President of Product Development.   Jennifer also served as an instructor and consultant for the firm?s Audit Productivity Improvement Program (a comprehensive program enabling accounting firms to enhance audit quality and improve audit efficiency), as well as various other training courses.  Later, Jennifer was primarily responsible for working with clients to design high-caliber, customized training programs.  She led the Training Services Division, which includes AuditWatch University (?core-level? staff training for new hires to managers) and related offerings.  She also co-authored the Guide to Value-Added Auditing (Thomson\/Practitioners Publishing Company, Fort Worth, TX, July 2001).\r\n\r\nBefore joining AuditWatch, Jennifer was the Financial\/Operational Audit Manager at AARP.  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