After more than a decade in the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) at Coast Guard Sector Delaware Bay and Coast Guard Sector Houston-Galveston implementing marine safety, security, and environmental protection missions, Jen remains a Reservist. She is professionally certified in more than a dozen areas and has earned the USCG Commendation Medal and USCG Achievement Medal. She is currently Safety Manager at Gloucester Terminals LLC, in Gloucester, NJ, a maritime facility which holds the largest refrigerated capacity of any terminal in the United States and that imports perishable products, steel, forest products, heavy lift, project cargo and containers.

Jen earned a BA in Multimedia Communication from Rider University, MS in Quality Systems Management from The National Graduate School, MS in Environmental Management from University of Maryland University College and is a member of Cohort 7 in the Thomas Jefferson University Doctor of Management in Strategic Leadership program.