Russmann Jaimes, Co-founder of Vine Education Co. and Vine Dots, was born in Bolivia and later immigrated to Boston with his family. Despite a difficult upbringing involving frequent school changes, Russ received a good education and attended Boston Latin School where he developed an interest in computers and languages. He received a full scholarship to study Computer Science at The University of New Hampshire where he worked with the international department and developed an interest in Asian languages.
Russ moved to Taiwan to teach English to adults and founded Vine Education with a mission to improve communication and business acumen. Today, Vine is a successful edutech business with global reach. Russ excels in training, leadership, international communication, and business development, and is fluent in English, Spanish, and Chinese, as well as several programming languages.
• Co-founder Vine Education Co. (Taiwan)
• MD of Vine Dots LLC.(US)
• University of California Irvine
• Managing Director of Contxt Leader (US)
• Business Coaching
• Learning & Development (L&D)
• Team Coaching
• Leadership
• Teacher Training
• Career Coaching
• Language training delivery and facilitation for 1-on-1
• Program & course planning
• Gloabl exeutive coaching
• Language testing
• Employee assessments
Ting is a trusted consultant planning and delivering lessons aimed at improving both written and spoken communication between local teams and regional/global, including the Training, HR, Sales, Procurement, BT, PM, and Finance colleagues amidst the annual culture changes, regulatory challenges, and organizational restructuring big pharma has faced over the past decade.
Ting spent hours planning, researching, and secret shopping at several Nike shops, factory outlets, and distributor stores around Taipei to learn their strengths and weaknesses, which he then took to design the entire program for hundreds of Nike store and outlet salespeople, and tailor-make a final exam that evaluated each salesperson's product knowledge and English sales skills.
Aside from planning every small group and 1-on-1 lessons for his teacher's Taishin English programs (including for RM, PM, Overseas sales, colleagues…), he also delivered seminar and workshops aimed at refining e-mails, avoiding common Chinese-English mistakes, presentation voicing strategies.
With several 1-on-1 JPMorgan students traveling to Dubai for an key business conference, Ting initiated, created and organized a free training session to help them prepare for the big event. Along with his team of international teachers, they delivered a culturally informative and interactive workshop specializing in practical business small talk skills, including how to sustain a lengthier conversation at a cocktail party, including drinks and finger foods! The 2-hour session gained rave reviews by its participants and added great value to JPM colleagues who wanted to make a great first impression in Dubai.
Ting's meticulous research on TripAdvisor, especially how all the supervisors and management in the Taipei Inn Group (City Inn, Ambience, Hotel 73, and Dandy) responded to guest comments, feedback, and complaints helped him create
Ting was very keen on developing a comprehensive program for their staff looking to work abroad. With a 95% success record, virtually everyone applying to work abroad or a partner position has been accepted and credit the prepartion in Ting's course as one of the reasons why.