A-Plus-Consulting
Since 2014, A-Plus Consulting has been connecting businesses with qualified professionals through apprenticeship and temporary staffing solutions. Their focus on diversity and innovation has earned them certifications as a Woman-Owned Business Enterprise, ensuring quality and compliance. A-Plus Apprentice® offers pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs in various fields, while A-Plus Naturals provides natural immunity-boosting nutraceuticals for pets and humans.
Capabilities
Management Experience
With over 20 years of diverse management experience spanning healthcare, pharmaceuticals, construction, and food & beverage industries, the Helena van der Merwe is a seasoned leader adept at innovation, strategy, marketing, coaching, mentoring, and training across high school, undergraduate, and MBA levels. She excels in recruiting and placing candidates in full-time positions and have served as an instructor in the Technology Entrepreneurship Program (STEP) during the summers of 2019, 2021, and 2023, achieving success with an all-winning high school student team.
- 20+ years of management experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, construction, and food & beverage.
- Experienced leader, innovator, strategist, marketer, coach, mentor and trainer of high school, undergraduate, and MBA students.
- Expertise in recruiting and placement for full-time roles.
- Instructor in Summer 2019, 2021 and 2023 Technology Entrepreneurship Program (STEP) that produced an all-winning high school student team.
Training and development
AWARDS AND CERTIFICATES
- Merit Award, Marketing Management, Damelin, South Africa
- Honors Award for top student, Damelin, South Africa
- Rewarded and recognized for communication and leadership in the release of ground breaking clinical trial results, sanofi USA
- Business to Government certificate
- InnovateHER NJ Finalist
- New Jersey state certification – WBE
- New Jersey state certification – SBE
- New York State certification – WBE
- New York City certification – WBE
- The Port Authority of NY and NJ certifications – ACDBE/DBE/WBE
- SBA certifications (federal government) – US DOT DBE/WOSB/EDWOSB
- Construction Contractor Training Program – NJSDA
- OSHA 30 certificate
- A-Plus-Consulting LLC has fulfilled the requirements of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 402, and has
received certification to conduct lead-based paint renovation, repair, and painting activities
pursuant to 40 CFR Part 745.89
PUBLICATIONS
- Van der Merwe, JHD and Van Rooyen JA.1988. The effect of domperidone on the absorption of paracetamol. SA Journal Science, 84:431.
- MBL Research report 1995: Factors influencing general practitioners in prescribing generic medicine.
- Van der Merwe JHD. 2015. Evolution of a blogger. FeedFront Magazine, Oct. 2015.
- Richard N. Cliver; Natalia Castro; Thais Russomano; Gaetano Lardieri; Lindsay Quarrie; Helena van der Merwe; Maribel Vazquez. 2022. Antioxidants derived from natural products reduce radiative damage in cultured retinal glia to prevent oxidative stress; Neuroglia, 3(3), 84-98. https://doi.org/10.3390/neuroglia3030006
A-Plus-Consulting LLC
211 Warren Street
Newark, NJ, 07103
Helena van der Merwe
Phone: 855-APLUSCO or 855-275-8726