1. Johnny “Jon” Gordon, CSM
Email: ugordjo@gmail.com | Cell: 210-385-3750 | Address: 3530 Wellsprings Dr. San Antonio, TX 78230
A Project Manager bringing 15 years of experience in delivering projects on-time, under budget, meeting key milestones, and
communicating effectively. Notable qualifications include:
• CSM Certified Scrum Master - Agile Framework
• Process Improvement and Team Building Skills
• Project Budget Tracking
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sr. Project Manager, Pearson, Inc. - January 2000 to August 2015
• Coordinated and managed a yearly $500K budget for the all system (Macintosh and PCs) upgrades.
• Conducted daily status meeting with my project team of subject area experts
• Oversaw a cross-functional Agile team consisting of nine subject matter experts
• Collected user story input (requirements gathering)
• Collaborated with my team to ensure user requirements and tasks were properly aligned according to scheduled deliverables.
• Performed preliminary testing after each iteration, to ensure successful release to the department and key stakeholders.
• Led ongoing discussions with the Software Purchasing and Acquisitions Department.
• Facilitated ongoing discussions with senior management, stakeholders, and the project team, to schedule tasks, establish key
milestone dates, and maintained communication required to meet objectives.
• Initiated the required project plans, project charters, and other scope of work documents; and collaborated with senior
management and my team to ensure clarity regarding the customer’s expectations, scheduled demands, and other key
requirements needed to achieve success.
• Exercised strong planning and organizational skills: prioritized team member’s tasks, and multitask deadline demands without
losing track of details or negatively affecting quality of work.
• Monitored project schedules, and coached my project team on strategies for risk mitigations.
• Provided ongoing status reports, for functional managers and my team, and conducted regular project status meetings
• Developed a database application that enabled me to successfully track the team’s overall performance to schedules (actual to
projected), generate on-demand reports, automated alerts and notifications for upcoming tasks and milestone.
• Evaluated deliverables against documented requirements to ensure customer’s needs are met.
• Successfully implemented a standardizing system configurations enabled internal and external cross-functional groups to utilize a
more streamlined file sharing workflow process, without impacting file integrity.
Sr. Production Manager, Harcourt/Pearson, Inc. - April 1992 to January 2000
Manager responsibilities
• Oversaw a team comprised of four cross-functional managers within the Production Department.
• Managed $500k monthly department budget (employee salaries, training costs, overhead, etc.)
• Collaborated with the senior leadership team to estimate the level of effort and budget requirements for targeted RFPs.
• Monitored and tracked cost associated with actuals to forecasted workload for my department and my direct reports, and provided
senior management reports outlining overall performance based on actual versus projected cost.
• Responsible for writing and conducting employee performance evaluations for my direct reports.
• Coached project team leads in areas relating to project scheduling, budgeting, risk management, and vendor management.
• Monitored and managed the established department budgets,
Project Manager responsibilities (Waterfall Methodology)
• Managed multiple state assessment projects with yearly development budgets ranging from $250k to $500K (Production Only),
• Initiated vendor contracts, work for hire agreements, and request for bids used for targeted work.
• Responsible for vendor selections.
• Selected by the vice president of the Production Department to organized a company-wide process improvement and reengineering
initiative, that resulted in better streamlined process and workflow procedures across the multiple departments and cross-
functional groups.
EDUCATION:
Certified Scrum/Agile Master - Scrum Alliance (2016) | Holmes College, Goodman Mississippi - Computer Programming (1982) |
PMP Certification Prep Course- Austin, Texas