Johnny "Jon" Gordon has over 15 years of experience as a project manager, most recently as a senior project manager at Pearson, Inc. He has a proven track record of delivering projects on time and under budget through agile project management techniques. He has experience managing budgets up to $500k annually and overseeing cross-functional teams of up to nine members. Gordon is a certified scrum master with skills in process improvement, team building, and budget tracking.
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The role and responsibilities of the project manager ProofHub
For aspiring project managers, this slide brings an insight to the roles and responsibilities that a manager needs to perform. So let’s take a look at what it is about being a project manager:
The Project Manager is the one who is responsible for the delivering of the project, with the authority and responsibility of the project board to run on the day to day basis activities of the organization. Project Manager is like the changing agents that work continuously to benefit the organization in different ways by the use of their skills and expertise.
The role and responsibilities of the project manager ProofHub
For aspiring project managers, this slide brings an insight to the roles and responsibilities that a manager needs to perform. So let’s take a look at what it is about being a project manager:
The Project Manager is the one who is responsible for the delivering of the project, with the authority and responsibility of the project board to run on the day to day basis activities of the organization. Project Manager is like the changing agents that work continuously to benefit the organization in different ways by the use of their skills and expertise.
Dedicated project and retail facilities manager with over ten years of experience in retail and corporate environments. Extensive knowledge of retail maintenance and construction, including performing and managing maintenance, remodels, rollouts and new store construction projects. Outstanding abilities in troubleshooting, quality assurance, cost savings, productivity, strategic planning and overall equipment readiness. Committed to delivering quality workmanship.
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• Accountable for BU demand fulfillment (end to end irrespective of whether it is internal or in external queue)
• Set goals and objectives for teams/ individuals in line with organization and company directions
• Providing leadership for successful day-to-day delivery of services.
A dedicated Sr. Project Manager with ability to work on complex Infrastructure projects and manager End to End program. Looking for opportunity to handle more challenging program/project. Is an able leader to handle large team, make the team work under pressure and deliver within team lines. Still maintaining the high team spirit.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Program / Project Manager with a successful record of managing full project life-cycle initiatives. Expertise includes a combination of both Application Development and Infrastructure experience. I’ve acted as both developer and then App Dev PM while with the State of Missouri. I rate my SDLC experience as an 8/10 as I personally did VB development and acted as the PM for entire application delivery from development through SQL and into production. An exceptionally strong Program / Project Manager with the following qualifications:
• PM experience covers product planning, scheduling, testing, change management, implementations and ROI analysis
• Successfully managed projects for domestic and international corporations including BP, State of MO-DOR, Salton/Toastmaster
• Recognized for surpassing corporate and customer expectations for quality and focus by configuring, implementing, training, mergers and acquisitions
• Experienced in handling projects in rapidly changing functional, procedural and engineering environments including international offshore (Brazil, Columbia, UK, Trinidad, Argentina, Mexico) testing/development teams
• Provides disciplined, assertive, tactful leadership to resolve challenges in an efficient, cost-effective manner
• Skilled in developing and maintaining strong customer relations and fostering cohesive, consensus-building project team interactions
• Recognized for being a highly-motivated, self-directed, enthusiastic project manager with a positive, creative attitude for balancing schedules, costs and priorities
• Recognized as an “idea leader” with flexibility to handle assignments with analytical test equipment and to develop quality assurance best practices/processes
• Excels in developing and maintaining project plans without being dependent on technical resources for input.
• Successfully transitioned to a portfolio of 65 projects International with a blend of waterfall and agile teams with ~$75 million budget. Overseeing multiple vertical project managers, business analyst, functional analyst, and working with the communications team. All in a ~2 month onboarding to the account.
• Apply communication strategies to engage International-level stakeholders in order to understand product objectives, customer service processes, development teams, and define strategies for opposing developing techniques to timely and with budget constraints. Supports SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) as the “Release Train Engineer.
• Manage the flow of value through the program and value stream Kanban’s to increase outlook into new work and into the work flow. Establishing connections among the Portfolio, Journey mapping, value stream, and programs levels.
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