Project Manager

JORDAN J. MCCRARY, BS, PMP

760-***-**** j *********@*****.*** 716 S. Harvard Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90005 PMP PROJECT MANAGER

PROFILE

Highly motivated and detail oriented, certified Project Management Professional (PMP) with 4 years experience managing multiple complex projects simultaneously. A verifiable background of soliciting stakeholder requirements, communicating project status, motivating project teams, and meeting customer expectations. Experience using PMBOK methodologies to develop a project charter, work breakdown structure, schedule forecast, cost baseline, work performance reports and lessons learned. Areas of expertise include:

● Schedule Management ● Stakeholder Management

● Change Control Management ● Communications Management

● Virtual Project Team Management ● Schedule Management

● Earned Value Management ● Cost Management

EXPERIENCE

Project Manager, Community Engagement Research Program, UCLA, Feb 2016 Present

• Balanced stakeholder needs, prioritized requirements, and created clear objectives to determine project scope.

• Decomposed project objectives into a work breakdown structure (WBS) in collaboration with the project team to generate buy in and assign activities based on skill, availability, and interest.

• Sequenced activities into a network diagram to determine the critical path which informed the allocation of resources and risk response planning.

• Created a realistic project management plan that was formally approved by the project sponsors before executing work.

Project Associate, NIH Diversity Program Consortium, UCLA, 2014 – June 2016

• Recorded formal change requests and evaluated their impact on project constraints including scope, time, cost, and risk.

• Identified options for schedule compression (e.g. fast tracking and crashing) and presented alternatives to executive management.

• Ensured that the status of change requests were communicated to the stakeholders and updated in the project management plan and supporting documents upon approval.

• Implemented approved changes and gathered work performance data to confirm that the change resulted in an improvement.

• Recommended corrective actions when cost and schedule variances determined deviations from the project performance baseline utilizing earned value management.

• Facilitated virtual meetings across 12 national project teams to direct and manage work. Project Manager, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, UCLA, 2012 – December 2015

• Identified the relevant parties that could be impacted by the outcome of the project and documented their interests and level of influence in the stakeholder register.

• Developed a clear, actionable plan that engaged stakeholders effectively throughout the project lifecycle to decrease the risk of the project failing to meet its goals and objectives.

• Fostered relationships with the stakeholders to ensure their expectations were being met and addressed issues as they occurred.

• Collected and distributed project updates in accordance with the communications management plan to enable the effective and efficient flow of information between stakeholders. JORDAN J. MCCRARY, BS, PMP

760-***-**** j *********@*****.*** 716 S. Harvard Blvd. Los Angeles, Ca 90005 Staff Research Associate, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, UCLA, 2012 – January 2015

• Estimated activity duration, resources, and cost to create the project schedule and budget using Microsoft Project.

• Monitored the status of the project costs and activities to manage changes to schedule and cost baseline.

• Developed process improvement metrics based on quality standards and collected routine data on performance using a functional dashboard.

• Coordinated a process improvement initiative to reduce the number of days for study approval that yielded a 200% ROI

• Created cost benefit analysis and return on investment calculations to inform decision making on proposed pilot projects.

Clinical Research Associate, D avid Geffen Department of Family Medicine, UCLA 2009 2012

• Worked with patients at a Federally Qualified Health Center to enroll them in Medicaid.

• Interviewed and obtained consent from research study participants at the Weingart Center (Skid Row), Venice Family Clinic, and AltaMed.

• Managed the patient's progress after enrollment in the study with the clinic staff.

• Received Research grant from National Institute on Drug Abuse based on faculty nomination. RESEARCH

Manuscript: “Evaluation and Development of Interprofessional Education Assessment Tools”

• Submitted to the Journal of Interprofessional Care, 2016 Abstract: “Advancing Tools for Evaluating Interprofessional Education in Health Care”

• Presented at American Evaluation Association Conference, Chicago IL, 2015 Presentation: “Living Conditions and Age among Community Health Center Patients Enrolled in NIDA QUIT Study”

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

Bachelor of Science, Psychobiology and Public Health, 2011

• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Project Management Professional (PMP), 2016

• Project Management Institute (PMI)

SKILLS

• MS Project, Word, Excel, Visio, Powerpoint, Adobe Photoshop

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