Jordan Avery Mitchell

• Graduated with distinction from the McCombs School of Business

• Led a capstone project to redesign the delivery workflow for a local nonprofit, reducing average project cycle time by 22%

• Served as vice president of the Graduate Project Management Club, organizing workshops with industry leaders

• Built a strong foundation in process optimization, statistical analysis, and systems thinking

• Completed a senior design project on lean manufacturing for a regional aerospace supplier

• Interned with a logistics firm, supporting schedule tracking and resource planning

• Lead a portfolio of 6 concurrent software delivery projects with a combined budget of $8M, consistently achieving 95%+ on-time milestone completion.

• Established a hybrid Agile-Waterfall delivery framework that reduced scope creep by 28% and improved stakeholder satisfaction scores from 3.8 to 4.6 out of 5.

• Coach and mentor 4 project managers and 12 cross-functional team members, introducing capacity planning and risk burndown practices.

• Partner with product, engineering, and compliance teams to align roadmaps, manage dependencies, and ensure regulatory readiness for fintech clients.

• Present monthly executive dashboards covering schedule, cost, risk, and benefits realization to C-level sponsors.

• Managed 15+ web and mobile application projects from initiation through launch, with budgets up to $1.2M and teams of 10-18 people.

• Implemented Scrum ceremonies and Jira workflows, increasing sprint predictability by 30% and reducing average defect escape rate by 18%.

• Negotiated vendor contracts and managed external partners, saving $220K over two years through consolidated licensing and improved payment terms.

• Built project charters, WBS, RAID logs, and change control processes adopted as standard templates across the PMO.

• Supported the delivery of municipal infrastructure and IT modernization projects with budgets totaling $3.5M.

• Coordinated schedules, permits, and vendor deliverables across 8 workstreams, ensuring compliance with city and state requirements.

• Prepared weekly status reports, meeting minutes, and risk registers for project sponsors and steering committees.

• Assisted in the transition from waterfall to agile for the internal tools team, facilitating retrospectives and backlog grooming.

Recognized for leading the highest-performing delivery portfolio in the company, achieving 98% on-time delivery and a 4.7/5 stakeholder satisfaction rating.

Awarded for academic excellence in the McCombs School of Business MBA program.

• Examines how hybrid delivery models can satisfy regulatory requirements while preserving Agile flexibility.

• Presents a case study from fintech and healthcare projects with measurable improvements in compliance and speed.

• Offers practical templates for RAID logs, stage gates, and executive dashboards.

Jordan consistently demonstrated exceptional leadership and analytical rigor. Their ability to align diverse stakeholders and drive projects to completion makes them an invaluable asset to any organization.

• Led a 25-person cross-functional team through discovery, design, build, test, and deployment phases.

• Managed a $4.2M budget and coordinated 5 external vendors, delivering all 6 country rollouts within 3% of budget.

• Reduced order-to-cash cycle time by 19% through process standardization and automation.

• Directed a 12-person team to migrate 40M+ customer records with zero critical data loss.

• Established data quality gates and rollback plans that reduced post-launch incidents by 40%.

• Facilitated weekly steering committee meetings and delivered executive dashboards on progress and risks.

• Coordinated monthly professional development events for 300+ chapter members, increasing attendance by 25%.

• Recruited and managed 15 volunteers, creating onboarding materials and recognition programs.

• Facilitated a mentoring circle for aspiring project managers, supporting 20 mentees over two years.