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Project Manager resume example

Project managers are judged on delivery: on time, on budget and to scope. Show the size of your projects, the teams you coordinated and how you handled risk.

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Key skills for a project manager resume

  • Project planning and scheduling
  • Budget and resource management
  • Risk management
  • Agile and Waterfall
  • Stakeholder communication
  • Tools (MS Project, Jira, Asana)

David Thompson

Project Manager, PMP

  • david.thompson@example.com
  • +1 555 0100
  • Sydney, Australia
  • linkedin.com/in/davidthompson

Summary

PMP-certified project manager with 9 years of experience delivering IT and infrastructure projects worth up to A$15M. Delivered 22 projects on time, managed cross-functional teams of up to 30 people and introduced risk practices that cut schedule overruns by 40%.

Experience

Senior Project ManagerFeb 2020 – Present
Telstra
  • Delivered a A$15M network upgrade across 120 sites, 3 weeks ahead of schedule
  • Managed a team of 30 engineers, vendors and contractors
  • Reduced schedule overruns by 40% with a new risk review process
  • Saved A$1.1M by renegotiating 4 vendor contracts
Project ManagerJan 2016 – Jan 2020
Accenture
  • Delivered 14 software projects for banking clients, all within budget
  • Coordinated Agile delivery for 3 Scrum teams
  • Introduced status dashboards that cut reporting time by 50%

Education

Bachelor of Engineering2011 – 2015
University of New South Wales

Skills

  • Project planning
  • Budget management
  • Risk management
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • MS Project
  • Jira
  • Vendor management
  • Stakeholder management

Certifications

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

How to write a project manager resume

  1. Give project size: budget, team size, duration and number of stakeholders.
  2. Show on-time and on-budget delivery as numbers ("12 projects, 100% on time").
  3. PMP or PRINCE2 should be visible near the top — recruiters search for them.

ATS keywords for project manager jobs

Applicant tracking systems rank resumes by how well they match the job post. Use the keywords that appear in the posting you are applying for — these are the most common:

  • project management
  • PMP
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • risk management
  • budget management
  • stakeholder management
  • scheduling
  • MS Project
  • delivery

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