John Nguyen

John Nguyen

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Project Manager at Markaaz | Product and Engineering Facilitator | Scrum Master | Serving Small Businesses Better | Army Veteran
Tennessee, United States
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  • Markaaz
    IT Project Manager | Scrum Master | Product Owner
    Markaaz
    Aug 2021 - Current (5 years)
    Managed an agile software development team of 15+ developers world-wide, from India, Ukraine, and Canada. Led a cross-functional team of product owners, QA resources, and business analysts via Scrum and Kanban methodologies. Facilitated grooming and sprint planning sessions for bi-weekly sprint cadences. Additional duties include QA Tester, Marketing Analyst, and Relationship Manager. • On-boarded and led 15+ developers to launch vendor directory consisting of 300M+ profiles - managing project resources and vendors, prioritizing demands and ensuring seamless coordination • Delivered a comprehensive dashboard for small-business owners within a short 3-month period that required re-structure and expansion of the software development team. •
  • US ARMY
    Project Manager
    US ARMY
    Jan 2020 - Jul 2021 (1 year 7 months)
    Drove project development/documentation, vision, strategy, and execution across 6 teams and 18 advisors. ● Developed/organized project management procedures to increase efficiency by 47% and successfully minimized impacts to deliverables for internal control validation that reduced variances by 63%. ● Collaborated cross-functionally with technology, risk and compliance, human resources, and strategic sourcing to design 4 high-level concepts and implementation plans. ● Implemented a mentorship program for 40 interns to enhance knowledge base skills to operate in global cross-functional teams. ● Consulted and collaborated with senior leaders through process changes and report development by identifying, analyzing, and improving 6 areas of po
  • US ARMY
    Associate Project Manager ♦ Planning Section ♦ Training Development
    US ARMY
    Jul 2017 - Jan 2020 (2 years 7 months)
    Led a team of 6 project coordinators to assist in maintaining reports and workflows of various projects and ensuring functional departments comply and fulfilled resource and logistics requirements. • Assisted in holding meetings with international military generals that raised stakeholder engagement from neutral to highly supportive. • Selected as one of 2 project managers out of 700 employees to travel to the United States Military Academy to coach/mentor/train students on how to lead cross-functional teams. • Provided advice, guidance, and consultation to executive staff and delivery managers on the implementation of organizational modernization initiatives, and changes in training infrastructure. • Developed processes to help track 4 di
  • US ARMY
    Department Manager
    US ARMY
    Dec 2016 - Jul 2017 (8 months)
    Managed the technical department by planning, coordinating, and supervising transportation, training, logistical, and safety projects for 40 employees. • Coordinated and planned over 6 training events that led to 40 employees meeting the company’s training objectives. • Designed 14 attributes that were implemented as the company’s core competency program. Recognized by the Director of Projects as the most influential instructor that raised knowledge retention from 6 attributes to 10. • Exceeded standards on 3 organization equipment inspections during a 4-month period. Rated as #1 out of 4 department managers in transforming the personnel culture of monthly inventories.
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  • Shift
    Project/Program Management Career Accelerator
    Shift
    Jan 2021 - Current (5 years 7 months)
  • Central Washington University
    Bachelor's degree, Psychology
    Central Washington University
  • Purdue University
    Certification - Lean Six Sigma Green Belt
    Purdue University
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    U.S. Army
    Aug 2021 - Current (5 years)
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    Army Commendation Medal
    United States Army