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Riley Thompson
Senior Project Manager
Sydney, NSW · riley@email.com · linkedin.com/in/rileythompson · PMP
Professional summary
PMP-certified project manager with 8 years of experience delivering technology and operations programmes across distributed teams. Skilled in project planning, budget control, risk management, vendor coordination, and executive reporting, with a record of recovering delayed initiatives and improving delivery predictability.
Experience
Senior Project Manager
Brightline Logistics · Sydney, NSW
- Directed a $3.4M warehouse-management rollout across five sites, coordinating operations, IT, finance, and two vendors to launch within the approved budget.
- Recovered a customer portal programme that was seven weeks behind by re-baselining scope, sequencing dependencies, and establishing weekly decision forums; delivered the first release within the revised plan.
- Introduced portfolio-level risk and milestone reporting for 14 concurrent initiatives, reducing overdue executive decisions and improving forecast accuracy.
Project Manager
Eastbank Services · Melbourne, VIC
- Managed cross-functional process-improvement projects from charter through handover, maintaining schedules, budgets, RAID logs, and stakeholder communications.
- Negotiated revised delivery plans with suppliers during a major dependency delay, protecting the customer launch date and avoiding rush fees.
- Standardised project close-outs and lessons-learned reviews, giving operations teams reusable controls for future rollouts.
Skills
Project planning · Programme delivery · Budget management · Risk management · Stakeholder management · Vendor management · Change management · Executive reporting · Agile delivery · Waterfall · Jira · Microsoft Project
Education & credentials
Bachelor of BusinessUniversity of Technology Sydney
Project Management Professional (PMP)Project Management Institute