Aaron Anderson

Results-driven, PMP®-certified Project Manager and certified IBM IT Scrum Master with 10+ years of experience leading cross-functional teams, executing projects, and coordinating stakeholders. Proven track record of optimizing process efficiencies in large, matrixed environments to bridge business goals with technical delivery. Skilled at developing project plans, tracking action items, managing risk registers, and facilitating collaborative cross-divisional alignment loops.

Technical Project Manager and Product Owner at Aaron Anderson Properties (2019-03 – Present)

• Project Planning & Coordination: Lead cross-functional planning and execution for a multi-project asset and infrastructure portfolio, developing detailed project plans, tracking timelines, and managing milestone delivery.
• Governance & Reporting: Formulate action-item trackers, maintain decision logs, and author governance documentation.
• Risk & Dependency Management: Track risk registers and cross-project dependencies, mapping proactive mitigation strategies and escalating structural barriers early to support seamless operations.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitate alignment sessions and governance updates with 20+ external engineering, vendor, and internal implementation partners to ensure clear lines of communication.
• Data Automation: Engineer automated dashboards using Google Sheets and platform APIs to report progress and risks.

Western Regional Sales Manager (Project & Integration Lead) at Artisanal Brewing Ventures (Victory Brewing Company) (2017-07 – 2019-01)

• Cross-Divisional Initiatives: Partnered with corporate business units to drive system and workflow integration projects across a highly matrixed network of 30+ regional nodes, ensuring zero operational downtime.
• Process Standardization: Wrote centralized operational integration playbooks and tracking templates to transition acquired business units smoothly, significantly reducing systemic process bottlenecks.
• Data-Driven Insights: Analyzed complex sales datasets in Tableau to perform gap analysis, isolate system opportunities, model pipeline trends, and deliver performance summaries to senior leadership.
• Meeting Facilitation: Conducted structured communication loops and cross-departmental working sessions, tracking follow-up actions to drive project team accountability.

Southwest Area Sales Manager (Project Lead) at Artisanal Brewing Ventures (Victory Brewing Company) (2015-01 – 2017-07)

• Portfolio Prioritization: Coordinated resource optimization strategies for a $2.5M+ regional market portfolio, dynamically balancing shifting timeline constraints based on corporate business priorities.
• Continuous Improvement: Established performance charts and communication frameworks via CRM platforms that eliminated team execution bottlenecks and improved data tracking accuracy.
• Note: Previously served as Texas and Colorado Sales Representative (01/2014 – 01/2015)

Business Analyst at Ben E. Keith Specialty Beverages (2013-01 – 2013-12)

• Requirements Gathering: Partnered closely with regional General Managers to capture functional business and operational requirements, analyzing complex workflows to eliminate project execution risks.
• Reporting Infrastructure: Managed underlying datasets to provide weekly status updates and operational summaries to executive stakeholders.
• Note: Previously served as Sales Representative (03/2011 – 12/2012)

• Project Management Professional (PMP)® | Project Management Institute (Certification #4436377)

• IBM IT Scrum Master Certification | IBM

• IBM IT Project Manager Certification | IBM

• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Major: Finance & Management, Minor: Spanish) | Kansas State University