Project Management at Purdue

During my junior year at Purdue, I joined Project Management at Purdue, a club dedicated to helping students enhance their project management skills through collaboration with peers and external partners. As a member, I served as Project Manager, Team Member, and for the 2024 calendar year Social Media Chair. These roles allowed me to develop my leadership, teamwork, and adaptability skills. I also gained a thorough understanding of the project management pipeline and honed my presentation skills by getting to present to my peers, professors and industry professionals.

At Project Management at Purdue (PMP), we work on two cases per semester, dedicating about a month to creating a slide deck to present our solutions. These slide decks typically include:

A pitch
Work schedule breakdown or Gantt chart
Market research
Marketing plan
Financials

I have participated in two new product development cases: one as the Project Manager for developing a new product for Purdue's University Bookstore and another as a team member developing a new product for PepsiCo.

As a Project Manager, my duties included:

Delegating case-specific tasks to team members and myself, based on individual interests and enthusiasm
Setting deadlines for different phases of the project
Checking in with team members and providing assistance with any issues
Updating absent team members on what they missed in meetings and their new tasks/goals

We successfully presented our new product to a panel of judges comprising Purdue's Daniel School of Business professors and members of PMP's executive board.

Example Slide

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